Bad Teacher debuts on CBS tonight at 9:30p and you don’t want to miss the good sitcom loosely bases on the movie that starred Cameron Diaz.
Beautiful Meredith Davis’ (Ari Graynor) very wealthy husband asks her for a divorce and an iron clad pre-nup leaves her with nothing. When her best friend asks her to pick up her step-daughter at school the next day, Meredith realizes there are a lot of single rich dads that could be her next Sugar Daddy, I mean, husband. So she talks to the Principal (David Alan Grier), who is also going through a divorce, about hiring her as a teacher. He doesn’t know she doesn’t know anything about teaching, so he winds up hiring her. Now she is using her time to find out from her students if their parents are divorced and what their dads do for living, drive and so on.
Even though the Trophy Wife has her eyes on the prize, she winds up helping the nerdy kids at school become a little cooler. She befriends, Irene (Sara Gilbert), a fellow teacher, who you can tell was unpopular when she was younger, and is so happy to be friends with the cool kid, who is now a teacher. Meredith uses Irene, but in ways they are both helping each other out. Then there is uptight, Ginny Taylor-Clapp (Kristin Davis), who sees through Meredith’s game and will do anything she can to get rid of her. No matter what Irene does, things keep coming up roses for her nemesis. But how long can than last? You have to watch this sitcom that gets an A+ to find out.
Then at 10p turn the dial over to ABC for the brainy
Black Box.
Catherine Black (Kelly Reilly) is world renowned Neuroscientist, who loves to study the brain because she is Bi-Polar. When she is on her meds, she can function like a normal person. When she is off of them, she is anything but. It is her work and helping people with brain disorders, that keeps her medicated and sane.
But when her life starts changing, it’s hard for her to focus on her job and taking the drugs.
Except for her psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave) and her family, not many people including her boyfriend, Will (David Ajala), know she is bi-polar. When Will finds out the truth, he doesn’t know how to handle it.
So while she is trying to deal with her boyfriend issues, she is also dealing with people who desperately need her help. Since she is one of them, she understands them better than most doctors. That understanding is why she’s at the top of field. But will she be able to stay there? Tune into this medical drama that is perfect mix of medicine and personal life to find out.
