ABC Family announced today that Baby Daddy will be back for a third season even though the second season won’t debut for another two months (March 29th). Can’t say I blame the network for jumping the gun because the comedy is the best show to join their lineup in a really long time.
Each episode is full of laughs and what more can you ask for a sitcom? Plus any show that has Melissa Peterman in it deserves to stay on the air as long as it can.
Now the interesting part of the renewal is what will they do with the baby? Hopefully they will let her age with the show and not do a Modern Family.
Tonight is sadly the season finale of Baby Daddy on ABC Family at 8:30p, but thankfully it will be back with new episodes soon. A few weeks ago I spoke to one of my favorite funny ladies Melissa Peterman, who plays the mother of the Baby Daddy and we talked about the show. She told me, “I am so proud of what we did in 10 episodes. That is like a really short amount of time to flesh out the story. These writers are so good about feeling the chemistry of the cast and writing towards us. So I am super proud.” She then added, “I am really proud and I feel like they really set a great foundation to tell more stories.”
There was one story that was told last week and I really hope it will continue in future episodes. Greg Grunberg guest starred on the show as Bonnie’s(Peterman) ex-husband aka the baby’s grandfather. Now I know at first the mother of a 6 year old was a little hesitant about playing a grandmother, but then she realized the benefits of being a young grandmother. So I asked her how Grunberg reacted to playing a grandfather on the show, she said “I think he embraced it like I did. You know what you are going to be hottest grandma and grandpa or at least ones that can drive at night. He enjoyed it. He was a good sport and I have a little bit more of a crush on him now then I did before.” And I am sure he feels the same way, how could you not like this very funny lady.
She told me she enjoyed working with a crush, now I want to know what scenes she liked filming this season. She said, “My favorite scene is with Derek when he is shirtless. I kept breaking during that scene because it is so hard…he looks like he is chiseled out from marble. I love scenes with Taj because we have a very good chemistry and we make each other laugh a lot. Chelsea makes me laugh, they all do.” It is nice to hear that not only does the cast make us laugh, but that they make each other laugh too.
There is one critic she really wants to make laugh and that is her son. When I asked if he watches, she told me “Wiley is 6. He just discovered the reruns of Reba and he thinks they are really funny. He was little when we were making them. But this one he loves the show. Although he gets a little jealous about the baby. He says ‘Whose that baby?’ I’m like ‘That’s Ally and that’s Suzy. That’s not my baby.’ He’s like ‘why you holding that baby so much?’ He’s six and he really doesn’t want to be carried around any more but yet it’s kind of sweet to have him act like that. He thinks the show is very funny.” She then told me what about the show always make her little boy laugh, “He always laughs at the title. He and his little friend go Baby Daddy and they giggle because they think it is hilarious.” If they only knew what it meant…
And one thing I do mean is that Baby Daddy is ABC Family’s best comedy so far, so if you are not watching it you are missing out on a hilarious show with a funny cast. So why not start watching it tonight and then catch up on the other episodes on ABCFamily.com. I promise you will laugh as hard as her son when he says “Baby Daddy”!
ABC Family announced today they picked up Baby Daddy, Switched at Birth and Melissa and Joey for another season along with ordering the back eps for Bunheads, but Jane By Design was missing from that list. The reason why is because ABC Family opted not pick up the darling show about fashion for another season. I for one think the network made a huge mistake because Jane is a million times better than Bunheads. The title makes you think the show is going to be about ballet dancers, but all it is about is an unlikable Lauren Graham clone whining about everything in her life. Hopefully when that shows come back, it will be more about the teens and a lot less about the whiner.
When it comes to Jane, I know that Erica Dasher will be fine and we will see her on TV again really soon. Here is how she reacted to the sad news on Twitter, “Thank you so much for everything!!! It was incredible and you all are the best part of that experience. Love love love”
Now when it comes to the other renewals, I am so happy that ABC Family is bringing back the very funny Babby Daddy and the touching Switched at Birth.
Before Tahj Mowry couldn’t take care of a kid on Baby Daddy, he was at a house where the adults couldn’t take care of the kid on Who’s the Boss? How awwwwdorable was the 4 year old in his first role back in 1990?
ABC Family’s hot new comedy is Baby Daddy, a show where a young guy finds out he is father because his ex-one night stand left their baby at his doorstep to raise. Now along with his brother, childhood friend and his BFF, they are going to some how bring up his baby daughter with some help from his mom.
A few weeks ago I sat down with the cast of ABC Family’s Baby Daddy that airs Wednesdays at 8:30p and Melissa Peterman made a joke that turned out to be a great question for her castmates. She said working with the twins, “Either it is going to be the best birth control for them or they are all going to get knocked up season 2, I don’t know.” So I had to find that out from them.
Chelsea Kane was up first and she told us what it was like to work with the baby girls. She said “Behind the scenes, I’m the only cast member who never held a kid before we started shooting. I don’t have any siblings or anyone in my life…I was terrified because everyone else has little sisters or nieces or nephews. I was a total mess, I was like I am going to break her. I don’t want to do the wrong thing. I think they could smell my fear because I was thrown up on more than anyone else in the cast.” So now that she has gotten used to working with babies, does it make her want to have one? She answered that by saying, “It’s maternal, unfortunately. It’s scaring everyone in my life cause I come home from work like, ‘I want to have a baby.’ And everyone is like, ‘Noooo!’ But yeah it is pretty funny how much it changes you.”
Her co-star Tahj Mowry, who recently became an uncle, had a different answer than her. He said, “No! It is making excited to be one in the future, but I’m not like I need a baby now. Ladies, where you at? Call me, I want to be a dad.” He then got serious and said, “Not so soon. But I’m very excited for that to come in the future. I feel like I’ll be very prepared. More so than other dads because who does a show with a baby? It’s fun. Me and the guys are learning different things every day. The twins get more used to us everyday on set. They light up when they see our faces. So it is really cool to come to work and to be working with such young professionals.”
Derek Theler actually had some experience with kids before he became an actor. He told us about how his past jobs prepared him for his current job, “I was really comfortable with kids. All the jobs that I have had before I moved to Los Angeles were with kids. I used to work with daycare when I was in college. I ran sports camps when I was in college for little kids and things like that. So going into this I felt completely comfortable. But the problem is my character is terrified of the baby so whenever I am on set, the first few episodes especially and I’m holding her, I’m supposed to be afraid and she kind of gets that nervous energy. So every time we hear cut, it’s like OK we have to comfort her. It’s funny, I have to pretend I am so afraid of her and she kind of responds to that. And then she thinks I am crazy cause I keep changing my mind as soon as we on camera or off.” So now that he is working with just two kids, does that make him want to have one? He said, “I’m not ready at this point. I definitely want kids, but right now it is the last thing on my mind. I get to work with twins so much that will fulfill me for a while actually.”
And then there is Jean-Luc Bilodeau, does the baby daddy want to be a baby daddy? He said, “It’s good training, I think. I work with them three days a week. I’m holding them just about the whole day. It’s good to see how to balance emotions. They start to get cranky, and you have to figure out how to make them happy again. It’s good training but I am definitely not ready to be a father any time soon. It’s going to come later in life, for sure.”
So now that we know how the younger actors feel about working a baby; how does Melissa Peterman, the only parent in real life, think they are doing? She said, “They’re pretty good. I think for Jean-Luc this is his first real baby experience and he seems to be quite natural at it. Tahj’s sister has a little one, he’s been an uncle and stuff and been around one. He is pretty natural. Derek, I mean he is just gigantic so I am sure the baby feels real safe there. I mean he is enormous. Chelsea, she just got that great vibe too. So they were pretty good. I’m the only mom on the set in the cast, I was kind of worried, but now they seemed to be OK.”
So now that you know how they reacted to working with the cute little girls, you can see how they really do when the cameras are rolling.
