Tonight after the football game on NBC, we are going to meet our new Extended Family.
Jim (Jon Cryer) and Julia (Abigail Spencer) were a loving couple who had two kids, Grace (Sofia Capanna) and Jimmy Jr (Finn Sweeney). But after 17 years of marriage, they got a divorce.
And now they share custody of their kids. As in, the kids stay in one house, and their parents rotate who lives there every week.
Together, they are trying to keep things amicable between them. But there is a reason they are no longer married. And that is because they don’t get along and disagree about a lot of things.
Julia is an uptight, crisis publicist who fell in love with Trey (Donald Faison), and they are engaged. Trey is an MIT graduate who owns the Celtics. He is unlike Jim, who is unorganized and still very close to his father (Lenny Clark). Jim is also jealous of Trey for obvious reasons. But they are civilish to each other.
They are a dysfunctional Extended Family, but they are still a family. And they are trying to find a way to make their new normal work. And we get to see them fail and succeed at doing this.
Extended Family is the family-friendly sitcom we need now because the Cleavers and the Nelsons are a thing of the past.
And like those shows, this series brings the laughs because there is so much chemistry between the actors who brilliantly act what the writers gave them to do.
I have a feeling that Extended Family will be around for an extended time.
Extended Family moves to its regular night on Tuesday, January 2nd at 8:30p after Night Court.
Last week, the SAG-AFTRA strike ended after 118 days, and production is finally able to begin again. But then, I read that most shows were expected to start after Thanksgiving.
However, on my Facebook feed today, I saw that NBC’s Extended Family with Jon Cryer, Donald Faison, Abigail Spencer, Sofia Capanna, and Finn Sweeney will begin taping this Friday, and 1iota has tickets for the new sitcom.
It’s really happening! Production is really back! So while CBS announced today that their Fall lineup will debut in February, NBC is making it happen.
However, I should add that 1iota also has tickets for four other multi-camera scripted shows with their start dates: NBC’s Night Court on November 21st, Netflix’s That ’90s Show on December 1st, CBS’s Bob Hearts Abishola on December 5th, and Netflix’s The Upshaws on December 7th.
Remember when Scrubs had a musical episode, and they sang Everything Comes Down to Poo? Well, Donald Faison and Zach Braff are still singing together, but they just added a new singman to their duet. That person is John Travolta, and together the three of them are singing the praises of T-Mobile’s home internet.
And now, I want a Scrubs sequel with John Travolta. Who else would watch?
It is no secret that Zach Braff and Donald Faison have an unbreakable Bromance since they played best friends on Scrubs. However, it looks like the two of them are taking their relationship to the next level. The two BFFs were seen holding hands in Disneyland, so do they have something to tell us?
Nope, but like Bert and Ernie, I wish they would just accept they belong together.
Ever since Donald Faison was on Scrubs, the top of his head was scrubbed clean like Mr. Clean. However, the same cannot be said during the quarantine, because the actor has grown out his hair and beard.
In fact, he said, “I’ve been drinking… I refuse to shave my head or face till this thing is over…. holler if ya hear me!!! #nofilter.”
Do you think he should keep it this way, or should he get the razor? I say let it grow out!
