Michael J Fox is returning to TV in a self-title show tonight at 9p on NBC and it is nice to have him back!
Mike Henry (Fox) is a former newsanchor in NYC, who gave up his job 5 years ago to spend time with his family. Now his wife, Annie (Betsy Brandt) and their kids recent college dropout, Ian (Conor Romero), angst-ridden high schooler, Eve (Juliette Goglia), and cute little Graham (Jack Gore) all want him to go back to work. So they come up with a way to have him meet up with his old boss, Harris Green (Wendell Pierce), who would love to have him back on KNBC’s air. Mike didn’t realize until their meeting that he missed working, so when given the chance to go back to work he takes him up on the offer.
So now Mike is dealing with how to spend time with his family while he works. And they learn to deal with him back at the grind.
NBC wants to make sure this show does well, so they are giving it a special one-hour premiere, the second episode airs at 9:30p (its regularly scheduled time). During this episode, Mike goes upstairs to his neighbor’s to tell them to turn the really loud television down. He assumes that it is an older man, but is surprised when it turns out to be Tracy Pollan who is on the other side of the door. No he develops a crush on her and his wife is jealous. So Annie decides to set her up with Harris, something Mike doesn’t like.
Now Mike might not like that, but we will love this show that is shot documentary style with candid confidential moments between the family members with the camera throughout the show. This is the perfect show to bring Michael J Fox back to television, so tune into watch it every Thursday from here on out at 9:30p
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Michael J Fox brought his family out for the A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s event and I can’t get over how much his son Sam looks like his pops. Seriously it is like going Back to the Future and seeing the 22 year as his dad in Family Ties, the show that introduce his father to his mother!
Not only is their son a chip off the old block, how beautiful are their 16 year old twins Aquinnah and Schuyler?
You have all heard that Eric Stoltz originally played Martin McFly when Back to the Future started filming, but then he was replaced by Michael J Fox. What we didn’t know up until now is that they always had Fox in mind for the role, but his Family Ties EP Gary Goldberg wouldn’t let Alex P Keaton time off to film the movie according to what he told David Letterman. So Fox wound up filming Teen Wolf instead. Well when things didn’t work out for the red headed actor, Fox stepped into those famous sneakers.
So I wonder if Fox could go into the DeLorean today if he would go back to the day when Goldberg nixed his part in the film and make sure he had it from the get. But if he did that than that would probably mean he never would’ve done Teen Wolf and that role might’ve gone to Eric Stoltz instead. So if Stoltz played Teen Wold, would that mean that Jason Bateman never would’ve done Teen Wolf 2. And if Bateman never did that movie, what else would we never have seen him? I guess the Butterfly Effect would change so much of what we have gotten to known…
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Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson were reunited for the release of the 25th anniversary edition of Back to the Future on DVD and Blu-ray that is out today and they all look like they did when they were in the trilogy. It is nice to see Christopher Lloyd, 72 with his movie wife Mary Steenburgen, 57 together again, but is anyone else weirded out by seeing Lea Thompson, 49 with her head resting like that on her head Marty McFly aka Michael J Fox, 49 aka her movie son’s shoulder like that. There is something so wrong about that.
BTW anyone else bummed that Eric Stoltz didn’t photobomb the event?
Back to the Future’s Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson and Elisabeth Shue are reuniting for Scream 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their movie and Marty McFly shot a promo for awards show. Seeing him back in the DeLorean for the ad makes me think he could do just same for a fourth movie! I think we need a Back to the Future 4, don’t you? But until then we can enjoy them on October 19 at their mini-reunion on Spike TV’s Scream Awards!
