Seriously? OMG! WTF?

It is Halloween on Superstore and tonight at 8p on NBC, everyone is dressing up for the holiday at Cloud 9. To make it fun for everyone, they have turned the gardening center into a haunted house. It so haunted Glenn (Mark McKinney) will not go inside. Until he is forced to. What happens when he does?

Someone else is scary coming to Cloud 9 and it is the new District Manager. Everything goes smoothly until Amy (America Ferrera) finds out that the employees got enough people to unionize. She is for the union, but management isn’t. Now she has to hide it from her boss. Which is easier said than done. How will they screw it up? They will have help from a former castmember.

While the episode is funny as usual, it is worth tuning in just for the costumes.

Then at 8:30p, Perfect Harmony starts off the episode with Halloween Howlers that are like Christmas Carolers singing Halloween themed Chistmas songs. They have a good night until they go to the wrong house. Can you guess whose house it is?

Adams (Tymberlee Hill) is invited to a Halloween party, but she doesn’t want to leave her restaurant on its busiest night. Ginny (Anna Camp) offers to be the manager for the night and Adams begrudgingly agrees.

Ginny comes up with a great idea to make money for the night and everything is going smoothly until it doesn’t. A simple typo makes things complicated and it is up to Arthur (Bradley Whitford) to save the day. All I will tell you is involves Whitford doing a very sexy striptease!

I want you to watch tonight’s episode so that NBC will give it a full season. But I will convince you by telling you that the striptease is hotter than anything you have seen in Magic Mike!

Then at 9p, it is storytime on The Good Place. Michael (Ted Danson) tells Bad Janet (D’Arcy Carden) a story to convince her that humans are not as bad as she thinks they are. Can he win her over or will she fall asleep from boredom?

Finally at 9:30p, they save the scariest episode for last. It is time for Grace (Debra Messing) to find out who is her baby daddy on Will & Grace. Karen (Megan Mullally) brings all of the candidates together at Grace’s apartment to first tell them that they might have gotten Grace pregnant and then to get them to take a DNA test. How will they react to the news? Oh, and the above photo is from next week’s episode. But I thought it would be fun to tease tonight’s show.

As Grace prepares for motherhood, Will (Eric McCormack) and Jack (Sean Hayes) wonder if they will be good dads. There are a lot of sweet moments between these two. Ones you don’t want to miss.

This is why Thursdays are always Must See TV on NBC!

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NBC’s new shows are not having a good season. Earlier this week, it was revealed that starting next Thursday the heartwarming comedy Sunnyside will air its remaining seven episodes on the NBC app, NBC.com and Hulu, but not NBC proper.

Today, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal reported that Bluff City Law, which films in that city, will not be getting any additional episodes this season. They will film the 10 that were ordered and that is it. However, NBC is not saying the show that is cancelled, but it is pretty much a given.

I am sad that NBC did not give it more of a chance. The legal drama that stars Jimmy Smits had a good pilot, but each episode after that has been really strong with a lot of heart. They took on cases for people who really needed a voice. Which it made it different than all the other law shows and I really appreciated that. I am going to miss this show.

The only other new show left on NBC is Perfect Harmony and as of now its fate has not been decided. I hope the show that stars Bradley Whitford as a Church choir director is picked up for a full season. It is also a sweet show, but it could be all the Southern accents.

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After several seasons of no new shows being pulled from the lineup before they aired all of their episodes that were produced, NBC went back to the old way. In other words, this Thursday will be the last time that Sunnyside will air on NBC proper.

Instead, the sitcom will be streaming on the NBC app every Thursday. The show was scheduled to do only 10 episodes, but now they will be doing 11. According to USA Today, the reason why the low-rated show was saved because it doubled its younger audience online.

It is a shame that more people missed out on this show that stars Kal Penn while it was airing on our TVs. The pilot episode was an explainer and maybe it explained too much for the audience. Had they stayed with it, they would have realized that this a great show about a family. Not in a traditional way but as in immigrants who are in a strange country and have no one here beside each other.

Hopefully, more people will find it online. The show found its way, so it deserves to find a new audience.

When it comes to what will replace it, Will & Grace is back next week for its final episodes for the second time.

I feel for Kenan Thompson because there is a lot on his shoulders with his upcoming sitcom. It might make or break NBC’s comedies.

When it comes to what show will be the next one to be pulled from the lineup, your guess is as good mine. No new show is standing out, even though there are some good ones. If I had to pick one, I will go with Emergence. I am watching, but I am trying not to fall asleep while doing so. What about you?

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Kal Penn has a new show on NBC Thursday nights at 9:30p and Sunnyside is about becoming a citizen in America. Five immigrants (Diana-Maria Riva, Joel Kim Booster, Poppy Liu, Moses Storm and Samba Schutte) from all over the World hire Penn to help them study for the citizenship test. Immigration is a very hot topic in America now.

When it comes to Penn, back in 2009 he actually took a job in the real White House in Washington, D.C. Which makes you wonder, will we see what is going on in America today on the sitcom? During the first episode, one of the characters was taken away by ICE and tonight they are going to try to get him out of the detention center. Which looks nothing like the ones we saw Mike Pence and Lindsey Graham raise their snotty little noses at when they went to visit the one in Texas.

Anyways, I am not going to talk about politics. Will Penn do that on his show? That was one of the questions I asked the actor recently at NBC’s Summer Press Tour Day at the TCAs.

Will the current political climate about immigration make its way on to Sunnyside?
Kal Penn: Well I think neither. I think because the idea of this is five years old and really like the topic of immigration goes back to our country’s founding, even before our country’s founding. So, it’s not like we’re, you know we are definitely not a reaction to anything. Obviously, it is topical but the show’s inception and its creation and how it’s come together has never been a reaction to anything. And I think if I use that Harold & Kumar metric that’s so important to me is we just want to make everybody laugh. And comedy can be a vehicle for bringing people together and I think that’s so special and it’s why I think a lot of us hold dear about making audiences laugh. Of course we all have our own beliefs, as do our audience, but I think if we do it right we’ll be a show that everybody can enjoy.

What type of research did he do for the show?
Kal Penn: So [Executive Producer] Matt [Murray]’s wife has worked in the immigration space before. We’ve certainly looked into how long does this process take? I think there was a question about what happens if and when all the characters get their citizenship? We’re like oh hopefully that’s a nine-year process for our story purposes, but in reality yeah it can take a really long time. There are hurdles to jump through, there are tests, there’s a lot of bureaucracy that kind of makes our experience at the DMV seem innocuous. So I think there’s a lot of flavor there based on the reality, but at the end of the day, you know, like the second episode is about Hakim, Samba’s character, and Diana and I thinking that he’s a hit man. So we do go off the rails purposely in a lot of ways that are just way more universal than where the characters came from.

Would Penn go back and work at the White House?
Kal Penn: Well, I just have my literal dream happening in having a chance to create and sell a show to NBC a comedy at that. So I loved the two years plus that I had you know in the Obama White House, but I’m even more thrilled that I have to chance to make people laugh right now.

Laughing is what we do on Sunnyside and we need more people to watch it. Since it is a chilly Thursday night, what better thing could you be doing than watching Sunnyside? There is nothing better, so watch it. I promise it will put you in a good place for your Friday.

Sunday well spent here at @NBCNewAmsterdam in the Atrium of @BellevueHosp with all these incredible performers. 200 of them to be exact. This is my tip of the hat to background performers. Can’t do it without them!! #extras #background #NewAmsterdam #damfam #bts pic.twitter.com/Kdq7vlno1d

— Tyler Labine (@TyLabine) October 7, 2019

If you watch New Amsterdam and you see a scene in the lobby of the hospital, then you will see a lot of people walking around. All of those people are paid background actors. How many are getting around $200 a day? According to Tyler Labine, there were 200 of them there on Sunday. Meaning that scene cost $40,000 in extas alone.

Now that we got that money aspect out of the way, let’s talk about how cool it is to see 200 actors at work. 200 people who are told to sit and wait and wait and wait and wait until they are needed. Then when they are ready, it is rush rush rush. Being an extra is fun.

If you have never seen New Amsterdam, then watch it tonight at 10p on NBC. It was my favorite new show last season and it is still just as good. If not better. It is a medical drama that is more about heart than the illness. Therefore, we are not going to think we have some rare disease after watching it.

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