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UPDATED: Out of sight, out of mind. Three months after freshman comedy Marry Me and sophomore About a Boy were pulled off the schedule, they have been officially cancelled by NBC. There are still unaired episodes of both relationship comedies, their fate is unclear. Both About a Boy and Marry Me got off to a solid…

As midseason replacements and limited event series continue to populate the primetime lineup, last night saw an ending of sorts. With a pregnancy and a declaration of love, The Mindy Project (0.8/3) wrapped up its third season. There has been no announcement of a Season 4 for the Mindy Kaling-created and starring…

UPDATED with final ratings, 1:30 PM: Given the state of comedy on the broadcast networks, expectations for newcomers have been low the last couple of seasons. And then there is NBC, which had been struggling in the genre so much, it took comedies off the schedule altogether for the past few weeks. Now half-hour comedy…

Debuting at 9:30 tonight, One Big Happy isn’t. In fact, the comedy produced by Ellen DeGeneres and created by Liz Feldman is, as I say in my video review above, one big waste of time. Telling a blended family tale that I feel like we've heard many times before, and in far better ways, One Big Happy delivers…

During Ellen DeGeneres’ Q&A session for her new NBC comedy series One Big Happy at Winter TV Press Tour, a TV critic noted that the Supreme Court had, as the session was taking place, announced it would rule on same-sex marriage this term, and asked the exec producer to respond. “Yea!” DeGeneres said. “It’s about…

NBC’s Must See TV Thursday comedy block is officially gone. NBC has set its midseason schedule, which will feature three drama series on Thursday going head-to-head with ABC’s all-drama Shondaland lineup, which has been dominating the night this fall. The block will be anchored by The Blacklist, which, as previously…

UPDATE: NBC has ordered a pair of Gary Sanchez Productions comedy pilots — the Kate Walsh-starring Bad Judge and the Krysten Ritter-starrer Mission Control — and with a third series order is back in the multi-camera game adding One Big Happy for midseason. I hear Mission Control and One Big Happy orders were for six…

Two-time Emmy winner Dana Delany is set to star opposite Ron Perlman in Amazon Studios‘ drama pilot Hand Of God, written by Ben Watkins and directed by Marc Forster. It centers on the powerful Judge Harris Pernell (Perlman), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Brook has been tapped as one of the leads in NBC's multi-camera pilot One Big Happy, marking the first U.S. series regular role for the popular British actress/TV personality. Written by Liz Feldman and directed by Scott Ellis, One Big Happy revolves around two platonic friends since childhood — a…

EXCLUSIVE: Happy Endings alumna Elisha Cuthbert is taking on another comedy with Happy in the title. After fielding multiple offers, Cuthbert has been tapped as the female lead opposite Nick Zano in NBC‘s multi-camera pilot One Big Happy, from Warner Bros TV and Ellen DeGeneres' A Very Good Production. The project…

Nick Zano has been cast as the male lead in NBC comedy pilot One Big Happy. Scott Ellis (2 Broke Girls) has come on board to direct the multi-camera project, from Warner Bros. TV and Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production. One Big Happy, a sort of reversed Will & Grace, centers on two platonic friends since…

UPDATE, 12 PM: NBC has added another comedy pilot to the mix, the single-camera Two To Go, from Universal TV and studio-based David Janollari Entertainment and Jason Bateman‘s Aggregate. Written/co-exec produced by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley (The Hard Times Of RJ Berger, which Janollari developed and launched at…