In the US: Wednesdays, 8.30/7.30c, NBC. Begins September 26
in the UK: Not yet acquired (thankfully)
By now, after Go On, The New Normal and Animal Practice, you should know the form.
NBC. Comedy. Don’t watch.
It’s that simple. You may think I’m exaggerating – and given the second episode of Go On was actually okay, maybe I am – but as a rule, “NBC. Comedy. Don’t watch” is pretty accurate and a good way to guide your viewing.
I should also add that anything that’s “war of the sexes” is guaranteed to be dismal and if you needed any proof, here’s Guys With Kids. See that title? Does it make you think, “My, that’s going to be a top, grade A comedy”? Of course it doesn’t. And you’d be right.
Here, NBC has latched onto the fact that one of its few new comedies not to massively fall on its face last year – the single-camera comedy Up All Night – was about modern parents, parenting and kids. It also noticed that a whole load of shows on other, better networks were about men dealing with changes in society – although it failed to notice that almost none of them were any good (e.g. Last Man Standing, Man Up!). So it’s decided to make a comedy about men having to look after kids. And it’s gone multi-camera: there’s even someone at the beginning who claims it was filmed in front of a live studio audience. Presumably a studio filled with nitrous oxide.
You can imagine the laughs, right? No? Surprising that.
Here’s a trailer for the pilot. You might need to sit down for this one.
