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EXCLUSIVE: D.B. Sweeney is set for a heavily recurring role in Chuck Lorre’s CBS comedy B Positive, starring Annaleigh Ashford and Thomas Middleditch. The role reunites Sweeney with executive producer Lorre with whom he worked on Two And A Half Men.

“B Positive” (Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.) took a turn this season by veering away from its Season 1 focus on hard-partying Gina’s quest to donate a kidney to Drew (co-star Thomas Middleditch) — and all the complications (comedic and otherwise) that followed.

EXCLUSIVE: B Positive creator and co-showrunner Marco Pennette has left the sophomore CBS comedy.

Casts and creative teams from Succession, You, SEAL Team, Gossip Girl, and Fear the Walking Dead are among the panels set for this year’s PaleyFest NY, the The Paley Center for Media’s annual fall festival.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO’s “Succession,” Netflix’s “You” and Chuck Lorre, joined by members of his multiple CBS sitcoms, are among the panels set for this year’s PaleyFest NY event.The full Paley Center for Media lineup also includes Paramount Plus’ “SEAL Team,” HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl,” AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” and NBC’s “New Amsterdam.”The Paley Center for Media announced that this year’s event will stream on the organizations YouTube Channel on Oct.

who lives with him in suburban Ohio, jettisoned its planned Season 2 opener on Aug. 12 when the US pulled out of Afghanistan.Instead, its writers, several of whom are Afghan or Afghan-American, quickly penned a new episode about the impact of the pullout on interpreter Al (Adhir Kalyan) and his best friend, Riley (Parker Young) as the drama unfolded in real time overseas.

As Democratic leadership in Congress tries to unite its progressive and moderate wings, a group of 80 artists, celebrities and activists called on the leaders of Google, Disney, Amazon, Fox, Facebook ad more to urge Congress to back President Biden’s Biden’s Build Back Better plan.

CBS’ Ghosts story has evolved. The October 7 premiere of the network’s new comedy series now will feature two back-to-back episodes, running from 9-10 p.m. To make room for the extra half-hour, the Season 2 return of Chuck Lorre’s B Positive has been pushed to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, October 14.

on Twitter back in March, citing the show’s other cast members and writers with connections to Afghanistan.“It’s actually quite fortunate. Because it’s my show I can make sure that it is written and produced by Afghans and Muslims,” he said at the time.

We’ll be seeing more of Norma, Jerry and Gideon on the second season of Chuck Lorre’s B Positive. Linda Lavin (Naked Singularity, Being The Ricardos), David Anthony Higgins (Mike & Molly, Malcolm in the Middle), and Darryl Stephens (Saved By The Bell, Noah’s Arc), who recurred as the characters in Season 1, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming season of the CBS comedy starring Annaleigh Ashford and Thomas Middleditch.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Fox mutli-cam comedy “Call Me Kat” has found its Season 2 showrunner in Alissa Neubauer, Variety has learned.Neubauer takes over running the comedy series from Darlene Hunt, who stepped down from running the show at the end of its first season.

Gemma Baker, co-creator of Warner Bros-produced comedy Mom, is heading to Universal Television.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Mom” co-creator, writer and producer Gemma Baker has signed an overall deal with Universal Television to develop and produce projects for broadcast and streaming platforms.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeChuck Lorre and Bill Lawrence have known each other casually through the years, whether it be bumping into each other on the Warner Bros. lot or at an awards show.

The Kominsky Method has settled in for its third and final season, with the Emmy-nominated Chuck Lorre-created show dropping its final six episodes on Netflix on Friday.

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen) is set for a recurring role on the second season of CBS comedy The United States of Al, starring Adhir Kalyan and Parker Young, from Chuck Lorre, David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari.

Chuck Lorre’s freshman comedies B Positive and The United States of Al have both been renewed for second seasons.

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner became a new-age version of Tracy and Hepburn by virtue of their screen team-ups in Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoiler for the Mom series finale, “My Kinda People and the Big To-Do.”

You seemed to have put a lot of stock into making an immediate first impression with the opening credits.The “B Positive” theme song and the animation in the opening credits was theresult of my weird hunch that we could set a comic tone to an otherwise grimtopic. I’ve never had any set rules for when or how to go about creating an openingtitle sequence.

Netflix comedy series “The Kominsky Method” has fared well with fans and critics alike over the past two seasons. But the Chuck Lorre (“Two and a Half Men“) comedy is coming to a close with its upcoming third season.

Chuck Lorre unveiled his custom vanity card No. 669 at the end of each of his four comedies on CBS’ Thursday night lineup, with a tribute to former Warner Bros. Television Group chairman Peter Roth.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorProducer Chuck Lorre paid tribute to former Warner Bros. TV Group chief Peter Roth as “our happy hugging hero” in a message featured on his custom vanity card that aired tonight at the end of the four Lorre-produced comedies on CBS’ Thursday lineup.For vanity card No.

Dean Norris’ memorable role as DEA Agent Hank Schrader on “Breaking Bad” led him, in a roundabout way, to Chuck Lorre’s new CBS sitcom “United States of Al.”“Chuck was a big fan of ‘Breaking Bad’ and he cast me in six episodes of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ as a colonel,” said Norris, 58, who also plays Uncle Daddy on TNT’s “Claws,” returning in June for its fourth and final season.

Young Sheldon, the hit WBTV-produced prequel to Chuck Lorre’s The Big Bang Theory, will launch nationwide in syndication in fall 2021. WarnerMedia has sold the broadcast syndication television rights to the series in over 90% of the U.S., the company said today.

Since Mom premiered in 2013 and proved that a CBS multi-cam comedy could contain multitudes — or at least both broadly silly elements for the back row and a serious reflection on addiction — sitcom mogul Chuck Lorre has expanded his brand in the direction of more pointed, often dramatic shows.

Young Sheldon will continue to grow up on CBS.

tweeted in response. “You can’t judge a show by a 30 sec trailer.

Netflix’s Golden Globe-winning comedy The Kominsky Method returns for its third and final season on Friday, May 28. Presented alongside the streamer’s announcement were a set of first-look images, a couple of which you can check out below.

CBS on Monday revealed the season finale dates for it 2020-21 series, including setting the series finale dates for its long-running sitcom Mom and its drama series NCIS: New Orleans.