UPDATED: TV Land Picks Up Two New Series, Renews ‘Retired At 35′

COMMENTS (10)

• I don’t know if I like the change happening at TV Land. I like Donald Faison, Wayne Knight & Kristen Johnston, but I think I’d rather watch reruns of classic shows unless this show surpasses the on-the-cheap feel of “Cleveland” and “53.” I positively have no interest in any Drescher series, old or new.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 12:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• this is HUGE, and GREAT for scripted tv. Too bad the WGA caved and fucked over basic cable residuals.

  Comment by dvelopment — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 12:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m a fan of TVLand’s approach — traditional situation comedies with appealing stars — but I’ve been disappointed by flagship “Hot in Cleveland” this year. The scripts seem poorly crafted, although the appealing actors do their best to make it work.

  Comment by Charles Grossman — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• We need another channel then that sticks with the retro tv format instead of new stuff most people could give a crap about. Sorry, but people tune in to the few channels like TVLand for a nice trip back to the old shows. Is it really that hard to stick with that format and still maintain advetiser revenue without having to create NEW shows???

  Comment by retrolover — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 2:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well I loved the premise behind Retired at 35, I was really disappointed by its execution. If it doesn’t improve in its second season I’ll probably start watching it but the show does have its fun moments.

  I’m just surprised TVLand doesn’t employ the TBS method of picking up there sitcoms. You know, the 10 episode initial “test run” followed by a 90 episode pick up to ensure it makes it into syndication. I mean TVLand’s only going to benefit in the longrun by having more eps of there shows completed…

  And, just to make this last point clear, I’m disappointed that Rip City Cola isn’t happening anymore, I was hoping they’d pick up the trifecta of pilots. I guess they’ll only be picking up two shows per year from now on.

  Comment by Mac — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 2:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is really depressing. I loved the fact that TV Land was trying to bring back old school sitcoms but do they all have to be about divorce! Rip City has the potential to be like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and instead all of TV Land’s new programming is going to be about divorced people dealing with the fact that they’re divorced? I know their demographic is people in their 40s but c’mon, even though a lot of us are divorced we still like to branch out with our TV shows.

  Comment by allison — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Damn how bad was the Christine Taylor pilot that they wouldn’t pick it up. It had an appealing cast. Was the execution that bad?

  Comment by brick — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 6:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love Mark Reisman and this cast. Everyone in it is fairly hilarious.

  Comment by Gouda — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 7:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Lucky for me I live in Chicago where we have MeTV, MeTOO, THIS and Antenna TV for retro TV shows and movies. I gave up on Nick at Nite/TV Land years ago.

  That said I did like “Hot in Cleveland.”

  And Kristen Johnson is tall, funny and SEXY.

  Yum.

  Comment by classic tv fan — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 8:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Count me among those who hope “Rip City” isn’t dead. The script was a delight — funny and warm and interesting. And the cast sounded terrific. Seemed like a great companion to “Hot in Cleveland.”

  Comment by Ross — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 6:22am PDT  Reply to this post