Before dealing with topics and key demographics, a.k.a “people,” as diverse as douchebags (Two and a Half Men), nerds (The Big Bang Theory), the obese (Mike and Molly), and Charlie Sheen on a cocaine high (real life), Chuck Lorre was the voice of a single mom generation, having created Cybill and Grace Under Fire, two shows everyone knows, but knows nothing about. Cybill‘s the one where everyone dies, right? I’ll assume yes.
He’ll return to his flower print shirt roots in 2013, though, with a new sitcom called simply, maddeningly Mom.
Comedy king Chuck Lorre is expanding his relationship with CBS with a new half-hour project, which is instantly becoming a top prospect for the network’s fall 2013 schedule. The network has given a pilot production order to Mom, a multi-camera comedy from Lorre, who…co-wrote [the series] on spec with two members of his Two and a Half Men team, executive producer Eddie Gorodetsky and story editor Gemma Baker. Mom centers on a newly sober single mom tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley. (Via)
And thus, the Chuck Lorre “ladies be divorcing” trilogy came to its inevitable conclusion, not with a bang or a whimper, but with an ironic premise (OMGZ SHE’S A DRUNK BUT LIVES IN WINE COUNTRY) and jokes about how just like wine, “this separated mom only gets finer with age,” probably.
That’s right! It’s the one with the theme song! Classic Cybill.
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Future Chuck Lorre sitcom ideas:
- A deadbeat dad gets a job as a divorce lawyer.
- A Mormon developer is hired to build single family homes.
- An Amish bachelor inherits and electronics retail store.
- A monkey that hates bananas is adopted and named Banana
None of these mine Brett Butler’s troubled life for profit. All however, more watchable.
- A writer writes something someone actually wants to read.
That’s way too far-fetched.
Any wagers on who they’ll get to play the lead? Maybe it’s a long shot but I think this has Faith Ford’s stink all over it.
If she weren’t doing Sons of Anarchy I think Katie Sagal would be an appropriate drunk.
Best way to find the culprit is to look at this season’s cancelled shows. So possibley Jordana Spiro (The Mob Doctor) or Kate Walsh (Private Practice).
I say they throw an obscene amount of money at Jennifer Aniston.
I’ve got Demi Moore at 10/1 odds.
Katey Sagal’s need her fifth starring role.
I had a weird thing for Faith Ford in the early 1990s. You shall not speak ill of her lovelieness. You’ll smile and shut your damn mouth. SHUT IT!
Born in Providence, R.I., Mr. Gorodetsky was attending Boston’s Emerson College in the late 1970s when he began to make a name for himself. With a gift for gab and his already-amazing record collection, he became a DJ at WBCN, Boston’s legendary free-form underground radio station.
I thought I knew this guy…..
He also used to be widely considered one of the best written comedians in the business.
Then he discovered he really, really liked the big dump trucks of money Lorre backs up to his house every couple of weeks.
I don’t need a reminder for Cybil. It had Alicia Witt as her daughter. I never forget a redhead.
I came here to say basically this.
THIS gets picked up, but I don’t even get as much as a return phone-call for “I can’t believe I married a Horse!”? Eat it, CBS
I’m guessing it’s a Matthew Broderick reality show?
shouldn’t it be, “Just like wine. If it gets to old, sometimes it separates.”
and then there would be jokes about the silt at the bottom of the bottle, presumably.
too. not to.
whatever.
I find it shocking and offensive that you’re willing to go ahead declare a show “mediocre” when you haven’t seen even seen a single second of said show. I think it needs to be given a fair shot before you label it. I mean, how do you know it will be mediocre? It could very well flat out suck.
You make a good point. We’ll do a follow-up article when “Mom” is watched by 20 million for its premiere.
Chuck Lorre has to be concerned about what will happen when we get a rating system for TV that reflects what people actually watch and they realize that the whole audience for these shows is old people and morons.
Concerned all the way to the bank.
Do they have money? Then he won’t care.
True, but they only have money until the old people die. Meanwhile, every network show gets dumber and dumber until their viewers leave for cable/streaming/reading books/3d porn/bath salts/honey boo boo.
Who??? Who didn’t close his italics?!?!?!
I’m looking at you, “SuchCreativity”
I thought my eyes were just messing up!
I love that theme song. I don’t care what anyone says!
Didn’t read the article, but from the picture it looks like Lorre is a bit of a prick.
Chuck Lorre smears his feces all over blank pieces of paper.
CBS: We’ve got another hit, boys!
So Chuck Lorre isn’t comfortable with just insulting our intelligence by having Miley Cyrus replace Jake and Ashton Kutcher replace Charlie and Kathy Bates play Charlie’s Ghost and acting like everything is okay with Two and a Half Men. No…he has to have ANOTHER intelligence insulting sitcom. Charlie Sheen was right about him.
The phrase, “Comedy king Chuck Lorre” is a swift kick to the gonads.