Comedy NBC Up All Night, which premieres at 10 pm on September 14, can break out this year. Starring Will Arnett and Christina Applegate, as a married couple who just had a baby, she deftly covers all the hardships of a new addition brings together happily - and can do so without being so juicy you want to hang myself.
Credit creator and author Emily Spivey (Parks and Recreation) to get the tone just right, from jokes about when the couple find out they are pregnant ("Stop saying," There's a child there, "as a child in a closet with a knife") to share their surprise and horror, that they now have to take care of it (Arnett and Applegate swearing about how cute baby works just fine, as well as their exasperated exhausted).
Series also stars Maya Rudolph, as Ava, a talk show who is needy and emotional and wants to be a producer, Reagan (Applegate), go back to work. Rudolph, along with newly hired Nick Cannon as her co-host, let Up All Night from 30 minutes to turn all parents and children's jokes.
But the truth is that the show is funny, when it is concentrated there. Arnett plays Chris, a stay at home dad trying to handle this situation - it lost in the supermarket and can not find the cheese is one of those random bits that really work - while retaining his masculinity. Arnett exceptional here, are able to deepen down absurdism manic he does it brilliantly and played comedy in a calm level. Applegate is also excellent, and perhaps finally found a sitcom that in written form to demonstrate her comic time.
Less successful for NBC, but the comedy, which still has some hope, if future episodes can improve the pilot is free agents (10:30 pm September 14) based on the British series. It focuses on Alex (Hank Azaria), who just got a divorce he would not, Helen (Kathryn Hahn), whose fiance has recently died. They share a hasty meeting together, and then try to survive loss while their colleagues to pursue them. This is a comedy and workplace romantic comedy, much less romance.
Part of the problem is that there is no chemistry between Khan and Azariah, Azariah, and making the dad who misses his juicy children and cries a lot about his life is not the best role for him. (He clearly stands out as an average for someone and sarcastic, but then find themselves in these emotional and romantic roles that do not seem all that believable.) But, despite that the pilot could not find a rhythm or sense of place, there is huge potential here, so you wonder if, for example, the known examples of 30 Rock and parks and recreation areas, it may take four or so episodes to really click.
That is why there should be a presumption of innocence: It was created by John Enbom (Party Down), was directed and executive producer Todd Holland (Malcolm in the middle) and has a cast of funny actors, including Al Madrigal (Daily Show with Jon Stewart) , Anthony Head (Little Britain, Manchild), Natasha Leggero plus and Joe Lo Truglio, whose work here can actually specify the concept.
Thus, it should work, and yet the pilot is not. If you think this may be generous, be aware that this fall is full of shows like this - the uncertainty of futures might good results (or hide).
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