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Peacock Orders More "Kath & Kim"

NBC has ordered seven additional episodes of its comedy Kath & Kim, bringing the freshman episodic order to thirteen installments.

Kath & Kim, a remake of the beloved Australian series, stars Molly Shannon, Selma Blair, John Michael Higgins, and Mikey Day. Shannon and Blair play a bickering mother and daughter pair who can't quite manage to get out of one another's hair even when they're not (metaphorically) choking each other to death.

The additional episodic order for Kath & Kim comes swiftly on the heels of the wrap of production on the series' first installment. (NBC had ordered the project directly to series without shooting a pilot.) Production on the remaining episodes is expected to begin in July.

Kath & Kim will launch on NBC this fall in the plum post-Office slot at 9:30 pm ET/PT.

What's On Tonight

8 pm: The Big Bang Theory/How I Met Your Mother (CBS); American Gladiators (NBC); Gossip Girl (CW); The Bachelorette (ABC); Bones (FOX)

9 pm: Two and a Half Men/Rules of Engagement (CBS); Nashville Star (NBC; 9-11 pm); One Tree Hill (CW); The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All (ABC); House (FOX)

10 pm: CSI Miami (CBS); The Mole (ABC)

What I'll Be Watching

8 pm: Gossip Girl.

Looking to relive the freshman season of the teen soap? On tonight's repeat episode ("Blair Waldorf Must Pie!"), after Blair disinvites the van der Woodsens from their traditional turkey dinner, Dan invites Serena's family to share Thanksgiving dinner with the Humphreys, which creates some awkwardness for Rufus and Lily.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Still not sold on the remake of Kath & Kim after reading a terrible, terrible draft of the script.

The extra episode order is either a good sign (they fixed a lot in the script) or a horrible sign (the script is still dismal but everything else out there is even more dismal). Hopefully, it's the latter.

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