Medical shows are always popular with audiences; the same is true of most comedy series.
St. Denis Medical is a new comedy set to premiere in 2024, providing a good mix of both.
In the grand tradition of such shows as Superstore, the mockumentary-style show promises a lot of laughs. Here's what we know about it so far.
What is St. Denis Medical?
St. Denis Medical is a new mockumentary sitcom coming to NBC in the fall of 2024.
The sitcom is expected to be similar to not only Superstore but also The Office in terms of the style of humor it includes.
Since medical and comedy programs are usually highly attractive to audiences, the show is already receiving considerable attention.
It is one of three new series NBC plans to launch in fall 2024.
The other two are a medical drama called Brilliant Minds starring Zachary Quinto of Star Trek and a...
St. Denis Medical is a new comedy set to premiere in 2024, providing a good mix of both.
In the grand tradition of such shows as Superstore, the mockumentary-style show promises a lot of laughs. Here's what we know about it so far.
What is St. Denis Medical?
St. Denis Medical is a new mockumentary sitcom coming to NBC in the fall of 2024.
The sitcom is expected to be similar to not only Superstore but also The Office in terms of the style of humor it includes.
Since medical and comedy programs are usually highly attractive to audiences, the show is already receiving considerable attention.
It is one of three new series NBC plans to launch in fall 2024.
The other two are a medical drama called Brilliant Minds starring Zachary Quinto of Star Trek and a...
- 5/28/2024
- by Jessica Kosinski
- TVfanatic
Tires is a workplace comedy series created by the immensely popular stand-up comedian Shane Gillis. The Netflix comedy series is set in a tire shop and follows the daily hijinks of all the employees from Shane’s quippy remarks to Will’s latest humiliation. Tires stars Gillis in the lead role with Steve Gerben, Chris O’Connor, Kilah Fox, Stavros Halkias, and Andrew Schulz. So, if you loved the comedy and the characters in Tires here are some more workplace comedies for you to watch next.
The Crew (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
The Crew is a workplace comedy series created by Jeff Lowell. The Netflix series is set in a NASCAR garage and it follows the story of the crew chief as he is surprised to find out that the owner has decided to retire and put his millennial daughter in charge of the garage. Both butt heads over how the garage...
The Crew (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
The Crew is a workplace comedy series created by Jeff Lowell. The Netflix series is set in a NASCAR garage and it follows the story of the crew chief as he is surprised to find out that the owner has decided to retire and put his millennial daughter in charge of the garage. Both butt heads over how the garage...
- 5/24/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
There's nothing like a good sitcom after a long day of hard work. No matter how tired or upset you are, there are some shows that can make all your worries go away in just a few episodes, and for that they're considered truly iconic. It just so happens that a good portion of them come from NBC.
So, if you thought NBC was only a home for dark and gritty procedural franchises, check out the list of shows below to remind yourself how many other shows the network has released, Law & Order and One Chicago aside.
Cheers (1982-1993)
The classic bar-centric sitcom that followed a bartender and his friends and co-workers could have been canceled in 1982. The show failed to impress viewers from the start, but later redeemed itself to become one of the most popular and highly rated television shows of all time. Thanks to NBC, it survived to air 11 more seasons.
So, if you thought NBC was only a home for dark and gritty procedural franchises, check out the list of shows below to remind yourself how many other shows the network has released, Law & Order and One Chicago aside.
Cheers (1982-1993)
The classic bar-centric sitcom that followed a bartender and his friends and co-workers could have been canceled in 1982. The show failed to impress viewers from the start, but later redeemed itself to become one of the most popular and highly rated television shows of all time. Thanks to NBC, it survived to air 11 more seasons.
- 5/21/2024
- by virginia-singh@startefacts.com (Virginia Singh)
- STartefacts.com
NBC has unveiled its 2024 fall schedule, which highlights franchise dramas, two nights of laughs, unscripted hits, live specials, and holiday programming. All new series will stream the next day on Peacock along with the rest of NBC’s entertainment lineup.
Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, including the drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto and inspired by the true story of a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Oliver Wolf, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier — the human mind — while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
Also coming is St. Denis Medical, which stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and David Alan Grier and is from co-creators Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin. It brings the laughs with a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, including the drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto and inspired by the true story of a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Oliver Wolf, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier — the human mind — while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
Also coming is St. Denis Medical, which stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and David Alan Grier and is from co-creators Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin. It brings the laughs with a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
- 5/12/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Updated: The network upfronts are once again front-and-center for the television industry as major players gather in New York May 13-16 for the springtime ritual of courting advertisers and media buyers and presenting programming plans for the upcoming TV season.
The industry is looking forward to a return to form after the disruption of last year’s writers and actors strikes. As content chiefs outline their schedules for the 2024-2025 television season, here is a running list of new comedy, drama and unscripted series orders handed out by ABC, Disney, CBS, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC, Fox, the CW and other major players. This post will be updated throughout upfront week.
Related Content: Upfronts 2024 Full Coverage
NBC Comedy
Happy’s Place (Universal Television)
Logline: Bobbi inherits her father’s bar and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.
The industry is looking forward to a return to form after the disruption of last year’s writers and actors strikes. As content chiefs outline their schedules for the 2024-2025 television season, here is a running list of new comedy, drama and unscripted series orders handed out by ABC, Disney, CBS, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC, Fox, the CW and other major players. This post will be updated throughout upfront week.
Related Content: Upfronts 2024 Full Coverage
NBC Comedy
Happy’s Place (Universal Television)
Logline: Bobbi inherits her father’s bar and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.
- 5/12/2024
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
NBC dropped some good news to take us into the weekend.
The network unveiled its 2024 fall schedule, highlighting fan-favorite franchise dramas, two nights of laughs, huge unscripted hits and the biggest and best live specials and holiday programming.
If that seems like a mouthful, the details will probably help you see what’s what.
Fall Season
Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, including the drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto and inspired by the true story of a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Oliver Wolf, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier — the human mind — while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
St. Denis Medical, which stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and David Alan Grier and is from co-creators Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, brings the laughs with a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors...
The network unveiled its 2024 fall schedule, highlighting fan-favorite franchise dramas, two nights of laughs, huge unscripted hits and the biggest and best live specials and holiday programming.
If that seems like a mouthful, the details will probably help you see what’s what.
Fall Season
Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, including the drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto and inspired by the true story of a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Oliver Wolf, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier — the human mind — while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
St. Denis Medical, which stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and David Alan Grier and is from co-creators Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, brings the laughs with a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors...
- 5/10/2024
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
NBC’s schedule for the 2024-25 season doesn’t look that different from its current lineup: The Voice on Monday and Tuesday nights, the three Chicago dramas on Wednesday and Law & Order shows on Thursday.
It’s a business-as-usual lineup — but after last year’s strikes-affected schedule and the numerous disrpuptions of the pandemic year of 2020-21 still relatively fresh, that’s a good thing.
“Basically, it was just where do we put our sophomore shows and our our new shows on schedule?” Steve Kern, senior vp program planning and scheduling at NBC Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “Our wish was to have two comedy blocks on the fall schedule, and we were fortunate to have enough comedies to do it this year.”
NBC will have four comedies on the air in the fall — the first time that’s happened since the pre-pandemic season of 2019-...
It’s a business-as-usual lineup — but after last year’s strikes-affected schedule and the numerous disrpuptions of the pandemic year of 2020-21 still relatively fresh, that’s a good thing.
“Basically, it was just where do we put our sophomore shows and our our new shows on schedule?” Steve Kern, senior vp program planning and scheduling at NBC Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “Our wish was to have two comedy blocks on the fall schedule, and we were fortunate to have enough comedies to do it this year.”
NBC will have four comedies on the air in the fall — the first time that’s happened since the pre-pandemic season of 2019-...
- 5/10/2024
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC has made subtle changes to its schedule for fall, which features three new series, medical drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto; medical comedy St. Denis Medical, headlined by Wendi McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier; and Reba McEntire’s new sitcom, Happy’s Place. NBC is creating two clearly defined 8 Pm comedy blocks next season — a workplace one on Tuesday and a family one on Friday.
Here is NBC’s “very stable schedule” for fall, as NBCU’s SVP Content Planning Steve Kern described it, followed by analysis with input from Kern and NBCU President of Program Planning Jeff Bader, who also discussed contingencies in case of an IATSE strike, as well as description of NBC’s new series.
NBC Fall 2024-25 Schedule
(New programs in Upper Case; all times Et/Pt)
Monday
8-10 P.M. — The Voice
10-11 P.M. — Brilliant Minds
Tuesday
8-8:30 P.M. —St. Denis Medical
8:30-9 P.
Here is NBC’s “very stable schedule” for fall, as NBCU’s SVP Content Planning Steve Kern described it, followed by analysis with input from Kern and NBCU President of Program Planning Jeff Bader, who also discussed contingencies in case of an IATSE strike, as well as description of NBC’s new series.
NBC Fall 2024-25 Schedule
(New programs in Upper Case; all times Et/Pt)
Monday
8-10 P.M. — The Voice
10-11 P.M. — Brilliant Minds
Tuesday
8-8:30 P.M. —St. Denis Medical
8:30-9 P.
- 5/10/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: First in a series on broadcast network series renewals. NBC is well ahead of the game this season on the renewal-decision front, handing early pickups to freshman dramas Found and The Irrational as well as One Chicago, Law & Order and Law & Order: Svu while canceling Quantum Leap, La Brea and Magnum Pi.
That leaves just a headful of shows on the bubble, mostly on the comedy side. The one drama series still waiting to hear its fate is Law & Order: Organized Crime. It’s always been an outlier, a departure from the Dick Wolf procedural brand with its darker and serialized storytelling. Possibly as a result, the series starring Christopher Meloni has performed below the five other Wolf dramas on the linear NBC network, while it has reportedly done well on Peacock.
That last part may prove key to Organized Crime‘s future, which has fans so...
That leaves just a headful of shows on the bubble, mostly on the comedy side. The one drama series still waiting to hear its fate is Law & Order: Organized Crime. It’s always been an outlier, a departure from the Dick Wolf procedural brand with its darker and serialized storytelling. Possibly as a result, the series starring Christopher Meloni has performed below the five other Wolf dramas on the linear NBC network, while it has reportedly done well on Peacock.
That last part may prove key to Organized Crime‘s future, which has fans so...
- 4/12/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Nearly three years since NBC shuttered Cloud 9, the Superstore crew is reconvening.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, cast member Colton Dunn (aka Garrett) revealed (with accompanying photo evidence; see below) that nearly the entire ensemble reunited this week for dinner at Los Angeles-based Mexican eatery Mirate.
More from TVLineFound Unveils a Twisted Partnership Between Kidnapper and Former Abductee in Series Premiere - Grade It!The Voice Recap: Turn, Baby, Turn - Which Would-Be Winners Made Chairs Swivel on Night 4 of the Blinds?Jimmy Fallon Mum on Toxic Workplace Allegations as Tonight Show Returns View this post on Instagram...
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, cast member Colton Dunn (aka Garrett) revealed (with accompanying photo evidence; see below) that nearly the entire ensemble reunited this week for dinner at Los Angeles-based Mexican eatery Mirate.
More from TVLineFound Unveils a Twisted Partnership Between Kidnapper and Former Abductee in Series Premiere - Grade It!The Voice Recap: Turn, Baby, Turn - Which Would-Be Winners Made Chairs Swivel on Night 4 of the Blinds?Jimmy Fallon Mum on Toxic Workplace Allegations as Tonight Show Returns View this post on Instagram...
- 10/4/2023
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Lauren Ash, who played Dina in NBC‘s breakout hit Superstore believes that the show won’t be gone for long. In fact, she is pretty confident the series will be picked up again and even include the original cast.
“I think that that, for that show, I mean it’ll be of course logistically scheduling-wise an absolute nightmare cluster,” she joked on the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast. “I can’t speak for anybody, but I really do think that there is a lot of good, all of us have a lot of goodwill towards that show and each other. And I feel like I could definitely see it happening. I’m putting it out there.”
Kaliko Kauahi as Sandra, Jon Barinholtz as Marcus, Lauren Ash as Dina, Kelly Schumann as Justine |Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Ash, however, is a realist,...
“I think that that, for that show, I mean it’ll be of course logistically scheduling-wise an absolute nightmare cluster,” she joked on the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast. “I can’t speak for anybody, but I really do think that there is a lot of good, all of us have a lot of goodwill towards that show and each other. And I feel like I could definitely see it happening. I’m putting it out there.”
Kaliko Kauahi as Sandra, Jon Barinholtz as Marcus, Lauren Ash as Dina, Kelly Schumann as Justine |Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Ash, however, is a realist,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
What’s NBC nowadays?
Even before the ongoing writers strike scrambled the network’s fall schedule, its identity — historically quite strong as a place for chewy, grown-up dramas and chic, cerebral sitcoms — had seemed hazy. Promising comedies, the sort that might have grown to fulfill the role recently played by “30 Rock” or “Superstore,” got unceremoniously booted from the air after barely a chance to thrive; new dramas, from “Ordinary Joe” to “The Thing About Pam,” seemed painfully undistinguished.
It’s been a tough few years. And as much as the departure of Susan Rovner, chairman of entertainment content for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a career TV executive previously known for her work at Warner Bros. Television, is just latest bit of media industry consolidation, it’s also a moment to observe that the legacy network and its corporate siblings have struggled to find a way forward. In the years...
Even before the ongoing writers strike scrambled the network’s fall schedule, its identity — historically quite strong as a place for chewy, grown-up dramas and chic, cerebral sitcoms — had seemed hazy. Promising comedies, the sort that might have grown to fulfill the role recently played by “30 Rock” or “Superstore,” got unceremoniously booted from the air after barely a chance to thrive; new dramas, from “Ordinary Joe” to “The Thing About Pam,” seemed painfully undistinguished.
It’s been a tough few years. And as much as the departure of Susan Rovner, chairman of entertainment content for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a career TV executive previously known for her work at Warner Bros. Television, is just latest bit of media industry consolidation, it’s also a moment to observe that the legacy network and its corporate siblings have struggled to find a way forward. In the years...
- 7/6/2023
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Good Girls reunion of Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Retta is not happening — at least not at NBC. The network has passed on the untitled drama pilot (fka Murder by the Book), starring Retta and written and executive produced by Bans and Krebs. The studio behind the pilot, Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is expected to shop it.
The untitled Bans/Krebs project was one of two NBC drama pilots ordered this pilot season. The other, fka as Wolf, starring Zachary Quinto, remains in contention, I hear. A decision is expected in the next week as options on pilot casts are up June 30.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
NBC earlier this month made calls on its two 2023 comedy pilots, picking up Justin Spitzer’s St. Denis Medical to series and passing on Amber Ruffin’s Non-Evil Twin.
The Bans/Krebs drama follows an Instafamous big-city...
The untitled Bans/Krebs project was one of two NBC drama pilots ordered this pilot season. The other, fka as Wolf, starring Zachary Quinto, remains in contention, I hear. A decision is expected in the next week as options on pilot casts are up June 30.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
NBC earlier this month made calls on its two 2023 comedy pilots, picking up Justin Spitzer’s St. Denis Medical to series and passing on Amber Ruffin’s Non-Evil Twin.
The Bans/Krebs drama follows an Instafamous big-city...
- 6/22/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney+ just dropped a bombshell on Wildcats everywhere: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is ending with its upcoming fourth season, which will release all eight episodes on Wednesday, Aug. 9.
“After four years at East High, it’s time to graduate,” showrunner Tim Federle says in a statement. “This will be our final, endgame season. This show brought the most extraordinary cast — and crew, and collaborators — to my life. To the fans, who embraced our super-meta series: we ‘don’t not love you.’ We can’t wait to share this epic fourth act with you all.”
More from TVLineSecret...
“After four years at East High, it’s time to graduate,” showrunner Tim Federle says in a statement. “This will be our final, endgame season. This show brought the most extraordinary cast — and crew, and collaborators — to my life. To the fans, who embraced our super-meta series: we ‘don’t not love you.’ We can’t wait to share this epic fourth act with you all.”
More from TVLineSecret...
- 6/21/2023
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
After consulting with Google Translate, I have a message for this week’s Golden Buzzer recipients: Félicitations!
The fourth week of America’s Got Talent Season 18 auditions introduced viewers to Murmuration, a 65-member dance troupe from France that left the judges mesmerized with its incredibly precise movements — especially for a group of its size, easily the largest ever to appear on the AGT stage. Never mind the fact that the dancers did the entire routine blindfolded.
More from TVLineLike Chicago Fire, NBC's LA Fire & Rescue Docuseries Features 'a Family of People' Dealing With Extraordinary ChallengesAmerican Auto Cancelled: Series Creator...
The fourth week of America’s Got Talent Season 18 auditions introduced viewers to Murmuration, a 65-member dance troupe from France that left the judges mesmerized with its incredibly precise movements — especially for a group of its size, easily the largest ever to appear on the AGT stage. Never mind the fact that the dancers did the entire routine blindfolded.
More from TVLineLike Chicago Fire, NBC's LA Fire & Rescue Docuseries Features 'a Family of People' Dealing With Extraordinary ChallengesAmerican Auto Cancelled: Series Creator...
- 6/21/2023
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
“American Auto” creator Justin Spitzer shared what fans of the workplace comedy would have seen in Season 3 had NBC renewed the series.
“Season 3 of ‘American Auto’ was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm,” Spitzer wrote on Twitter Friday shortly after news circulated that the series would not be returning for a third installment.
Also Read:
‘American Auto’ Canceled After 2 Seasons at NBC
The cancellation comes week’s after NBC’s last batch of decisions for on-the-bubble shows, which involved canceling “Grand Crew” after two seasons and “Young Rock” after three seasons.
“I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there,” Spitzer continued. “Thank you so much to our outstanding cast, writers, crew and fans.”
Season 3 of #americanauto was going to...
“Season 3 of ‘American Auto’ was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm,” Spitzer wrote on Twitter Friday shortly after news circulated that the series would not be returning for a third installment.
Also Read:
‘American Auto’ Canceled After 2 Seasons at NBC
The cancellation comes week’s after NBC’s last batch of decisions for on-the-bubble shows, which involved canceling “Grand Crew” after two seasons and “Young Rock” after three seasons.
“I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there,” Spitzer continued. “Thank you so much to our outstanding cast, writers, crew and fans.”
Season 3 of #americanauto was going to...
- 6/19/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Network: NBC
Episodes: 23 (half-hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: December 13, 2021 -- April 18, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White, and X Mayo.
TV show description:
A workplace comedy series, the American Auto TV show was created by Justin Spitzer (Superstore).
Set in Detroit, the story finds the corporate executives of Payne Motors at a crossroads -- adapt to the changing times or be sent to the junkyard.
Read More…...
Episodes: 23 (half-hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: December 13, 2021 -- April 18, 2023
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White, and X Mayo.
TV show description:
A workplace comedy series, the American Auto TV show was created by Justin Spitzer (Superstore).
Set in Detroit, the story finds the corporate executives of Payne Motors at a crossroads -- adapt to the changing times or be sent to the junkyard.
Read More…...
- 6/19/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
American Auto fans are going to miss out on a world of Payne, creator Justin Spitzer posted today.
Spitzer posted today on Twitter that the third season “was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm. I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there.”
NBC opted not to proceed with a third season of its workplace comedy series American Auto, created and executive produced by Superstore creator Spitzer. His other workplace comedy, St. Denis Medical, has been picked up to series by the network.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also starred in the series. The series was produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Spitzer Holding Company and Kapital Entertainment.
Spitzer posted today on Twitter that the third season “was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm. I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there.”
NBC opted not to proceed with a third season of its workplace comedy series American Auto, created and executive produced by Superstore creator Spitzer. His other workplace comedy, St. Denis Medical, has been picked up to series by the network.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also starred in the series. The series was produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Spitzer Holding Company and Kapital Entertainment.
- 6/18/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The main creative mind behind American Auto is revealing details about the cancelled sitcom’s ill-fated third season.
In the wake of NBC’s decision to end the series with Season 2, series creator Justin Spitzer divulged on Twitter late Friday that “Season 3 American Auto was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm. I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there.
More from TVLineLike Chicago Fire, NBC's LA Fire & Rescue...
In the wake of NBC’s decision to end the series with Season 2, series creator Justin Spitzer divulged on Twitter late Friday that “Season 3 American Auto was going to show Katherine Hastings and Payne Motors finally finding success and taking the world by storm. I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there.
More from TVLineLike Chicago Fire, NBC's LA Fire & Rescue...
- 6/18/2023
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
American Auto may be gone, but costar Ana Gasteyer will always remember it with gratitude.
“I really loved this opportunity,” she tweeted. “Everyone on the creative team, the writers, the crew, and of course, the ensemble made magic. Lucky me.” She closed with a heart emoji.
NBC opted not to proceed with a third season of its workplace comedy series American Auto, created and executive produced by Superstore creator Justin Spitzer. His other workplace comedy, St. Denis Medical, has been picked up to series by the network.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also starred in the series. The series was produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Spitzer Holding Company and Kapital Entertainment.
I really loved this opportunity – everyone on the creative team, the writers, the crew and of course, the ensemble made magic. Lucky me ❤️ https://t.
“I really loved this opportunity,” she tweeted. “Everyone on the creative team, the writers, the crew, and of course, the ensemble made magic. Lucky me.” She closed with a heart emoji.
NBC opted not to proceed with a third season of its workplace comedy series American Auto, created and executive produced by Superstore creator Justin Spitzer. His other workplace comedy, St. Denis Medical, has been picked up to series by the network.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also starred in the series. The series was produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Spitzer Holding Company and Kapital Entertainment.
I really loved this opportunity – everyone on the creative team, the writers, the crew and of course, the ensemble made magic. Lucky me ❤️ https://t.
- 6/17/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
“American Auto” has been canceled by NBC, TheWrap can confirm. This marks the third comedy to be canceled by the network after “Young Rock” and “Grand Crew,” which were axed earlier this month.
Created by Justin Spitzer, the series starred Ana Gasteyer and Harriet Dyer as the employees of a Detroit-based carmaking company. The series followed the struggles of Payne Motors after a CEO (Gasteyer) from the pharmaceutical world who knows next-to-nothing about cars is hired to run a car manufacturer. The series also starred Jon Barinholtz, Tye White, Michael Benjamin Washington, Humphrey Ker and X Mayo. Jim O’Heir, Andy Daly, Martha Kelly, Seth Meyers and Ryan Reynolds also appeared in the series as guest stars.
“American Auto” first premiered in December of 2021 to critical acclaim. Season 1 still has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews.
Also Read:
‘Grand Crew,’ ‘Young Rock’ Canceled by NBC
Despite its recognition from industry insiders,...
Created by Justin Spitzer, the series starred Ana Gasteyer and Harriet Dyer as the employees of a Detroit-based carmaking company. The series followed the struggles of Payne Motors after a CEO (Gasteyer) from the pharmaceutical world who knows next-to-nothing about cars is hired to run a car manufacturer. The series also starred Jon Barinholtz, Tye White, Michael Benjamin Washington, Humphrey Ker and X Mayo. Jim O’Heir, Andy Daly, Martha Kelly, Seth Meyers and Ryan Reynolds also appeared in the series as guest stars.
“American Auto” first premiered in December of 2021 to critical acclaim. Season 1 still has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews.
Also Read:
‘Grand Crew,’ ‘Young Rock’ Canceled by NBC
Despite its recognition from industry insiders,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
“American Auto” has been canceled after two seasons on NBC.
Created by Justin Spitzer, “American Auto” was a workplace comedy following the executives of Detroit-based Payne Motors as they struggle to adapt to the changing times, all the while being led by the company’s first female CEO, Katherine Hastings (Ana Gasteyer).
Along with Gasteyer, the cast included Harriet Dyer as Sadie Ryan, Jon Barinholtz as Wesley Payne, Humphrey Ker as Elliot Chisholm, Michael B. Washington as Cyrus Knight, Tye White as Jack Fortin and X Mayo as Dori Ovens.
Season 2 was averaging 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49 according to Nielsen’s Live + 7 data from late April.
Spitzer is best known as the creator of “Superstore,” which starred America Ferrera and ran on NBC for six seasons from 2015 to 2021. His other writing credits include “The Office,” “Scrubs” and “Mulaney.”
He is also behind “St. Denis Medical,...
Created by Justin Spitzer, “American Auto” was a workplace comedy following the executives of Detroit-based Payne Motors as they struggle to adapt to the changing times, all the while being led by the company’s first female CEO, Katherine Hastings (Ana Gasteyer).
Along with Gasteyer, the cast included Harriet Dyer as Sadie Ryan, Jon Barinholtz as Wesley Payne, Humphrey Ker as Elliot Chisholm, Michael B. Washington as Cyrus Knight, Tye White as Jack Fortin and X Mayo as Dori Ovens.
Season 2 was averaging 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49 according to Nielsen’s Live + 7 data from late April.
Spitzer is best known as the creator of “Superstore,” which starred America Ferrera and ran on NBC for six seasons from 2015 to 2021. His other writing credits include “The Office,” “Scrubs” and “Mulaney.”
He is also behind “St. Denis Medical,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
NBC has canceled its second-year comedy American Auto.
The series, set at a struggling car company, wrapped its second season in April. It was the last scripted show on NBC’s 2022-23 schedule still in limbo; American Auto’s cancellation follows those of Young Rock and Grand Crew a week ago.
NBC has also opted not to go ahead with its lone remaining comedy pilot, Non-Evil Twin, from Amber Ruffin (who also stars) and former Black-ish showrunner Kenny Smith.
Created by Justin Spitzer (Superstore), American Auto follows a group of executives at an automaker who are trying to re-establish the company’s identity in a changing marketplace. Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo star.
The series averaged 2.32 million viewers and a 0.35 rating among adults 18-49 over seven days of viewing (not including streaming) in 2022-23. Those figures were down 15 percent...
The series, set at a struggling car company, wrapped its second season in April. It was the last scripted show on NBC’s 2022-23 schedule still in limbo; American Auto’s cancellation follows those of Young Rock and Grand Crew a week ago.
NBC has also opted not to go ahead with its lone remaining comedy pilot, Non-Evil Twin, from Amber Ruffin (who also stars) and former Black-ish showrunner Kenny Smith.
Created by Justin Spitzer (Superstore), American Auto follows a group of executives at an automaker who are trying to re-establish the company’s identity in a changing marketplace. Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo star.
The series averaged 2.32 million viewers and a 0.35 rating among adults 18-49 over seven days of viewing (not including streaming) in 2022-23. Those figures were down 15 percent...
- 6/16/2023
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC is shutting down production on American Auto, cancelling the satirical workplace comedy after two seasons, TVLine has confirmed.
Season to date, American Auto has averaged 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), down 15 and 40 percent from its freshman numbers (2.7 mil/0.5). Out of the five sitcoms that NBC has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 3 in audience and ties for third in the demo (besting only Grand Crew, which was also recently cancelled, along with Young Rock).
More from TVLineAmerican Auto Cancelled: Series Creator Justin Spitzer Reveals What Would've Happened in Season 3Ratings: Vanderpump Rules Reunion...
Season to date, American Auto has averaged 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), down 15 and 40 percent from its freshman numbers (2.7 mil/0.5). Out of the five sitcoms that NBC has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 3 in audience and ties for third in the demo (besting only Grand Crew, which was also recently cancelled, along with Young Rock).
More from TVLineAmerican Auto Cancelled: Series Creator Justin Spitzer Reveals What Would've Happened in Season 3Ratings: Vanderpump Rules Reunion...
- 6/16/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: NBC has opted not to proceed with a third season of its workplace comedy series American Auto, created and executive produced by Superstore creator Justin Spitzer.
The news comes a week after the network picked up to series Spitzer’s workplace comedy pilot St. Denis Medical.
NBC is going through a comedy lineup revamp this year, cancelling all of its returning series. The network’s 2023-34 schedule will include freshmen Night Court and Lopez vs Lopez, both of which were renewed for a second season, as well as new entry St. Denis Medical.
Related: ‘American Auto’ Creator Justin Spitzer Reveals What Would Have Happened In Season 3
There could’ve been a Justin Spitzer single-camera workplace comedy block next season with St. Denis Medical and American Auto, and the latter had internal support at NBC but ultimately the network decided not to go through with a Season 3.
Related: Amber Ruffin...
The news comes a week after the network picked up to series Spitzer’s workplace comedy pilot St. Denis Medical.
NBC is going through a comedy lineup revamp this year, cancelling all of its returning series. The network’s 2023-34 schedule will include freshmen Night Court and Lopez vs Lopez, both of which were renewed for a second season, as well as new entry St. Denis Medical.
Related: ‘American Auto’ Creator Justin Spitzer Reveals What Would Have Happened In Season 3
There could’ve been a Justin Spitzer single-camera workplace comedy block next season with St. Denis Medical and American Auto, and the latter had internal support at NBC but ultimately the network decided not to go through with a Season 3.
Related: Amber Ruffin...
- 6/16/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva and Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
“Young Rock” is done.
NBC made the decision official on Friday, canceling the half-hour comedy series inspired by Dwayne Johnson’s life after three seasons.
“Young Rock” followed young Dwayne Johnson as he navigated his rise from unknown wrestler to Hollywood superstar. Together, Dwayne and his unorthodox family faced locker room politics, new rivalries and the perils of burgeoning fame as he found his voice in the WWE as The Rock. Told through stories from his own life, the show followed Dwayne’s journey to the top and the characters that kept him grounded — even as he set his sights on ever-bigger arenas.
Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant and Uli Latukefu played young Dwayne during various stages of his childhood. Joseph Lee Anderson portrayed Dwayne’s late father, Rocky, while Stacey Leilua played his mother, Ata.
The show wrapped its third (and now final) season Feb. 24, averaging less than 2 million viewers per episode.
NBC made the decision official on Friday, canceling the half-hour comedy series inspired by Dwayne Johnson’s life after three seasons.
“Young Rock” followed young Dwayne Johnson as he navigated his rise from unknown wrestler to Hollywood superstar. Together, Dwayne and his unorthodox family faced locker room politics, new rivalries and the perils of burgeoning fame as he found his voice in the WWE as The Rock. Told through stories from his own life, the show followed Dwayne’s journey to the top and the characters that kept him grounded — even as he set his sights on ever-bigger arenas.
Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant and Uli Latukefu played young Dwayne during various stages of his childhood. Joseph Lee Anderson portrayed Dwayne’s late father, Rocky, while Stacey Leilua played his mother, Ata.
The show wrapped its third (and now final) season Feb. 24, averaging less than 2 million viewers per episode.
- 6/10/2023
- by Sarah Curran
- ET Canada
ABC is passing on its pilots.
The network has passed on Anthony Anderson-fronted Public Defenders and Ellie Kemper-led Keeping It Together, which is a remake of British comedy Motherland, as well as dramas The Hurt Unit, starring Melissa George and Ben McKenzie, and Judgement starring Sex/Life’s Sarah Shahi.
ABC Signature is, however, planning to shop The Hurt Unit to other networks and platforms, while 20th Television will be shopping Public Defenders and Judgement.
The move comes as it still has decisions to make on series Home Economics and The Rookie: Feds as well as The Good Lawyer, which was a backdoor pilot spinoff of The Good Doctor.
Last month, ABC handed a series order to Drew Goddard’s pilot High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson. The project, which is based on the popular French detective series Hip, was the clear front-runner all development season.
Related: 2023 ABC Pilots...
The network has passed on Anthony Anderson-fronted Public Defenders and Ellie Kemper-led Keeping It Together, which is a remake of British comedy Motherland, as well as dramas The Hurt Unit, starring Melissa George and Ben McKenzie, and Judgement starring Sex/Life’s Sarah Shahi.
ABC Signature is, however, planning to shop The Hurt Unit to other networks and platforms, while 20th Television will be shopping Public Defenders and Judgement.
The move comes as it still has decisions to make on series Home Economics and The Rookie: Feds as well as The Good Lawyer, which was a backdoor pilot spinoff of The Good Doctor.
Last month, ABC handed a series order to Drew Goddard’s pilot High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson. The project, which is based on the popular French detective series Hip, was the clear front-runner all development season.
Related: 2023 ABC Pilots...
- 6/9/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Uli Latukefu as Dwayne and Luke Hawx as Steve Austin in ‘Young Rock’ (Photo by: Mark Taylor/NBC)
The fate of American Auto is still up in the air, but NBC has confirmed the fate of half-hour comedies Grand Crew and Young Rock. Grand Crew, starring Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Aaron Jennings, Justin Cunningham, Carl Tart, and Grasie Mercedes, is closing shop after just two seasons. The third season of Young Rock – based on the life of Dwayne Johnson and starring/executive produced The Rock – is the series’ final season, as NBC has opted not to renew the comedy for season four.
Filling one of the now vacated primetime slots will be St. Denis Medical, a new mockumentary-style comedy that’s just been given a series order by the network. NBC’s announcement of the scheduling moves included this description of the new show: “A mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed...
The fate of American Auto is still up in the air, but NBC has confirmed the fate of half-hour comedies Grand Crew and Young Rock. Grand Crew, starring Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Aaron Jennings, Justin Cunningham, Carl Tart, and Grasie Mercedes, is closing shop after just two seasons. The third season of Young Rock – based on the life of Dwayne Johnson and starring/executive produced The Rock – is the series’ final season, as NBC has opted not to renew the comedy for season four.
Filling one of the now vacated primetime slots will be St. Denis Medical, a new mockumentary-style comedy that’s just been given a series order by the network. NBC’s announcement of the scheduling moves included this description of the new show: “A mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed...
- 6/9/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
NBC has canceled “Grand Crew” after two seasons and “Young Rock” after three seasons.
“Grand Crew,” which comes from Phil Augusta Jackson and Dan Goor (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), followed friends Noah, Nicky, Sherm, Anthony, Wyatt and Fay as they navigated the ups and downs of life and unpacked it all at their favorite wine bar.
The cast includes Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Aaron Jennings, Justin Cunningham, Carl Tart and Grasie Mercedes. The hangout comedy is produced by Universal Television, with Jackson and Goor serving as executive producers.
Also Read:
TCA Cancels 2023 Summer Tour Due to Ongoing WGA Strike
The third season of “Young Rock” centers on Dwayne Johnson as he navigates his meteoric rise from unknown wrestler to Hollywood superstar. Told through stories from his own life, the show follows the actor’s journey to the top and the colorful characters that keep him grounded.
In addition to Johnson, the series stars Joseph Lee Anderson,...
“Grand Crew,” which comes from Phil Augusta Jackson and Dan Goor (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), followed friends Noah, Nicky, Sherm, Anthony, Wyatt and Fay as they navigated the ups and downs of life and unpacked it all at their favorite wine bar.
The cast includes Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Aaron Jennings, Justin Cunningham, Carl Tart and Grasie Mercedes. The hangout comedy is produced by Universal Television, with Jackson and Goor serving as executive producers.
Also Read:
TCA Cancels 2023 Summer Tour Due to Ongoing WGA Strike
The third season of “Young Rock” centers on Dwayne Johnson as he navigates his meteoric rise from unknown wrestler to Hollywood superstar. Told through stories from his own life, the show follows the actor’s journey to the top and the colorful characters that keep him grounded.
In addition to Johnson, the series stars Joseph Lee Anderson,...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
NBC has given a series order to “St. Denis Medical,” a comedy series hailing from “Superstore” and “American Auto” creator Justin Spitzer alongside Eric Ledgin, who also wrote and executive produced on both shows.
Per the official logline, the series is “a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.”
In her first role since May’s conclusion of “The Goldbergs” on ABC, Wendi McLendon-Covey stars as Joyce, St. Denis’ executive director and former oncological surgeon who has big dreams for the future of the hospital, though those dreams are not currently being realized. And as reported exclusively by Variety, Allison Tolman will play Alex, the supervising nurse in St. Denis’ emergency department who is dedicated to providing excellent care to her patients, often sacrificing her personal life to maintain her high standards.
The...
Per the official logline, the series is “a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.”
In her first role since May’s conclusion of “The Goldbergs” on ABC, Wendi McLendon-Covey stars as Joyce, St. Denis’ executive director and former oncological surgeon who has big dreams for the future of the hospital, though those dreams are not currently being realized. And as reported exclusively by Variety, Allison Tolman will play Alex, the supervising nurse in St. Denis’ emergency department who is dedicated to providing excellent care to her patients, often sacrificing her personal life to maintain her high standards.
The...
- 6/9/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
NBC Comedy St. Denis Medical, Starring Wendi McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier, Lands Series Order
Wendi McLendon-Covey is officially back in the broadcast comedy game, just over a month after The Goldbergs ended.
NBC has ordered to series St. Denis Medical, a comedy starring McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier, TVLine has learned. (Meanwhile, Grand Crew and Young Rock have both been cancelled at the network; go here for details.)
More from TVLineZachary Quinto's Dr. Wolf Ordered to Series at NBCLaw & Order: Organized Crime Names Its 6th Showrunner In 3 Years - Ozark Vet John ShibanQuantum Leap EPs Say Eliza Taylor's Character Is Not a Time Traveler - But Will Other Leapers Appear in Season 2?
The single-cam,...
NBC has ordered to series St. Denis Medical, a comedy starring McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier, TVLine has learned. (Meanwhile, Grand Crew and Young Rock have both been cancelled at the network; go here for details.)
More from TVLineZachary Quinto's Dr. Wolf Ordered to Series at NBCLaw & Order: Organized Crime Names Its 6th Showrunner In 3 Years - Ozark Vet John ShibanQuantum Leap EPs Say Eliza Taylor's Character Is Not a Time Traveler - But Will Other Leapers Appear in Season 2?
The single-cam,...
- 6/9/2023
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Network TV just can’t quit Wendi McLendon-Covey! NBC announced a series order for the new comedy series “St. Denis Medical” Friday, which will bring the actress back to primetime shortly after wrapping a 10-season run on ABC’s “The Goldbergs.”
The mockumentary-style show from “Superstore” writers Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin follows “an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity,” per the show’s official logline. McClendon-Covey stars as Joyce, the hospital’s administrator. The show also stars David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Mekki Leeper and Kahyun Kim.
“Hospitals are funny. They don’t mean to be, and they may not be funny if it’s happening to you, but a lot of funny things happen in hospitals,” McLendon-Covey told TheWrap of the role in a recent interview. “This would be kind of like,...
The mockumentary-style show from “Superstore” writers Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin follows “an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity,” per the show’s official logline. McClendon-Covey stars as Joyce, the hospital’s administrator. The show also stars David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Mekki Leeper and Kahyun Kim.
“Hospitals are funny. They don’t mean to be, and they may not be funny if it’s happening to you, but a lot of funny things happen in hospitals,” McLendon-Covey told TheWrap of the role in a recent interview. “This would be kind of like,...
- 6/9/2023
- by Jose Alejandro Bastidas
- The Wrap
It will be a quick return to network primetime for Wendi McLendon-Covey. NBC has picked up to series St. Denis Medical, its single-camera workplace comedy starring The Goldbergs alumna and veteran David Alan Grier.
This marks the first 2023 NBC pilot to get a series order as the network again shifted most — in this case all — pickup decisions to after the upfronts.
The first pickup is not a surprise: St. Denis Medical, written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, was an early front-runner, getting enthusiastic reception in network screenings.
Related: NBC Fall 2023 Schedule: ‘Night Court’ Moves To Fall In Tuesday Comedy Block, ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ & ‘La Brea’ Pushed To Midseason In Strike-Proof Slate
There is no decision yet on the other three NBC pilots — the untitled Jenna Bans/Bill Krebs hourlong project starring Retta,...
This marks the first 2023 NBC pilot to get a series order as the network again shifted most — in this case all — pickup decisions to after the upfronts.
The first pickup is not a surprise: St. Denis Medical, written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, was an early front-runner, getting enthusiastic reception in network screenings.
Related: NBC Fall 2023 Schedule: ‘Night Court’ Moves To Fall In Tuesday Comedy Block, ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ & ‘La Brea’ Pushed To Midseason In Strike-Proof Slate
There is no decision yet on the other three NBC pilots — the untitled Jenna Bans/Bill Krebs hourlong project starring Retta,...
- 6/9/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
NBC has taken the axe to two of its veteran comedies: Young Rock and Grand Crew have both been cancelled, TVLine has learned. “No decision has been made” on the fate of American Auto, however, the network notes.
Young Rock, which ran for three seasons, followed the life and career of wrestling-turned-movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson across several decades, including his humble beginnings as a headstrong kid nicknamed “Dewey,” his college years playing football and the early days of his professional wrestling career. Additionally, Johnson played a fictional version of himself who ran for president in the 2032 election. Season...
Young Rock, which ran for three seasons, followed the life and career of wrestling-turned-movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson across several decades, including his humble beginnings as a headstrong kid nicknamed “Dewey,” his college years playing football and the early days of his professional wrestling career. Additionally, Johnson played a fictional version of himself who ran for president in the 2032 election. Season...
- 6/9/2023
- by Dave Nemetz and Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
NBC has made decisions on two of its three bubble comedies and one of its four pilots.
The network has opted to cancel sophomore series Grand Crew and third-year show Young Rock, leaving fellow comedy American Auto on the bubble. As part of NBC’s comedy moves Friday, the network has handed out a series order to the mockumentary series St. Denis Medical. There is no word yet on the fates of NBC’s three remaining pilots, comedy Non-Evil Twin with Amber Ruffin and dramas Murder by the Book and Wolf.
St. Denis Medical, in the vein of ABC’s breakout Emmy darling Abbott Elementary, is described as a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity. Wendi McClendon-Covey stars in the Universal TV series, marking her first role after she wrapped a 10-season...
The network has opted to cancel sophomore series Grand Crew and third-year show Young Rock, leaving fellow comedy American Auto on the bubble. As part of NBC’s comedy moves Friday, the network has handed out a series order to the mockumentary series St. Denis Medical. There is no word yet on the fates of NBC’s three remaining pilots, comedy Non-Evil Twin with Amber Ruffin and dramas Murder by the Book and Wolf.
St. Denis Medical, in the vein of ABC’s breakout Emmy darling Abbott Elementary, is described as a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity. Wendi McClendon-Covey stars in the Universal TV series, marking her first role after she wrapped a 10-season...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” continues to be hailed as a revelatory comedy series that puts classic networks back on the TV awards map, attention should also be paid to the other great non-streaming sitcoms of its age. Take, for instance, “American Auto,” which, after two strong seasons, has proven a worthy successor to past NBC workplace comedies like “The Office” and “Superstore.” At a time when increasingly dark dramedies dominate much of the television landscape, it’s important to keep part of the spotlight on feel-good laffers, and “American Auto” stands as proof that there is more than one such model on the lot.
“American Auto” primarily takes place in the Detroit corporate offices of fictional car company Payne Motors, which has recently fallen under the control of ill-equipped CEO Katherine Hastings (a perfectly cast Ana Gasteyer). With each passing episode, her central goal of at least keeping pace...
“American Auto” primarily takes place in the Detroit corporate offices of fictional car company Payne Motors, which has recently fallen under the control of ill-equipped CEO Katherine Hastings (a perfectly cast Ana Gasteyer). With each passing episode, her central goal of at least keeping pace...
- 5/25/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
NBC has yet to make decisions about three of its comedies.
American Auto, Grand Crew and Young Rock all remain on the bubble after the network unveiled its fall schedule with these three shows absent from fall and midseason.
NBC said “decisions are yet to be made” on the trio.
American Auto comes from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer. The series premiered its second season in January and it ended its 13-episode run in April.
Starring Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer and Jon Barinholtz, American Auto hails from Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Spitzer, American Auto is set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit, where a floundering group of executives try to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also star.
Spitzer executive produces via his Spitzer Holding Company with Kapital’s Kaplan.
American Auto, Grand Crew and Young Rock all remain on the bubble after the network unveiled its fall schedule with these three shows absent from fall and midseason.
NBC said “decisions are yet to be made” on the trio.
American Auto comes from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer. The series premiered its second season in January and it ended its 13-episode run in April.
Starring Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer and Jon Barinholtz, American Auto hails from Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Spitzer, American Auto is set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit, where a floundering group of executives try to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry.
Harriet Dyer, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo also star.
Spitzer executive produces via his Spitzer Holding Company with Kapital’s Kaplan.
- 5/12/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of top showrunners met today to discuss the WGA strike – a day after it emerged the studios told writer/producers were not excused from producing duties during the labor action.
The meeting was held at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills with the likes of Damon Lindelof, Shawn Ryan, Steve Levitan, Justin Spitzer, David E. Kelley, Bill Lawrence and David Steinberg in attendance.
It comes after the majority of studios, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Paramount sent out letters to showrunners, telling them to continue to produce.
“Those studio emails have had the opposite intended effect now,” one showrunner who attended today’s gathering told Deadline. “Now we are more united, more convinced than ever that there is no non-writing aspect of what we do.”
“Scary times but writers are united,” said another who attended.
Showrunners have warned that everything they do is writing and many have...
The meeting was held at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills with the likes of Damon Lindelof, Shawn Ryan, Steve Levitan, Justin Spitzer, David E. Kelley, Bill Lawrence and David Steinberg in attendance.
It comes after the majority of studios, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Paramount sent out letters to showrunners, telling them to continue to produce.
“Those studio emails have had the opposite intended effect now,” one showrunner who attended today’s gathering told Deadline. “Now we are more united, more convinced than ever that there is no non-writing aspect of what we do.”
“Scary times but writers are united,” said another who attended.
Showrunners have warned that everything they do is writing and many have...
- 5/6/2023
- by Peter White and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
For a few minutes during the Season 2 finale of NBC’s workplace comedy “American Auto,” it looked as if Ana Gasteyer’s character, Katherine Hastings, had evolved from the narcissistic CEO of a car manufacturer to a cheerleading team player, attempting to comfort her employees in the face of probable firing. But, in true comedic form, that moment was fleeting and by the episode’s end, it was obvious that Katherine is ready to dance on the “dark side of success,” as Gasteyer put it.
The set up for the finale, which aired Tuesday night, was simple: the board of Payne Motors was going to take down Katherine – saying she is not liked is putting it mildly — and her entire team, but she struck a deal with them – if she could get the stock up to a certain point everybody would keep their job; if not, she would resign. And...
The set up for the finale, which aired Tuesday night, was simple: the board of Payne Motors was going to take down Katherine – saying she is not liked is putting it mildly — and her entire team, but she struck a deal with them – if she could get the stock up to a certain point everybody would keep their job; if not, she would resign. And...
- 4/19/2023
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s American Auto finale. Proceed at your own risk!
American Auto‘s would-be couple might be done playing the “Will they or won’t they?” game after Tuesday’s season finale.
More from TVLineRatings: Bubble Comedy American Auto Ends Season on Low NoteThe Voice Recap: Knockouts' Kickoff Leaves Mentor Reba McEntire in TearsDestination X Reality-Bending Adventure Competition Set at NBC
Thinking they were both going to be out of jobs as Payne Motors struggled to raise its stock price, Jack rather confidently asked out Sadie for a drink, and she agreed to it.
American Auto‘s would-be couple might be done playing the “Will they or won’t they?” game after Tuesday’s season finale.
More from TVLineRatings: Bubble Comedy American Auto Ends Season on Low NoteThe Voice Recap: Knockouts' Kickoff Leaves Mentor Reba McEntire in TearsDestination X Reality-Bending Adventure Competition Set at NBC
Thinking they were both going to be out of jobs as Payne Motors struggled to raise its stock price, Jack rather confidently asked out Sadie for a drink, and she agreed to it.
- 4/19/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Josh Lawson (Mortal Kombat), Kahyun Kim (Cocaine Bear) and Mekki Leeper (The Sex Lives of College Girls) have been cast in the NBC comedy pilot St. Denis Medical. They join previously announced leads Wendi McLendon-Covey and David Alan Grier.
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Lawson plays Bruce, a trauma surgeon working primarily in the Emergency Department. Bruce is very talented, he knows it and wants everyone else to know it. Kim plays Serena, an Emergency Department nurse who leans toward homeopathy and is Alex’s work wife. Leeper plays Matt, a well-meaning Emergency Department nurse whom we meet on his first day as a Registered Nurse.
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Lawson plays Bruce, a trauma surgeon working primarily in the Emergency Department. Bruce is very talented, he knows it and wants everyone else to know it. Kim plays Serena, an Emergency Department nurse who leans toward homeopathy and is Alex’s work wife. Leeper plays Matt, a well-meaning Emergency Department nurse whom we meet on his first day as a Registered Nurse.
- 4/5/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Award-winning actor David Alan Grier is set to star opposite Wendi McLendon-Covey in St. Denis Medical, a new comedy pilot from NBC. According to Deadline, Grier will play Emergency Department doctor Ron in the mockumentary set in an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital. Ron is described as a defeated divorcee who has accepted that the thrill is gone. Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin (Superstore), St. Denis Medical is a single-camera sitcom revolving around the dedicated doctors and nurses who try their best to treat patients while holding onto their own sanity. Grier will star alongside The Goldbergs‘ McLendon-Covey, who will play Joyce, the Executive Director of St. Denis Medical. Joyce is a former oncological surgeon with big dreams for the future of St. Denis, but those dreams are not currently being realized. Ledgic and Spitzer serve as executive producers on the show alongside Simon Heuer. Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer...
- 3/30/2023
- TV Insider
David Alan Grier is the latest sitcom vet to scrub in at St. Denis Medical, NBC’s mockumentary comedy pilot.
Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding (the duo behind American Auto and Superstore), St. Denis Medical follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
More from TVLineChicago P.D. Recap: Burgess Finally Made Her Decision About Ruzek -- Here's What Happened With #BurzekThe Voice Recap: Fan Favorite Sent Packing On Night 2 of the BattlesQuantum Leap Recap: Ben Makes a Surprising Trip to [Spoiler] Ahead of Next...
Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding (the duo behind American Auto and Superstore), St. Denis Medical follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
More from TVLineChicago P.D. Recap: Burgess Finally Made Her Decision About Ruzek -- Here's What Happened With #BurzekThe Voice Recap: Fan Favorite Sent Packing On Night 2 of the BattlesQuantum Leap Recap: Ben Makes a Surprising Trip to [Spoiler] Ahead of Next...
- 3/29/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Tony winner David Alan Grier is set as a lead opposite Wendy McLendon-Covey in NBC comedy pilot St. Denis Medical.
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Grier will play Ron, a defeated divorcee and Emergency Department doctor who has accepted that the thrill is gone.
Ledgin executive produces St Denis Medical, as does Spitzer under his Universal TV-based production banner Spitzer Holding Company. Simon Heuer, Head of TV Development at Spitzer Holding Company, also executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
Grier recently co-starred in FX’s The Patient opposite Steve Carell...
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Grier will play Ron, a defeated divorcee and Emergency Department doctor who has accepted that the thrill is gone.
Ledgin executive produces St Denis Medical, as does Spitzer under his Universal TV-based production banner Spitzer Holding Company. Simon Heuer, Head of TV Development at Spitzer Holding Company, also executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
Grier recently co-starred in FX’s The Patient opposite Steve Carell...
- 3/29/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
That American Auto and Superstore share DNA is indisputable: Both are NBC workplace comedies created by Justin Spitzer that take place in the Midwest. It makes sense that Spitzer would also bring some of the same actors from one show to the next, and while some of that crossover is more obvious, eagle-eyed fans were also quick to spot Jon Miyahara, who played Brett on Superstore, in the background of several scenes throughout American Auto. The March 28 episode “Passion Project” may have just confirmed that he’s playing the very same Brett who silently sulked through Cloud 9.
- 3/29/2023
- by Brianna Wellen
- Primetimer
Allison Tolman has been cast in “St. Denis Medical,” a comedy pilot at NBC from “Superstore” and “American Auto” creator Justin Spitzer.
The pilot is described as a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Tolman will play Alex, the supervising nurse in St. Denis’ emergency department who is dedicated to providing excellent care to her patients, often sacrificing her personal life to maintain her high standards.
Tolman recently held the recurring role of Winnie McLendon in “Gaslit,” the Starz limited series based on the Watergate scandal. She is also known for starring as Molly Solverson in Season 1 of FX’s “Fargo,” which earned her a Critics Choice Award as well as nominations for an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Her other TV credits include “Why Women Kill” on Paramount+ and ABC’s “Emergence” and “Downward Dog.
The pilot is described as a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Tolman will play Alex, the supervising nurse in St. Denis’ emergency department who is dedicated to providing excellent care to her patients, often sacrificing her personal life to maintain her high standards.
Tolman recently held the recurring role of Winnie McLendon in “Gaslit,” the Starz limited series based on the Watergate scandal. She is also known for starring as Molly Solverson in Season 1 of FX’s “Fargo,” which earned her a Critics Choice Award as well as nominations for an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Her other TV credits include “Why Women Kill” on Paramount+ and ABC’s “Emergence” and “Downward Dog.
- 3/20/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Two of TV's funniest stars are lining up their next roles.
Terry Crews and Wendi McLendon-Covey have both landed new pilots.
Crews, best known for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and America's Got Talent, is set to headline and executive produce JumpStart on CBS.
The potential series, which has a pilot order, is based on Robb Armstrong's comic strip.
Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, "JumpStart is set in Philadelphia and follows Joseph L. Cobb (Crews), a cop, his wife Marcy, a nurse, and Joe's partner Crunchy," Deadline reports.
"Crews' Joe Cobb is a devoted husband, son, father and Philadelphia police officer."
"He is also a proud Black man and often feels pressured to be flawless in each of his roles, especially in light of controversies surrounding cops," the logline teases.
"He is a charming and exuberant role model in his community."
"Joe loves his wife and family, but...
Terry Crews and Wendi McLendon-Covey have both landed new pilots.
Crews, best known for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and America's Got Talent, is set to headline and executive produce JumpStart on CBS.
The potential series, which has a pilot order, is based on Robb Armstrong's comic strip.
Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, "JumpStart is set in Philadelphia and follows Joseph L. Cobb (Crews), a cop, his wife Marcy, a nurse, and Joe's partner Crunchy," Deadline reports.
"Crews' Joe Cobb is a devoted husband, son, father and Philadelphia police officer."
"He is also a proud Black man and often feels pressured to be flawless in each of his roles, especially in light of controversies surrounding cops," the logline teases.
"He is a charming and exuberant role model in his community."
"Joe loves his wife and family, but...
- 3/20/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The Goldbergs vet Wendi McLendon-Covey is taking charge of St. Denis Medical at NBC.
Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding, the duo behind American Auto and Superstore, the mockumentary comedy pilot follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
More from TVLineVoice Recap: 'Younger Brandi Carlile' Leaves the Coaches Hearing 'Stars'The Voice Recap: Listen to the Blind That Left Niall Horan... Well, Like ThisSNL Video: Jenna Ortega Gets a Front-Row Seat to a Waffle House Brawl
McLendon-Covey will play “Joyce, the Executive Director of St.
Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding, the duo behind American Auto and Superstore, the mockumentary comedy pilot follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
More from TVLineVoice Recap: 'Younger Brandi Carlile' Leaves the Coaches Hearing 'Stars'The Voice Recap: Listen to the Blind That Left Niall Horan... Well, Like ThisSNL Video: Jenna Ortega Gets a Front-Row Seat to a Waffle House Brawl
McLendon-Covey will play “Joyce, the Executive Director of St.
- 3/18/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
Wendi McLendon-Covey, who’s played ’80s matriarch Beverly Goldberg on ABC’s “The Goldbergs” for the past 10 years, will lead the cast of hospital comedy “St. Denis Medical,” TheWrap confirmed on Friday.
NBC has ordered a pilot from “Superstore” writers and Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, with Ruben Fleischer set to direct.
The series is a mockumentary with McLendon-Covey as the frustrated Executive Director of an underfunded and understaffed hospital in Oregon where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Also Read:
‘The Goldbergs’ Co-Star Wendi McLendon-Covey Defends CGI Jeff Garlin: ‘We’re Doing Our Best’
“The Goldbergs” wraps its 10th and final season on May 3. For her role as the gung-ho, sweater-obsessed Beverly, McLendon-Covey received two Critics Choice TV nominations. She held down the fort behind the scenes as lead and executive producer and in front of the camera...
NBC has ordered a pilot from “Superstore” writers and Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, with Ruben Fleischer set to direct.
The series is a mockumentary with McLendon-Covey as the frustrated Executive Director of an underfunded and understaffed hospital in Oregon where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Also Read:
‘The Goldbergs’ Co-Star Wendi McLendon-Covey Defends CGI Jeff Garlin: ‘We’re Doing Our Best’
“The Goldbergs” wraps its 10th and final season on May 3. For her role as the gung-ho, sweater-obsessed Beverly, McLendon-Covey received two Critics Choice TV nominations. She held down the fort behind the scenes as lead and executive producer and in front of the camera...
- 3/17/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Exclusive: As The Goldbergs is wrapping its 10-season run on ABC, series star Wendi McLendon-Covey has been tapped to lead another single-camera broadcast comedy, NBC pilot St. Denis Medical.
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
McLendon-Covey will play Joyce, the Executive Director of St. Denis Medical and former oncological surgeon with big dreams for the future of St. Denis — dreams not currently being realized…
With the casting, McLendon-Covey is making the transition from a beloved 1980s family matriarch in Pennsylvania to a 2020s hospital boss in Oregon.
Ledgin executive produces St Denis Medical, as is Spitzer under his Universal TV...
Written by the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin and to be directed by Superstore’s Ruben Fleischer, St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Related: 2023 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
McLendon-Covey will play Joyce, the Executive Director of St. Denis Medical and former oncological surgeon with big dreams for the future of St. Denis — dreams not currently being realized…
With the casting, McLendon-Covey is making the transition from a beloved 1980s family matriarch in Pennsylvania to a 2020s hospital boss in Oregon.
Ledgin executive produces St Denis Medical, as is Spitzer under his Universal TV...
- 3/17/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.