Upfronts 2012: Watch previews of ‘Malibu Country’ and ‘The Neighbors’
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Reba McEntire returns to the sitcom world with ‘Malibu Country,’ ABC’s traditional sitcom starring the country music star as a not-as-famous country music singer who moves her family to Malibu after leaving her cheating husband.
Helping Reba out is her mother, played by Lily Tomlin, who’s got a medical marijuana prescription and isn’t afraid to use it. Sara Rue (who also manages to star on NBC’s new series ‘Guys With Kids’) plays the overly familiar next-door neighbor.
Kevin Abbott, who wrote for Reba’s previous sitcom, ‘Reba,’ created the series, which will air at 8:30 p.m. Fridays starting in November.
‘The Neighbors’ stars Jami Gertz and Lenny Venito as a couple trading in city life for life in the suburbs, only to find that the suburbs are filled with extraterrestrials posing as humans.
These aliens are Zabvronians, and they’ve been stationed on Earth for a decade. And like all aliens, they have some distinct differences from the human race (the men get pregnant and they leak green goo from their ears when they cry).
Dan Fogelman, writer of ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ created this series, which also stars Simon Templeman, Toks Olagundoye, Clara Mamet and Tim Jo. It will air at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
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