Friends with Better Lives

[dfergie]

From one set of friends to another. CBS will premiere new ensemble comedy Friends With Better Lives behind the series finale of How I Met Your Mother on March 31. Starting the following Monday, Friends With Better Lives will move to its regular Monday 8:30 PM slot.

,http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/cbs-sets-finale-date-for-how-i-met-your-mother-to-be-followed-by-friends-with-better-lives-debut-2-broke-girls-moves-to-8/


[url]http://www.cbs.com/shows/friends-with-better-lives/
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[teachsac]

I'll try once. However, I sense epic fail.

S~

 

[dfergie]

It's not bad, will likely be tweaked before airing... (saw as part of a study group yesterday)

 

[mike123abc]

NBC will probably sue them for using "Friends".

 

[dfergie]

TV critics tend not to like CBS comedies – even the ones not created by Chuck Lorre – when they first come on the scene, and only occasionally after they become ratings hits (see The Big Bang Theory), so it wasn’t entirely surprising when they lit into Friends With Better Lives during its Q&A at Winter TV Press Tour 2014.

deadline.com

 

[dfergie]

I saw a promo for it last night, interested to see what if anything they changed on the pilot...

 

[teachsac]

I'm going to skip it.

S~

 

[mike123abc]

I will set a timer. Given how late in the season it is debuting, I sense they already have cancelled it and are just going to burn off the episodes they already made.

 

[Peter Parker]

NBC will probably sue them for using "Friends".[/QUOTE

If the netwoks sued one another over the lack of originality of series. Well I cannot fathom where that wound up.

 

[dfergie]

Its a "Mid Season" show ...

 

[mike123abc]

Its a "Mid Season" show ...

Which usually means it did not score well enough with test audiences to premiere in the Fall, so likely a dud...

 

[dfergie]

Which usually means it did not score well enough with test audiences to premiere in the Fall, so likely a dud...

Nope it actually was planned for mid season / summer like Unforgettable ...

 

[Peter Parker]

The CBS sitcom schedule was unusually successful this year. There was one clear dud which went early but Mike and Molly was waiting in the wings. This could ahve always been intended for mid season but never got a chance. Or they knew that HIMYM would wind up in March and held something in reserve.

 

[jayn_j]

It looks to me that this is the show they hope to replace HIMYM, so it is natural to launch it right after the finale. Run the HIMYM finale a few weeks early, and then hit it hard in that time slot to grab that audience before it goes elsewhere.

 

[dfergie]

Premieres after the HIMYM finale Monday ..

 

[teachsac]

Skipping. Preview didn't interest me at all. 2 of my most annoying actors in it.

S~

 

[ashutto20]

Will be giving the show a try

 

[Derwin0]

Skipping. Preview didn't interest me at all. 2 of my most annoying actors in it.

Me neither, pretty much all the previews gave me something to hate. I don't see it making it to fall.

 

[MikeD-C05]

It has the reject cast members of like two different shows that didn't make it before ,so putting them all together should guarantee that it will fail.

 

[dfergie]

I didn't get to last night to compare to the "demo" version I saw in January, maybe tonight.