Surviving Suburbia

Bob Saget is like a comedy ninja. You never know where he's going to strike or with what kind of material. Sometimes, he's the comforting sitcom dad, as Danny Tanner in "Full House" or Steve Patterson in the recent "Surviving Suburbia" on ABC. Sometimes, he's the sex-obsessed, obscenity-lo...

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Get out the disco ball and the polyester suit: it's Saturday Night Fever. If that isn't crazy enough for you, check out "Surviving Suburbia," in which Bob Saget pretends that he's not filthy.

Surviving Suburbia," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "I am Legend" are on tonight.

LINDSEY WARD PICKS OUT FIVE FOR TONIGHT Times are Toronto -check local listings Surviving Suburbia ABC Steve learns the whole don't-take-your-wife-for-granted lesson when Anne gets a job and he gets stuck with the chores.[...]

Let's just agree to call ABC's rookie sitcom Surviving Suburbia the latest television series that refuses to die, no matter how much some people wish it would. Yes, Bob Saget's current show is back again with more previously unaired episodes. ...

ABC has given their brand new animated sitcom The Goode Family their walking papers. No, the show hasn't been canceled, it's simply walking down from Wednesday night to Friday night where it will join another sinking ship, Surviving Suburbia. ...

 MN Doing a funny, family comedy is not easy. If you don't believe me, trying watching an episode of "Surviving Suburbia." I'm a fan of the old-school three-camera sitcom, and this show has always been one of the most reliable in recent memory. ...

 CA Surviving Suburbia just can't catch a break. It starts as a high profile return vehicle for Bob Saget over on The CW. Hell, the guy even hosts their fall preview. But it never shows up. So production company ABC snags it and puts it on their air this ...

Broadcasting & Cable, NY By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/29/2009 12:46:27 PM MT ABC's Surviving Suburbia, which had already been canned by the network, has been pulled from its new timeslot. ABC was planning to burn off the remaining unaired episodes over the summer ...

“Surviving Suburbia,” “The Unusuals,” “Cupid,” “Pushing Daisies,” or “Samantha Who?” Stephen McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment group said today, “Our focus is always on delivering the best stories with the most memorable characters on TV, ...

 - Mickey O'Connor Can ABC's Better Off Ted produce laughs as well as far-out inventions? Is Parks and Recreation worthy of Amy Poehler's talents? Does Harper's Island slay us? Now that TV's new spring shows have had a few weeks to strut their stuff, TVGuide.com's senior ...

 MN Unfortunately, the book inspired an episode of "Surviving Suburbia" (8:30 pm, KSTP, Ch. 5), which means I now have to deal with the image of Bob Saget in the sack. Thanks a lot, Doug. If you think "Trail of Tears" is a sequel to a Smokey Robinson hit, ...

 CA Still unclear is the fate of the Christina Applegate sitcom "Samantha Who?" as well as the midseason crime drama "Castle," the quirky cop show "The Unusuals" and the comedies "In the Motherhood," "Better Off Ted" and "Surviving Suburbia. ...

 CA ET) on the ABC Television Network. "Surviving Suburbia" stars Bob Saget as Steve Patterson, Cynthia Stevenson as Anne Patterson, Jared Kusnitz as Henry Patterson, G Hannelius as Courtney Patterson and Jere Burns as Dr. Jim. Dan Cortese as Onno, ...

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By sizzlemaker Zac Efron: His first Funny or Die video launched yesterday and, well, we didn’t find it funny at all.  Maybe Zac just can’t do comedy?  We’re eager to see 17 Again.  Then we’ll decide. SIZZLED OUT: Bob Saget (Full House, Surviving Suburbia)

ABC has thrown several new shows up against the wall to see what sticks, including “Castle,” “Better Off Ted,” “In the Motherhood,” “Cupid,” “Surviving Suburbia,” and, now, “The Unusuals”. With “Castle” treading water and still needing improvement and ...

By Gina DiNunno It's hard to hear anything about Bob Saget (who played the squeaky-clean Danny Tanner on Full House) these days without being reminded that he has a "raunchy" side, but his Surviving Suburbia co-star, Cynthia Stevenson, did just that when she stopped by TV Guide Network to praise Saget'...

There are good family sitcoms (Roseanne, Malcom In The Middle), middling family sitcoms (Growing Pains, King Of Queens), and family sitcoms so terrible they call the entire idea of related human beings living together in these small groups called "families" into question. ABC's bland...

Terminal blandness like Surviving Suburbia's is definitely a team effort, and the show's writers and ABC deserve a lot of the blame. But the show's biggest problem is former Full House dad, Bob Saget. His character, Steve Patterson, ...

ABC's new comedy Surviving Suburbia features several sitcom veterans, including Bob Saget, but fails to deliver laughs or a single memorable moment. ... While he may forever be known as the head of the Tanner household, five minutes into his new series it is clear that Saget is no longer the ki...

Seriously. Bob Saget? Has he ever been funny? Now he's starring on "Surviving Suburbia," a comedy so awful that even the CW wouldn't air it. Anybody watch it after "Dancing with the Stars"?

By Glenn Teichman Tonight’s offering is “Surviving Suburbia” on ABC. If the show sounds familiar, that’s because it was going to air on the WB a few months ago. The sitcom starring Bob Saget was canceled before it even aired. But don’t despair because here it comes. Also premiering this week are Amy Poehler’s n...

By Robert Seidman I haven’t seen a single good review of this show, and I think both Bill and my eyes widened when we learned ABC had picked up Surviving Suburbia, a show born out of The CW’s ill-fated partnership with MRC (Media Rights Capital). Here’s the 90 second review round up from .... If SS hits, will stay aft...

By Tempo When it comes to half-hour comedies, ABC has tried everything: It has developed a show (“In the Motherhood”) that started a Web series, it has tried contrived single-camera sitcoms such as “Better Off Ted,” and now, with “Suburbia,” it is trying the more traditional multi-camera sitco...

There are moments when words of actual criticism fail, and the pilot of ABC's new sitcom Surviving Suburbia, starring Bob Saget, has brought me to one of those moments. Essentially, Surviving Suburbia is for the Bob Saget fan who found Full House (1) too funny; (2) too gritty; (3) too plaus...

By adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman) Reportedly planned as a male “Roseanne” (although the show features none of that show’s incredibly believable family dynamic or blue-collar relatability), “Surviving Suburbia” stars Saget as Steve Patterson, a grumpy old man with a ... ‘ Surviving Suburbia,’ which airs on ABC, stars Bo...

By brookecain Surviving Suburbia (9:30pm, ABC) - Bob Saget ("Full House") is back in a new sitcom as a cynical dad who, in the pilot, sets his neighbor's house on fire while housesitting. Also, Meat Loaf on House (8pm, Fox), Dancing with the Stars (8pm, ABC), 24 (9pm, Fox), Castle (10pm, ABC), and James Va...

While listlessly gazing upon the pilot episode for ABC's “Surviving Suburbia,” I found myself pondering a question: Which ultimately will be more difficult to fix – our broken down economy, or television's shopworn sitcom genre? Maybe that Obama guy doesn't have it so ... Saget plays Bob P...

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Surviving Suburbia, 9:30-10 p.m. Monday, WPLG-ABC 10 Why writing about television never gets old: Every time you think you've discovered its most inexplicable mystery, you stumble upon something even more unfathomable. For instance, I've been stumped for some time now about how anybod...

The second situation comedy to star Bob Saget, ABC's “ Surviving Suburbia,” comes 14 years after the end of "Full House," the cuddly series in which he played loving father to the Olsen twins (conjoined in a single part). It is also 12 years since he hosted that influential bastion of adorab...

It's not that Surviving Suburbia, starring Bob Saget as a cynical dad, is a horrible show. In fact, it's not even ABC's worst right now. (That honor would go to In the Motherhood.) It's just that it has no real reason for being. It's a series that looks and feels like hundreds of other sitcoms, wit...

 OK Casey and Ashleigh suspect Rebecca may be a double agent for Frannie’s new sorority. →"Surviving Suburbia,” 8:32 pm, KOCO-5: In the series premiere, Steve Patterson (Bob Saget) accidentally starts a fire while house-sitting but gets caught up in being ...

By Glenn Garvin Why writing about television never gets old: Every time you think you've discovered its most inexplicable mystery, you stumble upon something even more unfathomable. For instance, I've been stumped for some time now about how anybody could think Bob Saget could out-act a compost heap. Y...

There are limits to the wisdom of recycling.ABC tested them last week with Cupid, a revival of an old flop that shows every sign of repeating history. And on Monday night, the network exceeds those limits with Surviving Suburbia, a CW castoff that would have been better left on the TV trash he...

By hollywood latimes Call it a cynic's guide to surviving the 'burbs, but it's really an old-fashioned sitcom with Bob Saget at the helm playing a grumpy dad. The second situation comedy to star Bob Saget, ABC's “ Surviving Suburbia,” comes 14 years after the end of "Full House," the cuddly series in whi...

By Rick Porter Bob Saget may be the luckiest man in television right now. His new sitcom, "Surviving Suburbia," will premiere Monday on ABC following "Dancing with the Stars" -- which is about as big an upgrade as a show that was originally destined for Sunday nights on The CW can get. ABC, however, may not c...

 CA Quaker Valley graduate Dan Cortese has landed a role on ABC's new sitcom "Surviving Suburbia," which stars Bob Saget. "Surviving Suburbia" has a good chance of surviving, airing Mondays right after smash-hit "Dancing with the Stars."

Lorna Scott Even if you don’t recognize Lorna Scott’s name, you’ve probably seen her face. According to the Internet Movie Database, the West Virginia native has appeared in more than 100 movies and TV-series episodes. She may be best-known as James McAvoy’s boss-from-hell in Wanted, or...

 OK ◊“Surviving Suburbia” (8:30 pm on ABC): Bob Saget (“Full House”) and Cynthia Stevenson (“Men in Trees”) star in this new sitcom that takes a contemporary look at family life and the reasons one might have to question the system. ...

Bob Saget has many faces. There's his slightly dorky, earnest and fatherly Danny Tanner from "Full House" and the full-on dork host of "America's Funniest Home Videos." There's the stoic and wise-cracking TV game show host and the raunchy stand-up comic and YouTube star to his most recent...

By DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com) Strauss penned the pilot and is exec producing with Acme's Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis. Hanel and Schultheis are already in the multicamera comedy business with ABC, which recently picked up the duo's MRC-produced comedy series "Surviving Suburbia," originally targeted for t...

By The Cathode Ray Choob Surviving Suburbia, a traditional sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson, begins on Monday April 6 at 9:30pm on ABC. The show, about a cynical cynical father-of-two and his family, is said to be “in the family-centered tradition of Roseanne and Home Improvement”.

By Alex Davis Good news for a former game show host.  Bob Saget, formerly the host of the still-confusing-why-it-was-canceled-with-good-ratings 1 VS 100, will be on the new ABC sitcom Surviving Suburbia, which was scrapped from The CW because of their Sunday night problems and ABC thankfully picke...

By Raked So last summer, I go to my car and find a flat tire. So I take it to Goodyear, and as I’m waiting for them to plug it (at least I didn’t have to buy a new one), I was stuck in a small room with a TV. It’s Saturday afternoon, and of course, nothing’s on. I figured it’d be stuck on sports, but no, it’s The CW’s...

By David Kronke But wait! "Surviving Suburbia" just happened to star Bob Saget, who is actually very funny (see "The Aristocrats" if you don't believe it) when he's not actually on TV, and the ABC Television Network has a "relationship" with Mr. Saget, and the ABC Television Network was hurting for progr...

After the CW canceled four Media Rights Capital shows -- "Easy Money," "Valentine," "4 Real" and "In Harm's Way" -- faster than you can say "Drew Carey reruns," it looked like a fifth show created by MRC, Bob Saget's "Surviving Suburbia," might not make it. But now ABC has picked up the show a...

By Seth · Surviving Suburbia, a Bob Saget sitcom that was orphaned after The CW dropped its Media Rights Capital-produced programming, has found a second chance, with ABC potentially interested. The only potential loser in this situation? Laughter. [Variety]

By Brad Trechak Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-FreeIt looks like Bob Saget might be going back to the world of ABC sitcoms. His previously-abandoned-by-The-CW vehicle Surviving Suburbia is looking to find a home on the network that brought us Saget in the...

By brian Jericho is coming to back to TV -  in a way, at least. CW today announced it will air reruns of cult favorite Jericho on its Sunday night schedule. This ends an interesting experiment for CW that saw it outsourcing its Sunday night lineup to Media Rights Capital. That lineup included the drama E...