New CBS comedy Poppa’s Home, which stars Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., is shifting its focus to make it extra of a household present.
Wayans performs a legendary discuss radio host within the collection, which premieres on October 21 at 8:30pm, however will now change into a podcaster to permit the comedy to extra centered at house, somewhat than at a radio station.
Showrunner Dean Lorey, talking on the TCA press tour, “We’re making a few shifts within the present. We did a present known as Poppa’s Home so we need to see extra of Poppa’s Home, we would like that to be very a lot the middle of the present. So within the season, we’re going to see Poppa make a shift from the radio station to doing a podcast at house. That can enable us to carry the lifetime of the household extra into the present and will get these two guys collectively all the time.”
Poppa has his standpoint challenged at work when new feminine co-host Ivy, performed by Essence Atkins, is employed, and at house the place he finds himself nonetheless parenting his grownup son, Junior, performed by Damon Wayan Jr., an excellent dreamer who’s making an attempt to pursue his ardour whereas being a accountable father and husband.
“We’re making a traditional household sitcom. Our little spin on it’s that we’re doing it with an precise household. We’ve obtained Damon Wayans Sr. and Damon Wayans Jr. However it’s not simply them, we’ve got a ton of the Wayans household working with this behind the scenes, it’s very a lot a household affair. On the writing employees, we’ve got Kim Wayans and Shawn Wayans, Michael Wayans. It’s only a very enjoyable household ambiance and household is form of key to what we’re making an attempt to do with the present,” Lorey added.
Lorey exec produces the present, which is produced by CBS Studios, alongside Kevin Hench, Wayans and Wayans Jr. Andy Ackerman directed and exec produced the pilot, whereas Kameron Tarlow is the producer at Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Leisure overseeing the venture.