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Network: CBS
Premiere: Monday, September 22, 9:30pm
Cast: Erinn Hayes, Jay Malone,
Kurtwood Smith,
Kyle Bornheimer,
Nancy Lenehan
Premise: Sam would do anything to please his girlfriend's conservative parents, but whenever he's around them, wacky hijinx inevitably ensue.
Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer), an entertainment magazine editor, and his girlfriend Melanie Clayton (Erinn Hayes) have a baby on the way and are planning to get married. Everything seems to be going their way, and the only thing they’ve got left to do now is tell Melanie’s parents. Easier said that done, however, because Judge Dick Clayton (Kurtwood Smith) and his wife Angela (Nancy Lenehan) are extremely protective of their little girl and are having a tough time accepting the fact that Sam is in her life. Despites Sam’s best intentions, disaster seems to follow him wherever he goes, and its uphill work to get himself into the Claytons’ good graces.
In the first episode, Sam and Melanie visit her parents for the holidays. They plan on breaking the news about their impending wedding and baby, but are sidetracked because Sam manages to ruin everything he touches. First, he shows up to the house wearing only a garbage bag, he soils oven as well as Angela’s holiday turkey roasting inside it and ruins Dick’s present. Poor Sam can’t catch a break. It certainly doesn’t help that Judge Clayton thinks of him as a complete dumbass, to borrow a phrase from Kurtwood’s erstwhile character Red Forman from
That ‘70s Show, and who could blame him? Luckily, Sam has Melanie’s love and support, who continues to stand up for him despite his bad luck at making a good impression.
Worst Week is based on the British program
The Worst Week of My Life, which aired on BBC from 2004 to 2006.
Worst Week joins CBS' Monday night comedy block and is scheduled to follow the inexplicably popular
Two and a Half Men. This single-camera comedy has the potential to be mildly entertaining, if you're into that sort of comedy that relies on extreme awkwardness involving humiliating situations.
-Debbie Chang, BuddyTV Staff Writer
(Image courtesy of CBS)