Tina Fey and Robert Carlock Executive Produced
The show is set in Los Angeles
Ted Danson wants to be clear. His new show “Mr. Mayor” is not about politics. It’s a workplace comedy set in Los Angeles’ City Hall. And in a time where anything political is so divisive, it’s smart to make that distinction less people start picking sides before the show debuts.
Here’s hoping they give it a chance. “Mr. Mayor” is the brainchild of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock ( 30 Rock ). And the whip smart writing will feel familiar to fans of that show.
Mitchell Haddad/NBC
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock Executive Produced
The show is set in Los Angeles
Ted Danson wants to be clear. His new show “Mr. Mayor” is not about politics. It’s a workplace comedy set in Los Angeles’ City Hall. And in a time where anything political is so divisive, it’s smart to make that distinction less people start picking sides before the show debuts.
Here’s hoping they give it a chance. “Mr. Mayor” is the brainchild of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock ( 30 Rock ). And the whip smart writing will feel familiar to fans of that show.
Mitchell Haddad/NBC
âMr. Mayorâ Review: A Political Comedy From Sitcom Royalty
Robert Carlock, Tina Fey and Ted Danson join forces for a show about a businessman who finds himself running a city.
Ted Danson, left, and Bobby Moynihan in âMr. Mayor,â a new NBC sitcom created by Robert Carlock and Tina Fey.Credit.Mitchell Haddad/NBC
Jan. 6, 2021
âMr. Mayorâ has good sitcom DNA: Robert Carlock and Tina Fey of â30 Rockâ and âUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidtâ on the writing and producing side; Ted Danson, most recently of âThe Good Placeâ and âCurb Your Enthusiasm,â onscreen. What could go wrong?
Yet something did, at least on the basis of the new NBC comedyâs first two episodes, which premiere on Thursday. Thatâs a very small sample, but itâs what we have, and itâs a jarringly flat 42 minutes of television.
Updated 2:32 PM ET, Wed January 6, 2021
Ted Danson in NBC s Mr. Mayor (Photo by: Colleen Hayes/NBC) (CNN)Ted Danson has a way of classing up even a so-so premise, and so it is with Mr. Mayor, a new sitcom from the 30 Rock tandem of Robert Carlock and Tina Fey. Returning to NBC fresh off The Good Place, the show allows its star to cut loose as L.A. s unlikely new mayor, which is a pretty good place to start.
Granted, the bumbling-politician-and-his-eccentric-staff framework generally feels like a slightly warmed-over version of Veep, minus nonstop swearing. There s also a dollop of heart associated with Danson s Neil Bremer, a retired billboard tycoon, who ran in order to impress his teenage daughter (Kyla Kenedy) a sitcom-style subplot the show could probably have done without.
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