The losses of King of Queens and According to Jim may have left you with a yearning in the pit of your stomach for a reliable, middle of the road sitcom and tonight, CBS tries to sate that hunger with Mike & Molly . The new project from Chuck Lorre premieres at 9:30 and promises all of the ingredients paramount to a working class comedy: blue collar comic actors (lead Billy Gardell hails from Pittsburgh), all-American settings (police station, school, diner) and familiar concerns that the middle class understands and finds hilarious (“That sandwich is a suicide with meatballs as bullets!”). Will those elements yield a new classic tonight — or just a retread of a tired genre full of tired Americans? Proceed to Movieline’s Premiere Week FAQ to find out.
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So Tell Me About Mike & Molly: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ
