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Tuesday TV Review: Fox Comedies (Ben and Kate, Mindy), CBS Bets On Vegas

• Sep 25, 2012 08:41 AM ET
• by Matt Roush

In TV comedy, there's a fine line between the delightfully quirky and the annoyingly irksome, and Fox's Tuesday night lineup — now home to four half-hour sitcoms, forcing Glee's move to Thursdays — tap-dances around and over that line with reckless abandon. My advice: surrender and enjoy.

Ben and Kate's Nat Faxon on Why Viewers Should "Love and Respect" His Goofy Character

• Sep 24, 2012 08:28 PM ET
• by Liz Raftery

Shows like The New Normal and Modern Family have made nontraditional families a staple of prime-time television, and those keeping track of that growing roster can add Ben and Kate to the list. The Fox sitcom, which premieres Tuesday at 8:30/7:30c, revolves around single mom Kate (Dakota Johnson) and her good-hearted slacker brother Ben (Nat Faxon), who moves in with his sister to help raise her young daughter Maddie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones).

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Exclusive: Producer Change at the Top of Fox’s Ben and Kate

• Sep 11, 2012 09:13 AM ET
• by Michael Schneider

Fox's new comedy Ben and Kate, which is already earning early positive buzz from critics, will move forward without two of its executive producers. Garrett Donovan and Neil Goldman, who joined the comedy in May as showrunners, have departed to focus on their own series development.