NBC has ordered Up All Night and Whitney for full seasons, and has canceled The Playboy Club.
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"We made comedy an important goal for us this season and I'm very pleased to be making full-season commitments to both Whitney and Up All Night," Bob Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said. "We're thrilled with the creative direction of both shows as well as the potential for them to continue to build loyal audiences over the coming ...
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Have you ever wanted to love someone, but everything they do turns you off?
Meet Whitney.
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NBC's Thursday night lineup was once dubbed Must-See TV — and with shows like The Office, Community and Parks and Recreation leading the comedy block, it's hard to say things have really changed from the days when Friends and Seinfeld once held court. This makes it even more challenging for new comedy Whitney to gain its footing at 9:30/8:30c, a spot previously held by the likes of 30 Rock, which returns midseason, and the short-lived Outsourced.
Whitney: How different is Whitney Cummings from her TV persona, really?
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Sure, it's common in sitcoms for actors and their characters to share the same first name. (Tony Danza, Charlie Sheen and Joey Lawrence are all perfect example). But for NBC's new sitcom Whitney — on which Whitney Cummings plays, wait for it, Whitney Cummings — drawing a line in the sand between the fictional photographer and the real-life raunchy comedian seems a bit more difficult. "We try to keep the TV Whitney as likable as possible," Cummings joked about the difference between herself and her character at Thursday's Paley Center fall TV preview panel, which was moderated by TV Guide Magazine's Rob Moynihan. But seriously, how different are they? We offer a few helpful tips for telling the two apart.
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