Time Warner-owned TBS will do Warner Bros. a solid and air the studio’s Mom, executive produced by sitcom scion Chuck Lorre, for four weeks prior to the show’s second season on CBS.
The four-week run will launch this Monday (Aug. 25) at 7:30 pm following TBS’ run of Warner Bros.’ The Big Bang Theory, Lorre’s biggest hit, and run through Sept. 19. Mom will return to CBS on Monday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 pm., following The Big Bang Theory, which is temporarily moving back to Mondays to make room for CBS’ Thursday Night Football.
The idea is that giving Mom an additional platform via TBS and its huge Big Bang audience will bring more viewers to the show’s network run on CBS.
“I’m very excited that TBS has agreed to run the first season of Mom every weekday evening following The Big Bang Theory,” said Lorre in a statement. “It’s my hope that this incredible platform will allow people who might not have seen the show on CBS a chance to get acquainted with it. And perhaps that acquaintance can turn into an ongoing relationship. Unlike other shows I’ve worked on, Mom has a certain darkness about it. But just like with Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly and The Big Bang Theory, the goal is always laughter.”
Mom stars Anna Faris as Christy and Allison Janney as Bonnie as a daughter and mother who both fight to stay sober. Christy, a single mom of a teenage daughter, Violet (Sadie Calvano) and a young son, Roscoe (Blake Garrett Rosenthal), struggles to get by as a waitress.
Mom scored a season-two renewal from CBS but its ratings were only mediocre. Still, Lorre-produced shows have a tendency to grow. Both The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, started slow and grew into mega-hits both on CBS and in syndication.
This fall, Warner Bros. is launching third Lorre show, Mike & Molly, into syndication. Mike & Molly, now entering its fifth season on CBS, is a solid performer.
Photo of Janney and Faris in “Mom” courtesy of CBS.
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