POPPA’S HOUSE: Actor, co-creator and executive producer Damon Wayans on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/04/2024
Damon Wayans as Poppa, from the CBS original pilot POPPA’S HOUSE - Season 1 | ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./ Sonja Flemming/ All Rights Reserved

The new CBS Monday night (streaming subsequently on Paramount+) half-hour series POPPA’S HOUSE is a family comedy in multiple ways. Onscreen, POPPA’S HOUSE concerns amicably divorced podcaster Poppa, who goes from working as a radio host to doing a podcast from his home studio. His routine is disrupted when his adult son Damon, Damon’s wife Nina (Tetona Jackson), and their little daughter Maya (River Blossom) move in next door to him. Behind the scenes, the series was co-created, with Kevin Hench, by executive producer Damon Wayans, who plays Poppa. Wayans’s real-life son, Damon Wayans Jr., plays Damon. Wayans Jr. is […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Liza Lapira gets ready for SUPER FUN NIGHT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/20/2013
Liza Lapira in SUPER FUN NIGHT - Season 1 | ©2013 ABC/Greg Zabilski

Liza (pronounced “Lee-za”) Lapira has been a steadily working actress for a good while now. She was in twenty-one episodes of HUFF, then appeared in the feature film CLOVERFIELD. The New York-born actress recurred on DEXTER as Detective Yuki Amado, on NCIS as Special Agent Michelle Lee and on two seasons of DOLLHOUSE as Ivy, the assistant to Fran Kranz’s brain machinery scientist Topher. The following year, she was a regular on Fox’s half-hour romantic comedy TRAFFIC LIGHT as a half of a happily married couple, then spent two seasons as a series regular on ABC’s half-hour DON’T TRUST THE […]Read On »


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TV Review: NEW GIRL – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 09/21/2011
Zooey Deschanel in NEW GIRL - Season 1 | ©2011 Fox/Autumn Dewilde

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Damon Wayans, Jr. (pilot), Lamorne Morris (post-pilot), Hannah Simone Writer: Elizabeth Meriwether, series created by Elizabeth Meriwether Director: Jake Kasdan Network: Fox, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Telecast: September 20, 2011 How one reacts to NEW GIRL depends in large part on how one reacts to its leading lady Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel (sister of BONES’ Emily Deschanel) is adorable in the way that kittens and bunnies are adorable. This is not to say there is anything infantile about her – Deschanel is bright and funny and sexy in a perfectly grown-up way – but […]Read On »


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Fresh TV Clip: NEW GIRL trailer

By CARL CORTEZ 05/29/2011
Damon Wayans Jr., Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield and Hannah Simone in NEW GIRL (working title) | ©2011 Fox/Patrick Ecclesine

Now that Fox has announced all of its new Fall 2011 series, it’s time to get a sneak peak first look at them. Zooey Deschanel stars in NEW GIRL (working title), a new comedy about a girl trying to find herself after a bad break-up who decides to move in with three guys. The show will air Tuesday nights at 9:00 . Check out the trailer below. NEW GIRL comes from from Liz Meriwether (“No Strings Attached”) and follows JESS DAY (Zooey Deschanel, “(500) Days of Summer”), an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad […]Read On »


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