‘Poppa’s House’: Damon Wayans Shifts Focus To Podcasting In CBS Comedy To Give It More Of A Family Feel
deadline.comNew CBS comedy Poppa’s House, which stars Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., is shifting its focus to make it more of a family show.
Wayans plays a legendary talk radio host in the series, which premieres on October 21 at 8:30pm, but will now become a podcaster to allow the comedy to more centered at home, rather than at a radio station.
Showrunner Dean Lorey, speaking at the TCA press tour, “We’re making a couple of shifts in the show. We did a show called Poppa’s House so we want to see more of Poppa’s House, we want that to be very much the center of the show.
So in the season, we’re going to see Poppa make a shift from the radio station to doing a podcast at home. That will allow us to bring the life of the family more into the show and gets these two guys together all of the time.” Poppa has his point of view challenged at work when new female co-host Ivy, played by Essence Atkins, is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son, Junior, played by Damon Wayan Jr., a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband. “We’re making a classic family sitcom.
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