Airdate: Better Off Ted
Jay Harrington stars as a guy who runs research and development at a morally questionable multinational.
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Better Off Ted, the comedy about a guy who runs research and development at a morally questionable multinational, will debut in September on the Comedy Channel.
The series, from ABC in the US, stars Jay Harrington as Ted, a single dad to a seven-year-old girl who oversees two research scientists Lem and Phil, and a head tester Linda, for whom he has romantic feelings. He’s already had his self imposed “one office affair” with überboss Veronica (Portia de Rossi).
After the company cryonically freezes one of the research scientists, Ted begins to question the company’s objectives and morals. As you do….
Throughout the show, Ted also breaks the fourth wall by giving monologues to the camera to narrate his own life and explain the show’s events.
The show has already been renewed by ABC.
It premieres at 9pm Monday September 7th following the debut of 30 Seconds.
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Seen the ads for the show on Comedy looks funny as, Foxtel is raising the bar with the Comedy Channel the shows it gets I can remember two or three years ago all they had on the channel were shows that were cancelled, and only showed two or three episodes in the US.
The best part is more Aussie shows like 30 seconds, Whatever Happened to That Guy, and The Merrick & Rosso Show.
Does anyone know what happened to Stand Up Australia?
Fantastic show… not as good as Arrested Development but getting there.
This is a fantastic show, and I wish it made it to an FTA channel here, like Go! It’s not often a sitcom is “laugh out loud” funny, but this one has me in stitches. It’s so quirky. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time is in episode 13 (finale), the montage of Veronica and her father, especially the frisbee scene. LOL! You’ll see what I mean.
Absolutely great news. I’m looking forward to watching the first season again.
This is an excellent show, and I recommend anyone to check it out.
Yup, this is a pretty good show. Watched 12 of the 13 already US-aired episodes.
I found it weird they renewed it but kept running it over the US summer, normally not a good sign. Ted is better than Gary Unmarried IMO, pity thats not reflected in the ratings…
Better Off Ted is fantastic. It rates really badly in the States though which is why we’ll never see it on free to air.
The entire first season has recently finished in the US. It is terrific! It’s great for the people who love Scrubs & Arrested Development.
I’ll be watching… And great to see Portia on screen again – she was so good in Arrested Development.
Good show, pity GO! didn’t get it as part of it’s Sunday Comedy line up…
The first two episodes are not great, but the rest of the season is mostly hilarious. This was easily the best new show to come from US network TV last season.