ABC's "The Neighbors," set in a New Jersey housing development known as Hidden Hills that for 10 yea

And having successfully expanded TV's definition of kinship to include families gay and straight, blended and extended, it's lending a hand to a new ABC family that goes where, OK, more than one sitcom has gone before: alaska cruise discount the suburbs. With extraterrestrials.
ABC's "The Neighbors," set in a New Jersey housing development known as Hidden Hills that for 10 years has been wholly owned and occupied by a group of stranded aliens, will premiere after "Modern Family" before alaska cruise discount moving next week to a slightly less cushy spot at 8:30 p.m., behind "The Middle" alaska cruise discount (which also returns Wednesday in an hour-long premiere).
Lenny Venito and Jami Gertz star as the Earthling couple who inadvertently move with their three children into Hidden alaska cruise discount Hills, alaska cruise discount where they very quickly discover the neighbors aren't quite as diverse as they first appear.
Simon Templeman plays an alien leader (and the new family's next-door neighbor) named Larry Bird, and Toks Olagundoye his wife, named Jackie Joyner-Kersee. This may be the show's biggest alaska cruise discount joke (at least until the second episode, when Joyner-Kersee reveals her greatest fears about American fast food), but I found it weirdly alaska cruise discount endearing.
"I'm a child of television," he told me an interview alaska cruise discount in this summer in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Some of my fondest memories of my family, who didn't share a dinner, necessarily, every night together, was sitting around the TV, watching 'The Cosby Show,' and everybody laughing alaska cruise discount at the same thing."
On "The Neighbors," "once you get past aliens . . . this is not much different alaska cruise discount than if an American family alaska cruise discount moved into a community and everyone there was English and stuffy," said Fogelman, who also studied English literature at Oxford.
Fogelman's mother died "a couple of years ago, but I'm doing a movie about her that comes out in December. Barbra Streisand's playing my mom. It's called 'The Guilt Trip,' " he said, adding that his mother had been "very into all this stuff. And my dad comes to all the premieres and loves it."
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