There are new sitcoms flying at us from all directions this week as networks continue to roll out their new season wares. Marry Me (Wednesday, 8.30pm, TV2) is based on the real life relationship of star Casey Wilson, and her husband David Caspe, who is the creator of the series. Wilson plays Annie, the somewhat highly strung, excitable girlfriend of Jake (played by Ken Marino). The pair have been happily coupled-up for six years, but when they return from a romantic two-week island holiday, Annie can't quite believe Jake hasn't proposed. And so begins a comedy of errors as Jake's best-laid plans all come undone by Annie's impatience.
Also starting this week is Benched (Wednesday, 9.30pm, TV2), starring Eliza Coupe as a corporate lawyer who has stopped at nothing in her climb to the top, but has a meltdown when she is passed over for a promotion, ditched by her fiance, and finds herself facing a job in the Public Defender's office.
Fresh Off The Boat (Wednesday, 8pm, FOUR) has garnered some good reviews in the US for its story about a Chinese family moving from Chinatown in Washington DC, to Florida in the early 1990s, when their America-loving father decides to buy a cowboy themed restaurant. It's based on the memoir of Eddie Huang, who was 11 years old and obsessed with hip-hop when they moved, and found his new white suburban existence very strange.
And finally, Mom returns this week (Wednesday, 8.30pm, TV2), with Anna Faris and Alison Janney continuing to make their three generation solo-mom family dysfunction a work of comedy.
