NBC Mid-Season Pilot Review: Champions - Premieres March 8 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TJ · 03-08-2018, 02:07 PM

Champions - Thursdays at 9:30PM ET/PT on NBC
Premieres Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 9:30PM ET/PT

Vince (Anders Holm) would love to be living "the dream," but when his father died, his dream was pushed aside when he and his brother, Matthew (Andy Favreau), take over the gym that his father owned. Now, he has the opportunity to sell the gym and move to Florida... until an ex (special guest star Mindy Kaling) from about a dozen years ago arrives at the front door with the son (J.J. Totah) that he never knew he had.

Read our review here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2018/0...champions.html

TMC · 03-09-2018, 05:17 PM

Mindy Kaling's Champions is a lot like The Mindy Project, except it's about a 15-year-old gay teen
The NBC comedy Kaling created with Mindy writer Charlie Grandy and The Mindy Project have "the same constant ticker of references and perky zingers, as well as similar personnel: Anders Holm and Fortune Feimster are both playing versions of their Mindy characters," says Margaret Lyons. "The main difference is that rather than centering on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 30-something doctor (Mindy), it’s centered on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 15-year-old gay kid (Michael). And it works."

ALSO:

Champions is a show that fans of comedy and Kaling will find familiar, for good or bad
Champions could be fantastic with some adjustment, but it's a bit too disjointed
Basically every one of the teen's line of dialogue could be something Mindy on The Mindy Project could've said
Here are the seven hallmarks of a Mindy Kaling show

03-08-2018, 02:07 PM	#1
TJ Site Owner Administrator Forum Star Join Date: Feb 03, 2000 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 10,648	NBC Mid-Season Pilot Review: Champions - Premieres March 8 Champions - Thursdays at 9:30PM ET/PT on NBC Premieres Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 9:30PM ET/PT Vince (Anders Holm) would love to be living "the dream," but when his father died, his dream was pushed aside when he and his brother, Matthew (Andy Favreau), take over the gym that his father owned. Now, he has the opportunity to sell the gym and move to Florida... until an ex (special guest star Mindy Kaling) from about a dozen years ago arrives at the front door with the son (J.J. Totah) that he never knew he had. Read our review here: http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2018/0...champions.html

03-09-2018, 05:17 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,387	Mindy Kaling's Champions is a lot like The Mindy Project, except it's about a 15-year-old gay teen The NBC comedy Kaling created with Mindy writer Charlie Grandy and The Mindy Project have "the same constant ticker of references and perky zingers, as well as similar personnel: Anders Holm and Fortune Feimster are both playing versions of their Mindy characters," says Margaret Lyons. "The main difference is that rather than centering on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 30-something doctor (Mindy), it’s centered on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 15-year-old gay kid (Michael). And it works." ALSO: Champions is a show that fans of comedy and Kaling will find familiar, for good or bad Champions could be fantastic with some adjustment, but it's a bit too disjointed Basically every one of the teen's line of dialogue could be something Mindy on The Mindy Project could've said Here are the seven hallmarks of a Mindy Kaling show