Despite cancelling 9 shows today (and renewing several as well), the ABC news continues ahead of its Upfront presentation next week. The network has also announced the pick up of THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.
The series, set in the 1970s and inspired by the childhood of executive producer Tim Doyle, “follows a traditional Irish-Catholic family, The Clearys, as they navigate changes big and small during one of America’s most turbulent decades. In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike (strong, silent dad played by Michael Cudlitz) and Peggy (overbearing mom played by Mary McCormack) raise eight boisterous boys who live out their days with little supervision. The household is turned upside down when oldest son, Lawrence, returns home and announces he’s quitting the seminary to go off and “save the world’.”