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‘Poppa’s House’: Damon Wayans Shifts Focus To Podcasting In CBS Comedy To Give It More Of A Family Feel


New CBS comedy Poppa’s House, which stars Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., is shifting its focus to make it more of a family show. Wayans plays a legendary talk radio host in the series, which premieres on October 21 at 8:30pm, but will now become a podcaster to allow the comedy to more centered […]

Showrunner Dean Lorey, speaking at the TCA press tour, “We’re making a couple of shifts in the show. So in the season, we’re going to see Poppa make a shift from the radio station to doing a podcast at home. Poppa has his point of view challenged at work when new female co-host Ivy, played by Essence Atkins, is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son, Junior, played by Damon Wayan Jr., a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband.

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