The Grim Reaper will show up on a CBS sitcom this up and coming season.
CBS excitement president Kelly Kahl and senior official VP Thom Sherman uncovered Tuesday, at their inaugural session before the Television Critics Assn. squeeze visit, that Kevin James will turn into a widower on his sitcom "Kevin Can Wait."
The system beforehand reported that Erinn Hayes was leaving her part as James' better half Donna. Sherman noticed that the show would bounce forward in time in season two, in which James will be brought together with his "Ruler of Queens" co-star, Leah Remini, who is joining the give a role as a standard. "It will be tended to elegantly and set up as a method for pushing ahead," Kahl said. "I don't know we can make that diverting. It will be something that will have occurred before."
Regarding why Hayes was discharged from her part, Kahl said it involved James, the studios that deliver the arrangement and the system being satisfied with the "Kevin Can Wait" visitor shots by Remini.
James plays a resigned cop on the arrangement. Remini showed up as his previous accomplice in a two-scene story called "Sting of Queens." While that title ought to have tipped everybody off, Kahl said Remini's arrival was not the arrangement at the time.
"Erinn made an extraordinary showing with regards to," Kahl said. "At the point when everybody all things considered perceived how Kevin and Leah cooperated in the last couple of scenes there was an evident start there. It wasn't a trial. It was stunt throwing that was intended to draw a bit of something into the show and it turned out truly well."
James and Remini featured together for nine seasons on "Ruler of Queens," which finished its keep running on CBS in 2007.
The move denotes a system TV rebound for Remini, who keep going chipped away at CBS as a co-host of its daytime visit fest "The Talk." Known for conflicting with the show's makers, Remini was let go from the show after one season.
Remini's most recent arrangement "Scientology and the Aftermath" on A&E was as of late named for an Informational arrangement Emmy.
