Mom (TV series)

Mom is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2013. The series was created by Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker. It stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney in the leading roles. Mom has consistently received high ratings within its genre, with an average viewership of 11. 79 million.

About Mom (TV series) in brief

Summary Mom (TV series)Mom is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2013. The series was created by Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker, while the first two also serve as executive producers on the series along with Nick Bakay. It stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney in the leading roles. Mom has consistently received high ratings within its genre, with an average viewership of 11. 79 million, making it the third highest rated comedy on broadcast television in the US. It has been applauded for addressing themes of real-life issues such as alcoholism, drug addiction, teen pregnancy, addictive gambling, homelessness, relapse, cancer, death, domestic violence, overdose, rape, obesity, stroke, ADD, and miscarriage. The show has received various accolades, with Janney winning two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015 and being nominated in 2016 and 2018.

On February 5, 2019, it was renewed for its seventh and eighth seasons, The seventh season premiered on September 26, 2019. The eighth season premiered on November 5, 2020. On September 4, 2020, Faris announced her exit from the series. After three seasons, the series became more about Christy and Bonnie and their group of AA friends. The second season of Mom moved from the first 14 episodes until the first fourteen episodes of the third season of The Odd Couple moved to Thursdays at 8: 30 PM to 9:30 PM for the first four weeks of the season. The following week, the network announced that it would place the sitcom in the Monday night 9: 30 pm time slot following 2 Broke Girls.