Synopsis:

Series Created and Executive-Produced by Dana Fox ("Couples Retreat")

Executive-Produced and Directed by Jake Kasdan ("Bad Teacher")

Exuberant dreamer BEN FOX (Nat Faxon) returns to his hometown and reunites with his younger sister KATE (Dakota Johnson), an overly responsible single mom raising her five-year-old daughter, MADDIE (Maggie Elizabeth Jones). But when he arrives, he finds a sad state of affairs. For the first time in their lives, Kate needs Ben's help, and he's determined to bring some much-needed chaos into her stable world. In the series premiere, Kate enlists co-worker BJ (Lucy Punch) to help her prepare for what turns out to be a disastrous first date, while Ben teams up with childhood pal TOMMY (Echo Kellum) to stop an ex from getting married in the all-new "Pilot" episode of BEN AND KATE airing Tuesday, Sept. 25 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (BEN-101) (TV-PG D, L, S)



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Trailer:

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Enjoyed this pilot.

This is "the best new comedy of the season" ? Yikes....

I really enjoyed this show, but the only other new show I've seen was Partners, which was unbelievably bad.

This was very funny and surprisingly, highly enjoyable. Laughed out loud a lot. Looking forward to more of the same. Hope they can keep it up!

Yeah, I guess CBS wanted a gay comedy or something resembling comedy. But jeez what an awful pilot. The New Normal isn't great, but it's light years ahead of that pile.

As for this show. When this show got called the best new comedy of the fall, I shed a tear for comedy.

EDIT: I've now watched this, and my previous tear stands. If this is the best comedy the we get this fall, we're in for a lot of crap.

This show was OK, but there was nothing that made me stand up and take notice. It's bland and generic. It's like The New Normal without the gay guys and Ellen Barkin. It's not as terrible as Partners or Guys With Kids. But I thought Go On is better. I wouldn't even say this is the best new comedy on FOX, as I've laughed more in the first 10 minutes of The Mindy Project than I did in this whole episode.

Tuesdays at 8/8:30 are a dead zone for me, so I'll keep watching for now.

Didnt help sticking it between two really funny episodes of New Girl either

So bad I thought I was watching NBC ......

Nice!

very so-so, Will give it another try had a chuckle or two...

It got a couple laughs out of me, but overall pretty bland. I think the Ben character was the biggest problem for me. He struck me as a less funny version of Andy on Parks and Rec.

gave it a try - ended up skipping through some parts, was so-so at best. Just felt like one of those bad sitcoms where the kid is raising the "adults"

I deleted from my season pass when I was finished watching

i think you guys are wrong on this. thought it was the most enjoyable sitcom of the night (haven't watched New Girl yet).

You guys are harsh. I though this was a perfectly good pilot that shows a lot promise and had likable characters.
How many great comedies started out with great pilots? That's right, hardly any.

Thought it had it's moments. Was a lot better than I thought and a lot better than "The Mindy Project"-

Thought it was terrible when I watched the pilot about a month ago. Will watch it again to see.

I thought the pilot was much better than all the TV ads made it out to be. I had high expectations for The Mindy Project and low ones for this show. I was let down by Mindy Project and pleasantly surprised by Ben and Kate. I'll give it a few more eps.

Awful.

I hope Lucy Punch didn't leave Vexed for this terrible shit.

I will stick with this because of Nat Faxton and Lucy Punch. It's hard to see this show not working with both of them in prominent roles despite the meh pilot.

My wife and I both liked it and will return.

I thought the pilot was great - lots of funny lines, decent setup and a good emotional payoff. It has a very good cast and lots of potential IMO. My favourite new comedy of the season (judging just on pilots alone).

The show was ok, but I thought the brother was kind of a dolt. Seemed like they could use a more charismatic actor in the role.

Hard to believe that is Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter. Kind of weird her mom and grandma Teppi Hendren will be on Raising Hope together this fall, but she is off on this other Fox show. It'd be cool to see them all cast together.

I thought it was Ok.. That Partners show, it's the only new show premiere so far that I didn't at least watch all the way through. Made it less than five minutes.

By the way, I can't believe that dude has never fixed his teeth. Yuck. No wonder that chick dumped him.

I couldn't get past that either.

A few laughs, but the "idiot brother" thing has been done to death in film and TV. Will give the next episode a shot, but will dump if it's more of the same.