#Life in pieces preview series#

Greg ( Colin Hanks) and Jen ( Zoe Lister-Jones) have a newborn, and they’re shocked to discover that having a baby does a number on a woman’s body. Heather ( Betsy Brandt) and Tim ( Dan Bakkedahl) are taking their eldest son to visit colleges as their two daughters also have important milestones, causing the parents to feel their age. Our stories/characters conveniently all find themselves at different points in their lives and relationships: Matt ( Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen ( Angelique Cabral) are newly dating, but their domestic circumstances make intimacy awkward. So it’s every sitcom ever, but edited in a way which, for the purposes of the pilot, doesn’t add up to much. Rather than having A, B, C and D stories that interact throughout the episode, Life in Pieces presumably will have those stories as their own separate segments, with the concluding segment perhaps tying everything together - or perhaps not. The gimmick is in the second sentence: the four short stories. Every week.” And if that sounds like pretty much every family sitcom ever to air, you have a sense of the announced potential that isn’t fulfilled here. The opening tag for Life in Pieces goes: “One big family. Photo: Smallz / Raskind / CBS Broadcasting Inc.'The Simpsons': 30 Times the Fox Comedy Successfully Predicted the Future

New episodes will then premiere every Friday, within 24 hours of their US debut. That will start on Thursday 27th October, with the first episode arriving on Amazon Prime Video on Friday 28th October. Life in Pieces first aired in September 2015 in the US and was renewed in May 2016 for a second season. Superwoman, will also appear in a guest role.

#Life in pieces preview series#

The show stars James Brolin (Catch Me If You Can), Dianne Wiest (Edward Scissorhands), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Dan Bakkedahl (The Heat, Get Hard), Thomas Sadoski (Wild), Angelique Cabral (Friends with Benefits), Colin Hanks (Fargo TV series and son of Tom Hanks) and Zoe Lister-Jones (Salt). Their parents are Joan, the family’s adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids – as long as she agrees with it – and John, the gregarious patriarch who’s searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70.Īs the family’s lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life’s all about. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they’re considering having another baby. The CBS family sitcom was snapped up by Amazon as a UK exclusive earlier this year, joining a number of programmes also acquired through deals with CBS Studios International.Ĭreated by Justin Adler, the single-camera comedy follows one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments – with each one retold from multiple perspectives in each episode. Life in Pieces Season 2 will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK this month.