One Day at a Time is Heading to CBS: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Broadcast Debut
The Alvarez family is returning to our screens in a big way this month.
One Day at a Time will make its broadcast debut Monday, October 12th on CBS. (UPDATED on October 5th: this is a date change.)
The critically acclaimed sitcom, which is inspired by Norman Lear’s 1975 sitcom of the same name, aired for three seasons on Netflix as a Netflix original series.
After being canceled, the series thankfully found a new home on Pop TV for Season 4. Now more viewers are about to have the chance to see the latest season, as all episodes of One Day at a Time Season 4 will be airing on CBS.
The network will air back-to-back episodes on Mondays at 9/8c beginning October 12th.
The network debut comes 45 years after the debut of the original series, which also aired on CBS.
“45 years ago, I was delighted to premiere a series on CBS called One Day at a Time,” said executive producer Norman Lear in a statement. “The show was a reflection of strong family values and a beautiful demonstration of how families come in all forms with love and humor at the center. I am so thrilled to have our reimagined One Day at a Time – this time Latinx and with Mike Royce and Gloria Calderón Kellett at the helm – and air in that same time slot this coming Monday evening. It is a full circle moment, and I couldn’t be more pleased. The times have changed, obviously the cast has changed, but the values remain the same – love and family make everything worthwhile.”
This is also a crucial moment when it comes to the future of the series.
“We really want to get the word out that if people want more One Day at a Time, the best shot is a home at CBS where we could make the show for many more years and have a proper broadcast home,” Gloria Calderón Kellett said recently in an interview with Tell-Tale TV.
One Day at a Time Season 4 was unfortunately cut short earlier this year. “The rest of Season 4 is not going to happen. Our set is down,” Calderón Kellett stated in the interview. “What we shot of Season 4 is our Season 4. So now it’s determining whether or not we get a Season 5. So we need to do well on CBS to get a Season 5.”
The two episodes airing this Monday are “Checking Boxes” (with guest star Ray Ramano) and “Penny Pinching.”
One Day at a Time stars Justina Machado, Rita Moreno, Todd Grinnell, Isabella Gomez, Marcel Ruiz, and Stephen Tobolosky.
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Will you be watching when it makes its debut on CBS? Will you be a first-time viewer or are you a long-time fan? Let us know in the comments below!
One Day at a Time makes its network television debut Monday, October 12th at 9/8c on CBS.
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Ashley Bissette Sumerel
Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.