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‘Newlyweds’: Téa Leoni, Tim Daly & Jamie Lee Curtis on Coming Back to TV Comedy
Meaghan Darwish
OCTOBER 21, 2026, 2:46 PM

veryone loves a good laugh, and there’s plenty to be found on NBC’s new comedy Newlyweds, which puts real-life married couple, Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, in the shoes of Jeanie and James.

While Jeanie is a free-spirited woman, James is a reserved professor, which makes for a dynamite combination when they meet at this key stage in life. “I heard this driver in New York mention that he had a new wife — a man in his sixties — and I was like, wait… that’s a sitcom about people in their sixties, early seventies who hook up and marry on a whim and what happens afterwards,” series co-creator and star Jamie Lee Curtis tells TV Insider.

And thus the idea for this series was born, but what is bringing Leoni, Daly, and Curtis all back to network comedy? “My favorite job I ever did was a sitcom back in the early ’90s,” Oscar-winner Curtis says, referring to her former series Anything But Love, which costarred the late Richard Lewis. “I’ve been wanting to do a sitcom my whole career,” she adds. “All I’ve ever said to my agents is, I want to do a sitcom, and they’ve not provided me one. So I had to provide one for myself.”….

https://www.tvinsider.com/1298577/newlyweds-season-1-interview-tea-leoni-tim-daly-jamie-lee-curtis-comedy/?utm_source=newsletters.tvinsider.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking-news-october-21-2026

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