„Kenan“ premieres on NBC on Tuesday.
Kenan Thompson is making a big return to scripted television. The longtime Saturday Night Live star will appear in a sitcom of his own, Kenan, on NBC. It’s set to premiere on Tuesday. The series follows a widowed dad living in Atlanta named Kenan who is trying to balance his life at home with his two young daughters and his flourishing career at a top network morning news show, according to the series‘ synopsis. Still coping with the death of his wife, Kenan gets some help from his brother and his rolling-stone of a father-in-law, both of whom often share their opinions on how he should be moving forward in his life, more than Kenan probably wants to hear. Also they all often clash over the appropriate parenting style for the little girls Kenan has to raise without their mother. While Thompson’s appeared on TV as a member of SNL’s cast for the past 17 years, Kenan marks the actor’s move back into the world of family-friendly TV. Before he became the longest-tenured cast member in SNL history—he joined back in 2003—Thompson was cast as Russ in Disney’s D2: The Mighty Ducks in 1994 and 1996’s subsequent D3: The Mighty Ducks.
