Note: With the coronavirus pandemic delaying production on several shows, many of our picks below come with an asterisk as we don't know for sure that they'll be out in 2021. Premieres Thursday, Jan 7 on NBCIn recent years, NBC's must-see Thursday night sitcoms have been coming in bits and pieces rather than a full-fledged block, but two people who have been huge parts of NBC's glory days of yore — Cheers' and The Good Place's Ted Danson and 30 Rock's Tina Fey — are hoping to build a foundation for a new one.
Danson plays a rich dude who runs for mayor for a very sitcommy reason — to impress his teen daughter — and wins before he really knows what he stands for.