Bounce TV to Launch Two New Sitcoms

Bounce TV, a broadcast TV network aimed at African-American audiences, will premiere two sitcoms in 2015: Mann & Wife and Sisters.

Both shows come from Roger Bobb, who also has produced Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Meet the Browns as well as The Rickey Smiley ShowMann & Wife will premiere winter 2015, while Sisters comes to the network next summer.

Mann & Wife stars real-life husband-and-wife team David Mann and Tamela Mann for a show Bobb calls “a black Brady Bunch.” Sisters centers around a once-famous R&B group called the “Ladies of Essence,” who are now forty, fabulous and all living together under the same roof.

These two new shows join Bounce TV’s existing line-up, which includes Family Time and Off the Chain.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.