‘Newlyweds’ Review: Téa Leoni and Tim Daly in an Innocuously Bland NBC Sitcom That’s Straight Out of the Late ’90s

NBC’s sitcom *Newlyweds*, part of its 2026–27 autumn line-up, pairs real-life spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly as two people who marry soon after meeting and build a relationship together. The review describes it as an old-fashioned, low-stakes comedy aimed at viewers who enjoy familiar studio-audience sitcoms, while finding it bland and largely forgettable.

Leoni plays Jeanie, a widowed middle-school teacher with two children; Daly plays James, a philosophy professor with an ex-wife played by co-creator Jamie Lee Curtis. In the three episodes provided to critics, the couple’s main disagreements concern whose home to live in and when to take an elaborate honeymoon, with little tension or emotional depth. The review notes that co-creator Gail Lerner was recently fired over “creative differences”.