Jamie Lee Curtis Is Bringing Back the Classic Sitcom With ‘Newlyweds’ | Review

NBC’s *Newlyweds* aims to revive the multi-camera sitcom, a format the review describes as increasingly rare as dramedies grow more popular. The series follows two teachers who meet by chance, fall quickly in love and marry, then face complications from family, work and their very different temperaments.

Téa Leoni plays Jeanie, a recently widowed eighth-grade science teacher, opposite Tim Daly as James, a pragmatic philosophy professor whose divorce left him with a meddling ex-wife, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Their adult children and James’s teaching assistant add further tension, alongside practical questions about where the couple will live and how they will manage a honeymoon during term time. The review highlights Leoni and Daly’s natural chemistry, noting they played a married couple in *Madam Secretary* and married in real life last year after ten years together.