We enjoyed this and will tune in again next week.

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We were pleased to see that NBC has tried a couple of new family centered series of which this is one and the other being About A Boy.

We think the star in this series will turn out to be young Henry (Eli Baker). He is a fresh young talent and we think he has great potential.

J.K. Simmons as Mel Fisher the Dad is an enjoyable character. It was especially nice to see how Henry listens to everything Dad says and there are many large underlying "teachable moments" in this first episode. Mel is a good Dad.

Jenna Elfman is someone we enjoy seeing anytime, and here in her role as Joyce she was true to type.

We enjoyed this episode and will tune in again next week.

Growing Up Fisher and About A Boy are a welcome relief from watching NCIS Los Angeles on that other network. That means it fills a time slot where the market is hungry for something new and in this case NBC did it.

Keep up the good work and we may tune in to NBC for more than Grimm.

score 9/10

mbv-934-190763 26 February 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2971068/