Not Dead Yet (TV series)
Not Dead Yet is an American television sitcom created by David Windsor and Casey Johnson for ABC. It is based on Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter. The series premiered on February 8, 2023. In May 2023, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise 
The show focuses on Nell Serrano, an accident-prone American newspaper reporter who left her last job five years ago to move to the United Kingdom with a lover. She returns to the US when the relationship ends and tries to resume her journalism career as a newly single woman. Serrano is assigned to write obituaries by her new employer, and begins to encounter ghosts of the people whose obituaries she is writing, whom only she can see and hear. The ghosts begin to have conversations with Serrano, and offer her advice on how to rebuild her life while also helping her write their obituaries by telling her their stories. The ghosts then disappear after their obituaries are published. Cast and characters

Main
 Gina Rodriguez as Penelope “Nell” Serrano, a journalist whose wedding plans fell apart resulting in her moving back to Los Angeles from London. It is later revealed her first name is Penelope and "Nell" is her nickname. Hannah Simone as Sam, Nell's best friend who is the style editor at the SoCal Independent
 Lauren Ash as Lexi, Nell's boss and the editor-in-chief at the SoCal Independent
 Rick Glassman as Edward, Nell's autistic roommate
 Joshua Banday as Dennis, Nell's co-worker and an associate editor at the SoCal Independent. He assigns obituaries for Nell to write. Angela E. Gibbs as Cricket, a widowed owner of a bar that specializes in wine

Recurring

 Maile Flanagan as Tina, a gruff, somewhat antisocial co-worker at the SoCal Independent
 Jimmy Bellinger as Mason, an intern at the SoCal Independent

Notable guest stars

 Martin Mull as Monty, the first ghost Nell encounters and Cricket's late husband
 Mo Collins as Jane Marvel
 Brittany Snow as Piper, Nell's high school bully
 Rory O’Malley as Ben, Dennis’ husband
 Don Lake as Rand
 Julia Sweeney as Terri Lawrence, a parody of Shari Lewis
 Tony Plana as Carlos Garza, a sportscaster whom Nell and her father admired when she was growing up
 Paula Pell as Marlena
 Ed Begley Jr. as Bill
 Telma Hopkins as Susie
 Rhea Perlman as Janice
 Ed Weeks as Phillip, Nell's former fiancé
 Adhir Kalyan as Keith, Sam's husband

Episodes

Production

Development
On February 14, 2022, Not Dead Yet was given a pilot order by ABC. On May 13, 2022, Not Dead Yet was picked up to series by ABC. The series is created by David Windsor and Casey Johnson who are expected to executive produce alongside Rodriguez, McG, Mary Viola and Corey Marsh. 20th Television and Wonderland Sound and Vision serve as production companies for the series. Dean Holland directed the pilot. The series premiered on February 8, 2023. On May 16, 2023, ABC renewed the series for a second season. Casting
On March 29, 2022, Gina Rodriguez was cast in the lead role. On April 5, 2022, Josh Banday, Jessica St. Clair, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Angela Gibbs, and Rick Glassman joined the cast as series regulars. On May 14, 2022, it was reported that Rodriguez, Banday, and Gibbs are the starring cast members to stay on the series as series regulars due to creative tweaks. Glassman is set to continue on the series, but not as a series regular. In August 2022, Hannah Simone and Lauren Ash were cast as series regulars. On January 11, 2023, it was announced that Martin Mull, Ed Begley Jr., Mo Collins, Deborah S. Craig, Telma Hopkins, Don Lake, Rhea Perlman, Paula Pell, Tony Plana, Brittany Snow, and Julia Sweeney would appear in different episodes as ghosts. Reception

Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 47% approval rating with an average rating of 6.3/10, based on 15 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "While an always engaging Gina Rodriguez is enough to ensure that this supernatural comedy isn't dead on arrival, it'll need more spark to survive viewer disinterest." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 58 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Ratings
The premiere episode of Not Dead Yet had about 7.6 million viewers and a 1.76 rating among the 18-49 demographic in the seven days after its premiere across linear and digital platforms. It is the most-watched comedy debut on ABC in nearly four years. References

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2020s American sitcoms
2020s American workplace comedy television series
2023 American television series debuts
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television series by Wonderland Sound and Vision
Television shows based on books
Autism in television
Television series about ghosts