On his new sitcom, “Superior Donuts,” Judd Hirsch plays the owner of a Chicago doughnut shop who, after a half-century in business, warily hires a young go-getter bent on freshening the bill of fare. “I’m going to help you bring this place into the 20th century,” says Franco, the eager new assistant played by co-star Jermaine Fowler.
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Rob Owen: CBS comedy slightly ‘Superior’ to NBC’s ‘Powerless’
When is a fairly standard-issue CBS sitcom better than a risky NBC comedy set in the DC Comics universe? When those shows are CBS’s “Superior Donuts” and NBC’s relatively laughless “Powerless.” Don’t let the show’s title or my comparisons to “Powerless” mislead: “Superior Donuts” is a very CBS comedy in many ways.