Upfronts 2013: First Look At NBC’s 'Welcome To The Family' – TVWise

Welcome To The Family is one of six new comedy series that have been ordered by NBC for next season. The comedy series, which hails from Michael Sikowitz and Sony Pictures Television, follows two very different families who are forced to bond when their children fall in love and an unexpected pregnancy derails their college plans. Want to know more about Welcome To The Family? TVWise presents a first look at the new series.
Parents Dan Yoder (Mike O’Malley) and wife Karina (Mary McCormack) find out on the day their daughter Molly (Ella Rae Peck) is graduating from high school with an acceptance to college, she announces she pregnant. Across town in East L.A., Junior Hernandez (Joseph Haro), in the middle of his high school valedictorian speech, gets a text from girlfriend Molly that he’s going to be a daddy. Expectedly, Junior’s parents Miguel (Ricardo Chavira) and Lisette (Justina Machado) are also upset, as they now have Caucasians in the family. What follows is a crash course in culture blending as Molly and Junior decide they want to get married and, in doing so, bring together two very different families. The dads have the most difficult time reconciling while the moms take a softer approach to get to know one another. When the parents fully realize that their kids are serious about making a life together, the adults exhale and begin to come to terms with this new blended family and start to understand it will take, humor, love and tolerance to make it all work.
NBC’s Trailer For Welcome To The Family Follows Below: