The Big Show Show

The Big Show Show is an American sitcom streaming television series created by Josh Bycel and Jason Berger, that premiered on Netflix with eight episodes on April 6, 2020. The series stars professional wrestling legend Big Show, Allison Munn, Reylynn Caster, Lily Brooks O’Briant, and Juliet Donenfeld. In August 2020, an additional episode was released and the series was canceled after one season, ending with a Christmas special released on December 9, 2020.
Premise.
The show features Big Show as a fictional version of himself. The premise features his teenage daughter moving in with him, his wife, and an additional two daughters.
Cast and characters.
Recurring.
Guests for the sitcom have included wrestlers Mick Foley, Mark Henry, Rikishi, and "Queer Eye"s Tan France.
Production.
The show is produced by WWE Studios and is broadcast on Netflix. Josh Bycel and Jason Berger are executive producers and showrunners, with Susan Levison and Richard Lowell serving as executive producers for WWE Studios. In September 2019, Big Show announced on Steve Austin's podcast that the show has filmed three episodes and would premiere around the time of WrestleMania 36. Later, it was announced that all 8 episodes would premiere on April 6, 2020 on Netflix. On August 31, 2020, Netflix opted not to order a second season for the series, but will end the series with a Christmas special, which was released on December 9, 2020.
Reception.
Joel Keller of "Decider" wrote that the sitcom is "okay to stream." Berger and Bycel "and their comedy pedigrees help make the show a tiny bit better than your average TGIF/Nick/Disney family sitcom. That doesn't mean that it's a good show, but at least it's not terrible." Keller adds that Big Show can do physical comedy "very well," while praising Munn for "handl[ing] it like a pro" and describing the daughter characters as the "usual mix of overly-verbal and super-precocious kids". Matt Fowler of IGN described the show as having "the potential to be either wholly terrible or fully great. The truth, overall, lies somewhere in between as Big Show proves himself to be an amiable, glowing, towering 'family man' capable of carrying multi-cam sitcom shenanigans." Randall Colbum of "The A.V. Club" also likened the sitcom to the TGIF sitcoms of the 1990s, and wrote: "As tends to happen in these sorts of stories, the very act of a man so large demonstrating vulnerability is all the punchline an audience needs." Common Sense Media gave the show three out of five stars, describing it as "a little rough, but mostly sweet."
A comedic recap and review podcast about the show, "The Big Show Show Show", was launched in May 2020.