TOMORROW is the first read-through of the US version of Kath And Kim, starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair.

Executive producers and consultants Jane Turner and Gina Riley are looking forward to a surreal walk-through of the new set on the same Paramount soundstage that housed Happy Days. It will air from September during the prestigious NBC Thursday comedy block, which has previously held such hits as Cheers, Seinfeld and Friends.

The 2008 block will have My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office and Kath And Kim, meaning the new foxymorons will be competing against the second half hour of Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, Supernatural and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares at 9.30pm.

For now, there are no plans to screen it in Australia.

The Daily Telegraph