I was drawn to this show by the alluring trailer but as with most crappy shows all the best parts are in the trailer. The acting is so blindly awkward. I can't stand to watch, as with the newer series of Sabrina the teenage witch, Melissa has lost her knack for acting, at times it's almost painful to watch. As someone else pointed out the only actors with seemingly any talent is the kids, especially 'Lennox'. The cast are rigid with one another and though they're saying 'I love yous' their body language says otherwise. There's no fluidity or believablity. I feel like theirs room for ad-libbing. It's obvious what they want to achieve with this show but their efforts fall short.(Personally, a story which involves two actors who are life long friends who play people who fall in love is a recipe for disaster.That idea is really odd for me.) I wholeheartedly agree with the other negative reviews, how has this show lasted so long?!

Melissa Burke (Melissa Joan Hart) is a local councilwoman in Toledo. She's forced to take in her niece Lennox (Taylor Spreitler) and nephew Ryder Scanlon (Nick Robinson) when the kids' father run off with company money. The financial scandal ruined Joe Longo (Joseph Lawrence)'s career who was actually a honest successful trader in the company. After Joe confronted Melissa publicly, she ends up hiring him as her live-in nanny.With Melissa and Joey, this has two veterans of successful broad teen sitcom shows. The two younger actors are charming and lovely. It is a very nice cast and it is a perfectly likable sitcom. They have a fun chemistry together. There is no risk. It is an easy to digest half hour show. The show started off relatively PG but it soon added more sex jokes as the kids grew up.

More American bilge to fill another 30 minutes of airtime. I caught this programme by mistake as I was attempting to set up my surround sound system, and cannot fathom how dross like this continues to get commissioned. If I were an aspiring screenwriter with a half-good idea, I'd be very depressed.Utterly forgettable characters in utterly forgettable situations, but all of course looking like cat walk models.I understand that this variety of show is aimed at morons, but please do not try convince us it is funny by the use of canned laughter every time anyone opens their mouth.

This is a new show for British audiences, and to be honest even my first impression from the trailer was a bad one. Even from the title you can tell, 'Melissa and Joey' WOW how original and imaginative. Anyway, nothing else was on so I wanted to see what it was like. My expectations were wrong, it's much worse than I imagined it would be. I mean surely comedies must include jokes and funny/uncomfortable situations for the characters, I haven't found ONE single joke in any of the episodes I have watched, and its way way WAY too safe, so much so it's like watching somebody's everyday life. It has got to the point now where I watch it hoping that it redeems its self and actually makes me laugh, sadly that is yet to happen.I have watched some really bad TV shows and movies(and some really good ones), but nothing has ever compelled me enough to write a good or bad review.It's just that it feels like my duty to lower the average score as much as T can, because it seems like something can be called comedy if canned laughter is put over a conversation that is told like a terrible comedian tells a punchline, (AWFUL acting, worse than a kids Nickelodeon comedy) but the punchline is the expected response of a normal conversation. I listen to the words they say, and then hear laughter from the audience and shout out loud to the TV (the show gets that bad) saying 'THAT WAS NOT A JOKE, WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING ?!?!?!'.I said to myself with almost certainty that it couldn't get past the first season, then I come online and see that they have made FOUR F-ING SEASONS of this borefest. There must be some kind of bribery going on at the top of the hierarchy for it to have lasted over 100 episodes, because I really don't understand how it has been successful.