Bernie Mac

Weeknights at 10:30 p.m.

• Source: 20th Century Fox Television

Inspired by the real life of comedian Bernie Mac, The Bernie Mac Show is a daring half-hour comedy about a man with unique views on parenting.

Bernie (Bernie Mac) and his wife, Wanda (Kellita Smith), will tell you straight up they never wanted to raise kids. He's a busy stand-up comedian, and she is a vice president of a major corporation. But after having to take in his sister's kids, Vanessa (Camille Winbush), Jordan (Jeremy Suarez) and Bryana (Dee Dee Davis), Bernie and Wanda learn to accept and love them as their own.

However, Bernie's old-school ideas of discipline and child-rearing collide with society's politically correct notions of how children should be raised. He believes kids are "too sassy, too grown and talk back too much," and that a little respect for one's elders is not so much to ask. And when it comes to parenting, he subscribes to the school of tough love.

• The Bernie Mac Show Website