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CBS’ Underrated Workplace Comedy Gets Messy in New Sneak Peek [Exclusive]
CBS has long been the home of some of the best comedies on television. From the days of I Love Lucy and Designing Women to currently running hits like Ghosts and Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, if you’re looking for a laugh, you’re likely to find one there. The network’s current Monday night lineup is home to an underrated gem that may not have caught your eye yet — and may be your next favorite workplace comedy. DMV, returning tonight with its first midseason premiere, follows a group of co-workers at the East Hollywood DMV as they deal with all the chaos, boredom, and frustration of working somewhere no one ever actually wants to be. Today, as part of Collider’s Exclusive Spring Preview event for the hottest TV shows and films of the coming months, we’re thrilled to bring you a sneak peek from tonight’s new episode, along with an exclusive interview with star Tim Meadows about what to expect from the rest of Season 1.
Ahead of tonight’s new episode, titled “Hot Gurlz,” I sat down with Meadows to discuss what we can expect from the show’s return. The show’s midseason finale left us on a cliffhanger back in December with Gregg (Meadows) planning to sue the DMV over his broken chair, putting him at odds with their location’s over-eager manager Barb (Molly Kearney). “Well, it causes a big rift between his relationship with him and Barb. She didn’t like it,” Meadows told Collider. “They’ve known each other for a long time, so it’s weird for Barb to really have it out for Gregg.” But don’t worry, they won’t be beefing for too long, as Meadows promised, “Their resolution is very sweet. You sort of learn that Gregg cares a lot for his relationship with Barb, just like I care a lot about my relationship with Molly.”
Meadows went on to sing his co-star’s praises, saying, “There were times where Molly would improvise lines, and one time they said, ‘Oh my god, this is like the time that I had a dream that I was making out with Gregg.’ [Laughs] It was cut, and we just started laughing because they had never said that before. I just love working with Molly. I do. I love it.” While Gregg has a solid working relationship with Barb, he’s got a much more complicated one with his wife. Though she’s yet to make an appearance on the show, Gregg makes enough “ball-and-chain” jokes that we’ve already got a bit of an idea of what to expect if she ever does arrive. When I asked Meadows if he had anyone in mind to play her, he revealed two truly excellent options. He told Collider:
“You know, it’s funny, I have my own preferences as far as just comedically of people that I think we’d be very funny together because we’ve known each other. Like somebody like Amy Sedaris, I think, would be my number one choice. I would love for her to be this woman who’s just really making his home life miserable, because I think Amy could just do an amazing job with that kind of description. […] So, that’s my first choice. Anybody else after that, I’d be honored. Another favorite of mine would be if it were somebody like Tiffani Amber Thiessen. […] It’s like this very beautiful woman who does not fit the mold of being this angry, hard-driving wife. She and I worked together before, and we have maintained a showbiz sort of friendship, but we have a very good rapport with each other, too. So, that’s another choice I’d go for. That would be really fun.”
‘DMV’s Ensemble Cast Captures the Unexpected Found Family Vibe
Tonight’s new episode of DMV sees Collette attempting to get closer to Ceci as she strives to be part of her DMV “Hot Gurlz” group chat. But how does someone nab a spot in that coveted group? Enter Ceci’s cousin. Colette jumps at the opportunity to both get in good with Ceci and finally move on from her crush on Noa (Alex Tarrant). However, as our sneak peek shows, Ceci’s cousin loses a bit of his appeal when he comes down off a work ladder and reveals himself to be a short king. The official logline for “Hot Gurlz” reads, “Colette goes on a date with Ceci’s cousin Miguel (Eddie Ramos) and discovers he may be the key to Ceci’s heart. Meanwhile, Barb finds out about Gregg’s lawsuit against the DMV while Vic helps Noa deal with rude customer Brent (Mark Feuerstein).”
When it comes to nailing down that perfect workplace comedy vibe of a group of people who would not otherwise be friends, Meadows credits the writers for establishing those dynamics early on. “A lot of it comes from the writers, and I think in the first few episodes, the actors are getting a feel for what the writers are sort of creating,” he explained. Over the course of the first season, the relationships between the ensemble cast and the writers began to feed into each other, of course. As Meadows says, “Then, as the writers get to know the actors and what we can do and how we work together on set, they begin to write for the actors playing the characters.”
Meadows had nothing but lovely things to say about the DMV writers, “The writers this year on this show, I give them all the credit in the world, and I told them I love what they have done. They really have nailed bringing those aspects of who we are personally and the show’s characters together, and that’s how it got to be so funny as we kept doing it.” Meadows is no stranger to the comedy world, as one of the longest-running cast members of SNL and with over 125 acting credits to his name, but DMV is already a standout in his career. “I’ve been around for a while, you know? But I told them, I was like, ‘It gets better and better and better,’ because we’re learning all these new things about these characters, but also, there are these underlying jokes between our characters that only we in the cast, and the writers, know about. That stuff is very fun.”
Meadows went on to continue sharing praise for the writers, namely showrunner Dana Klein, explaining how playing DMV‘s former teacher turned driving instructor felt like a perfect next step after playing many, many teachers over the course of his career. He told Collider:
“Dana was doing the show, and I know people who know Dana, so when I asked my friends, they were like, ‘Yeah, she’s great.’ So, I read the script, and I loved the character, and I thought it was something different. It also felt like the character was the next step of characters that I’ve played in my career, which were teachers. This guy is a former teacher who now works at the DMV, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s a nice way to sort of kill off the teacher roles that I’ve done,’ from The Goldbergs and Mean Girls, and all that. It’s like that’s who this guy has now become, because he has the same dynamic as that Winnie the Pooh character, [Eeyore], who’s like, ‘Oh, poor me.’ That’s the same sort of characteristic that the teacher in Mean Girls had, which was, ‘I just want to get out of here. I’m done working here.’”
‘DMV’ Digs Deeper Into Your Favorite Relationships When Season 1 Returns on CBS
Looking ahead to the rest of the season, Meadows promised plenty of character growth in the back half. “I think the growth of the characters in the second half of the show is mainly about how they relate to each other, and you sort of discover other things about these characters.” For Gregg, we can expect to see him take on a sort of DMV-dad role, “You learn that my character, everyone ends up coming to him for advice, and everything,” said Meadows.
Not only that, but we’ll get to see some more backstory for Gregg as well. Meadows teased, “You also learn that he’s an insanely good driving instructor. Even though he hates his job, there are some things that he can do very well. And the Firebird that he has in the first half of the show, you see as this old souped-up muscle car, but there’s a reason that he has that car, and you find out about that in the second half of the season.”
Check out our sneak peek from “Hot Gurlz” above, and don’t miss the new episode tonight at 8:30 PM ET on CBS. Stay tuned for more TV news from Collider’s Exclusive Preview event all week.
- Release Date
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October 13, 2025
- Directors
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Trent O’Donnell