ABC’s new family sitcom ‘Splitting Up Together’ premieres Tuesday, Mar.

27 at 9:30 p.m.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but what about adjacency?

JENNA FISCHER, OLIVER HUDSON

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(And because its a sitcom.)

I cant do both) but remains perpetually flummoxed by his teen daughter.

And Fischers inherent sweetness saves Lena a micromanaging, nitpicky perfectionist from becoming a standard sitcom harpy-wife.

After a somewhat histrionic pilot (premiering Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. Martin and Lenas marriage is far less interesting than their individual struggles to figure out why it failed.Grade: C+