&bull: Video: Watch a trailer for "The Soul Man."

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John Beasley is having fun again.

Not since "Everwood" ended its four-season run in 2006 has the Omaha actor had steady work in series television, though he's had his share of guest appearances on "Harry's Law," "Treme," "CSI: Miami" and "Detroit 1-8-7," among others.

Now he's in the middle of filming a 12-episode season of a new sitcom, "The Soul Man," opposite Cedric the Entertainer, for the TV Land cable network. The show premieres tonight at 9 CDT.

"The Soul Man" is a spinoff of "Hot in Cleveland," where Cedric's character, the Rev. Boyce "The Voice" Ballentine, first appeared.

Beasley, 68, plays the Rev. Barton Ballentine, a retired preacher whose son, Boyce, was an R&B singing star in Las Vegas. Boyce decides to leave showbiz, go home to St. Louis and preach<B> </B>in his father's church.

Dad isn't ready to let him off the hook for the years he lived wild after dropping out of the seminary.