What Really Kills This Show
It's not the premise, or the fact that general sitcoms are a tired formula. That's not really the problem. Kevin James isn't the problem either. He's a competent sitcom star as he's proven before on King of Queens. However, there's a major difference between the two shows, one that I think will kill this show shortly:
The supporting cast are awful. A formula sitcom absolutely needs a strong supporting cast if the star is not off the charts talented. James, as I said, is competent but not a major talent. On the King of Queens, he had a strong supporting cast around him, including two actors that I would call extremely talented (Patton Oswalt, who really has deserved to anchor his own sitcom or even dramatic series by now, and especially Jerry Stiller, who most certainly got the best gags and made the most of them). Sure, Gary Valentine is back, but he was always the weakest core performer on King of Queens. The rest of the cast are nonce's. Ryan Cartwright, for example, looks every bit closer to 40 than to a college student and his whiny, nasal Midlands accent sounds off place in this sort of sitcom. Taylor Spreitler doesn't show much aptitude for comedy and her character is a cardboard cutout. Erinn Hayes has been in some funny roles over the years and she certainly has talent, but the writing fails her. She's just generic sitcom wife #584.
Of the other supporting players, as I mentioned before, Valentine is a weak performer who has a job through nepotism. Leonard Earl Howze is the token black friend. Again, standard tropes prevent him from being much else right now. He doesn't get much dialogue or focus, especially when compared to Victor Williams, who occupied the spot of "black best friend" on King of Queens. Lenny Venito is probably the strongest anchor performer, to be expected, as he's an experienced sitcom veteran.
That's really this show's problem in a nutshell. The supporting cast simply isn't talented enough or given enough decent material to keep a show like this going in the long run.