Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, stars and creators of last season's short-lived but critically-acclaimed NBC comedy Best Friends Forever, are moving to cable for their new show. Deadline reports that USA has ordered a pilot presentation (a.k.a. short pilot) written by and starring Parham and St. Clair. The untitled project is a comedy about a single mother (Parham) calling on her career-driven best friend (St. Clair) to help her raise her kid. The Office's Zach Woods, who started his career performing improv with Parham and St. Clair at the UCB Theatre in New York, is being eyed for a supporting role. Woods recently signed on [...]
The prospect of a TV show based on the movie Zombieland was first floated in late 2011 when Fox was developing the half-hour show, but since then, there haven't been any updates about the project… until now. The series is apparently moving forward, though it's not known whether Fox is still involved. The blog IO9 reports that casting calls just went out this week, so the show is indeed active again. Original Zombieland stars, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin, aren't expected to return since they're all way too big to do TV these days. Their characters, however, will be the stars of the show – [...]
Ben Stiller's company Red Hour Productions is developing a new family sitcom pilot for ABC, starring and is written by Michael Ian Black, Vulture reports. The show, called You're Not Doing It Right, is based on Black's memoir of the same name, which was released earlier this year. Executive produced by Stiller and Black, it's a comedy about modern marriage and parenting set in Connecticut, where Black and his family reside in real life. ABC has a script commitment to the project, meaning that they're not yet obligated to produce a pilot or to order the project to series, but given Stiller and Black's industry clout and ABC's [...]
It seems like for every two days these past few months, a TV network has announced a new comedy about cops. Today is no exception, as ABC just put a new cop comedy starring acclaimed stand-up Hannibal Buress into development, Deadline reports. Co-created by Buress, who is a former 30 Rock and SNL writer, and Rob Sheridan, a Canadian writer who's worked on the Great White North comedies Little Mosque on the Prairie and 18 to Life, the single camera sitcom is inspired by Buress's stand-up and will star him as a small town cop.
And in case you were wondering, here are the six other cop [...]
