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NBC to Burn Off Anne Heche's 'Save Me' This Summer

by | April 16th, 2013

NBC announced its summer schedule this week, revealing that they'll be burning off its only remaining new comedy, Save Me, during the summer. Starring Anne Heche as a woman who believes God is speaking to her after she nearly chokes to death on a sandwich, Save Me looked to be one of the better comedies from NBC's 2012-13 lineup (albeit a lineup that also included 1600 Penn and Animal Practice) when the network announced its schedule last May. It's a shame that the network is just unceremoniously burning it off this summer without even giving it a chance during the traditional broadcast season, meaning that NBC probably isn't even considering the [...]

trade roundup

Trade Roundup: Steve Martin, Friday Night Dinner, Save Me, Michael Patrick Jann

by | February 7th, 2012

Steve Martin's second book is being made into a movie starring Amy Adams. Object of Beauty is about an entrepreneur who "flies from New York to Russia to Washington D.C. to scout and buy art, steals a cherished family painting, and sleeps with and disposes of several men, including one who becomes a famous artist." Ooh la la, sounds stylish. No Muppets in this one.

Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub have joined Greg Daniels' remake of the British Friday Night Dinner. Presumably they will play C.J. Cregg and Adrian Monk, who have married in the years since their respective shows have ended and share a very tidy [...]

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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Are Making an NBC Show with Anne Heche

by | November 14th, 2012

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's company Gary Sanchez is working with Anne Heche to develop a new NBC pilot called Bad Judge, Deadline reports. The show is based on an idea by Heche (who's also producing) and written by Chad Kultgen (one of the writers on the upcoming Steve Carell vehicle The Incredible Burt Wonderstone). It follows a hard-living criminal judge whose freewheelin' ways are constantly putting her professional life in danger. This is Heche's second collaboration with Ferrell/McKay after playing an uncredited role as an evil CEO in their movie The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay last worked with NBC years ago with their career-making jobs on [...]

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NBC Officially Orders Up Comedies 'Save Me' and 'New Normal' to Series

by | May 7th, 2012

NBC is starting to fill out its fall schedule, having already ordered Matthew Perry's Go On to series and now doing the same with Anne Heche's Save Me and Ryan Murphy's The New Normal. Here's the synopsis of Save Me, which received a 13-episode order: "Heche stars as a woman in a broken marriage who transforms into a version of herself and creates miracles along the way." The New Normal "centers on a blended family made up of a gay couple (Book of Mormon‘s Andrew Rannells and The Hangover‘s Justin Bartha) and the surrogate helping them have a baby of their own."

What's not clear is [...]

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