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'Party Down's Ryan Hansen and James Van Der Beek Cast in CBS Pilots

by | February 22nd, 2013

Party Down star Ryan Hansen has found a new show. He's been cast in a supporting role in CBS's sitcom pilot based on the 2011 movie Bad Teacher, Deadline reports. Hansen, who's been playing a recurring role on 2 Broke Girls lately, will portray the gym teacher character that Jason Segel originated in the movie. Ari Graynor and David Alan Grier also star as the titular morally-bankrupt teacher and the school's clueless principal, respectively. Still no word on when that Party Down movie's supposed to happen.

Coming off of ABC's Don't Trust the B, James Van Der Beek has landed a role in a CBS sitcom [...]

Movies

Feel Better About Your Own Job Performance With New Horrible Bosses Trailer, Bad Teacher Clips

by | June 2nd, 2011

If you're anything like me, you are constantly afraid of losing your job and having to move back into your parents' house. Outside Cleveland. That's why these new Bad Teacher and Horrible Bosses clips are so reassuring. These people are literally horrible monsters and they're still somehow gainfully employed. Horrible Bosses also has a new trailer with some new footage, predominantly Jennifer Aniston expounding upon the ways in which she is a huge predatory creep. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel a little better overall.

pilot season

CBS Orders 'Bad Teacher' to Pilot

by | January 24th, 2013

CBS has commissioned a sitcom pilot based on the 2011 movie Bad Teacher, Entertainment Weekly reports. Like to film, the show will focus on a misbehavin' junior high teacher who is looking for her next husband. The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who penned the script to Bad Teacher, will be writing the show. It's a busy pilot season for Eisenberg and Stupnitsky, who are also producing Trophy Wife, starring Malin Akerman as a cleaned-up party girl who falls in love with a guy (Bradley Whitford) with kids and two ex-wives, and adapting the UK series Pulling, both at ABC. There's no word yet on [...]

Trailers

Cameron Diaz Ruins Young Lives in the Red Band Trailer for Bad Teacher

by | February 23rd, 2011

Here's the first (red band) trailer for Bad Teacher, the new movie written by Gene Stupinsky and Lee Eisenberg (The Office, Year One, Ghostbusters 3) that stars Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel and Phyllis Smith (Phyllis from The Office). The plot looks to center around Diaz as a foul-mouthed and kid-hating teacher who ends up changing her ways in order to win a teaching competition and save up enough money for a boob job in order to impress substitute dreamboat Timberlake. You know, normal high school stuff. Premise aside, this looks pretty densely packed with jokes and has a great cast. We'll see! In any case, we've [...]

Review Roundup

Bad Teacher Review Round-Up: Significantly More Laughs Than Stand And Deliver

by | June 24th, 2011

The Bad Teacher reviews are in, and they are mixed like the shots and weed Diaz's character sucks down as her students watch Dead Poets Society. In Roger Ebert's Bad Teacher review, as in many others, the film seems to invite comparisons between the awful educator and the terrible Saint Nick in Bad Santa. Bad Santa, it aint'. Writes Ebert, "Its bad person is neither bad enough or likable enough. The transgressions of Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) are more or less what you'd expect, but what's surprising is that she's so nasty and unpleasant." The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday agrees, drawing the inevitable comparison to The Lady [...]

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