Rainn Wilson was planning on starring in a spin-off based around his character Dwight Schrute once The Office ended its nine-season run this May, but since NBC opted not to pick up the show, he's taking things in an unexpected direction. THR reports that Wilson booked the lead role in the CBS pilot Backstrom, a crime drama based on Leif G.W. Persson's Swedish book series of the same name. He'll be starring alongside 24's Dennis Haysbert as Everett Backstrom, an offensive, self-destructive detective who's part of a team of eccentric criminologists. Bones creator Hart Hanson is writing and producing the pilot. While this is an hour-long [...]
David Letterman became the second person this week to ask Tina Fey if she and Amy Poehler would ever host the Oscars. Her response: "Oh, I don't think so. I'll tell you what – for a woman, just the amount of dresses that you would have to try on, that's a dealbreaker. I'm out." Fey told a reporter "No way" when asked the same question two days ago. So, her going from "No way" to "I don't think so" in just a couple days should at least give fans some hope. I have a feeling this is a question she's going to get asked a lot, so hopefully, she'll [...]
It looks like CBS's fall 2013 schedule will be lacking in new series, according to network head honcho Les Moonves, who told analysts yesterday, "We aren't going to need very much … my guess is there aren't going to be a lot of new shows." Ratings are so high on most of the network's shows that a vast number of replacements won't be needed next season, and that definitely applies to comedies.
For the past few seasons, CBS has had a two-hour-long comedy block on Mondays and one hour of comedies on Thursdays, and so far, the freshman series Partners is the only sitcom that the network won't [...]
Last month, CBS greenlit a pilot for a TV version of the popular '80s movie series Beverly Hills Cop, and now comedian/actor Kevin Pollak has been cast in the show in a supporting role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, also titled Beverly Hills Cop, will star Brandon T. Jackson as Aaron Foley, the son of the franchise's original protagonist Axel Foley. Created by The Shield's Shawn Ryan, the Beverly Hills Cop show is described as "an hour-long crime procedural with comedic elements. " Pollak will play Rodney Daloof, the loudmouth bullyish in-house lawyer for the Beverly Hills Police Department. Eddie Murphy will reprise his role as Axel Foley [...]
It looks like long-running CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is finally coming to a close… a year and a half from now. The network announced today that they've worked out a deal to bring all of the cast and crew back for a final ninth season that'll run from 2013-14, during which CBS confirms that audiences will finally learn of the titular mother's identity. This current season will still include Robin and Barney's wedding in May – the event where Ted meets his mystery wife – but viewers will not see all of the wedding. The press release implies that viewers won't get to see Ted [...]
Zach Braff went on Craig Ferguson last week to promote Oz, The Great and Powerful, and it was apparently the first time they'd seen each other in 25 years. Back in 1989, the two starred in High, a failed CBS pilot for a high school drama series that also starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Dana Barron from the first Vacation movie. Braff was 14 at the time, and it was his first acting job. Braff and Ferguson should reunite in another 25 years and talk about this talk show appearance then.
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.
Here's Jerry Seinfeld doing five minutes of stand-up last night on Letterman. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy's got a future in stand-up.
CBS's How I Met Your Mother was renewed for a ninth and final season last week, and co-creator Craig Thomas talked to TVGuideyesterday about the direction of the show's ultimate season. Thomas said, "It's going to be a new way to tell the story. You're never going to mistake a Season 9 episode from one of the previous eight." This statement has lead folks on the internet to predict the titular mother would be introduced at the top of the season or that she would even be narrating the entire final run of episodes. Carter didn't specify when the mother character would be brought in, but he [...]
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 [...]
CBS is producing a pilot called Beverly Hills Cop, based around Axel Foley's son Aaron Foley (played by Brandon T. Jackson), and it looks like the stars of the original movie will be reuniting for the pilot. It was previously announced that Eddie Murphy, who's executive producing the show, will guest star in the pilot (and possibly in future episodes if Beverly Hills Cop gets picked up), but The Wrap reported yesterday that Murphy's BHC co-star Judge Reinhold will also be appearing in the pilot. Reinhold's role will only be a cameo, but he and Murphy will probably appear onscreen together. The Wrap says that his character [...]
Will Arnett has been cast as the lead in a new CBS pilot from creator Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope), which is just another sign that his NBC sitcom Up All Night is dead. The CBS show is an untitled multi-camera comedy that will star Arnett as a recently-divorced guy whose parents decide to move in with him. The pilot is being written by Garcia and directed by TV legend James Burrows. The show is in second position for Arnett, meaning that if NBC for some reason decides to renew Up All Night, he'll have to remain on that show/network. Up All Night continuing seems [...]
Two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Animal Kingdom) and Jack McGee (Rescue Me, The Fighter) have just been cast in a new CBS comedy pilot called The McCarthys from Happy Endings writer/Second City alum Brian Gallivan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The McCarthys is a single-camera comedy, and if it's picked up, it'll be CBS's only sitcom on the air that's not multi-cam. The show is based on writer Gallivan's childhood as the only gay son in a sports-crazed Irish-Catholic family living in Boston. Weaver will play the loving, no-filter mother Marjorie, while McGee will play the father Arthur, a politically incorrect high school basketball coach. [...]
CBS just ordered a high-profile comedy pilot that could bring Robin Williams back to TV in his first regular television role in 30 years. Entertainment Weekly reports the network has commissioned a pilot called Crazy Ones starring Williams and written by David E. Kelley, creator of Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, and tons of other shows. Crazy Ones is a single-camera workplace comedy about a father and daughter who work together in an advertising office. If the show gets picked up, it'll be Robin Williams's first regular TV gig since Mork & Mindy ended its run in 1982, though Williams looks to be playing a human, not an alien, this time [...]
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