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pilot season

David Alan Grier, Krysten Ritter, Annie Mumolo All Land Pilots

by | February 20th, 2013

Network TV's pilot season continues, and here are the latest actresses and actors who have been

  • David Alan Grier and Ari Graynor (The Guilt Trip, For a Good Time, Call…) have been cast in CBS's TV adaptation of the 2011 movie Bad Teacher. Graynor will be taking over Cameron Diaz's role as an attractive but morally-bankrupt  middle school teacher. Grier is playing her clueless principal, a role originated by John Michael Higgins. Community writer Hilary Winston is scripting the pilot, and original Bad Teacher screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are producing.
  • Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo booked the lead role in an ABC pilot called Middle [...]
Lost Roles

The Lost Roles of Cheers

by | March 1st, 2012

Lost Roles is a weekly column taking a particular subject and exploring all of their movie and TV casting decisions that almost happened but didn't. This week, we turn our attention to the classic sitcom Cheers.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of Cheers, one of the most revered sitcoms ever made. Cheers earned scores of Emmys, sky high ratings, and spawned one of the most successful spin-offs ever (Frasier), but the greatest honor bestowed upon Cheers is clearly landing a spot in the final 8 in Splitsider's Best Sitcom Episode Tournament. From the show's impeccable scripts (most of the Cheers scribes came from [...]

Casting Notices

Damon Wayans Jr.'s Dad's Friend David Alan Grier Cast in 'Happy Endings'

by | November 7th, 2012

David Alan Grier will be guest starring on the ABC comedy Happy Endings as Brad's (Damon Wayans Jr.) new boss, E! Online reports. Grier's appearance is in the 13th episode of the season, entitled "The Heat of the Noche," which will air in spring of 2013. Grier starred with Wayans Jr.'s dad, the first Damon Wayans, on In Living Color and in the movie Blankman, so he should have plenty of chemistry with family friend Damon Wayans Jr. One thing's for sure: If David Alan Grier's episode of Happy Endings doesn't feature a ton of Blankman references, Blankman fans will be in an uproar.

Trailers

Comedian Kevin Avery Presents Thugs, The Musical Not the Musical Thugs

by | April 25th, 2012

While we're talking about race in Hollywood, here is a funny trailer from comedian Kevin Avery. The mockumentary starring Avery, Margaret Cho, and David Alan Grier examines the nature of how race is portrayed on television and also what that means to the actors who play those parts, even when they are so far removed from that culture. Also, it has the very funny American comedian Baron Vaughn playing a British actor trying his best to do an effective American accent. Seriously, seriously, Americans playing British people trying to play American people is the best. Remember in Ocean's 13 when Don Cheadle's British character pretended to be the [...]

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