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Trade Roundup: Jeff Goldblum, Jesse Bradford, Roseanne Barr

by | March 6th, 2012

Jeff Goldblum has joined the increasingly fantastic cast of Sarah Silverman's NBC pilot as Silverman's character's ex-boyfriend, whom she probably broke up with because she was sick of hearing his thoughts on how chaos theory means that all her plans will end in dinosaur attacks.

The Jimmy Fallon-produced NBC pilot DILFs by Charlie Grandy has secured a lead in Jesse Bradford, who'll play "a handsome recently divorced lawyer who is confident in everything except parenting his 9-month-old son." Don't you kind of wish this was a laugh-track, family-friendly mid-2000s CBS show so there would be a voice-over going, "Depositions he can handle. But diapers? No way!" [...]

New Shows

Roseanne's Downwardly Mobile Parks At NBC

by | October 10th, 2011

Bring her all the Beckys! A parade of Beckys in her honor! Roseanne's Downwardly Mobile has a script order in from NBC, where she will join Snoop Dogg, Sarah Silverman, Sean Hayes and Portia de Rossi as the latest big name that will hopefully make some money up in this bitch. Following the cancellation of Lifetime's Roseanne's Nuts, Downwardly is reportedly a multi-cam sitcom featuring Roseanne as the locus of a lively trailer park community. I'm going to go ahead and assume that her husband is dead from the very beginning, just so she can't pull any fast ones over on me.

Comebacks

Roseanne's New Sitcom Downwardly Mobile In The Works

by | August 11th, 2011

Get the flannels out of storage! Roseanne Barr's Downwardly Mobile is on the way from 20th Century Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming family comedy, made in partnership with Barr's boyfriend Johnny Argent, will once again star Roseanne as the matriarch of a blue-collar clan. DJ's probably still up in his room, so which makes the casting director's job easier right off the bat.

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