Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham are coming back to TV. The USA network announced this morning that they've ordered a new show called Playing House from the duo, who created/starred in the critically-acclaimed but short-lived sitcom Best Friends Forever for NBC last season. USA commissioned the Parham/St. Clair show as a pilot presentation back in February. Playing House is a single-camera half-hour comedy once again created by Parham and St. Clair that stars St. Clair as a career-driven woman who returns from her job overseas to help her best friend (Parham) raise her new baby. Zach Woods (The Office), Brad Morris (Cougar Town), and Keegan-Michael Key (Key & [...]
Weird, right? This was NBC's failed attempt to remake the British hit sitcom The IT Crowd. This episode of television is particularly relevant because it was written by David Guarascio and Moses Port A.K.A. the new showrunners of Community A.K.A. our potential future worst enemies. It's not all bad: Richard Ayoade does a fine job playing the exact same character as before, Jessica St. Clair is as winning as ever, Joel McHale is there, and ummmm, hmmm, that's about it. What do you think? Is Community doomed? [Via]
Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham, creators/writers/stars of NBC's Best Friends Forever, and I are not friends, let alone best friends, but when I watch the show, like many of its fans, I feel like I am. You want to root for them because they'd root for you. It's what makes them great comic actresses – they'd be just as happy, if not happier, with their scene partners getting the laugh as they would themselves. It's how they were taught at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Their show is a reflection of that training; it's heavily improvised, absurd yet realistically grounded, not afraid to go into scary territories, and, [...]
Keegan-Michael Key, one of the stars of Comedy Central's Key & Peele, has joined the cast of a new USA Network pilot from Best Friends Forever stars/creators Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair. The untitled single-camera show, which has received a pilot presentation (a.k.a. short pilot) order from USA, stars St. Clair as a career-driven woman named Emma helping her best friend Maggie (Parham) raise her new baby. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Key will play a supporting role as a Mark, a police officer whose proposal Emma turned down when they were 23. Brad Morris (Cougar Town) and Zach Woods (The Office) have also joined the [...]
What are you doing on June 1st? (No, June Fools' Day isn't a thing.) Let's have a party to celebrate the airing of the fifth and sixth episodes of Best Friends Forever. I'm not saying final two episodes of Best Friends Forever because I'm holding out hope. We have four weeks to find our respective nearby Nielsen household, befriend its residents, and convince them to watch NBC from 8-9pm on that Friday. Since the show was taken off the air last week, a groundswell swelled, a petition started accumulating signatures, and people started signing up for iTunes season passes in significant numbers. It's not in a [...]
Seriously, how great are they? Do you guys act like this with your best friends? Because I think I need new best friends. We aren't 1/6th this charming together and we never have perfect call backs that we high five, no matter what the other is saying. (Friends, if you are reading this, I'm just kidding, you're great. If you're not reading this, then screw you, be funnier and have better hair and cooler names, like Lennon. Why are you not named Lennon, "best" friends?) Maybe, Carson will be my best friend. He does do a great job interviewing Lennon and Jessica about cleaning the UCB bathrooms, having perfect [...]
Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, stars and creators of last season's short-lived but critically-acclaimed NBC comedy Best Friends Forever, are moving to cable for their new show. Deadline reports that USA has ordered a pilot presentation (a.k.a. short pilot) written by and starring Parham and St. Clair. The untitled project is a comedy about a single mother (Parham) calling on her career-driven best friend (St. Clair) to help her raise her kid. The Office's Zach Woods, who started his career performing improv with Parham and St. Clair at the UCB Theatre in New York, is being eyed for a supporting role. Woods recently signed on [...]
Here is some sadder news to start the week. On Friday evening, Lennon Parham tweeted, "BFF Fans: Wanted to let you know that our show is being taken off the air until the summer. Hoping to post ep 5 & 6 online asap. We love u." To which, Jessica St. Clair added, "BFF fans: @lennonparham and I are so in love with each and every one of u – your support of the show means so much to us. #IamaBFFbeliever."
It's not a wholly surprising move on NBC's part, as the show was pretty consistently pulling in about a 0.8 18-49 rating, but it's still a bummer. BFF was [...]
Speaking of UCB, here's a preview of an upcoming NBC show created by two UCB performers (Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair), whose writing staff includes former UCB NY artistic director Anthony King, and which originally starred UCB's Adam Pally (though it lost him to Happy Endings). The improvisational force is strong in Best Friends Forever, and judging by this preview, so is the comedy and the heart. The show premieres April 4.
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