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This Week In Web Videos: "Couple Time"

by | August 23rd, 2012

“I think you have to just make what you love and be bold and specific with your style and choices,” said Patrick Carlyle, co-creator and star of Couple Time, a web series-turned-Ellen-DeGeneres-EP’d Fox pilot. Obviously, the success of his and co-creator Allyn Rachel’s series of vignettes about common relationship minutia is proof to that pudding; the real life couple walks the damn walk.

Many talented writers would’ve dismissed the idea of a web series like Couple Time. They would’ve been driven away by the lack of a flashy hook, put off by the meandering dialogue necessitated by such an organic set-up, and ultimately afraid to bare all so [...]

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Fox Buys an Ellen DeGeneres Produced Sitcom Based On the Web Series 'Couple Time'

by | August 16th, 2012

Couple Time is web series by UCB performers Allyn Rachel and Patrick Carlyle that aspires to capture the "weird stuff couples do when no one else is around," like make crow noises (as seen above) or talk about "Splices" (as seen below). With the help of Ellen DeGeneres, Fox has ordered a pilot script based on the series. Described as a modern-day Mad About You of sorts, the best part of the series, and hopefully the show, is the fact that the couple actually seems to like each other, not like many contemporary sitcom couples that are written to be sworn enemies. Now watch them talk about Splice [...]

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