Warner Bros has extended the options of three series regulars from its Fox comedy pilot The Assistants: Brittany Snow, Stephen Root and Catherine O’Hara. Also picked up is recurring guest star Jillian Bell, who is a regular on another show, Comedy Central’s Workaholics. The decision to extend options, which expire at the end of the week, was made with an eye toward re-piloting the project, though there has been no formal new pilot order from Fox yet. Written by Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer based on the blog and book To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock, The Assistants is set in a busy Manhattan law firm where the assistants have vowed that if they ever get to the top, they will never treat their assistants the way they’ve been treated by their bosses. The single-camera project was an early favorite of Fox brass, who were very high on the cast,...
- 6/26/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Decision time approaches. Over the next couple weeks, broadcast networks will pick their new shows as they ready their fall schedule presentations to advertisers in New York (the upfronts get underway May 13). Here’s an updated look at the pilots they’ve shot in their quest to find the next hits. Pilots that have been greenlit to series we’ll mark in green (such as The CW’s Tvd spinoff The Originals, which received an early pickup last week). Updates to come…
Fox
Dramas
Wild Blue. ER, The West Wing and Top Gun collide in this young ensemble about the...
Fox
Dramas
Wild Blue. ER, The West Wing and Top Gun collide in this young ensemble about the...
- 4/30/2013
- by Lynette Rice and James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Greg Kinnear new TV project just got a pilot order at Fox along with several other projects. The network just greenlit a pilot for Rake, a comedic drama based on an Australian series.
With a pitch that’s been called a legal version of House, here’s the show’s logline: “Rake follows chaotic and comedic life of criminal defense lawyer Keegan Joye (Kinnear). Brilliant, frustratingly charming, and with zero filter, Keegan is one of life’s great addicts. His staggering lack of discretion and inability to self-censor land him the cases that nobody else wants, but behind that lies...
With a pitch that’s been called a legal version of House, here’s the show’s logline: “Rake follows chaotic and comedic life of criminal defense lawyer Keegan Joye (Kinnear). Brilliant, frustratingly charming, and with zero filter, Keegan is one of life’s great addicts. His staggering lack of discretion and inability to self-censor land him the cases that nobody else wants, but behind that lies...
- 1/23/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Fox announced on Tuesday evening the order of four comedy pilots — including one from Scrubs/Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence.
Related | Fox’s Drama Pilot Orders Include Greg Kinnear’s Rake, Modern Sleepy Hollow, Delirium Trilogy Adaptation
Lawrence is executive-producing a yet-to-be-titled adaptation of I Suck at Girls, a book by Justin Halpern (who will pen the pilot and also serve as an Ep). The single-cam comedy tells the story of “a boy becoming a man and a man becoming a father, in a time before ‘coming of age’ was something you could Google.” Patrick Schumacker will co-write the pilot,...
Related | Fox’s Drama Pilot Orders Include Greg Kinnear’s Rake, Modern Sleepy Hollow, Delirium Trilogy Adaptation
Lawrence is executive-producing a yet-to-be-titled adaptation of I Suck at Girls, a book by Justin Halpern (who will pen the pilot and also serve as an Ep). The single-cam comedy tells the story of “a boy becoming a man and a man becoming a father, in a time before ‘coming of age’ was something you could Google.” Patrick Schumacker will co-write the pilot,...
- 1/23/2013
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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