Norbert Leo Butz-related stories
Posted May 28th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free

TV watchers probably know Roger Bart best as George Williams, the murderous pharmacist on
Desperate Housewives. On Broadway, he's been a musical dog (Snoopy in
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown -- for which he won the Tony award), a sidekick (Carmen Ghia in
The Producers) and a scientist (
Young Frankenstein). Now, he's slotted for a return to the tube.
Roger Bart will star as a lawyer in the untitled David Hemingson dramedy pilot for ABC. The project casts Bart as Cliff, a high-strung attorney in a fancy-schmancy L.A. law firm, where one of the partners is his spouse.
Hemingson's pilot is getting a lot of attention, in part because of his pedigree. He's written for
How I Met Your Mother, American Dad and
Kitchen Confidential. Adding Roger Bart to the mix ups the likelihood of ABC finding a place in the schedule mid-season for this comedy. They start filming next month.
Continue reading Broadway's Roger Bart lands ABC legal pilot
Posted Feb 6th 2007 12:09PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, FOX, Industry, Programming, BBC

For some reason, ideas in Hollywood come in pairs. Two asteroid movies. Two volcano movies. Two "backstage at
SNL" shows. Here's another interesting two-fer I spotted when reading the
latest casting reports. Both Fox and NBC have comedies in the works that will feature wheelchair-bound leads.
Playing Chicken, Fox's pilot, will star Broadway baby Norbert Leo Butz as a "loudmouthed conservative" who is forced to move in with his lefty brother after an accident leaves him disabled. NBC's comedy
I'm With Stupid focuses on two guys living in an assisted living facility. Christopher Thornton (pictured), who co-stars with Kevin Daniels in
I'm With Stupid, was paralyzed from the waist down after a rock-climbing accident in 1992.
Continue reading Two network series to feature wheelchair-bound leads