Posts with tag OutrageousFortune
Posted May 2nd 2008 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free

This sounds like a stroke of genius. Make that two geniuses when it comes to comedy. Catherine O'Hara and Rob Thomas working together.
O'Hara has been cast as the lead in Good Behavior, one of three Rob Thomas projects in the works for next season (although he has stepped back from
Beverly Hills 90210 to concentrate on
Good Behavior and
Cupid). If the ABC dramedy manages to get picked up and O'Hara is heading up the project, they can count on me to tune in. Yeah, I said it. I'm committed if the
SCTV-vet is committed.
Catherine, who might be best known as Kevin's mother in
Home Alone and
Home Alone 2, is better known to comedy devotees for her brilliant work on
SCTV -- Lola "I want to have your baby" Heatherton, and the Christopher Guest mockumentaries like
Best in Show (she was Cookie Guggleman Fleck, the trampy wife of Eugene Levy, both of whom adored their terrier).
Good Behavior is based on
Outrageous Fortune, a New Zealand series about a criminal family. Catherine is Jackie West, the matriarch of the clan, and when her spouse is caught and thrown in jail for five years, she decides that it's time for the rest of the family to go straight.
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 9:22AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free

Will it be the magic again? You've gotta hope so... According to
Watch with Kristin on E!online, there's a good chance that the
Veronica Mars team of
Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas will be working together again.
In a recent chat with Kristin, Kristen (that's Ms. Bell -- check the spelling) has been talking with Rob about the possibility of another series. It would be great if they were talking about bringing
Veronica back, but that's apparently not meant to be. Only fans like us, we see that that is what we'd want most of all, but it ain't happening.
Continue reading Will Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas reunite on new project?
Posted Mar 26th 2008 2:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals

Is that a throne Rob Thomas is sitting on? Seems like he's quickly becoming King of TV! The prolific scribe is quite literally sitting in the catbird seat.
ABC has just greenlit another Rob Thomas pilot, that's his third -- but who's counting? It follows
ABC's resurrection of Cupid and a
Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff for the CW. The latest Rob Thomas opus is an import based on the New Zealand TV series
Outrageous Fortune.
Outrageous Fortune is a one-hour dramedy is about a family of criminals. When the father is jailed for four years, the matriarch declares that it's time for the family to go straight. Thomas has written the pilot and will act as executive producer, along with John Barnett, Michael Larkin, Michael Goldstein, Bruce Cervi and John Lansing.
Continue reading Rob Thomas gets yet another pilot pickup