Posts with tag TheITCrowd
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
Posted Sep 14th 2007 8:01PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
It would appear that the adaptation of UK sit-com
The IT Crowd might need more than Roy's famous reboot fix. According to
reports, NBC is set to pull the plug on the midseason comedy. If you haven't been playing along at home, the show is to be a joint production between Universal Media Studios and Freemantle Media. It's an ensemble comedy, set in an IT department, starring Joel McHale (
The Soup) and Rocky Carroll (
Invasion).
Continue reading NBC's version of The IT Crowd could be dead already
Posted May 11th 2007 11:41AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Celebrities
Joe Wiseman and Joe Port the two writers behind the upcoming NBC pilot The IT Crowd (based on the British series of the same name) have signed a deal with NBC Universal that will allow them to develop other projects for the network. The two men have previously written for series including Son of the Beach and Just Shoot Me.
David Guarascio and Moses Port (Joe's brother) will serve as executive producers on The IT Crowd. The original British series centers on three IT workers who are generally despised by the rest of the workers at Reynholm Industries in London and yet are crucial to keeping the company running smoothly. The Channel 4 series was quite a success across the pond, so naturally NBC wants to try and duplicate that success here.
Posted Apr 6th 2007 10:22AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: PVR Wire, Dexter
Azureus has renamed its Zudeo BitTorrent client
Vuze. Along with the name change comes a few new features like an improved search engine and a new navigation system. And more importantly, there's new high definition content from networks including Showtime and the BBC. Limited content was already available form A&E Networks, G4 TV, National Geographic, and Starz Media.
While most users probably think of BitTorrent clients as software for downloading TV shows and movies illegally, Vuze is all about partnering with networks and independent video producers to sell content.
And while there's not much premium content available right now, Azureus has snagged the right to distribute some interesting programming, including Showtime's
Weeds,
Dexter, and
The L Word. Vuze will also distribute the BBC series
Sorted, which is otherwise unavailable in the United States. This should come as good news to anyone hoping that other BBC content such as
Life on Mars, or the original version of
The IT Crowd might one day be distributed via Vuze or BBC's own online video service.
[via
Ars Technica]
Posted Jan 30th 2007 10:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Industry, Celebrities
Does anyone really need another cop drama with procedural elements? NBC seems to
think so. Personally, I would be all for a moratorium on all new dramas that feature cops, doctors, or lawyers. But I suppose if you they are going to create yet another of these shows, hiring David Shore, the creator of
House, and adding Famke Janssen as the lead is a good place to start.
Adam mentioned the show back in October. It still doesn't have an official title, but the addition of Janssen is a good sign that things are moving along. Or a bad sign, if you've had your fill of cops.
In other casting news at the peacock network, Rocky Carroll (
Chicago Hope) has signed on to play the corporate boss in the pilot of
The IT Crowd. A remake of a UK comedy, the show also features Joel McHale, Richard Ayoade, and Jessica St. Clair as the hapless IT team at a major corporation. The original was very funny, but you can flip a coin on how this is going to turn out. It's a tricky bit of business updating these shows for the American audience. Having Ayoade reprise his role as Moss can't hurt though.
Posted Jan 27th 2006 11:59PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web
Today marked the
online premiere of the new U.K. Channel 4
sitcom,
The IT Crowd. I'm an IT guy myself, so the curiosity overcame me, and
I had to watch this first episode. In fact, if the premiere episode is any indication of what to expect, I may just
keep on watching it. I just hope they keep providing them online, or I may be out of luck.
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