greenlight-related stories
Posted Oct 31st 2008 11:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free
I like
Bradley Whitford. Chances are you like Bradley Whitford, too. Who doesn't like Bradley Whitford? So, the news today that the Emmy winning star, an NBC favorite from
The West Wing -- and to a lesser-extent
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (although I think he was the best thing on that program) -- is back at work for the network is a good thing.
Whitford will produce and star in Off Duty, a buddy comedy series opposite Romany Malco.
It'll be a single-camera style comedy, telling the story of a veteran, once legendary police detective who has fallen on hard times. He's then paired up with a younger up-and-comer, a straight shooter, played by Malco.
This sounds like a somewhat familiar formula, so what will make or break this project is the chemistry and comic fireworks between the principals.
Continue reading Bradley Whitford back to NBC for buddy sitcom
Posted Feb 28th 2008 4:39PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Pickups and Renewals
Showbiz has gone green, and that's not just ecologically! Green is flashing all over Hollywood.
CBS has given the greenlight to three more pilots, including a doctor drama, a psychic romance, and a British-based tale of international love.
NY-LON (no, not nylon the fabric!), refers to the New York-London connection via air. The story, which writers Patti Carr and Lara Runnels (who both worked on
'Til Death) are translating from the U.K. version, is about a British businessman who meets a New York City record store clerk while she's in London, and then their subsequent attempts to maintain a transatlantic romance. The series ran seven episodes in England, which is not atypical. Of course, for American TV, many more episodes than that will be necessary to constitute a hit.
Continue reading CBS greenlights NY-LON, Mythological X and Can Openers
Posted Feb 21st 2008 11:37AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Pickups and Renewals
Once upon a time, in the 1960's, the TV landscape was rife with westerns. In the 1970s, it was detective shows. Nowadays, the same can be said for reality shows, and it seems there's no end in sight to the genre. Today, CBS
reported two new reality programs in development.
Splitsville, which was previously
announced, is now going into production. The marital-based series, which comic Jamie Kennedy is executive producing, is not about happy unions. It sounds more like
Divorce Court meets
Let's Make A Deal, with divorcing husbands and wives battling over their belongings in a series of competitive challenges. Hmm...can't wait to root for those people!
Continue reading CBS gives thumbs up for more reality shows
Posted Aug 6th 2007 7:18PM by Varun Lella
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
Who is ready for
more new show news? Good to hear.
Mark Gordon, executive producer
of Grey's Anatomy, has just been given the go by CBS to produce another hour-long medical drama with director Kasi Lemmons. It follows the life of a Bellvue psychiatric neurologist who also serves as a crisis manager. But guess which calm, cool professional has a chaotic life at home?
Lemmons, whose Don Cheadle-headlined
Talk to Me is winning rave reviews, will direct, writer and produce the pilot.
Continue reading CBS greenlights a pair o' pilots
Posted Nov 21st 2006 3:02PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Industry, Pickups and Renewals
As if the dating world wasn't already a beast for single, heterosexual broads, Lifetime has decided to rub it in with
reality dating show Gay, Straight or Taken? debuting on January 8th.
Created by the minds behind
Deal or No Deal,
Gay, Straight or Taken? sends one woman on three dates. If she can choose the single, straight man from the bunch, than she wins a prize for the two of them. If she chooses the gay guy or the taken guy, the man she picks gets the loot.
According to the show's producers,
Gay, Straight or Taken? will turn "stereotypes on its head." Lifetime nor reality television are exactly stereotype busters so let's just go ahead and handicap the show. Ladies, the most desirable, likable guy is the gay one. The one who comes on the strongest is the married one, and the one who you would never in a million years dream of dating because he's too nice is the single one.
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