Posts with tag rob thomas
Posted Jun 11th 2008 11:39AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Casting, Reality-Free
It's hard to believe that we're a full year removed from the glorious mess that was
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It seemed that the split between "liked it" and "hated it" was about 50-50, but everyone wanted to comment. One thing I noticed in those comments was that, even among the people who liked it, there was a strong sentiment against the performance of Sarah Paulson as Harriet Hayes. Most people just didn't like the chemistry she had with Matthew Perry, and she didn't manage to make us care enough about the plight of the über-religious comedian to root for her to connect with anyone.
So, for anyone who's looking forward to the revival of Rob Thomas'
Cupid, the news that
Paulson's been cast as the female lead on the show has to be disheartening. She's playing Dr. Claire Allen, the same role Paula Marshall played in the original series, opposite Bobby Cannavale, who is taking over the Cupid role from Jeremy Piven.
Continue reading Sarah Paulson cast in Cupid; Studio 60 fans point and laugh
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 15th 2008 12:01PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Reality-Free
Every time I see an image of Rob Thomas I can't help but think, "man, that is one huge neck." Sorry, just had to get that out of the way.
It turns out that the aforementioned tight-tie-wearing director/producer/writer has
decided to pass on heading the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff series to concentrate more on a couple of other projects, one of which we've already mentioned before:
Cupid and
Good Behavior. Thomas will still be involved with the spinoff show, but only as an executive producer. In fact, the script for the series is being totally rewritten by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah from
What About Brian (Update: They also wrote for
Freaks & Geeks and
Undeclared). In a nutshell, fans of Rob Thomas won't likely be feeling the Rob Thomas-ness in this series.
This isn't the first time in recent history that Thomas has stepped down from a new series.
The same thing happened with Miss Guided last year, though it's unclear if that show has suffered at all from his departure.
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Posted Apr 8th 2008 10:41AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
Jeremy Piven was unavailable this time around, busy as he is playing Ari in
Entourage, so writer/producer Rob Thomas went in another direction. Taller, by four inches.
Thomas has chosen Bobby Cannavale for the title role in Cupid for ABC.Cannavale, an Emmy-award winner for his guest turn on
Will & Grace as Vince, will be Trevor Hale in
Cupid. He's described as manic and charming and firmly believing in the fact that he is the real Roman god of love, Cupid. His mission is to make 100 love matches so he can earn the right to leave Earth and return to Mount Olympus.
ABC is behind this new pilot, an updated version of Thomas' 1998
Cupid that didn't make it past season one.
Continue reading Bobby Cannavale is the new Cupid
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
Posted Mar 19th 2008 12:42PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Programming
In case you don't already know,
The CW is doing a contemporary update on Beverly Hills 90210 with Rob Thomas (
Veronica Mars,
Dawson's Creek) at the helm. This week,
details were released on exactly what this spin-off is all about. And, let's just say that it already sounds like a lot of teen angst and drama.
The new
90210 is centered around the Mills family, who moves to Beverly Hills from East St. Louis. The patriarch of the family is Harry, a Beverly Hills High alum who moves back to the zip code because his movie star mother has fallen off the wagon. He brings his wife, Celia (a former Olympic athlete) and two teen-age kids, Annie and Dixon, with him. The teens are the same age, 16, because Annie is a biological child and Dixon is adopted.
Continue reading Details emerge on 90210 spin-off
Posted Mar 14th 2008 3:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals
Rob Thomas, the creator of
Veronica Mars, just
got the go-ahead to make a pilot for ABC. His new show is called
Cupid, about a guy who believes he's a god sent by Zeus to unite 100 couples.
As many of you probably know,
Cupid is actually a throw-back for Thomas-- it's the resurrection of the same series of the same name that lasted 15 episodes on ABC in 1998. The original version starred Jeremy Piven as Cupid (Piven won't be returning to the show). E! network lists the short-lived series as
#4 on the list of Top Ten Shows Canceled Before Their Time.
Continue reading Rob Thomas' Cupid gets a greenlight
Posted Mar 13th 2008 8:40PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Ratings
Schools in! For 11 seasons,
Beverly Hills 90210, was a ratings hit and trend-setting youth soap opera for Fox. Now, a mere eight years later,
the CW will spin-off Beverly Hills 90210, coming up with a contemporary version of the well-loved, if corny, teen drama.
The original, executive produced by the late Aaron Spelling, and created by
Darren Star (
Cashmere Mafia). The new CW version is not connected to Star. Rob Thomas, who created
Veronica Mars, has been approached to take on the project.
Continue reading 90210 getting a spin-off
Posted Oct 3rd 2007 3:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming
I was a fan of the short-lived Jeremy Piven show Cupid, which aired on ABC in the late 90s. But I never would have thought that of all of the shows that have been canceled that it would be the one that would make a comeback, ten years later.
But that's what's happening. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas, who created Cupid, was looking for a show sort of like Cupid to do for ABC, and ABC just asked if he wanted to do Cupid again. And Sony gave the OK. The setting of the show will move from Chicago to Los Angeles, so they can have more guest stars (let's all say it at once: "ugh"). You can watch most of the original pilot here (part one isn't there for some reason).
Of course, Piven won't star in the remake. He's too busy doing HBO's Entourage and big screen movies. So who should we get for the lead role? How about Matthew Perry?
Posted Aug 7th 2007 11:02AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry
It seems like Rob Thomas is going through a mid-career crisis. After his series Veronica Mars was not renewed by the CW network back in May, Thomas has been floating around the television world looking for a new venture. Back in early July he was picked to head up the new ABC series Miss/Guided. However, two weeks later he left his position as executive producer and showrunner under the "creative differences" umbrella (I wonder if I could use that line when I leave my IT position).
Now, according to our dear, dear friend Michael Ausiello over at TV Guide, Thomas has joined Big Shots (another ABC show) as a consulting producer. He will be in good company this time around as the executive producers of the show, Danielle Stokdyk and Jennifer Gwartz, were former producers on Veronica Mars.
Continue reading Rob Thomas is now a Big Shot producer
Posted Jul 26th 2007 2:29PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry
Rob Thomas, creator of
Veronica Mars, has stepped down as executive producer and show runner for ABC's fall series,
Miss/Guided. The official reason is "creative differences".
The show is about a woman who was an ugly duckling in high school and returns to her alma mater as a guidance counselor.
The Hollywood Reporter claims he decided to leave the show because the network wanted to make it more of a comedy than it originally was, and he wasn't on board with that. (
Joel says it was already pretty funny, so I'm not sure what Thomas means... maybe it's turning into a sitcom?)
Writer/producer Mark Hudis will now run the show. His background is in sitcom-style comedy, as he was an executive producer of
That '70s Show. Hudis is executive producing
Miss/Guided with former
'70s Show star, Ashton Kutcher.
Posted Jul 24th 2007 4:04PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Veronica Mars
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a taping of
The Sound of Young America at Santa Monica's Westside Eclectic Theater. There was music and merriment and a fart orchestra that I won't bother explaining, but the centerpiece of the show was an interview between host Jesse Thorn and
Veronica Mars creator and
Miss/Guided showrunner Rob Thomas.
I learned many important things about Rob Thomas that night.
Continue reading Rob Thomas on The Sound of Young America
Posted Jun 26th 2007 2:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Veronica Mars, Celebrities
The Sound of Young America, a public radio show and podcast about cool pop culture stuffs, will be taping live this Saturday in Santa Monica, California.
Why should I care about that?, you might ask.
Well ,if you're a fan of Veronica Mars, creator Rob Thomas will be there to chat with SOYA host Jesse Thorn, and tickets only cost ten bucks. Is ten bucks too much to pay to see Thomas, someone who provided you with hours of free entertainment? No, you cheap bastard, it isn't.
Continue reading Veronica Mars creator on stage this Saturday
Posted Jun 14th 2007 11:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Veronica Mars
Looks like
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas already has a new job. He
told E!'s Kristin Veitch that he has been brought on as executive producer and show-runner for the ABC midseason comedy
Miss/Guided.
Miss/Guided is a single-camera sitcom staring Judy Greer (
Love Monkey). She plays a former high school nerd that comes back to her alma mater as a guidance counselor and finds that high school is still high school, even for the adults. It was created by Caroline Williams, a writer on
The Office; I'm guessing Thomas is being brought on to guide this show with an experienced hand, since Williams has never run a show before.
Continue reading Rob Thomas to run ABC's Miss/Guided
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