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Taika Waititi to Direct Pilot Presentation of His New Zealand Comedy 'Super City' for ABC
25 April 2012 9:41 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-born filmmaker behind Sundance picks "Eagle vs Shark" and "Boy," is attached to direct a pilot presentation for "Super City" for ABC. According to Deadline, the potential series is a U.S. remake of a New Zealand show of the same name featuring Madeleine Sami, New Zealand's answer to Tracey Ullman. On the original, which Waititi also directed, Sami played five different characters who all live in Auckland City -- an aging actress/party girl, an Iranian taxi driver, a closeted trainer, a woman who works to support impoverished artists and a homeless girl who finds a baby in a dumpster (a trailer for the six-episode series is below). Sami would return as creator and star of the adaptation, which will presumably have to be shifted for U.S. sensibilities, since the footage below looks grounded in New Zealand specifics that may have a hard time translating in terms of humor. »
- Alison Willmore
Taika Waititi to Direct Pilot Presentation of His New Zealand Comedy 'Super City' for ABC
25 April 2012 9:41 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-born filmmaker behind Sundance picks "Eagle vs Shark" and "Boy," is attached to direct a pilot presentation for "Super City" for ABC. According to Deadline, the potential series is a U.S. remake of a New Zealand show of the same name featuring Madeleine Sami, New Zealand's answer to Tracey Ullman. On the original, which Waititi also directed, Sami played five different characters who all live in Auckland City -- an aging actress/party girl, an Iranian taxi driver, a closeted trainer, a woman who works to support impoverished artists and a homeless girl who finds a baby in a dumpster (a trailer for the six-episode series is below). Sami would return as creator and star of the adaptation, which will presumably have to be shifted for U.S. sensibilities, since the footage below looks grounded in New Zealand specifics that may have a hard time translating in terms of humor. »
- Alison Willmore
ABC Greenlights Comedy Presentation ‘Super City’
24 April 2012 5:39 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Exclusive: ABC has picked up Super City, a comedy presentation, which will be produced by ABC Studios. Word is that the project would go through a long-rumored ABC Studios unit, code name Keystone. Keystone, which has been in the works for awhile and has not been formally launched yet, would focus on low-cost production. Super City is an adaptation of the New Zealand comedy series of the same name created by and starring Madeleine Sami and directed by Taika Waititi. On the show, which premiered on New Zealand’s TV3 network last year, Sami transforms into five different characters whose lives intersect — an aging cheerleader, an immigrant taxi driver, a closeted lesbian gym instructor, a woman fostering impoverished artists, and a homeless girl who finds and adopts a baby. (Watch trailer below). The ABC adaptation also will be created by Sami, sometime referred to as the New Zealand Tracey Ullman, »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Fox 25 years later: How the network changed the world
21 April 2012 6:50 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Though it actually launched on Oct. 9, 1986, Fox is celebrating its 25th anniversary this weekend with a primetime extravaganza featuring such stars of yesteryear as Calista Flockhart, Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering, and David Faustino. Before tomorrow night’s broadcast, we thought it appropriate to take a look back at how the network has changed the pop culture landscape in the last quarter century.
Married… With Children (1987-97)
From its opening theme — a sardonic use of Frank Sinatra’s “Love and Marriage” – Married turned tradition on its head. The Bundys paved the way for later Fox shows like 2000′s Malcolm in the Middle »
- Lanford Beard
Fox's 25th Anniversary: Network to Re-Air Special Episodes to Celebrate Milestone
11 April 2012 10:10 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Fox's 25th Anniversary: Network to Re-Air Special Episodes to Celebrate Milestone
Fox's 25th anniversary as a network is swiftly approaching and they're planning on cracking open the vault to celebrate the network's history.
One of Fox's most famous characters is Al Bundy, the patriarch on the long-running sitcom Married...With Children. The series premiered April 5, 1987 on Fox, with three half-hour broadcasts (7:00-7:30 Pm, 8:00-8:30 Pm and 9:00-9:30 Pm) of the show’s “Pilot” episode. In the pilot, Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill) gets front row seats to a basketball game, but Peggy (Katey Sagal) makes him stay home and meet their new neighbors, Marcy (Amanda Bearse) and Steve Rhoades (David Garrison).
Fox plans to re-air the Married...With Children pilot on Sunday, April 22 from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. Et/Pt.
Meanwhile, The Simpsons originally premiered on January 14, 1990, but Springfield’s most famous family »
- Clarissa
Check out some highlights from VH1's new sketch comedy show "Stevie TV"
1 March 2012 8:15 AM, PST | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
YouTube has been a notable incubator of talent, giving us the likes of Justin Bieber (happy birthday buddy) and, uh, Rebecca Black, and if everything breaks right, comedienne Stevie Ryan may be the next big thing to make the leap from online cult stardom. Ryan is the star of Stevie TV, a new sketch-comedy show which premieres this Sunday, March 4, on VH1. She paid her dues the last six years with her popular YouTube channel, where she showcased her many characters, including "TheRealParis," based on Paris Hilton, and "Oolalaa," a flirty French girl, as well as impressions of pop stars like Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, and reality-tv punching bags like Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson. Think Tracey Ullman or Kristen Wiig. The twenty-seven-year-old Ryan grew up "just a poor girl from Victorville(CA) that was just messing around with a camera." One [...] »
Russell Brand Joins Monty Python Star's New Comedic Play
21 February 2012 9:54 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Originally staged as a workshop version in 2007, Eric Idle's musical "What About Dick?" will soon receive a new addition, the Los Angeles Times reports: comedic actor Russell Brand. The four-performance stint will run from April 26 to 29 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.
The tongue-in-cheek comedy stars Brands as a student named Dick and his antics as a Philosophy and Gynecology student at Oxford University. The cast includes a slew of British all-stars including Eddie Izzard (as the inventor of the vibrator, similar to this film released last year), Jane Leeves, Sophie Winkleman, Tracey Ullman, Tim Curry and Billy Connolly.
In an interview with Los Angeles Times Idle says he's been revising the script for a few years, and the addition of Brand enhances the role of Dick.
"It's essentially the same idea as before, but the part of Dick got bigger -- if I'm allowed to say that, »
- Amber Genuske
Russell Brand, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard for new Eric Idle musical
20 February 2012 11:01 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Russell Brand has signed up for a starring role in Eric Idle's new stage musical. The Get Him to the Greek actor will play the lead part in the Monty Python legend's Los Angeles production of What About Dick?. What About Dick? will also star fellow stand-ups Billy Connolly and Eddie Izzard, as well as actors Tracey Ullman, Sophie Winkleman and Tim Curry. Former Frasier star Jane Leeves will also appear, while Idle himself will narrate the piece, which will be presented (more) »
- By Paul Millar
Meet the two brave souls who watched 86 hours and 37 minutes of 'The Simpsons' in a row
14 February 2012 7:01 PM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Have you ever won a marathon? No, we’re not talking about one of the 26.2 mile sort. That’s beginner stuff. We’re talking about sitting on your butt, watching episode after episode after episode after episode after episode of The Simpsons until you’re seeing double Disco Stus. Two California residents, Jeremiah Franco, 22, and Carin Shreve, 33, broke the Guinness World Record for longest continuous television viewing by absorbing 86 hours and 37 minutes of Homer’s exploits at an Ultimate Fan Marathon hosted by Fox from Feb. 8-12 in L.A. (The animated comedy presents its 500th episode on Sunday.) We »
- Dan Snierson
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