Broadcast networks' summer pilot season continues with one more pickup at CBS.
The network has greenlighted Worst Week, a comedy pilot based on a British format.
The project, from Universal Media Studios, is a single-camera half-hour based on the BBC series The Worst Week of My Life. It centers on a young couple who must navigate the politics of their soon to be in-laws during a family holiday. Matt Tarses is the writer/executive producer. Marc Buckland is on board to direct.
Fox took a stab at launching an American version of Week with a Regency TV-produced pilot last year that was directed by Adam Shankman and written by Ed Decter and John J. Strauss.
The network has greenlighted Worst Week, a comedy pilot based on a British format.
The project, from Universal Media Studios, is a single-camera half-hour based on the BBC series The Worst Week of My Life. It centers on a young couple who must navigate the politics of their soon to be in-laws during a family holiday. Matt Tarses is the writer/executive producer. Marc Buckland is on board to direct.
Fox took a stab at launching an American version of Week with a Regency TV-produced pilot last year that was directed by Adam Shankman and written by Ed Decter and John J. Strauss.
Alec Baldwin is in final negotiations to star opposite Tina Fey in Fey's untitled comedy pilot for NBC. In other pilot casting news, Bruce McGill has been cast in ABC's drama Enemies, Sean Bean has been tapped as the lead in Fox's drama Faceless, Eric Mabius is set to star opposite America Ferrera in ABC's drama Ugly Betty, Jaime King will play the female lead in Fox's comedy The Worst Week of My Life -- with Charles Malik Whitfield also cast in the project -- and Julie Hagerty has come on board Fox's comedy Becoming Glen. Additionally, Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls) has been tapped to co-star in the NBC/NBC Uni TV drama Heroes, Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) has joined the ABC/Warner Bros. TV comedy Notes From the Underbelly, Michael Trucco has been added to the ABC/Touchstone comedy pilot Him and Us, Charlie Finn (The Dukes of Hazzard) and Darlene Hunt (The Darwin Awards) have been cast in the ABC/Regency TV comedy pilot Help Me Help You, and Dorian Missick (Freedomland) has come on board the ABC/Touchstone drama pilot Six Degrees.
- 2/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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