Exclusive: ABC is keeping single-camera comedy pilot Middle Age Rage in contention by extending the options on the cast until September so it has more time to contemplate the project’s future. Created by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage stars Annie Mumolo as a middle-aged wife and mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. The Amblin TV/ABC Studios pilot flew largely under the radar until it started getting positive feedback after it was delivered to the network. Middle Age Rage was among the large pool of half-hour pilots that were in the running at ABC this year. The network and ABC Studios also tried to get another well-received comedy pilot that didn’t make the cut in May, Bad Management, picked up to series through an alternative production model but the idea didn’t pan out.
- 6/27/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kellee Stewart has joined the cast of ABC’s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. The logline reads: About a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Stewart will co-star opposite Bridesmaids' Annie Mumolo (who'll star in the series) from Malibu Country's Cheryl Holliday. Stewart (who was a series regular on the TBS comedy series My Boys from 2006 to 2010) will play Beth Ann Cooper, the leader of the book club Mumolo's lead character belongs to. Middle Age Rage is executive produced by Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank (Smash).
- 3/12/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
ABC's Middle Rage single-camera comedy has added Will Sasso as Annie Mumulo's husband. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show comes from Malibu Country's Cheryl Holliday and stars Mumulo as a mother who's had enough of feeling like she's invisible, and starts to speak up and demand the respect she feels she's earned. Sasso would play Leonard, an overworked and stressed character who struggles to talk about his feelings. The character is described as a good father and provider, as well as a decent person, who has no clue that Carol's suffering a breakdown.
- 3/1/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
ABC's Middle Rage single-camera comedy has added Will Sasso as Annie Mumulo's husband. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show comes from Malibu Country's Cheryl Holliday and stars Mumulo as a mother who's had enough of feeling like she's invisible, and starts to speak up and demand the respect she feels she's earned. Sasso would play Leonard, an overworked and stressed character who struggles to talk about his feelings. The character is described as a good father and provider, as well as a decent person, who has no clue that Carol's suffering a breakdown.
- 3/1/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Will Sasso is about to feel some Middle Age Rage. The comedian will co-star opposite Bridesmaids' Annie Mumolo in the ABC comedy pilot from Malibu Country's Cheryl Holliday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The single-camera comedy centers on a middle-aged mother, Carol (Mumolo), who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Sasso will play Leonard, Carol's husband, who is overworked and stressed. He has a hard time talking about his feelings and would rather internalize them until they turn into a tumor. A thoroughly decent human being, a
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- 3/1/2013
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Annie Mumolo, actress in This Is 40 and co-writer with Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, has joined the ABC comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. Mumolo will star as Carol, a wife and mother at the eponymous stage in life. She's "fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned." The show's written by Cheryl Holliday, who has done work on Martin, King of the Hill, and has a truly noteworthy IMDb profile photo.
- 2/21/2013
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Exclusive: Actress/writer Annie Mumolo is set as the lead in ABC‘s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. Written by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage chronicles what happens when Carol (Mumolo), a middle-aged wife and mother, is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday and showrunner Stacy Traub executive produce with Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for ABC Studios. Mumolo is best known for co-writing with Kristen Wiig the 2011 blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids, which earned the duo an Oscar nomination. As an actress, she was recently seen in another project dealing with middle-age crisis, Judd Apatow’s movie This Is 40, and in Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
- 2/20/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
As usual, lots of comedy pilots will focus on the family — including one headlined by Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. But this development season is not without a few welcome surprises, like the addition of Bridesmaids’ breakout star Rebel Wilson to one project, or CBS’ coup in nabbing House Bunny Anna Faris for her first-ever starring role in a network comedy.
As is the case with any pilot, not every one is assured a pickup come May when the networks announce their fall TV lineups in New York. See if you can guess what is likely to make the...
As is the case with any pilot, not every one is assured a pickup come May when the networks announce their fall TV lineups in New York. See if you can guess what is likely to make the...
- 2/19/2013
- by Lynette Rice and James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Exclusive: Glee co-executive producer Stacy Traub has inked an overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, she is joining the studio’s ABC comedy pilot Middle Age Rage as executive producer. Written by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage chronicles what happens when a middle-aged wife and mother is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday and Traub executive produce with Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Notes From The Underbelly creator Traub sold a couple of projects this season, including a comedy starring Rachael Harris and The Office‘s Angela Kinsey, which had a put pilot commitment at Fox. She is with UTA.
- 2/14/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
A slate of ABC drama and comedy pilots—including the female-character-driven “Bad Management,” “Keep Calm and Karey On,” and “Middle Age Rage”—have casting directors attached, Backstage has learned. “Bad Management,” about a female manager at a high-end department store who tangles with the boss’s son, is set to be cast by Leslie Litt. The single-camera comedy will shoot in Los Angeles starting in March. “Keep Calm and Karey On” also has a female lead in the role of a straight-edged woman from a family of criminals who agrees to raise her brother’s children while he’s in prison. The comedy, from author and comedienne Andrea Abbate, is set to be cast by Bonnie Zane and Gayle Pillsbury. It shoots in Los Angeles in March. A third female-driven comedy, “Middle Age Rage,” is set to be cast by Lauren Grey. The pilot, from “Mike & Molly” writer Cheryl Holliday,...
- 2/9/2013
- backstage.com
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Good afternoon!
Happy birthday Kerry Washington, Minnie Driver, Portia de Rossi, Kelly Lynch and Jessica Walter.
Actress Portia de Rossi posing with her wife Ellen DeGeneres.
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The New Orleans-based lesbian web series Girl Play has released its first episode. The show focuses on “four femme-identified lesbians and their journeys to finding loving and their own identities.” Check it out and let us know what you think!
Grey’s Anatomy’s Jessica Capshaw made me Lol with the below tweet.
This just in...I didn't cut off my leg. “@bshrum31: I can't believe @shondarhimes made @jessicacapshaw cut her leg off to stay on the show.”
— Jessica Capshaw (@JessicaCapshaw) January 31, 2013
Rumor has it Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is in talks to star in Ridley Scott’s “Soviet-era thriller” Child 44.
Good afternoon!
Happy birthday Kerry Washington, Minnie Driver, Portia de Rossi, Kelly Lynch and Jessica Walter.
Actress Portia de Rossi posing with her wife Ellen DeGeneres.
Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images
The New Orleans-based lesbian web series Girl Play has released its first episode. The show focuses on “four femme-identified lesbians and their journeys to finding loving and their own identities.” Check it out and let us know what you think!
Grey’s Anatomy’s Jessica Capshaw made me Lol with the below tweet.
This just in...I didn't cut off my leg. “@bshrum31: I can't believe @shondarhimes made @jessicacapshaw cut her leg off to stay on the show.”
— Jessica Capshaw (@JessicaCapshaw) January 31, 2013
Rumor has it Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is in talks to star in Ridley Scott’s “Soviet-era thriller” Child 44.
- 1/31/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
Now this is a memorable sitcom title.
ABC has given a pilot green light to Middle Age Rage. The project is from writer Cheryl Holliday (Mike & Molly). Here’s the logline: “About a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned.” Middle Age Rage is executive produced by Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank (Smash).
Incidentally, Holliday has one of the best IMDb photos ever.
The pickup follows two other female-led comedy pilot orders today:
There’s NBC’s Brenda Forever from writers David Lampson and Andrew Leeds,...
ABC has given a pilot green light to Middle Age Rage. The project is from writer Cheryl Holliday (Mike & Molly). Here’s the logline: “About a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned.” Middle Age Rage is executive produced by Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank (Smash).
Incidentally, Holliday has one of the best IMDb photos ever.
The pickup follows two other female-led comedy pilot orders today:
There’s NBC’s Brenda Forever from writers David Lampson and Andrew Leeds,...
- 1/31/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
ABC has given the green light to Middle Age Rage, a single-camera comedy pilot from veteran writer-producer Cheryl Holliday, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and ABC Studios. Written by Holliday, Middle Age Rage reflects Holliday’s personal frustration about how the average middle-age woman is treated in the world today. It chronicles what happens when a middle-aged wife and mother is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday executive produces with Amblin/DreamWorks TV co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. This marks the third pilot order for Holliday and DreamWorks TV. They also landed two cast-contingent pilot pickups in 2006. King Of the Hill alumna Holliday’s credits also include DreamWorks TV’s NBC animated series Father Of The Pride as well as CBS’ Mike & Molly and Still Standing.
- 1/31/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In just a short decade, female comics have gone from virtual anonymity to celebrity
I don't know whether you've noticed but there are a lot of funny girls about these days, and I don't mean funny peculiar. I refer of course to the recent rush of women into the comedy business. This sudden avalanche - or so it seems - has had a dramatic impact on the whole face of humour, and not simply by sheer gender or pure numbers, but by the effect it has had on men's humour too.
Paul Manzell is owner of the Comedy Workshop in Houston. "Nationally we are seeing more comics than ever before. There's more latitude for women now than there was five years ago." Equally important, he believes, is the fact that women entering the market has broken new frontiers in funniness. They have created fresh trends and forced men to adapt their material.
I don't know whether you've noticed but there are a lot of funny girls about these days, and I don't mean funny peculiar. I refer of course to the recent rush of women into the comedy business. This sudden avalanche - or so it seems - has had a dramatic impact on the whole face of humour, and not simply by sheer gender or pure numbers, but by the effect it has had on men's humour too.
Paul Manzell is owner of the Comedy Workshop in Houston. "Nationally we are seeing more comics than ever before. There's more latitude for women now than there was five years ago." Equally important, he believes, is the fact that women entering the market has broken new frontiers in funniness. They have created fresh trends and forced men to adapt their material.
- 10/19/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
ABC has bought Middle Age Rage, a single-camera comedy from veteran writer-producer Cheryl Holliday, Steven Spielberg’s rechristened Amblin TV and ABC Studios. Written by Holliday, Middle Age chronicles what happens when a middle-aged wife and mother is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday will executive producing with Amblin TV/DreamWorks TV co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Holliday has developed with DreamWorks TV a number of times over the years, landing two cast-contingent pilot orders in 2006 and also working on the company’s animated series Father Of The Pride. I hear DreamWorks TV brass reached out to her about ideas that touched her in a personal way and she pitched Middle Age Rage, which reflects her personal frustration about how the average middle-age woman is treated in the world today. King Of the Hill alumna...
- 9/21/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation expand their relationship with their second CG animated series co-production, Kung Fu Panda: The Series (26x30). The new series comes on the heels of the launch of the first Nick and DreamWorks' CG animated series co-production The Penguins of Madagascar, which launched on March 28, 2009. Based on DreamWorks Animation's movie Kung Fu Panda (June 2008), the new series will follow the adventures of Po (the panda), his mentor as well as his pals, as he works to protect the Valley of Peace from evil. Executive produced by Cheryl Holliday (King of the Hill, Still Standing, Father of the Pride), Kung Fu Panda: The Series is being produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank. No word yet on the voiceover cast for the series.
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- 5/15/2009
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
DreamWorks Television is revving up the most ambitious slate in its five-year history as a pod, fielding 21 projects set up at seven different networks.
"We were able to focus on development, and we made a concerted effort to spread our projects over all networks to have the best show for each network," said Darryl Frank, who runs DreamWorks TV with Justin Falvey.
The company's slate includes three projects based on ideas from DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg as well as shows from such writers as Bruce McCulloch, Cheryl Holliday, Danny Jacobson, Rod Lurie, Walter Parkes, Wesley Strick and Gardner Stern.
"It's a mix of old friends we really respect and new writers whom (DreamWorks TV executive) Jonathan Berry identified," Falvey said.
DWTV's development skews toward comedy, a genre where the company found early success with Spin City and launched one of the first single-camera comedies, The Job.
In addition to previously announced Generations, a pilot for CBS that is now casting, DWTV has another project from Holliday -- an ensemble female comedy focusing on a return to old-fashioned parenting -- set up at NBC.
The two Holliday projects are among the six comedies in development that DWTV is co-producing with NBC Universal TV Studios, where the company is in the last year of a multiyear overall deal.
The other four are:
An untitled comedy from Jason Mulgrew and Eric Weinberg for NBC about a twentysomething New York man who decides to retire while he is still young and can enjoy life.
Big Ed, about a larger-than-life car dealer who must surrender control of his automotive empire to a Japanese businessman, also for NBC. It was created by Jeff Martin.
An untitled comedy from Mark Reisman for NBC about a man who inspires everyone with his outlook on life after he wakes up from a 10-year coma.
"We were able to focus on development, and we made a concerted effort to spread our projects over all networks to have the best show for each network," said Darryl Frank, who runs DreamWorks TV with Justin Falvey.
The company's slate includes three projects based on ideas from DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg as well as shows from such writers as Bruce McCulloch, Cheryl Holliday, Danny Jacobson, Rod Lurie, Walter Parkes, Wesley Strick and Gardner Stern.
"It's a mix of old friends we really respect and new writers whom (DreamWorks TV executive) Jonathan Berry identified," Falvey said.
DWTV's development skews toward comedy, a genre where the company found early success with Spin City and launched one of the first single-camera comedies, The Job.
In addition to previously announced Generations, a pilot for CBS that is now casting, DWTV has another project from Holliday -- an ensemble female comedy focusing on a return to old-fashioned parenting -- set up at NBC.
The two Holliday projects are among the six comedies in development that DWTV is co-producing with NBC Universal TV Studios, where the company is in the last year of a multiyear overall deal.
The other four are:
An untitled comedy from Jason Mulgrew and Eric Weinberg for NBC about a twentysomething New York man who decides to retire while he is still young and can enjoy life.
Big Ed, about a larger-than-life car dealer who must surrender control of his automotive empire to a Japanese businessman, also for NBC. It was created by Jeff Martin.
An untitled comedy from Mark Reisman for NBC about a man who inspires everyone with his outlook on life after he wakes up from a 10-year coma.
- 12/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emmy-winning producer Cheryl Holliday has inked a two-year overall deal with NBC Universal Television Studio. Under the seven-figure pact, Holliday will develop projects for the studio. This past development season, Holliday developed three projects for NBC Uni TV through studio-based DreamWorks TV, two of which, "Generations" and "Baraboo 2010", were picked up as cast-contingent pilots by CBS and NBC, respectively. Both pilots could not be cast and have been rolled.
- 4/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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