British screenwriter Simon Stephenson has accused the makers of The Holdovers of plagiarism, saying its similarity to his 2013 script, Frisco, is “brazen”.
Mere hours before Alexander Payne’s comedy drama The Holdovers was garlanded with an Oscar win – Da’Vine Joy Randolph walked off with a Best Supporting Actress gong – controversy suddenly blew up thanks to a report published by Variety.
According to British novelist and screenwriter Simon Stephenson – whose credits include The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain – The Holdovers was “plagiarised line by line” from Frisco, a screenplay he wrote in 2013.
One of the scripts shortlisted for 2013’s Black List of unproduced screenplays, Frisco is about a middle-aged, grouchy pediatrician who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 15 year-old patient. This, Stephenson has argued, is markedly similar to the premise of The Holdovers, in which a middle-aged, grouchy teacher (played by Paul Giamatti in the film) strikes up an...
Mere hours before Alexander Payne’s comedy drama The Holdovers was garlanded with an Oscar win – Da’Vine Joy Randolph walked off with a Best Supporting Actress gong – controversy suddenly blew up thanks to a report published by Variety.
According to British novelist and screenwriter Simon Stephenson – whose credits include The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain – The Holdovers was “plagiarised line by line” from Frisco, a screenplay he wrote in 2013.
One of the scripts shortlisted for 2013’s Black List of unproduced screenplays, Frisco is about a middle-aged, grouchy pediatrician who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 15 year-old patient. This, Stephenson has argued, is markedly similar to the premise of The Holdovers, in which a middle-aged, grouchy teacher (played by Paul Giamatti in the film) strikes up an...
- 3/11/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
Plot: In this comedic prequel event series to the Ted films, it’s 1993, and Ted the bear’s moment of fame has passed. He’s now living back home in Framingham, Massachusetts with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, along with John’s parents, Matty and Susan and cousin Blaire. Ted may be a lousy influence on John, but at the end of the day, he’s a loyal pal who’s always willing to go out on a limb for friendship.
Review: Seth MacFarlane is an acquired taste. Family Guy is the type of series that you either love or hate. When MacFarlane jumped to the big screen with A Million Ways To Die In The West, he showed an aptitude for crude humor in live action. With the Ted films, MacFarlane dove deeper into the heartfelt and feel-good humor underneath all the crass jokes and bodily fluids. I...
Review: Seth MacFarlane is an acquired taste. Family Guy is the type of series that you either love or hate. When MacFarlane jumped to the big screen with A Million Ways To Die In The West, he showed an aptitude for crude humor in live action. With the Ted films, MacFarlane dove deeper into the heartfelt and feel-good humor underneath all the crass jokes and bodily fluids. I...
- 1/11/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Four months after TV lit agents David Stone, a partner at WME, and Ben Jacobson, a partner at UTA, left their respective agencies to launch The Framework Collective, the management company has solidified their roster of clients, I have learned. It ranges from established producers, creators and showrunners to next generation voices, a number of whom were former clients of Stone and Jacobson on the agency side. The list includes Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner and 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey and Emmy-winning producer Warren Littlefield.
Tfc’s client roster of established creators/showrunners is said to include Peter Saji, co-creator and co-showrunner of ABC’s Mixed-ish; Courtney Lilly, showrunner of ABC’s Black-ish and co-showrunner of Mixed-ish; Martin Gero, creator and showrunner of NBC’s Blindspot and co-creator of Connecting; Elwood Reid, creator and showrunner of FX’s The Bridge...
Tfc’s client roster of established creators/showrunners is said to include Peter Saji, co-creator and co-showrunner of ABC’s Mixed-ish; Courtney Lilly, showrunner of ABC’s Black-ish and co-showrunner of Mixed-ish; Martin Gero, creator and showrunner of NBC’s Blindspot and co-creator of Connecting; Elwood Reid, creator and showrunner of FX’s The Bridge...
- 11/10/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
After just one season that aired over summer, ABC has canceled the sitcom “United We Fall,” the network announced Tuesday.
The show, which starred Will Sasso, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Ella Grace Helton, Guillermo Díaz, and Jane Curtin, launched its 8-episode season in July. On its debut night back on July 15, “United We Fall” was the highest-rated and most-watched show of the evening with 4.2 million viewers, though it did see a dip to 3.6 million viewers for the second episode that aired immediately after.
It finished its only season Aug. 26, with its final episode pulling in 3.1 million viewers.
Described during development as a “profoundly realistic family sitcom,” the series centered on Jo (Mitchell) and Bill (Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. ABC described the show by saying, “Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother (Curtain) and Jo’s large Latinx...
The show, which starred Will Sasso, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Ella Grace Helton, Guillermo Díaz, and Jane Curtin, launched its 8-episode season in July. On its debut night back on July 15, “United We Fall” was the highest-rated and most-watched show of the evening with 4.2 million viewers, though it did see a dip to 3.6 million viewers for the second episode that aired immediately after.
It finished its only season Aug. 26, with its final episode pulling in 3.1 million viewers.
Described during development as a “profoundly realistic family sitcom,” the series centered on Jo (Mitchell) and Bill (Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. ABC described the show by saying, “Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother (Curtain) and Jo’s large Latinx...
- 9/16/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Compared to the last show he created, Fox’s short-lived “Making History,” Julius Sharpe’s new series “United We Fall” is surprisingly low concept.
A traditional, multicamera family sitcom, the series centers on a couple (played by Will Sasso and Christina Vidal Mitchell) and their struggle keep up with the day-to-day demands of raising two young daughters. And that’s about it as far as the premise goes. No time-traveling duffel bags or period costuming or recreations of major historical events. There are opinionated in-laws, sure, but the Founding Fathers do not make an appearance.
“You could say I was out of fanciful ideas, so I just tried to take a look at what might be interesting,” Sharpe said in an interview with TheWrap. “And the more I started talking to people about it, people seemed keyed into it in a way that they never seemed keyed into my other ideas.
A traditional, multicamera family sitcom, the series centers on a couple (played by Will Sasso and Christina Vidal Mitchell) and their struggle keep up with the day-to-day demands of raising two young daughters. And that’s about it as far as the premise goes. No time-traveling duffel bags or period costuming or recreations of major historical events. There are opinionated in-laws, sure, but the Founding Fathers do not make an appearance.
“You could say I was out of fanciful ideas, so I just tried to take a look at what might be interesting,” Sharpe said in an interview with TheWrap. “And the more I started talking to people about it, people seemed keyed into it in a way that they never seemed keyed into my other ideas.
- 7/15/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Christina Vidal has been breaking barriers since she was a teenager. In 2001 she became Nickelodeon’s first Latina leading lady as the star of “Taina,” a series following the eponymous youngster as she attends Manhattan High School of Performing Arts on her way to becoming a singer. Despite only running for one season, the series, created by Puerto Rican showrunner Maria Perez-Brown, became a fond memory for a generation of teens.
“That show was ahead of its time,” Vidal told IndieWire. “I think Maria was ahead of her time.” Vidal, who was just 20 at the time “Taina” aired, said it wasn’t until she reached adulthood that she understood the significance the series had on her as a performer. “I was just having fun, and doing the job, and being a kid,” she said. “It wasn’t until I got older that I realized, ‘Man, that was some important work we were doing there.
“That show was ahead of its time,” Vidal told IndieWire. “I think Maria was ahead of her time.” Vidal, who was just 20 at the time “Taina” aired, said it wasn’t until she reached adulthood that she understood the significance the series had on her as a performer. “I was just having fun, and doing the job, and being a kid,” she said. “It wasn’t until I got older that I realized, ‘Man, that was some important work we were doing there.
- 7/15/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
ABC’s new family sitcom, “United We Fall,” starts from a fairly thin premise: It follows a married couple, their two young children, and one in-law per spouse, as they cope with one another. This is fairly thin stuff, but it’s buoyed by the charms of the cast. “United We Fall” lacks, perhaps, enough of a hook to instantly compel viewers, but its low-key pleasantness makes it better than replacement-level.
Will Sasso and Christina Vidal Mitchell play Bill and Jo, parents of two daughters (played by Ella Grace Helton and the pair of child actors Ireland and Sedona Carvajal). Their generally low-key approach to parenting is perpetually stepped on by Bill’s mother Sandy (Jane Curtin) and Jo’s brother Chuy (Guillermo Diaz), both of whom push the family — Chuy towards an optimized, test-prepped version of modern excellence, Sandy towards a sort of benevolent mania. Sasso and Vidal Mitchell...
Will Sasso and Christina Vidal Mitchell play Bill and Jo, parents of two daughters (played by Ella Grace Helton and the pair of child actors Ireland and Sedona Carvajal). Their generally low-key approach to parenting is perpetually stepped on by Bill’s mother Sandy (Jane Curtin) and Jo’s brother Chuy (Guillermo Diaz), both of whom push the family — Chuy towards an optimized, test-prepped version of modern excellence, Sandy towards a sort of benevolent mania. Sasso and Vidal Mitchell...
- 7/14/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Scandal co-star Guillermo Diaz is returning to ABC with a series regular role opposite Christina Vidal and Will Sasso in United We Fall, the network’s new multicamera family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios.
United We Fall is a multicultural sitcom about two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal), who navigate their life together. They juggle raising two young children while dealing with Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large, Latinx Catholic family. No matter the hardships they face, Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone—other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and, especially, their kids.
Diaz will play Chuy Rodriguez, the brother and business partner of Jo at their family’s contracting business. Jane Curtin and Ella Grace Helton also star.
Sharpe executive produces with Julia Gunn and Gordon.
United We Fall is a multicultural sitcom about two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal), who navigate their life together. They juggle raising two young children while dealing with Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large, Latinx Catholic family. No matter the hardships they face, Bill and Jo will always have each other’s backs, united against everyone—other parents, teachers, doctors, specialists, coaches, co-workers and, especially, their kids.
Diaz will play Chuy Rodriguez, the brother and business partner of Jo at their family’s contracting business. Jane Curtin and Ella Grace Helton also star.
Sharpe executive produces with Julia Gunn and Gordon.
- 9/25/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has picked up an additional drama and comedy series for the 2019-2020 season.
The network has ordered hourlong legal drama For Life (fka Hank Steinberg/Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Project) and multi-camera family comedy United We Fall. Both hail from Sony Pictures TV, which will co-produce with ABC Studios.
United We Fall and For Life join comedy mixed-ish and drama Untitled Cobie Smulders (aka Stumptown), both from ABC Studios, to bring ABC’s new series for next season to four so far.
Along with Untitled Cobie Smulders, which was picked up to series on Wednesday, For Life had been a frontrunner among ABC’s drama pilots. It took three extra days for the Hank Steinberg/50 Cent pilot to secure a formal order because of the now almost obligatory pre-pickup push by the broadcast networks to extract better co-production terms from independent studios.
Because of the slew of comedy series ABC renewed for next season,...
The network has ordered hourlong legal drama For Life (fka Hank Steinberg/Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Project) and multi-camera family comedy United We Fall. Both hail from Sony Pictures TV, which will co-produce with ABC Studios.
United We Fall and For Life join comedy mixed-ish and drama Untitled Cobie Smulders (aka Stumptown), both from ABC Studios, to bring ABC’s new series for next season to four so far.
Along with Untitled Cobie Smulders, which was picked up to series on Wednesday, For Life had been a frontrunner among ABC’s drama pilots. It took three extra days for the Hank Steinberg/50 Cent pilot to secure a formal order because of the now almost obligatory pre-pickup push by the broadcast networks to extract better co-production terms from independent studios.
Because of the slew of comedy series ABC renewed for next season,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Loudermilk‘s Will Sasso and Christina Vidal (Training Day) are set as leads opposite Jane Curtin in United We Fall, ABC’s multicamera family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios.
Written by Sharpe and directed by Mark Cendrowski, United We Fall is a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.
Sasso’s Bill is a confident, analytical yet funny and emotional father and husband. Bill and his wife, Jo, both have college degrees, great careers, and a solid, loving marriage. However, since having their second kid, they can barely make it out the door. He tries to hold it together because he loves his family more than anything, and, deep down, he knows his wife is slightly...
Written by Sharpe and directed by Mark Cendrowski, United We Fall is a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill (Sasso) and Jo (Vidal) with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.
Sasso’s Bill is a confident, analytical yet funny and emotional father and husband. Bill and his wife, Jo, both have college degrees, great careers, and a solid, loving marriage. However, since having their second kid, they can barely make it out the door. He tries to hold it together because he loves his family more than anything, and, deep down, he knows his wife is slightly...
- 3/20/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Michael Snow (Black Monday) is set as a series regular opposite Jane Curtin in United We Fall, ABC’s multicamera family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios. Written by Sharpe and directed by Mark Cendrowski, United We Fall is a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. Snow will play Gary, Bill’s (Tbd) super-cool, cosmopolitan, glamorous brother. Snow can currently be seen in Showtime series Black Monday and recently starred opposite Jane Krakowski, Fred Armisen, and Maya Rudolph in Fox’s A Christmas Story Live. He’s repped by Paradigm and Fourth Wall.
Adrian Martinez (No Activity) has booked a series regular role opposite Cobie Smulders in Stumptown, ABC’s drama pilot from writer Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer and ABC Studios.
Adrian Martinez (No Activity) has booked a series regular role opposite Cobie Smulders in Stumptown, ABC’s drama pilot from writer Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer and ABC Studios.
- 3/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy winner Jane Curtin has been tapped as the larger-then-life character at the center of United We Fall, ABC’s multicamera family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Seth Gordon, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios.
Written by Sharpe and directed by Mark Cendrowski, United We Fall is a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.
Curtin will play Bill’s extremely judgmental mother, who went through a health scare two years ago. Bill and Jo did the right thing and took her in, then Sandy miraculously recovered and never left. Sandy doesn’t understand the challenges of modern parenting, yet she weighs in on everything that Bill and Jo do to let them know it’s wrong. The only thing that’s great for Bill is...
Written by Sharpe and directed by Mark Cendrowski, United We Fall is a profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.
Curtin will play Bill’s extremely judgmental mother, who went through a health scare two years ago. Bill and Jo did the right thing and took her in, then Sandy miraculously recovered and never left. Sandy doesn’t understand the challenges of modern parenting, yet she weighs in on everything that Bill and Jo do to let them know it’s wrong. The only thing that’s great for Bill is...
- 3/4/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has ordered two additional pilots, bringing the network total to nine dramas and six comedies, so far. One is a legal and family drama from The Last Ship co-creator/executive producer Hank Steinberg, Power executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and The Goldbergs executive producer Doug Robinson. The Hate U Give helmer George Tillman Jr. attached to direct the pilot and executive produce.
The other, United We Fall, a multicamera multicultural family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Julia Gunn and Seth Gordon. Both are produced by Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios.
Written by Steinberg, the Untitled Hank Steinberg/Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Project is a serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to...
The other, United We Fall, a multicamera multicultural family comedy from Making History creator Julius Sharpe, Julia Gunn and Seth Gordon. Both are produced by Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios.
Written by Steinberg, the Untitled Hank Steinberg/Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Project is a serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to...
- 2/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
In Tuesday’s roundup, Netflix sets the “Fuller House” Season 4 premiere date, and Hulu announces the leads for its adapted series, “Looking for Alaska.”
Dates
Netflix’s “Fuller House” will return for Season 4 on Dec. 14. It was previously announced in January that the reboot was renewed for a fourth season. The show is a continuation of the 1990s ABC series “Full House,” and features veterinarian D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure), D.J.’s younger sister/aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin), and D.J.’s lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) moving in together to raise Kimmy’s daughter and D.J.’s three boys. “Fuller House” is executive produced by Bob Boyett and produced by Miller-Boyett Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television for Netflix.
Renewals
Netflix has renewed the animated comedy series “Paradise Pd” for Season 2. Created by Waco O’Guin and Roger Black (“Brickleberry”), the show premiered Aug.
Dates
Netflix’s “Fuller House” will return for Season 4 on Dec. 14. It was previously announced in January that the reboot was renewed for a fourth season. The show is a continuation of the 1990s ABC series “Full House,” and features veterinarian D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure), D.J.’s younger sister/aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin), and D.J.’s lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) moving in together to raise Kimmy’s daughter and D.J.’s three boys. “Fuller House” is executive produced by Bob Boyett and produced by Miller-Boyett Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television for Netflix.
Renewals
Netflix has renewed the animated comedy series “Paradise Pd” for Season 2. Created by Waco O’Guin and Roger Black (“Brickleberry”), the show premiered Aug.
- 10/30/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
YouTube has ordered a presentation for animated half-hour comedy Dumb People Town based on the Sklar Brothers hit podcast, from Randy and Jason Sklar, Daniel Van Kirk, Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue, Artists First and Sony Pictures TV, where Electric Avenue is under a deal.
It is part of YouTube’s (and all major streaming platforms’) push into adult animation. YouTube’s first full-length adult animated comedy series, Dallas & Robo, premiered on its Premium service earlier this year.
Written and executive produced by the Sklar brothers, Van Kirk and Julius Sharpe, Dumb People Town centers around a family in a Florida town struggling with the most important question of our times: Is it better to be dumb and happy? Or smart and miserable?
Arnett and Marc Forman executive produce via Electric Avenue along with Peter Principato and Joel Zadak via Artists First. Sony Pictures TV is distributing the project.
It is part of YouTube’s (and all major streaming platforms’) push into adult animation. YouTube’s first full-length adult animated comedy series, Dallas & Robo, premiered on its Premium service earlier this year.
Written and executive produced by the Sklar brothers, Van Kirk and Julius Sharpe, Dumb People Town centers around a family in a Florida town struggling with the most important question of our times: Is it better to be dumb and happy? Or smart and miserable?
Arnett and Marc Forman executive produce via Electric Avenue along with Peter Principato and Joel Zadak via Artists First. Sony Pictures TV is distributing the project.
- 10/30/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Making History creator Julius Sharpe has signed an overall deal at Sony TV. Under the two-year pact, he will develop new series projects. Sharpe is moving to the indie studio after a lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox Television where he most recently was under an overall deal. There, Sharpe created and executive produced the well reviewed though short-lived time-travel Fox comedy series Making History, also executive produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Before…...
- 5/30/2017
- Deadline TV
Earlier this month, we reported that Fox cancelled Making History after only one season. Recently, creator Julius Sharpe reacted to the news on Twitter.The sitcom follows three friends from two different centuries, as they try to balance the fun and adventure of time travel with the humdrum responsibilities of their otherwise ordinary lives. The cast includes Adam Pally, Yassir Lester, Leighton Meester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey.Read More…...
- 5/23/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Streaming overlords sign Channing Tatum to teach us something.
Ever since animation has been targeted at children, adults have thought it would be really cool if it was aimed at them instead. Once regulated to a late-night programming block of the Cartoon Network and a sub-genre of pornography, adult animated series are everywhere and chock full of the kinds of celebrities who were once called upon only to phone in performances on things like Shark Tale every so often. Adam Reed’s Archer has become a sweet moneymaker on FX and Raphael Bob-Waksberg Bojack Horseman has done massive inroads to make Netflix seem hip and with it. Which is probably why Netflix, per Deadline, has just signed on the voice of Channing Tatum to star in an animated movie penned by Dave Callaham, proud writer of “Untitled Zombieland Sequel,” which has yet to hit theaters. His feature-length movie for Netflix will be called America: The Motion Picture...
Ever since animation has been targeted at children, adults have thought it would be really cool if it was aimed at them instead. Once regulated to a late-night programming block of the Cartoon Network and a sub-genre of pornography, adult animated series are everywhere and chock full of the kinds of celebrities who were once called upon only to phone in performances on things like Shark Tale every so often. Adam Reed’s Archer has become a sweet moneymaker on FX and Raphael Bob-Waksberg Bojack Horseman has done massive inroads to make Netflix seem hip and with it. Which is probably why Netflix, per Deadline, has just signed on the voice of Channing Tatum to star in an animated movie penned by Dave Callaham, proud writer of “Untitled Zombieland Sequel,” which has yet to hit theaters. His feature-length movie for Netflix will be called America: The Motion Picture...
- 3/31/2017
- by Andrew Karpan
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
Time travel is all the rage on television. Between Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Frequency, Time after Time, 12 Monkeys and last year’s 11.22.63, which I’m currently watching, forget about the butterfly effect; this is deja vu. Yet, Fox decided to add another time traveler to the schedule: the ultra-goofy buddy comedy Making History. I gotta say though, it’s not exactly living up to its title…
Created by Julius Sharpe (Family Guy), Making History is decidedly more Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure than Primer. It centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a lowly, average guy who spends his work days in a janitorial position in a local college and his weekends (and occasional Tuesdays) traveling back to 1775, via a duffel bag time-traveler, to meet his Colonel girlfriend, Deborah (Leighton Meester). Inherited from his late father, Dan is unambitious but certainly not malicious with his gift.
Time travel is all the rage on television. Between Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Frequency, Time after Time, 12 Monkeys and last year’s 11.22.63, which I’m currently watching, forget about the butterfly effect; this is deja vu. Yet, Fox decided to add another time traveler to the schedule: the ultra-goofy buddy comedy Making History. I gotta say though, it’s not exactly living up to its title…
Created by Julius Sharpe (Family Guy), Making History is decidedly more Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure than Primer. It centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a lowly, average guy who spends his work days in a janitorial position in a local college and his weekends (and occasional Tuesdays) traveling back to 1775, via a duffel bag time-traveler, to meet his Colonel girlfriend, Deborah (Leighton Meester). Inherited from his late father, Dan is unambitious but certainly not malicious with his gift.
- 3/3/2017
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
Up to this point, Adam Pally’s career has been built around the exuberant, self-effacing comedian stealing scenes as a favored supporting player. Dating back to his breakout turn as Max in “Happy Endings” and including memorable appearances since then in “The Mindy Project,” “Lady Dynamite,” and “Joshy” (among others), Pally has proven an ideal addition to each of his projects thus far and always leaves you wanting more.
So it’s only fitting that as the great supporting actor graduates to leading man status, he ushers in a successor of equally delightful comedic charms: And that person is…Leighton Meester?
You’re goddamn right it’s Leighton Meester.
The two team up in the new Fox series, “Making History,” a joyful, self-aware comedy that falls squarely under the “don’t worry if it makes sense” approach to time travel stories. Pally plays Dan, a facilities manager at a Massachusetts...
So it’s only fitting that as the great supporting actor graduates to leading man status, he ushers in a successor of equally delightful comedic charms: And that person is…Leighton Meester?
You’re goddamn right it’s Leighton Meester.
The two team up in the new Fox series, “Making History,” a joyful, self-aware comedy that falls squarely under the “don’t worry if it makes sense” approach to time travel stories. Pally plays Dan, a facilities manager at a Massachusetts...
- 3/3/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Time travel is everywhere you look on TV these days — Timeless, Frequency, Legends of Tomorrow, Time After Time — and yet it’s usually of the life-or-death, save-the-world variety. But what if you just want to use your time machine to meet girls and party, man?
That’s the refreshingly lowbrow premise behind Fox’s Making History (premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c), starring Adam Pally as a modern-day loser who uses a giant duffel bag to travel through time and rearrange past events for his own selfish benefit. Gleefully poking fun at revered historical figures and armed with a supporting cast of alt-comedy all-stars,...
That’s the refreshingly lowbrow premise behind Fox’s Making History (premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c), starring Adam Pally as a modern-day loser who uses a giant duffel bag to travel through time and rearrange past events for his own selfish benefit. Gleefully poking fun at revered historical figures and armed with a supporting cast of alt-comedy all-stars,...
- 2/28/2017
- TVLine.com
Ever want to travel back to colonial times? On Making History, all you have to do is… hop into an old gym bag, apparently.
Fox’s new time-travel comedy — premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c — stars Happy Endings alum Adam Pally as a slacker who has a magical duffel bag that allows him to travel through time. (His father was a brilliant physicist, you see.) He ends up in Lexington, right before the American Revolution, and uses modern-day song lyrics (and giant hunks of ham) to charm a colonial girl played by Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester.
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Fox’s new time-travel comedy — premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c — stars Happy Endings alum Adam Pally as a slacker who has a magical duffel bag that allows him to travel through time. (His father was a brilliant physicist, you see.) He ends up in Lexington, right before the American Revolution, and uses modern-day song lyrics (and giant hunks of ham) to charm a colonial girl played by Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester.
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- 1/12/2017
- TVLine.com
The creator of Fox's Making History is not worried about all the other time-travel series across the primetime landscape because his is a comedy, Julius Sharpe told weary TV critics on the final Q&A of Fox's time at TCA. "We're not dealing with serious implications," he said. On the other hand, they're planning an episode in which they travel back in time and kidnap the cast of NBC's Timeless and ABC's Time After Time, joked cast member Yassir Lester. The characters on…...
- 1/12/2017
- Deadline TV
Fox has just dropped trailers for some of its new comedies and dramas as part of the 2016-17 series orders. Check them out below. Making History — Comedy Produced by 20th Century Fox TV. From writer/executive producer Julius Sharpe and executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The Mick — Comedy Produced by 20th Century Fox TV. From writers/executive producers John Chernin and Dave Chernin and executive producers Nick Frenkel, Oly Obst, and Randall Einhorn. Son of Zor…...
- 5/16/2016
- Deadline TV
It has been a noticeable trend at Fox this pilot season — many of the network’s pilot orders came with a director already on board, leapfrogging the first stage in pilot production which involves locking in a helmer. All of Fox’s comedy pilots except for the very first to get ordered — Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Julius Sharpe’s time-travel half-hour — were picked up with directors attached. (Ironically, the Lord/Miller comedy pilot, greenlighted a month ago, still…...
- 2/8/2016
- Deadline TV
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On top of their Han Solo, Spider-Man, Lego and Jump Street films, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are working on time travel sitcom, In Time...
Phil Lord and Chris Miller must have a Time-Turner. Or a Tardis. Or a DeLorean. Or a Bernard’s Watch at the very least. You get the picture.
With all the projects on their slate – the Han Solo movie, overseeing The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street universes, an animated Spider-Man movie, Last Man On Earth, The Greatest American Hero, Son Of Zahn, Serial – there’s no way that the in-demand duo aren’t employing some sort of time manipulation to keep on top of it all.
They’re now channelling this experience into yet another new project – a single-camera sitcom series about time travel. It’s called In Time, and they’re said to be developing a pilot episode with The Grinder scribe Julius Sharpe for Fox.
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On top of their Han Solo, Spider-Man, Lego and Jump Street films, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are working on time travel sitcom, In Time...
Phil Lord and Chris Miller must have a Time-Turner. Or a Tardis. Or a DeLorean. Or a Bernard’s Watch at the very least. You get the picture.
With all the projects on their slate – the Han Solo movie, overseeing The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street universes, an animated Spider-Man movie, Last Man On Earth, The Greatest American Hero, Son Of Zahn, Serial – there’s no way that the in-demand duo aren’t employing some sort of time manipulation to keep on top of it all.
They’re now channelling this experience into yet another new project – a single-camera sitcom series about time travel. It’s called In Time, and they’re said to be developing a pilot episode with The Grinder scribe Julius Sharpe for Fox.
- 10/22/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Renewals
Two lesser known shows scored pick-ups today. First up, Hulu has ordered a second season of its original dramedy series "Casual" which premiered two weeks ago on the streaming service. The Jason Reitman-produced show stars Frances Conroy, Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey and follows a newly divorced single mother living with her brother and daughter.
Meanwhile, ABC Family has ordered a fifth season of one of its highest-rated original series "Switched at Birth." The show's current fourth season is scheduled to wrap up this coming week. [Source: The Live Feed]
In Time
Fox has given a put pilot commitment to the time-travel comedy series "In Time" which comes from "Last Man On Earth" executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Julius Sharpe ("Family Guy") pens the show about three friends who try to balance the adventure of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present day lives.
Lord and Miller, best...
Two lesser known shows scored pick-ups today. First up, Hulu has ordered a second season of its original dramedy series "Casual" which premiered two weeks ago on the streaming service. The Jason Reitman-produced show stars Frances Conroy, Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey and follows a newly divorced single mother living with her brother and daughter.
Meanwhile, ABC Family has ordered a fifth season of one of its highest-rated original series "Switched at Birth." The show's current fourth season is scheduled to wrap up this coming week. [Source: The Live Feed]
In Time
Fox has given a put pilot commitment to the time-travel comedy series "In Time" which comes from "Last Man On Earth" executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Julius Sharpe ("Family Guy") pens the show about three friends who try to balance the adventure of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present day lives.
Lord and Miller, best...
- 10/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
In one of the more appropriately timed – or incidental – announcements in recent memory, Fox has ordered a pilot from In Time, the all-new time-travel comedy hatched by Chris Miller and Phil Lord.
As this just so happens to be October 21, 2015, the Internet is awash with homages, stunts and play-by-break breakdowns of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future II, making it the perfect window for the studio to pick up Miller and Lord’s pitch for the pilot treatment. Orbiting around a trio of childhood friends, In Time centers on the ways in which their lives are upended when they stumble upon the power to bend and shape time as they see fit. But once the novelty wears off, the group must then strike a balance between the humdrum routine of their daily lives and the ever-present desire to teleport to a different time period.
Penned by Julius Sharpe of Family Guy...
As this just so happens to be October 21, 2015, the Internet is awash with homages, stunts and play-by-break breakdowns of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future II, making it the perfect window for the studio to pick up Miller and Lord’s pitch for the pilot treatment. Orbiting around a trio of childhood friends, In Time centers on the ways in which their lives are upended when they stumble upon the power to bend and shape time as they see fit. But once the novelty wears off, the group must then strike a balance between the humdrum routine of their daily lives and the ever-present desire to teleport to a different time period.
Penned by Julius Sharpe of Family Guy...
- 10/21/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Does the new Phil Lord/Chris Miller idea hint at the how they’re able to be involved in so many projects? It just might… Despite an already loaded development plate full of movies and TV shows, they’re attached to produce another, sitcom In Time. Much like The Last Man On Earth, however, which they helped to launch, someone else will be doing the heavy lifting of producing the show while they oversee matters. In this case, it’s Family Guy veteran Julius Sharpe, who has developed the idea and will head the writing team for the show.The story for In Time – no relation to the 2011 Justin Timberlake film – finds three friends who discover a way to time travel, but must balance that with the more ordinary details of their lives. It’s been handed a pilot order by Us network Fox, which also carries The Last Man across the pond.
- 10/21/2015
- EmpireOnline
Just in time for Back to the Future Day, which is today, Fox has given a put pilot commitment to In Time, a time-travel comedy from Last Man on Earth executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Written by Julius Sharpe (Family Guy, The Cleveland Show), In Time revolves around three friends who try to balance the adventure of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present day lives. Lord, Miller and Sharpe executive produce. 20th Century Fox TV, where…...
- 10/21/2015
- Deadline TV
News broke this morning that CBS has snagged Stephen Colbert away from Comedy Central to replace David Letterman when he retires next year. Obviously the Internet immediately exploded. Here are some of the best reactions! #1 - Some questioned if Colbert can handle the hard-hitting questions. I pray Stephen Colbert is the right choice, I shudder to think of someone unqualified asking Katherine Heigl about her summer plans — Matt Oswalt (@Puddinstrip) April 10, 2014 #2 - While others quickly discovered his secret to success. The cancel Colbert controversy worked out pretty well for him. Well I happen to despise Asians. That is the Worst race! #cancelreview — Andy Daly (@TVsAndyDaly) April 10, 2014 #3 - Some speculated on the fate of 'The Colbert Report'. [S] Plot twist: Letterman will be taking over "The Colbert Report". — Paul and Storm (@paulandstorm) April 10, 2014 #4 - While others just wanted to be guests…eventually. .@StephenAtHome I’m flattered but network will prob...
- 4/10/2014
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
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