Tributes have been pouring in over the past 24 hours for veteran comedy TV writer-producer Marsh McCall, who died suddenly Monday morning at the age of 52. Here is how McCall is being remembered by fellow comedy writer and long-time friend Michael Jamin (Maron, Wilfred, Rules Of Engagement). Jamin recounts how the two first met as writers on the NBC’s comedy series Just Shoot Me!, and a career-making advise by McCall that helped him and many other young writers. I met…...
- 5/23/2017
- Deadline TV
As the TV community is coming to grips with the loss of veteran comedy writer-producer Marsh McCall, who died suddenly this morning at 52, he is being mourned by his current TV family, the cast and crew of the Netflix comedy series Fuller House, where he was working as co-executive producer up until his death. The series creator/executive producer Jeff Franklin issued a statement on behalf of the entire Fuller House team. Our Fuller House family is heartbroken over the…...
- 5/22/2017
- Deadline TV
Veteran comedy showrunner Marsh McCall died suddenly this morning. He was 52, just weeks away from his 53th birthday. McCall, who was beloved in the creative community and remembered as a true gentleman, was working as co-executive producer on Netflix’s popular comedy series Fuller House at the time of his death. McCall started as a writer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien before segueing to primetime. He worked on the NBC comedy series Just Shoot Me!, rising to…...
- 5/22/2017
- Deadline TV
TBS and TNT announced on Wednesday that they are about to become the first national networks to live stream on-air content across multiple platforms 24/7.
The networks made the announcement during TNT and TBS's annual upfront presentation in New York, noting that their content will be streamed through their websites and a pair of newly created apps: Watch TNT and Watch TBS.
"Starting this summer, subscribers will be able to watch TBS and TNT live –- anytime, anywhere, on multiple devices," Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, told the upfront audience. Additional platforms for TBS and TNT's live streaming will be added by the end of the year.
TNT's coverage of the NBA games, TBS's coverage of Major League Baseball and both network's coverage of the Ncaa will be available for live streaming as well.
Audiences will soon have the opportunity to watch some new content from some...
The networks made the announcement during TNT and TBS's annual upfront presentation in New York, noting that their content will be streamed through their websites and a pair of newly created apps: Watch TNT and Watch TBS.
"Starting this summer, subscribers will be able to watch TBS and TNT live –- anytime, anywhere, on multiple devices," Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, told the upfront audience. Additional platforms for TBS and TNT's live streaming will be added by the end of the year.
TNT's coverage of the NBA games, TBS's coverage of Major League Baseball and both network's coverage of the Ncaa will be available for live streaming as well.
Audiences will soon have the opportunity to watch some new content from some...
- 5/15/2013
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Huffington Post
We already know TNT is bringing Sean Bean, Eric Dane, and the mind of Frank Darabont back to our TVs, but at today’s Turner Upfront, TNT and TBS announced some more big names developing potential shows for the networks — including Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Steve Carell, Jamie Foxx, Elizabeth Banks, Diablo Cody, Denis Leary, Dick Wolf, and Nicholas Sparks. The loglines:
TNT Scripted Series:
• Portal House: This project is the story of a group of young scientists who, while investigating what they believe to be a haunted house, stumble upon a portal into the time-space continuum. Things then take...
TNT Scripted Series:
• Portal House: This project is the story of a group of young scientists who, while investigating what they believe to be a haunted house, stumble upon a portal into the time-space continuum. Things then take...
- 5/15/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt is leaving the freshman ABC comedy series. Veteran comedy showrunner Kevin Abbott is expected to take over the reins of the show after Thanksgiving if he gets a sign-off from TV Land, where he is under contract. For 20th Century Fox TV, which produces Last Man Standing, Abbott was the top choice to replace Burditt as he successfully stepped in for the departing creator of another 20th TV comedy, Reba, several years ago. Coincidentally, Abbott is now writing a new comedy project starring Reba McEntire, which has a put pilot commitment at ABC. If it goes to series and Last Man Standing is renewed for a second season, Abbott will run both series concurrently. In addition to shepherding the McEntire-starring project Malibu Country, Abbott also has a deal with TV Land, where serves as a consulting producer on Retired At 35. He is now...
- 11/14/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The best thing ABC's Last Man Standing has going for it is that TV Land is now producing its own shows. If this Tim Allen effort had come out a couple of years ago, I might have bet that it had no chance at all. That isn't to say that I don't like it... it's average-ish when all is said and done..., but I wouldn't have had a lot of hope for it actually getting viewers.
It has some good elements to it, and if Tim Allen has proven one thing over the years, it's that he's rather watchable. The kill of the show, in terms of predicting positive results, is that it feels like it comes straight from the glory days of Home Improvement, as though we were throwing out another venture during the early '90s, as opposed to the early '10s. It's a show that, if I had to guess,...
It has some good elements to it, and if Tim Allen has proven one thing over the years, it's that he's rather watchable. The kill of the show, in terms of predicting positive results, is that it feels like it comes straight from the glory days of Home Improvement, as though we were throwing out another venture during the early '90s, as opposed to the early '10s. It's a show that, if I had to guess,...
- 10/11/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Two players from NBC's Thursday comedy block, Parks & Recreation co-star Adam Scott and Community co-executive producer Hilary Winston, have teamed to produce My Son Gomez, a new single-camera comedy project for the network. Meanwhile, actor-turned-writer Ryan Raddatz (This Might Hurt) has sold Change of Plans, a multi-camera comedy to ABC with veteran Marsh McCall as showrunner. My Son Gomez is in the vein of About a Boy and focuses on a slick womanizing bachelor who takes in a kid with no place to go. The project was created and is being written by Winston through her overall deal at Sony TV and set up at NBC through the blind script deal Scott and his wife Naomi Scott have there. All three will executive produce the project, to which Adam Scott is not attached to star as he is committed to Parks & Rec. The comedy's 3rd season kicks off on Jan.
- 12/14/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: In a rare venturing into multi-camera comedy, Fox is developing a half-hour project starring comedian Owen Benjamin and written by comedy veteran Marsh McCall. Benjamin and McCall co-created the ABC Studios-produced sitcom, which stars Benjamin as a question-everything high school counselor balancing bachelorhood and his eccentric family. McCall executive produces the untitled project with producer Bill Haber, former agent and CAA co-founder, as well as Peter Principato, Paul Young and Joel Zadak. Benjamin, repped by CAA and Prinicpato Young, co-starred in The House Bunny and was a regular correspondent on The Jay Leno Show. He recently filmed a small role in the Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and was part of Vince Vaughn and Kevin James' sold-out comedy tour.
- 11/29/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
A TV adaptation of Jay Mohr's autobiographical novel No Wonder My Parents Drank has been picked up by ABC to star Mohr. Former Just Shoot Me writer Marsh McCall will aid Mohr on the script, and the team kicks off a new initiative by ABC Entertainment boss Paul Lee to "man up" the network.
Desperate Housewives, Cougar Town, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy and other ABC programs have brought the channel great success, but essentially skip over the testosteronal demographic completely (although I'm sure we all know at least one dude who's a closet Grey's watcher). CBS and Fox have done well with male-centric programming, helped no doubt in part by their football broadcasts, but ABC hopes to pick up the slack with programs like Mohr's.
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Desperate Housewives, Cougar Town, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy and other ABC programs have brought the channel great success, but essentially skip over the testosteronal demographic completely (although I'm sure we all know at least one dude who's a closet Grey's watcher). CBS and Fox have done well with male-centric programming, helped no doubt in part by their football broadcasts, but ABC hopes to pick up the slack with programs like Mohr's.
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- 11/22/2010
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
The ABC Family is set to air "Ruby and the Rockits", Shaun Cassidy developed it for his brothers, David & Patrick, with youngest brother, Ryan on sets & props. "Ruby and The Rockits" is an ABC Studios half-hour comedy series executive-produced by Shaun Cassidy ("Invasion") and Marsh McCall ("Carpoolers"). "Ruby and The Rockits" follows Patrick Gallagher, a former teen idol who has chosen to lead a quiet life with his wife and two sons. But when his former Rockits band mate and brother, David, shows up unexpectedly with his new-found teenage daughter in tow, the Gallagher family's life becomes anything but normal. David, who refuses to give up his past glory days, comes to Patrick for help raising Ruby while he continues to perform.
- 2/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
ABC Family has set up its new lineup.
Following the success of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the cable network has picked up three new female-oriented series, comedies "Ruby and the Rockits" and "10 Things I Hate About You" and drama "Perfect 10." All three have received 10-episode orders.
Additionally, ABC Family has renewed college dramedy "Greek" for a third season and black family drama "Lincoln Heights" for a fourth season with 10-episode pickups, while canceling 3-year-old sci-fi mystery "Kyle Xy."
Pending is the renewal of smash hit "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the size of whose order is still being determined.
Based on the feature of the same name, "10 Things I Hate About You" is a single-camera comedy about the Stratford sisters -- the strong-willed Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and social butterfly Bianca (Meaghan Jette Martin).
Carter Covington penned and exec produces the series, whose pilot was directed by the film's helmer,...
Following the success of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the cable network has picked up three new female-oriented series, comedies "Ruby and the Rockits" and "10 Things I Hate About You" and drama "Perfect 10." All three have received 10-episode orders.
Additionally, ABC Family has renewed college dramedy "Greek" for a third season and black family drama "Lincoln Heights" for a fourth season with 10-episode pickups, while canceling 3-year-old sci-fi mystery "Kyle Xy."
Pending is the renewal of smash hit "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the size of whose order is still being determined.
Based on the feature of the same name, "10 Things I Hate About You" is a single-camera comedy about the Stratford sisters -- the strong-willed Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and social butterfly Bianca (Meaghan Jette Martin).
Carter Covington penned and exec produces the series, whose pilot was directed by the film's helmer,...
- 1/31/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 1999 American romantic comedy film, "10 Things I Hate About You" is picked up by ABC Family to be produced into TV series along with the comedy "Ruby and the Rockits". The American cable television network has announced that it will make two half-hour pilots of the two series to join the ABC Family program. Filming in Los Angeles, both pilots will go into production this fall.
The movie's director of "10 Things", Gil Junger, will also shoot the pilot, which is written and executive produced by Carter Covington. The series will focus more on sisters Kate and Bianca Stratford in facing their new high school environment. "10 Things" is based on the Heath Ledger romantic comedy film which was also starred by Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film itself was based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".
"Ruby" is a multi-camera comedy starring David Cassidy and "Spy Kids" star Alexa Vega as Ruby.
The movie's director of "10 Things", Gil Junger, will also shoot the pilot, which is written and executive produced by Carter Covington. The series will focus more on sisters Kate and Bianca Stratford in facing their new high school environment. "10 Things" is based on the Heath Ledger romantic comedy film which was also starred by Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film itself was based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".
"Ruby" is a multi-camera comedy starring David Cassidy and "Spy Kids" star Alexa Vega as Ruby.
- 10/9/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
ABC Family has picked up two half-hour pilots -- "10 Things I Hate About You," based on the film, and "Ruby and the Rockits," starring Alexa Vega -- and greenlighted an original movie with Joey Lawrence and Melissa Joan Hart.
Gil Junger, who directed the "10 Things" feature, is on board to direct the single-camera pilot as well as the untitled movie.
"10 Things," written and exec produced by Carter Covington (ABC Family's "Greek"), revolves around two sisters -- a strong-willed feminist and a social butterfly -- facing the challenges of starting out in a new high school. The series is from Prodco Inc.
"Ruby," from ABC Studios and exec producers Shaun Cassidy ("Invasion") and Marsh McCall ("Carpoolers"), is a multicamera comedy about a former teen idol whose quiet life is disrupted when his brother and former bandmate shows up with a newfound teenage daughter. "Ruby," directed by Ted Wass, was written by Cassidy and Ed Yeager,...
Gil Junger, who directed the "10 Things" feature, is on board to direct the single-camera pilot as well as the untitled movie.
"10 Things," written and exec produced by Carter Covington (ABC Family's "Greek"), revolves around two sisters -- a strong-willed feminist and a social butterfly -- facing the challenges of starting out in a new high school. The series is from Prodco Inc.
"Ruby," from ABC Studios and exec producers Shaun Cassidy ("Invasion") and Marsh McCall ("Carpoolers"), is a multicamera comedy about a former teen idol whose quiet life is disrupted when his brother and former bandmate shows up with a newfound teenage daughter. "Ruby," directed by Ted Wass, was written by Cassidy and Ed Yeager,...
- 10/9/2008
- by By Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marsh McCall has been tapped to serve as executive producer/showrunner on ABC's upcoming comedy series Carpoolers, from ABC TV Studio.
McCall's assignment on Carpoolers stems from his overall deal with ABC TV Studio, which produces the show with DreamWorks TV and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Carpoolers follows the lives of four men (Fred Goss, Jerry Minor, Jerry O'Connell, Tim Peper) who carpool to work together each day.
On the series, McCall will serve as an executive producer alongside creator Bruce McCulloch, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and David Miner.
McCall most recently created and executive produced the short-lived NBC comedy series Twenty Good Years, from Warner Bros. TV and Werner-Gold-Miller.
His series credits also include Just Shoot Me, My Big Fat Greek Life and Modern Men.
He is repped by CAA.
McCall's assignment on Carpoolers stems from his overall deal with ABC TV Studio, which produces the show with DreamWorks TV and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Carpoolers follows the lives of four men (Fred Goss, Jerry Minor, Jerry O'Connell, Tim Peper) who carpool to work together each day.
On the series, McCall will serve as an executive producer alongside creator Bruce McCulloch, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and David Miner.
McCall most recently created and executive produced the short-lived NBC comedy series Twenty Good Years, from Warner Bros. TV and Werner-Gold-Miller.
His series credits also include Just Shoot Me, My Big Fat Greek Life and Modern Men.
He is repped by CAA.
- 5/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hot off his stint on 24, Sean Astin is in negotiations to star in ABC's comedy pilot The Guys. Meanwhile, Jennifer Esposito has been tapped as the lead in Fox's comedy pilot More, Patience, Lindsay Sloane has landed the female lead opposite Nick Lachey in the CW comedy pilot "She Said/He Said," Roger Bart has joined Tom Cavanagh in CBS' comedy pilot My Ex-Life, Emmy winner Cloris Leachman has been added to the cast of NBC's untitled Chris Sheridan comedy pilot, and Paul Michael Glaser has been cast in Fox's drama pilot Faceless. In other pilot news, Marsh McCall has come aboard NBC's comedy pilot Twenty Good Years as executive producer/showrunner.
Hot off his stint on 24, Sean Astin is in negotiations to star in ABC's comedy pilot The Guys. Meanwhile, Jennifer Esposito has been tapped as the lead in Fox's comedy pilot More, Patience, Lindsay Sloane has landed the female lead opposite Nick Lachey in the CW comedy pilot She Said/He Said, Roger Bart has joined Tom Cavanagh in CBS' comedy pilot My Ex-Life, Emmy winner Cloris Leachman has been added to the cast of NBC's untitled Chris Sheridan comedy pilot, and Paul Michael Glaser has been cast in Fox's drama pilot Faceless. In other pilot news, Marsh McCall has come aboard NBC's comedy pilot Twenty Good Years as executive producer/showrunner.
In the last major casting of the pilot season, Jonathan Pryce has been tapped to star in CBS' untitled Marsh McCall comedy pilot. Meanwhile, Mehcad Brooks is set to join the cast of ABC's hit dramedy Desperate Housewives as a potential regular, and Richard Ruccolo has come aboard UPN's comedy pilot Talk Show Diaries. The Marsh McCall project, from WBTV and Jerry Bruckheimer TV, revolves around three adult siblings (Jonathan Silverman, Reid Scott, Katherine Waterston) who rally to support their eccentric professor father (Pryce).
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seth Green has been tapped to star in NBC's comedy pilot Four Kings with Kiele Sanchez also cast in the project. Meanwhile, Joey Lawrence, Kim Fields and Charles Duckworth have joined Bow Wow in the WB Network's comedy pilot Bow, Katherine Waterston has landed one of the leads in CBS' untitled Marsh McCall comedy pilot, and Kel Mitchell has joined AJ Calloway in UPN's comedy The Show With AJ Calloway. Four Kings, from Warner Bros. TV, revolves around four friends in New York who are best friends from childhood. Green will play one of them, an annoyed malcontent. Green's casting in the project, written and executive produced by Will & Grace creators/exec producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and to be directed by Will & Grace director/exec producer James Burrows, comes on the heels of Green working with the trio on an upcoming episode of the long-running NBC comedy, in which he will guest star.
Claire Forlani has been tapped to star opposite John Leguizamo in CBS' untitled Diamond-Weisman drama pilot, with Craig Bierko and Michael Pena also cast in the project. In other pilot casting news, Heather Paige Kent is set to star opposite Camryn Manheim in the WB Network's untitled Ranberg/Flett-Giordano comedy, John Michael Higgins has joined CBS' untitled Susie Essman comedy and Reid Scott has been cast as one of the leads in CBS' untitled Marsh McCall comedy. Meanwhile, Emily Rutherfurd is set to co-star opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus in CBS' comedy Old Christine, Luis Avalos has been added to NBC's comedy Early Bird and Desmond Harrington, Allison Quinn and Jerry Lambert have been cast in ABC's untitled Goss-Holly comedy.
- 3/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Leguizamo has been tapped to star in CBS' untitled Diamond-Weisman drama pilot, while Jenna Elfman has closed as the lead in CBS' comedy pilot Everything I Know About Men. In other comedy pilot casting news, Jonathan Silverman will star in CBS' untitled Marsh McCall project, Darren Ritchie has landed the male lead opposite Tiffani Thiessen in CBS' untitled Yuspa-Goldsmith comedy pilot, Melinda McGraw has landed a lead role on ABC's Neighbors, Geoff Pierson has joined NBC's All In, Kurt Fuller has come aboard ABC's Joint Custody and veteran Martin Mull has been cast in NBC's Thick and Thin. The untitled Diamond-Weisman project, from 20th Century TV and Paramount Network TV, revolves around working parents -- a sports agent dad (Leguizamo) and a magazine editor mom -- who juggle domestic responsibilities. Leguizamo and his manager, Jeff Golenberg, will serve as producers.
- 3/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hot off the success of Coach Carter, director Thomas Carter is going to direct and executive produce Fox's untitled wedding chapel drama pilot. Meanwhile, CBS has given the green light to two untitled comedy pilots, one from writer Marsh McCall and producer Jerry Bruckheimer and one to star comedian Susie Essman. The wedding chapel project, from Spelling TV, revolves around a brother and sister team who manage a one-stop-shopping Vegas wedding emporium, their complicated romantic relationships and the outrageous entanglements of their employees and clients. Carter will executive produce the pilot with Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and the project's writer, Jeffrey Lieber.
- 2/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a story that is sure to give hope to the army of aspiring screenwriters who dream of a glorious future while working as writers' assistants, Larry Reitzer, who has worked as assistant to writer-producer Marsh McCall for the past four years, has sold a pilot script to ABC. McCall is on board to supervise Reitzer through his Warner Bros. TV-based Marsh McCall Prods. The two are executive producing the project, which centers on a soft-spoken gay man who lives with his very not gay brother. WBTV is producing. McCall is keeping busy this development season. In addition to the Reitzer project, he is executive producing two comedies through WBTV and Bruckheimer TV that have receive put pilot commitments, one at CBS, which he is writing, and one at the WB, which is being written by his brother Ross McCall and Aaron Peters (HR 10/21). Reitzer and McCall are repped by CAA.
- 12/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As part of its push in the comedy genre, drama series powerhouse Jerry Bruckheimer TV has set up a half-hour at CBS. In a competitive situation, the eye network has given a put pilot commitment to the project from writer-producer Marsh McCall, JBT and Warner Bros. Television. The show, to be written by McCall, revolves around three adult siblings who have grown apart but have to get close again when their mother leaves their absent-minded professor father and they have to share custody of him. "When you're a kid, your family is your life; when you're an adult, suddenly your life is your life," McCall said. "That is the show, it's about these three siblings. Their lives have become their lives, and now they have to become a family again." McCall will executive produce the still untitled comedy with Bruckheimer and JBT's Jonathan Littman.
- 10/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emmy winner Kirstie Alley is in final negotiations to star opposite Ricki Lake in CBS' untitled Staley/Long comedy pilot, while another Emmy-winning Cheers leading lady, Shelley Long, has joined NBC's untitled Marsh McCall comedy pilot. Meanwhile, Keith Carradine has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Savages, Steve Hytner has landed a lead role in NBC's comedy pilot D.O.T.S., and Sam Page has nabbed the male lead in Fox's drama pilot Point Pleasant. The untitled Staley/Long comedy, from Paramount Network TV, centers on a young widow (Lake) and her mom (Alley), who are raising the widow's two sons after the death of her policeman husband while running a bar frequented by cops.
- 3/31/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After weeks of on-again, off-again talks, Gary Sinise has signed on to star in CBS' new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series CSI: New York. In other pilot casting news, multiple Emmy winner Ed Asner has come on board CBS' comedy pilot Center of the Universe; Lucy Davis, star of the BBC's acclaimed comedy The Office, has been tapped to co-star in CBS' untitled Aisha Tyler comedy pilot; Anna Deavere Smith has been cast in CBS' drama pilot Numbers; French Stewart has joined ABC's comedy The Furst Family; and Greg Pitts has been cast in NBC's untitled Marsh McCall comedy pilot. In his first foray into series television, Sinise will play a crime-scene investigator who leads a team of CSIs in the Big Apple. Sources pegged the Emmy-winning actor's salary to $120,000-$150,000 an episode.
- 3/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox has greenlighted two comedy pilots from comedians Chris Rock and Steve Martin, while CBS has picked up the comedy pilot Taste. On the pilot casting front, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Somerhalder, Jorge Garcia and Evangeline Lilly have been cast in J.J. Abrams' drama Lost for ABC, Mykelti Williamson is close to joining ABC's drama The Secret Service, Marisa Coughlan has been tapped as the lead in ABC's Kat Plus One, Mitch Rouse has been tapped as a lead in NBC's untitled Marsh McCall comedy, and Andy Richter has been cast in Fox's untitled Mark Reisman comedy. The untitled Chris Rock project, from 20th Century Fox TV and the studio-based TV division of 3 Arts Entertainment, is described as an autobiographical coming-of-age comedy loosely based on Rock's experience growing up "on the nicest block in the ghetto." Rock penned the script with Saladin Patterson and Ali Leroi. The three are exec producing with 3 Arts' Michael Rotenberg and Dave Becky.
David Krumholtz has been tapped as the lead in CBS' drama pilot Numbers, Enrico Colantoni has been cast as the male lead in UPN's drama pilot Veronica Mars, and Tom Conti has been tapped to star in NBC's untitled Marsh McCall comedy pilot. In other drama pilot casting news, Liz Vassey and Christina Cox have been cast as Nikki & Nora in the UPN project, Rachel Nichols has landed the lead in Fox's untitled Katherine Bigelow/Kessler brothers pilot, A.J. Langer has joined the cast of ABC's Eyes, and Jennifer Morrison has come on board Fox's untitled Paul Attanasio/David Shore pilot. In pilot pickup news, ABC has given a pilot presentation order to an untitled Victor Fresco comedy from Paramount Network TV. The workplace sitcom, set in a high school, will star cantankerous comedian Lewis Black as the school principal. Fresco is the writer/executive producer. Numbers, from Paramount Network TV and Scott Free Prods., centers on a mathematician from MIT (Krumholtz) who is recruited by the FBI to help solve crimes.
- 2/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thursday was a busy day at ABC, which picked up six comedy pilots: First Family; Thank God It's Monday, an untitled show starring Jessica Simpson from Touchstone TV; The Savages, from Universal Network TV; an untitled project from 20th Century Fox TV starring John Stamos; and an untitled show from producer Marsh McCall and Warner Bros. TV. Meanwhile, Fox gave a cast-contingent pilot order to an untitled project from writer-producer Michael Jacobs, Sony Pictures TV and Jersey TV.
- 2/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ABC has picked up three drama pilots -- 43 Minutes, 111 Gramercy Park and Eyes -- while NBC has given the green light to three comedy pilots from Rob Reiner, Paul Reiser and Marsh McCall. 43 Minutes, from brothers Graham and Christopher Yost, follows in real time a SWAT team's efforts during the last 43 minutes of a major crisis. The Touchstone TV/FremantleMedia project is executive produced by Graham Yost and Marla Ginsburg.
- 1/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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