In today’s TV news roundup, Bet Plus has announced the premiere date of “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless” and Usher has joined new series “The Sauce” on Quibi.
Dates
Bet Plus has announced “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless” will premiere March 19. The new original drama from Tyler Perry is a spinoff of the television series “Tyler Perry’s The Oval,” and follows the story of a woman, Ruth, who kidnaps her young daughter to join her in the underworld of a religious cult. The drama stars Melissa L. Williams, Matt Cedeño, Lenny D. Thomas, Yvonne Senat Charles, Herve Clermont, Anthony Bless and Bobbi Baker. “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless” is executive produced, written and directed by Perry. Michelle Sneed also serves as executive producer of the series for Tyler Perry Studios.
Fox has announced “Remain Seated” will premiere on April 7. The show is Larry the Cable Guy‘s first solo stand-up comedy special in over a decade.
Dates
Bet Plus has announced “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless” will premiere March 19. The new original drama from Tyler Perry is a spinoff of the television series “Tyler Perry’s The Oval,” and follows the story of a woman, Ruth, who kidnaps her young daughter to join her in the underworld of a religious cult. The drama stars Melissa L. Williams, Matt Cedeño, Lenny D. Thomas, Yvonne Senat Charles, Herve Clermont, Anthony Bless and Bobbi Baker. “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless” is executive produced, written and directed by Perry. Michelle Sneed also serves as executive producer of the series for Tyler Perry Studios.
Fox has announced “Remain Seated” will premiere on April 7. The show is Larry the Cable Guy‘s first solo stand-up comedy special in over a decade.
- 3/3/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has set April 10 for the premiere of Brews Brothers, its new comedy series from brothers Greg Schaffer and The League creator Jeff Schaffer.
Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black) and Mike Castle star as estranged brothers Wilhelm (Aisenberg) and Adam Rodman (Castle), who find themselves running a brewery together. Each one is a beer genius… a braumeister, but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. A lot of times in a show you see two people who complete each other. These two don’t even make a full person.
Carmen Flood and Marques Ray also star. Greg Schaffer serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer. Jeff Schaffer, Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn serve as executive producers.
Check out a few first-look photos below.
Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black) and Mike Castle star as estranged brothers Wilhelm (Aisenberg) and Adam Rodman (Castle), who find themselves running a brewery together. Each one is a beer genius… a braumeister, but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. A lot of times in a show you see two people who complete each other. These two don’t even make a full person.
Carmen Flood and Marques Ray also star. Greg Schaffer serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer. Jeff Schaffer, Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn serve as executive producers.
Check out a few first-look photos below.
- 3/3/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has put in an eight-episode order of “Brews Brothers,” a comedy series from creative sibling team Greg Schaffer and Jeff Schaffer.
The show follows estranged brothers Wilhelm and Adam Rodman, who wind up running a brewery together. According to Netflix, each is a “beer genius … but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. A lot of times in a show you see two people who complete each other. These two don’t even make a full person.”
Alan Aisenberg and Mike Castle will play Wilhelm and Adam, respectively. Carmen Flood has been tapped to play Sarah, while Marques Ray will play Chuy.
Greg Schaffer of “That 70’s Show,” “Notes From the Underbelly” and “Lab Rats” will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer.
“The League” creator Jeff Schaffer — of “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the upcoming Lil Dicky comedy series on FX — will executive...
The show follows estranged brothers Wilhelm and Adam Rodman, who wind up running a brewery together. According to Netflix, each is a “beer genius … but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. A lot of times in a show you see two people who complete each other. These two don’t even make a full person.”
Alan Aisenberg and Mike Castle will play Wilhelm and Adam, respectively. Carmen Flood has been tapped to play Sarah, while Marques Ray will play Chuy.
Greg Schaffer of “That 70’s Show,” “Notes From the Underbelly” and “Lab Rats” will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer.
“The League” creator Jeff Schaffer — of “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the upcoming Lil Dicky comedy series on FX — will executive...
- 8/23/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Brews Brothers, a new comedy series from brothers Greg Schaffer and The League creator Jeff Schaffer, with Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black) and Mike Castle set to star.
Written by Greg Schaffer, Brews Brothers follows estranged brothers, Wilhelm and Adam Rodman (Aisenberg and Castle) who find themselves running a brewery together. Each one is a beer genius — a braumeister — but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. Carmen Flood and Marques Ray round out the cast as Sarah and Chuy, respectively.
Greg Schaffer serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jeff Schaffer, Jonathan Stern, and Keith Quinn (Rob Riggle’s Ski-Master Academy).
Greg Schaffer served as consulting producer on Lab Rats and supervising producer on...
Written by Greg Schaffer, Brews Brothers follows estranged brothers, Wilhelm and Adam Rodman (Aisenberg and Castle) who find themselves running a brewery together. Each one is a beer genius — a braumeister — but they couldn’t be more different in their beer-making techniques and personalities. Carmen Flood and Marques Ray round out the cast as Sarah and Chuy, respectively.
Greg Schaffer serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jeff Schaffer, Jonathan Stern, and Keith Quinn (Rob Riggle’s Ski-Master Academy).
Greg Schaffer served as consulting producer on Lab Rats and supervising producer on...
- 8/23/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Veep” Season 7, Episode 7, “Veep” — the series finale.]
In the end, President Selina Meyer did the impossible. It wasn’t that the power-hungry politician managed to recapture the White House (for one unsuccessful term), but how she managed to wreak more havoc than Drogon in doing so. In the final season, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ ex-vp showed her true colors, eviscerating everything and everyone around her; just when it felt like even Selina wouldn’t stoop that low, she found a new bottom — again and again again… until Gary.
Poignant yet unflinching, hilarious and heartbreaking, the series finale of “Veep,” written and directed by David Mandel, sees Armando Iannucci’s original intent through to the bitter end: The American political system is a bloody mess made bloodier by the self-serving “public servants” at its center. Years of roasting them over a spit has only appeared to make them stronger, but the intent of such vicious satire is change rather than...
In the end, President Selina Meyer did the impossible. It wasn’t that the power-hungry politician managed to recapture the White House (for one unsuccessful term), but how she managed to wreak more havoc than Drogon in doing so. In the final season, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ ex-vp showed her true colors, eviscerating everything and everyone around her; just when it felt like even Selina wouldn’t stoop that low, she found a new bottom — again and again again… until Gary.
Poignant yet unflinching, hilarious and heartbreaking, the series finale of “Veep,” written and directed by David Mandel, sees Armando Iannucci’s original intent through to the bitter end: The American political system is a bloody mess made bloodier by the self-serving “public servants” at its center. Years of roasting them over a spit has only appeared to make them stronger, but the intent of such vicious satire is change rather than...
- 5/13/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Veep wrapped up its seven-season run on Sunday by installing a new person in the Oval Office — but was it a woman who’s already been there before?
We start at the convention, where no candidate — Selina included — receives the delegates necessary to secure the nomination outright. Selina hits the ground running to drum up delegates on the second ballot, refusing to take on Kemi as her running mate and laughing off Amy’s offer of a shared ticket with Jonah. But when she accidentally breaks North Carolina’s transgender bathroom ban by ducking into the wrong door, that drives...
We start at the convention, where no candidate — Selina included — receives the delegates necessary to secure the nomination outright. Selina hits the ground running to drum up delegates on the second ballot, refusing to take on Kemi as her running mate and laughing off Amy’s offer of a shared ticket with Jonah. But when she accidentally breaks North Carolina’s transgender bathroom ban by ducking into the wrong door, that drives...
- 5/13/2019
- TVLine.com
President Selina Meyer leaves a legacy of political fallout as Veep ends an era of satiric genius.
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 7
Veep season 7, episode 7, "Veep," finishes out the term of President Selina Meyer with a frightening message. Everyone who even thinks about getting into politics is horrible but it is only the truly heinous who claim the top prize. Washington has never been played so openly dirty and with such eternal immediacy. The political cycle moves very fast and a lot of satirical work gets washed over by reality, but Veep has always been able to veer far enough into the netherworld to remain shocking and effective. This season life caught up with art and the imitations blurred into allegorical genius of comically nightmarish proportions.
HBO has a history of making anti-heroes into beloved figures going back at least to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. Everyone...
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 7
Veep season 7, episode 7, "Veep," finishes out the term of President Selina Meyer with a frightening message. Everyone who even thinks about getting into politics is horrible but it is only the truly heinous who claim the top prize. Washington has never been played so openly dirty and with such eternal immediacy. The political cycle moves very fast and a lot of satirical work gets washed over by reality, but Veep has always been able to veer far enough into the netherworld to remain shocking and effective. This season life caught up with art and the imitations blurred into allegorical genius of comically nightmarish proportions.
HBO has a history of making anti-heroes into beloved figures going back at least to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. Everyone...
- 5/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Selina Meyers gets no peace from the campaign trail in international waters as Veep Season 7, episode 6, brings her to "Oslo."
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 6
Having laid waste to most of the American political climate, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is off to Europe to sully the good name of the Nobel Peace Prize in Veep season 7, Episode 6, "Oslo." Selina is at the Nobel Summit Awards in Oslo, Norway. She's not exactly getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but a summit award from the world summit of peace laureates, the Nobel Peace Prize Junior.
The Nobel Peace Prize, created by an arms manufacturer, is an almost sacrosanct honor. Luckily nothing is sacred to Veep, which seats murderous dictators at the better tables than Tibetan monks and treats the reception like a flea market for political favors. Murman Shalikashvili (Eugene Alper), who won the country of Georgia's first democratic election...
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 6
Having laid waste to most of the American political climate, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is off to Europe to sully the good name of the Nobel Peace Prize in Veep season 7, Episode 6, "Oslo." Selina is at the Nobel Summit Awards in Oslo, Norway. She's not exactly getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but a summit award from the world summit of peace laureates, the Nobel Peace Prize Junior.
The Nobel Peace Prize, created by an arms manufacturer, is an almost sacrosanct honor. Luckily nothing is sacred to Veep, which seats murderous dictators at the better tables than Tibetan monks and treats the reception like a flea market for political favors. Murman Shalikashvili (Eugene Alper), who won the country of Georgia's first democratic election...
- 5/4/2019
- Den of Geek
Politics hits a new low as Veep hits a new high as Selina Meyer gets ready for Super Tuesday.
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 5
On last week's Veep, Selina Meyer began what looked like the start of a trip down a slippery slope of ethical malfeasance. In episode 5, she jumps on a greased fireman's pole, and not in a good, erotic way. "Super Tuesday" is political satire at its best and most savage. Seinfeld, the series which Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David transform TV comedy in, ended with the main characters imprisoned for criminal disregard. I wonder if Selina will end this series campaigning in an orange jumpsuit for chief of C-Block. I can only hope Jerry himself is appointed special council.
The political system is designed to favor wealthy and well-connected candidates, and corruption is the best way to buy goodwill, from both donors and voters.
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep Season 7 Episode 5
On last week's Veep, Selina Meyer began what looked like the start of a trip down a slippery slope of ethical malfeasance. In episode 5, she jumps on a greased fireman's pole, and not in a good, erotic way. "Super Tuesday" is political satire at its best and most savage. Seinfeld, the series which Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David transform TV comedy in, ended with the main characters imprisoned for criminal disregard. I wonder if Selina will end this series campaigning in an orange jumpsuit for chief of C-Block. I can only hope Jerry himself is appointed special council.
The political system is designed to favor wealthy and well-connected candidates, and corruption is the best way to buy goodwill, from both donors and voters.
- 4/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Selina braves the many cedars of Iowa in Veep's season 7 premiere.
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep: Season 7 Episode 1
Veep season 7 episode 1, "Iowa," establishes the kind of campaign Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) will be running on her fight back to the top spot in Washington. The former president and probable presidential hopeful is flying in to meet the people who will put her in the oval office. Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan Eagan (Reid Scott) have them all assembled on the tarmac at the Cedar Rapids airport. Selina deplanes to empty space at Cedar Falls. Nothing taxis in to Cedar Rapids. The big moment is blown because of the overabundance of cedars in Iowa, the state which chooses who runs. The screw-up defines the season, the staff, its boss and somehow the American way. The team hit the road promising a “New. Selina. Now" and got back the same old Selina,...
This Veep review contains spoilers.
Veep: Season 7 Episode 1
Veep season 7 episode 1, "Iowa," establishes the kind of campaign Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) will be running on her fight back to the top spot in Washington. The former president and probable presidential hopeful is flying in to meet the people who will put her in the oval office. Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan Eagan (Reid Scott) have them all assembled on the tarmac at the Cedar Rapids airport. Selina deplanes to empty space at Cedar Falls. Nothing taxis in to Cedar Rapids. The big moment is blown because of the overabundance of cedars in Iowa, the state which chooses who runs. The screw-up defines the season, the staff, its boss and somehow the American way. The team hit the road promising a “New. Selina. Now" and got back the same old Selina,...
- 3/29/2019
- Den of Geek
Britt Baron (Glow), Eliza Coupe (Future Man, Scrubs), Billy Merritt (Happy Endings), Dave (Gruber) Allen (Love), Alison Rich (The Goldbergs), Carl Tart (Comedy Bang! Bang!), Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks) and Rizwan Manji (Mr. Robot) have rounded out the ensemble cast of Crackle’s Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy, which has begun production in Malibu.
In the eight-episode series, Riggle, who is mostly known for his legendary ski master movies, has invested all of his money and reputation into an Academy celebrating America’s truest art form – personal watercraft riding. Rob, his legendary stunt man commandant Dirk Hamsteak (Merritt) and their entire staff of instructors spend a semester defending their beloved Academy at all costs. No matter how many people criticize it… go missing…or die!
Character descriptions are as follows:
Rob Riggle (Riggle), a brash, partying, self-proclaimed megastar prone to impulsive decisions and foolish investments. His latest venture...
In the eight-episode series, Riggle, who is mostly known for his legendary ski master movies, has invested all of his money and reputation into an Academy celebrating America’s truest art form – personal watercraft riding. Rob, his legendary stunt man commandant Dirk Hamsteak (Merritt) and their entire staff of instructors spend a semester defending their beloved Academy at all costs. No matter how many people criticize it… go missing…or die!
Character descriptions are as follows:
Rob Riggle (Riggle), a brash, partying, self-proclaimed megastar prone to impulsive decisions and foolish investments. His latest venture...
- 3/29/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Chris Colfer is conjuring up the perfect role for his return to television.
The former Glee star, along with Sonar Entertainment, is developing Indigo, a sci-fi drama about “indigo children” who are misdiagnosed as having mental or physical illnesses — when they really possess supernatural abilities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (Naturally, baddies will arise who intend to use the children’s powers for their own dark purposes.)
VideosGlee‘s Ryan Murphy Reveals His Least Favorite Performance — Watch It!
In addition to starring in the project — which will be shopped around to broadcast networks, cable channels and streaming services — Colfer...
The former Glee star, along with Sonar Entertainment, is developing Indigo, a sci-fi drama about “indigo children” who are misdiagnosed as having mental or physical illnesses — when they really possess supernatural abilities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (Naturally, baddies will arise who intend to use the children’s powers for their own dark purposes.)
VideosGlee‘s Ryan Murphy Reveals His Least Favorite Performance — Watch It!
In addition to starring in the project — which will be shopped around to broadcast networks, cable channels and streaming services — Colfer...
- 2/16/2017
- TVLine.com
Since Burning Love burst onto Yahoo in 2012, Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn have served as executive producers for some of the web’s funniest shows, including Hulu’s Hotwives, Fullscreen’s Filthy Preppy Teen$, and the video on-demand special Beef. These shows have often featured the same comic actors within their respective casts, and two of those stars -- Rob Huebel (Human Giant) and Paul Scheer (The League) -- are the co-creators of Stern and Quinn’s latest concoction, a Go90 series called Drive Share.
Drive Share takes places within the cars-for-hire of a fictional ridesharing app called Drvshr. While that in itself is not the most novel idea for a web series, Drive Share manages to be particularly funny by adopting a “semi-scripted” approach and letting the skills of its talented cast members shine through. The first episode, for example, features Huebel, Love’s Claudia O’Doherty, and several...
Drive Share takes places within the cars-for-hire of a fictional ridesharing app called Drvshr. While that in itself is not the most novel idea for a web series, Drive Share manages to be particularly funny by adopting a “semi-scripted” approach and letting the skills of its talented cast members shine through. The first episode, for example, features Huebel, Love’s Claudia O’Doherty, and several...
- 1/31/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Digital TV studio Insurrection Media has ordered ridesharing comedy Drive Share, created by and starring Rob Huebel (Childrens Hospital) and Paul Scheer (The League) for premiere later this year. The series will have a U.S. exclusive first window on Seriously.tv, Verizon Hearst Media Partners' new millennial-focused multiplatform digital video channel. Burning Love duo Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn executive produce under their comedy pod deal with Insurrection Media…...
- 6/20/2016
- Deadline TV
On the heels of a comedy pod deal with Burning Love duo Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn, Insurrection Media has inked a sci-fi pod deal with Robert Kirkman and David Alpert’s Skybound Entertainment. Under the pact, Insurrection will provide resources and support for Skybound to develop, and produce genre series that Insurrection will distribute in the U.S. and overseas on digital and linear platforms. Skybound will oversee production services and collaborate on licensing…...
- 11/9/2015
- Deadline TV
In July, former Fox exec Kiliaen Van Rensselaer launched Insurrection Media, a studio that plans to release TV-quality content on digital platforms. Now, two months later, Insurrection has brokered a first-look deal with a pair of talented producers. It has announced a multi-year pact with Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn, co-producers of the hit 2012 web series Burning Love.
As part of the deal, Stern and Quinn will produce multiple series, which Insurrection will distribute across digital and over-the-top platforms. In doing so, the two producers will continue their partnership with van Rensselaer. Back when van Resselear was still at Fox, he teamed with Stern and Quinn for Filthy Sexy Teen$, a high school comedy that was picked up by Fullscreen earlier this year.
"The collaboration with Jon and Keith this past year reinforced my conviction that they are truly exceptional executive producers who have incredible instincts for finding daring, hilarious projects and nurturing creators,...
As part of the deal, Stern and Quinn will produce multiple series, which Insurrection will distribute across digital and over-the-top platforms. In doing so, the two producers will continue their partnership with van Rensselaer. Back when van Resselear was still at Fox, he teamed with Stern and Quinn for Filthy Sexy Teen$, a high school comedy that was picked up by Fullscreen earlier this year.
"The collaboration with Jon and Keith this past year reinforced my conviction that they are truly exceptional executive producers who have incredible instincts for finding daring, hilarious projects and nurturing creators,...
- 9/25/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Screen Australia has provided $170,000 funding for eight filmmakers to work as .attachments. on a range of screen projects..
The investment will help develop the skills, contacts and expertise of some of Australia.s gifted screen practitioners, and connect them into the local and international film industry.
Screen Australia senior development executive, Nerida Moore, said talent development was one of the most important aspects Screen Australia's work.
"It.s wonderful to be able to support it in a tangible and meaningful way," she said..
"This funding is very specific . it will enable particular people to work on projects that suit their unique talents and pathways..
"Film is a global industry and it.s important that we help Australian filmmakers find opportunities here and internationally. We look forward to seeing where these opportunities take them!.
Producer Michael Cody (Ruin, Hail) will work across the development, financing, production and distribution slate of Plan B Entertainment (The Departed,...
The investment will help develop the skills, contacts and expertise of some of Australia.s gifted screen practitioners, and connect them into the local and international film industry.
Screen Australia senior development executive, Nerida Moore, said talent development was one of the most important aspects Screen Australia's work.
"It.s wonderful to be able to support it in a tangible and meaningful way," she said..
"This funding is very specific . it will enable particular people to work on projects that suit their unique talents and pathways..
"Film is a global industry and it.s important that we help Australian filmmakers find opportunities here and internationally. We look forward to seeing where these opportunities take them!.
Producer Michael Cody (Ruin, Hail) will work across the development, financing, production and distribution slate of Plan B Entertainment (The Departed,...
- 7/30/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback, which she announced will be returning for a third season.
John Singleton is poised to be the next filmmaker to make the leap to television, as FX has picked up the pilot for Snowfall, a show co-created by Singleton. The press release had this summary of the series.
Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.
Singleton will also direct the pilot.
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The partnership between Fox and...
John Singleton is poised to be the next filmmaker to make the leap to television, as FX has picked up the pilot for Snowfall, a show co-created by Singleton. The press release had this summary of the series.
Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.
Singleton will also direct the pilot.
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The partnership between Fox and...
- 5/2/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
In 2014, Jonathan Stern and Keith Quinn--who both served as executives for the critically-acclaimed Yahoo web series Burning Love--teamed up with Fox for a first-look deal. Now, four comedy series born out of the partnership between Fox, Stern, and Quinn have been announced. Among other projects, the producing duo are planning Filthy Sexy Teen$, a salaciously-titled series that will premiere online via the Fullscreen network.
Filthy Sexy Teen$ will be produced through Stern's Abonimable Pictures, which in addition to Burning Love has produced two other reality TV parodies: The Hotwives of Orlando and Beef. In Teen$, "two wealthy teen siblings, thought to be lost at sea, return home and attempt to re-climb the high school social ladder," according to information from Fox.
Each of the eight episodes in Teen$'s first season will run for a half-hour. The series will make its North American debut via Fullscreen, which claims...
Filthy Sexy Teen$ will be produced through Stern's Abonimable Pictures, which in addition to Burning Love has produced two other reality TV parodies: The Hotwives of Orlando and Beef. In Teen$, "two wealthy teen siblings, thought to be lost at sea, return home and attempt to re-climb the high school social ladder," according to information from Fox.
Each of the eight episodes in Teen$'s first season will run for a half-hour. The series will make its North American debut via Fullscreen, which claims...
- 4/27/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Fox, in collaboration with “Burning Love” duo Keith Quinn and Jonathan Stern, unveiled the first few projects from their comedy development venture. The projects, executive-produced by Stern and Quinn via Stern’s Abominable Pictures, include half-hour comedy “Filthy Sexy Teen$,” which received an eight-episode order from Fullscreen. “We are pleased to announce this first slate of projects, which are a direct result of the unique creative freedom and flexibility of this venture,” said Quinn and Stern. “The talented creators we are working with see the benefit in being able to shoot something right away without a long development process. A finished piece often represents.
- 4/27/2015
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Continuing to look outside the traditional TV development process, Fox Broadcasting Co. has inked a first-look deal with Burning Love producer Jonathan Stern and executive/producer Keith Quinn. Under the pact, Fox will have first-look rights to comedy projects developed by Stern and Quinn that are suitable for development on digital platforms, such as Hulu and Roku, with the eventual goal of becoming TV series on Fox, FX, Fxx or other networks. Additionally, Stern and Quinn will provide distribution and producing services (via Stern’s Abominable Pictures) for select projects that The Lonely Island develop under their deal with Fox. “Jon and Keith have a proven track record of making outrageous digital comedy series that have graduated to successful on-air shows,” said Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Svp of Multi-Platform Programming for Fox. Stern and Quinn’s collaboration began when Stern pitched Burning Love to Quinn at Paramount – the series, executive-produced by Stern,...
- 5/20/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Fox Broadcasting Company has entered into an alternative comedy production partnership with producer Jonathan Stern (“Childrens Hospital”) and executive and producer Keith Quinn (Paramount). Through the arrangement, Fox Multi-Platform Programming will have first-look rights to comedy projects developed by Stern and Quinn to be incubated through digital platforms to become full series on Fox, FX, Fxx or other networks. See video: Watch Fox's New Series First Look Trailers: ‘Gotham,’ ‘Gracepoint,’ More Stern and Quinn will also provide distribution and producing services (via Stern's Abominable Pictures) for select projects that the Lonely Island develops. The duo's collaboration began when Stern pitched...
- 5/20/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Former top execs at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's shingle have resurfaced at the helm of a new digital-minded production company.
Larry Tanz and Keith Quinn -- CEO and senior vp development and production, respectively, at LivePlanet -- will launch a yet-to-be-titled company with $7 million in venture-capital funding to produce online content.
Tanz and Quinn will be joined by a third principal, Scott Ehrlich, a digital-media veteran with stints at Real Networks, Rivals.com and News Corp.
The firm has begun making the rounds in Hollywood and beyond to seek out content deals but has yet to put specific projects in the pipeline. Tanz declined comment.
The venture joins a growing list of companies seeking to specialize in digital-content production, including 60 Frames, Deca and Generate.
Both Tanz and Quinn had been with LivePlanet since its launch in 2000; Tanz exited the company in January with the shuttering of its film division,...
Larry Tanz and Keith Quinn -- CEO and senior vp development and production, respectively, at LivePlanet -- will launch a yet-to-be-titled company with $7 million in venture-capital funding to produce online content.
Tanz and Quinn will be joined by a third principal, Scott Ehrlich, a digital-media veteran with stints at Real Networks, Rivals.com and News Corp.
The firm has begun making the rounds in Hollywood and beyond to seek out content deals but has yet to put specific projects in the pipeline. Tanz declined comment.
The venture joins a growing list of companies seeking to specialize in digital-content production, including 60 Frames, Deca and Generate.
Both Tanz and Quinn had been with LivePlanet since its launch in 2000; Tanz exited the company in January with the shuttering of its film division,...
- 9/28/2008
- by By Andrew Wallenstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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