ABC has put in development a multi-camera comedy co-written and toplined by young standup comedian Taylor Tomlinson, from The Real O’Neals‘ co-creators/executive producers Casey Johnson and David Windsor and co-executive producers Becky Mann and Audra Sielaff. The project hails from ABC Studios, which had landed the deal with Tomlinson in a competitive situation. Co-written by Tomlinson, Mann and Sielaff, the untitled comedy is inspired by Tomlinson’s life. It will focus…...
- 10/28/2017
- Deadline TV
ABC has put in development an untitled single-camera comedy from The Real O’Neals co-creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Johnson and Windsor, the project is about a woman at her tipping point who has her mad as hell moment and discovers something extraordinary about herself. This is the second sale this season for Johnson and Windsor under their ABC Studios overall deal. They also have an untitled multi-generational…...
- 10/12/2017
- Deadline TV
ABC has put in development a single-camera comedy from The Real O’Neals co-creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor and writer Rob Sudduth. Penned by Sudduth with Johnson and Windsor supervising, the untitled multi-generational family comedy follows a man who, along with his husband and son, moves back in with his Mexican-American family in the heart of Texas, where he struggles to navigate his family's deep-rooted traditions. The project is semi-autobiographical: Sudduth…...
- 8/28/2017
- Deadline TV
2017-06-19T07:33:21-07:00Mtv to Unite International Reality Stars in Social-Media Series
MTV International has greenlighted Single Af, a social-first format that will help celebrities find love.
It will play out across MTV's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat accounts over two weeks in June/July before leading into an on-air series in November. "Single Af will take celebrities on a live social quest for love around the world that fans can follow and weigh in on over social," the Viacom unit said. "The catch? The singles must be up for anything and willing to play the dating game ‘the MTV way'." Among the featured personalities are MTV's Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, Irish pop duo Jedward, MTV U.K.'s Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson, English YouTube star Elliot Crawford, Australian drag star Courtney and London boy band alum Casey Johnson.
Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.
MTV International has greenlighted Single Af, a social-first format that will help celebrities find love.
It will play out across MTV's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat accounts over two weeks in June/July before leading into an on-air series in November. "Single Af will take celebrities on a live social quest for love around the world that fans can follow and weigh in on over social," the Viacom unit said. "The catch? The singles must be up for anything and willing to play the dating game ‘the MTV way'." Among the featured personalities are MTV's Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, Irish pop duo Jedward, MTV U.K.'s Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson, English YouTube star Elliot Crawford, Australian drag star Courtney and London boy band alum Casey Johnson.
Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.
- 6/19/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
The Lottery alumna Marley Shelton is set for a key role opposite Josh Radnor in NBC drama pilot Drama High, from Friday Night Lights executive producer/showrunner Jason Katims and Jeffrey Seller, producer of the Broadway smash Hamilton. Also cast as a regular in the project is Casey Johnson (G.L.O.W.) Written by Katims, Drama High was inspired by the story of groundbreaking high school drama teacher Lou Volpe (Radnor) as chronicled in the book Drama High, written by one…...
- 3/13/2017
- Deadline TV
Contrary to widespread rumors, ABC didn’t threaten to cut the episode order for the second season of The Real O’Neals as punishment for controversial comments made by series star Noah Galvin. So said The Real O’Neals executive producer Casey Johnson today during ABC’s comedy showrunners TCA panel. Galvin drew widespread criticism over an interview published in June, in which he made disparaging statements about Colton Haynes and Bryan Singer, and complained about the…...
- 8/5/2016
- Deadline TV
“The Real O’Neals” showrunner Casey Johnson set the record straight on the aftermath of cast member Noah Galvin’s controversial interview in June. Specifically, the executive producer was asked about reports that ABC had threatened to cut the episode order of the sitcom’s second season. “That part of that story is not true. There wasn’t any threat to cut our order or anything like that,” Johnson said on the comedy showrunners panel at the Television Critic’s Association’s summer press tour in Beverly Hills Thursday. “ABC has been incredibly supportive.” Also Read: Alan Cumming, Constance Wu...
- 8/4/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
The producers of ABC’s The Real O’Neals are denying a report that ABC considered cutting the comedy’s Season 2 episode order as punishment for Noah Galvin’s incendiary Vulture interview, in which the gay actor accused Eric Stonestreet of “playing a caricature … of a stereotype” as Modern Family‘s Cam.
“That part of that story is not true,” maintained exec producer Casey Johnson at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Thursday. “There wasn’t any threat to cut our order or anything like that. ABC’s been incredibly supportive.”
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“That part of that story is not true,” maintained exec producer Casey Johnson at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Thursday. “There wasn’t any threat to cut our order or anything like that. ABC’s been incredibly supportive.”
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- 8/4/2016
- TVLine.com
Was it Godard or was it Truffaut who said “critics make the best directors”?
A film critic by trade and a poet in his heart, Brian D. Johnson began his film “Al Purdy Was Here” as a fundraising tool to save the A-frame cabin in the woods built by Canadian poet Al Purdy and his wife Eurithe. As making the film progressed, Johnson began to see much more in the film than merely a vehicle [piece] to raise money. “Al Purdy Was Here” soon evolved into something much greater, something deeply poetic by a writer who himself treasures poetry even as he critiques films….
Brian says, “It is about art and life and the fact that they are often in conflict as we try to make our lives. Poetry is my aim…finding poetry in cinema. But music was the reason I made the film.”
Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
The documentary features archival materials and first-hand accounts, including interviews with his publisher Howard White, editor Sam Solecki, widow Eurithe Purdy, poets Dennis Lee, Steven Heighton and George Bowering—and Bowering's wife Jean Baird, the powerhouse behind the campaign to save and restore Purdy's A-Frame cabin.
Read Indiewire for more about the movie here.
Gordon Pinsent (“Away from Her”), Michael Ondaatje (“The English Patient”), Leonard Cohen (“Natural Born Killers”), Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) all pay tribute to him along with other well known writers, actors, directors and singers who adapt his poetry.
This film premiered, naturally enough, at Tiff 2015 but I only caught up with it at Iff Panama this year because Brian – whom I met one year in Havana and loaned him $100 to pay his hotel bill -- was at Iff Panama where his film was screening. With him was our friend-in-common, Latinaphile, Helga Stephenson, so I tagged along as a friend to see a film about a person I had never heard of before. And I was entranced by what I saw.
Al Purdy was known to be a raucous, barroom brawling Canadian poet, something on a par with Charles Bukowski. In fact they were friends and corresponded extensively, but there is some question as to whether Purdy’s character as a barroom brawler was put on as his persona to help popularize his poetry. Was he actually such a rough person? His wife, Eurithe Purdy, who survived him and is featured in the movie said that at home he was quite a peaceable man (when he was not boozing it up with his pals). He was also a philosophical soul, enraptured by nature—Canada's Walt Whitman as well as its Bukowski.
Sl: How did you get these musicians?
I went to the pantheon of famous Canadian singer-songwriters and asked them to compose and record music inspired by Purdy's work. We paid engineers and musicians. But the artists licensed their songs to us for free, and in return they got to own the rights to the songs.
I got in touch with Neil Young through his brother. I loved Neil's music, and interviewed him for one of his films. Remember Neil Young: Heart of Gold directed by Jonathan Demme?
I sent Neil a Purdy poem called "My 48 Pontiac", written from the Pov of a car in a junk yard—knowing Neil loves old cars. He never did get around to recording an original number for us, but he loved the poem, and the project. So when we wanted to use "Journey Through the Past" (from Neil's 1971 Massey Hall concert album) on the soundtrack, he gave us the rights at no cost.
We selected half a dozen songs for the movie but commissioned and recorded six more, and we're assembling all of them on an album called "The Al Purdy Songbook".
Meanwhile, the film's score was composed by my son, Casey Johnson, who recorded it all with purely analog technology—in the spirit of Purdy's rough and raw esthetic.
The music played at a 2013 benefit concert to save Purdy's cabin in the woods become the impetus for me to make the movie. I remember leaving the show and telling the organizers, "The next thing you should do is an Al Purdy Songbook.") I didn't know I'd end up doing it myself. And as it turned out, it was the music that made the film possible. Musicians are more famous than poets. They have an audience. And this is a movie about a dead poet. How do you make a movie about a dead poet?
The music brings it to life . . . I suppose I could have made a zombie movie instead.
Sl: How did you cast the movie?
You get the most famous people lined up and then the rest follow. I’m friends with Michael Ondaatje. I know Margaret Atwood. I know Leonard Cohen. So I started there.
Sl: How did you finance the film?
The CBC Documentary Channel gave us 25% of the budget and that triggered the rest of the financing. The Rogers Documentary Fund and the Rogers Cable Fund became the other principal contributors.
But Ron Mann, who exec produced, got the ball rolling, and his company, Films We Like, came onboard as the Canadian distributor. We're still looking for international distribution.
The movie felt like a barn-raising, with everyone pitching in to help make it work.
Brian D. Johnson is former film critic for Maclean's, Canada's weekly newsmagazine, is the current president of the Toronto Film Critics Association. Over the years, he also worked as a musician and published poetry, a novel, and several works of non-fiction, including a 25th-anniversary history of Tiff, "Brave Films, Wild Nights, 25 Years of Festival Fever. "Al Purdy was Here” (2015) is his first feature documentary. Once again he'll be writing about film for Maclean's in May at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
A film critic by trade and a poet in his heart, Brian D. Johnson began his film “Al Purdy Was Here” as a fundraising tool to save the A-frame cabin in the woods built by Canadian poet Al Purdy and his wife Eurithe. As making the film progressed, Johnson began to see much more in the film than merely a vehicle [piece] to raise money. “Al Purdy Was Here” soon evolved into something much greater, something deeply poetic by a writer who himself treasures poetry even as he critiques films….
Brian says, “It is about art and life and the fact that they are often in conflict as we try to make our lives. Poetry is my aim…finding poetry in cinema. But music was the reason I made the film.”
Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
The documentary features archival materials and first-hand accounts, including interviews with his publisher Howard White, editor Sam Solecki, widow Eurithe Purdy, poets Dennis Lee, Steven Heighton and George Bowering—and Bowering's wife Jean Baird, the powerhouse behind the campaign to save and restore Purdy's A-Frame cabin.
Read Indiewire for more about the movie here.
Gordon Pinsent (“Away from Her”), Michael Ondaatje (“The English Patient”), Leonard Cohen (“Natural Born Killers”), Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) all pay tribute to him along with other well known writers, actors, directors and singers who adapt his poetry.
This film premiered, naturally enough, at Tiff 2015 but I only caught up with it at Iff Panama this year because Brian – whom I met one year in Havana and loaned him $100 to pay his hotel bill -- was at Iff Panama where his film was screening. With him was our friend-in-common, Latinaphile, Helga Stephenson, so I tagged along as a friend to see a film about a person I had never heard of before. And I was entranced by what I saw.
Al Purdy was known to be a raucous, barroom brawling Canadian poet, something on a par with Charles Bukowski. In fact they were friends and corresponded extensively, but there is some question as to whether Purdy’s character as a barroom brawler was put on as his persona to help popularize his poetry. Was he actually such a rough person? His wife, Eurithe Purdy, who survived him and is featured in the movie said that at home he was quite a peaceable man (when he was not boozing it up with his pals). He was also a philosophical soul, enraptured by nature—Canada's Walt Whitman as well as its Bukowski.
Sl: How did you get these musicians?
I went to the pantheon of famous Canadian singer-songwriters and asked them to compose and record music inspired by Purdy's work. We paid engineers and musicians. But the artists licensed their songs to us for free, and in return they got to own the rights to the songs.
I got in touch with Neil Young through his brother. I loved Neil's music, and interviewed him for one of his films. Remember Neil Young: Heart of Gold directed by Jonathan Demme?
I sent Neil a Purdy poem called "My 48 Pontiac", written from the Pov of a car in a junk yard—knowing Neil loves old cars. He never did get around to recording an original number for us, but he loved the poem, and the project. So when we wanted to use "Journey Through the Past" (from Neil's 1971 Massey Hall concert album) on the soundtrack, he gave us the rights at no cost.
We selected half a dozen songs for the movie but commissioned and recorded six more, and we're assembling all of them on an album called "The Al Purdy Songbook".
Meanwhile, the film's score was composed by my son, Casey Johnson, who recorded it all with purely analog technology—in the spirit of Purdy's rough and raw esthetic.
The music played at a 2013 benefit concert to save Purdy's cabin in the woods become the impetus for me to make the movie. I remember leaving the show and telling the organizers, "The next thing you should do is an Al Purdy Songbook.") I didn't know I'd end up doing it myself. And as it turned out, it was the music that made the film possible. Musicians are more famous than poets. They have an audience. And this is a movie about a dead poet. How do you make a movie about a dead poet?
The music brings it to life . . . I suppose I could have made a zombie movie instead.
Sl: How did you cast the movie?
You get the most famous people lined up and then the rest follow. I’m friends with Michael Ondaatje. I know Margaret Atwood. I know Leonard Cohen. So I started there.
Sl: How did you finance the film?
The CBC Documentary Channel gave us 25% of the budget and that triggered the rest of the financing. The Rogers Documentary Fund and the Rogers Cable Fund became the other principal contributors.
But Ron Mann, who exec produced, got the ball rolling, and his company, Films We Like, came onboard as the Canadian distributor. We're still looking for international distribution.
The movie felt like a barn-raising, with everyone pitching in to help make it work.
Brian D. Johnson is former film critic for Maclean's, Canada's weekly newsmagazine, is the current president of the Toronto Film Critics Association. Over the years, he also worked as a musician and published poetry, a novel, and several works of non-fiction, including a 25th-anniversary history of Tiff, "Brave Films, Wild Nights, 25 Years of Festival Fever. "Al Purdy was Here” (2015) is his first feature documentary. Once again he'll be writing about film for Maclean's in May at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
- 4/26/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Real O’Neals has an uphill battle on its hands, and it’s the same battle that has faced such shows as The Middle, and Martha Plimpton‘s last series, Raising Hope. Unfortunately, it’s the same battle that has also faced countless shows that you don’t remember, because most shows these days can’t overcome the degree of difficulty.
The problem these shows face is that they need a while to get going, and there’s nothing about the pilot that’s going to suck you in enough to demand that you not only watch, but pull your friends along as well.
As if the genre of television shows that are ultimately “hanging with a family” isn’t dated enough, and tricky enough to get off the ground, The Real O’Neals focuses on the irritating world of holier-than-thous, and puts them through the ringer.
Eileen (Plimpton...
The problem these shows face is that they need a while to get going, and there’s nothing about the pilot that’s going to suck you in enough to demand that you not only watch, but pull your friends along as well.
As if the genre of television shows that are ultimately “hanging with a family” isn’t dated enough, and tricky enough to get off the ground, The Real O’Neals focuses on the irritating world of holier-than-thous, and puts them through the ringer.
Eileen (Plimpton...
- 2/29/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
There’s something sweetly old-fashioned about the premise of ABC’s latest family comedy, The Real O’Neals, in which the an image-obsessed Catholic mom desperately attempts to hide her family’s foibles — and her teenage son’s recent coming out — from public scrutiny.
But with quick and clever references to Pretty Little Liars, Game of Thrones, Mumford and Sons and Jimmy Kimmel (just to name a few), the show also manages to be completely of the moment — and damn funny, too.
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It’s that nifty juxtaposition — how...
But with quick and clever references to Pretty Little Liars, Game of Thrones, Mumford and Sons and Jimmy Kimmel (just to name a few), the show also manages to be completely of the moment — and damn funny, too.
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It’s that nifty juxtaposition — how...
- 2/24/2016
- TVLine.com
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
You’ve met the O’Neals before. They’re the happily Catholic, bustling brood of contemporary dysfunction that sitcoms have been pushing since sound came out of television sets. There’s the straight-laced cop dad, the Old Testament mom, the doltish older sibling, the young child prodigy, and the proverbial Malcolm in every middle. New setting. New characters. New theme song. Rinse. Repeat.
ABC’s new sitcom The Real O’Neals focuses on such a family who — as the eloquent cold open of an infamous MTV reality show once put it — decide to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real (see what they did there?). What most of this boils down to is a lot of sitcom fodder that’s largely innocuous and forgotten in its own continuity within an episode. But what’s left over is a comedy that,...
You’ve met the O’Neals before. They’re the happily Catholic, bustling brood of contemporary dysfunction that sitcoms have been pushing since sound came out of television sets. There’s the straight-laced cop dad, the Old Testament mom, the doltish older sibling, the young child prodigy, and the proverbial Malcolm in every middle. New setting. New characters. New theme song. Rinse. Repeat.
ABC’s new sitcom The Real O’Neals focuses on such a family who — as the eloquent cold open of an infamous MTV reality show once put it — decide to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real (see what they did there?). What most of this boils down to is a lot of sitcom fodder that’s largely innocuous and forgotten in its own continuity within an episode. But what’s left over is a comedy that,...
- 2/24/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
Dalton Trumbo and Nathanael West contributed to the screenplay for John Farrow's suspense adventure about a plane crash in the Amazon jungle -- who will survive? Lucille Ball is the ranking castaway in a glossy Rko thriller that's been restored to a fine polish. Five Came Back DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1939 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 75 min. / Street Date June 30, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins, Joseph Calleia, C. Aubrey Smith, Kent Taylor, Patric Knowles, Elisabeth Risdon, Casey Johnson, Frank Faylen. Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca Original Music Roy Webb Written by Jerome Cady, Dalton Trumbo, Nathanael West story by Richard Carroll Produced by Robert Sisk Directed by John Farrow
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When they list the 'big' pictures of 1939, the ones that we're told made that year Hollywood's best ever, there are some winning titles that don't get mentioned.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When they list the 'big' pictures of 1939, the ones that we're told made that year Hollywood's best ever, there are some winning titles that don't get mentioned.
- 12/5/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Muppets are returning to primetime, one of three new comedies picked up by ABC on Thursday evening. ABC also has picked up "The Real O'Neals" and "Dr. Ken" to series. But really... "The Muppets"! All official programming details will come with ABC's upfront presentation on Tuesday (May 12), but here's what we know for now: *** Longtime "Big Bang Theory" showrunner and Muppets guardian Bill Prady and Bob Kushell are co-writers on what is described as "a contemporary, documentary-style show that, for the first time ever, will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, break-ups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires." This is "a more adult Muppet show, for kids of all ages" and it remains to be announced which Muppets will take part. For purposes of the art with this story, I'm assuming Kermit. *** "Dr. Ken" was written by Jared Stern,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Grumble all you want, Statler and Waldorf: The Muppets are officially coming back to TV.
ABC on Thursday ordered to series a contemporary, documentary-style show about the iconic puppets, executive-produced by Bill Prady (The Big Bang Theory).
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Additionally, the network picked up the comedies Dr. Ken and The Real O’Neals, starring Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope).
Here’s the logline/casting/pedigree info for each of the new shows:
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Dr. Ken
Writers: Jared Stern,...
ABC on Thursday ordered to series a contemporary, documentary-style show about the iconic puppets, executive-produced by Bill Prady (The Big Bang Theory).
PhotosFall TV Preview: Your Guide to Next Season’s New Shows and Stars
Additionally, the network picked up the comedies Dr. Ken and The Real O’Neals, starring Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope).
Here’s the logline/casting/pedigree info for each of the new shows:
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Dr. Ken
Writers: Jared Stern,...
- 5/8/2015
- TVLine.com
Stereo Kicks' Casey Johnson has revealed his heart tattoo for Only the Young's Betsy-Blue English.
On tonight's (April 9) Celebrity Juice, Keith Lemon interrogates Johnson and fellow band member Jake Sims about their reported rivalry over English from their time competing on last year's X Factor.
Sims replies: "Well she saw me in Bermuda, and I had the shades on and was swimming, and she got quite high maintenance and was like, 'Get a tattoo for me, get a tattoo...'
"I wasn't stupid enough, but Casey actually got a blue tattoo for Betsy-Blue. That's not a joke! He'll probably show you actually."
When pressed on the issue by Lemon, Johnson explains: "Yeah, but she's my girlfriend so it's different - we're going out," before revealing a big heart tattoo on the inside of his wrist.
"It's a blue heart because her name's Betsy-Blue," he adds. "So it's a heart that's blue.
On tonight's (April 9) Celebrity Juice, Keith Lemon interrogates Johnson and fellow band member Jake Sims about their reported rivalry over English from their time competing on last year's X Factor.
Sims replies: "Well she saw me in Bermuda, and I had the shades on and was swimming, and she got quite high maintenance and was like, 'Get a tattoo for me, get a tattoo...'
"I wasn't stupid enough, but Casey actually got a blue tattoo for Betsy-Blue. That's not a joke! He'll probably show you actually."
When pressed on the issue by Lemon, Johnson explains: "Yeah, but she's my girlfriend so it's different - we're going out," before revealing a big heart tattoo on the inside of his wrist.
"It's a blue heart because her name's Betsy-Blue," he adds. "So it's a heart that's blue.
- 4/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Raising Hope star Martha Plimpton is back on pilot duty with another role as a mom in a single-camera family comedy. Plimpton is set as a lead in ABC’s Family Of The Year. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage, Family Of The Year revolves around the O'Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Noah Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed…...
- 3/5/2015
- Deadline TV
Matthew Glade is rounding out the regular cast of ABC's untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media's Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan. Written/executive produced by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, the single-camera NBA project, from ABC Studios, is a buddy comedy about Mo (Blondy Baruti), an NBA rookie who doesn't speak English, and a translator, Jason (Skylar Astin), who…...
- 3/1/2015
- Deadline TV
Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible franchise) is taking a comedic turn with a co-starring role in ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media's Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan. Written/executive produced by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, the single-camera NBA project, from ABC Studios, is a buddy comedy about Mo (Blondy Baruti), an NBA rookie who doesn't speak English…...
- 2/27/2015
- Deadline TV
Newcomer Noah Galvin has booked the young lead in the ABC/ABC Studios untitled Dan Savage comedy pilot. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Savage, the single-camera project revolves around the O'Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect. Galvin is…...
- 2/27/2015
- Deadline TV
Mad Men‘s Jay R. Ferguson is set for a lead role in the ABC/ABC Studios untitled Dan Savage comedy pilot. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage, the single-camera project revolves around the O’Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect. Ferguson, will play…...
- 2/20/2015
- Deadline TV
It’s a Neighbors reunion. The star of the alien comedy Jami Gertz has signed on for another ABC/ABC Studios single-camera comedy project: the untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, from The Neighbors creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman and exec producer Aaron Kaplan. Gertz will co-star opposite Skylar Astin in the pilot, written/executive produced by Casey Johnson and David Windsor. The NBA project is a buddy comedy about Mo, an NBA rookie who doesn't speak English, and…...
- 2/19/2015
- Deadline TV
Skylar Astin is already moving up from Ground Floor.
Following the recent cancellation of his TBS sitcom, Astin has been cast in ABC’s untitled buddy comedy pilot about a non-English speaking NBA star and his translator, our sister site Deadline reports.
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In case there was any doubt in your mind, even for a second, Astin will not portray the NBA player. He’s been tapped to star as translator Jason, a “little wimpy guy with no athletic prowess” who essentially becomes a babysitter for his extra-large charge.
Following the recent cancellation of his TBS sitcom, Astin has been cast in ABC’s untitled buddy comedy pilot about a non-English speaking NBA star and his translator, our sister site Deadline reports.
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In case there was any doubt in your mind, even for a second, Astin will not portray the NBA player. He’s been tapped to star as translator Jason, a “little wimpy guy with no athletic prowess” who essentially becomes a babysitter for his extra-large charge.
- 2/17/2015
- TVLine.com
Vacation season has arrived at ABC.
Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo — stars of the 1983 big-screen classic National Lampoon’s Vacation — are reuniting for a new ABC comedy pilot called Chev & Bev.
The single-camera project will feature the duo as “two baby boomers who are fun, relevant and living a selfish retirement when their world is turned upsisde down and they are suddenly left to raise their grandchildren.”
The network also ordered an untitled single-camera comedy pilot produced by and loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage.
The project, written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson (Galavant,...
Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo — stars of the 1983 big-screen classic National Lampoon’s Vacation — are reuniting for a new ABC comedy pilot called Chev & Bev.
The single-camera project will feature the duo as “two baby boomers who are fun, relevant and living a selfish retirement when their world is turned upsisde down and they are suddenly left to raise their grandchildren.”
The network also ordered an untitled single-camera comedy pilot produced by and loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage.
The project, written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson (Galavant,...
- 1/27/2015
- TVLine.com
A majority of Digital Spy readers think that Stereo Kicks should either sack some of the lineup or split into two boybands rather than stay together as one.
10,842 people voted in our poll asking what should happen to the eight-piece, with 43.3% saying they should sack a few for the greater good.
32.9% of voters said they should do nothing, arguing that Stereo Kicks must take their chances as they are with the other acts.
The remaining 23.8% said they should split the group into two boybands.
Regina_Phalange said: "8 would work if they taught them to harmonise and taught them stage presence. Right now it is just a mess, and it is awful."
Of comparisons to other large bands, Ashley John McLoughlin said: "The difference with S Club 7 is that they were mixed genders and they all looked completely different.
"They look like 8 guys who all work in Top Man and decided to start a choir.
10,842 people voted in our poll asking what should happen to the eight-piece, with 43.3% saying they should sack a few for the greater good.
32.9% of voters said they should do nothing, arguing that Stereo Kicks must take their chances as they are with the other acts.
The remaining 23.8% said they should split the group into two boybands.
Regina_Phalange said: "8 would work if they taught them to harmonise and taught them stage presence. Right now it is just a mess, and it is awful."
Of comparisons to other large bands, Ashley John McLoughlin said: "The difference with S Club 7 is that they were mixed genders and they all looked completely different.
"They look like 8 guys who all work in Top Man and decided to start a choir.
- 10/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Tila Tequila has been given new life by the chance to give life to someone else. The former MTV star, 32—who announced earlier this month that she's pregnant and expecting her first child—is truly in awe of her little baby-to-be, she tells Us Weekly exclusively. Tequila's rise to fame has been a rocky one, marred by the death of fiancee Casey Johnson in 2010, a trip to rehab in 2012, and periods of what she describes as "hurtful, embarrassing, and sometimes erratic" behavior. "My side of the [...]...
- 4/24/2014
- Us Weekly
Casey Johnson and David Windsor have signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. This marks the first overall pact for the duo, who have been partners since the launch of their careers as staff writers on the ABC/20th TV comedy series Two Guys And A Girl during the 2000-2001 season. The deal with ABC Studios follows Johnson and Windsor’s stint on another ABC/20th half-hour series, cult comedy Don’t Trust The B—- In Apt. 23, on which they served as co-executive producers this season. (Johnson separately worked as a consultant on NBC’s Guys With Kids). The pact also brings Johnson and Windsor back to ABC Studios where they developed and wrote four comedy scripts for ABC with studio-based Mark Gordon Co — one of which, It Takes A Village, went to pilot two years ago. Under the overall deal, which starts June 1 and has an option for a third year,...
- 3/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
ABC is staying in business with Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23's Casey Johnson and David Windsor. The duo, who most recently co-executive produced the Krysten Ritter and James Van Der Beek comedy, have inked an overall deal with ABC Studios, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2013 Under the two-year pact -- which includes an option for a third year -- the writing team will develop original projects for the studio and board an ABC series. The sought-after pair rose through the ranks after starting as staff writers on ABC's short-lived
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- 3/19/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Tila Tequila wants her old Louis Vuitton purse back ... it's too damn bad ... 'cause one of the stars of "Storage Wars" officially took ownership of the bag, along with a bunch of Tila crap, after winning a storage auction in L.A. ... TMZ has learned. The person who bought the storage unit is Nabila Haniss -- who bid just under $3k for the unit after only getting a few minutes to scope it out...
- 2/21/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Ahmad Rashad and Sale Johnson are ending their marriage. The sportscaster, 63, and Johnson, who wed in 2007, confirmed the news to People in a joint statement on Monday. "This process, while difficult, is and has always been amicable - despite erroneous press reports to the contrary - and we remain committed to jointly raising our daughter," they say. "We appreciate the respect of our privacy during this trying time." This will be the fourth divorce for Rashad, while Johnson was previously married to Johnson & Johnson billionaire Woody Johnson. Rashad inherited three stepdaughters from his ex's former marriage, including the late Casey Johnson.
- 2/11/2013
- PEOPLE.com
There is a report from Gossip Extra that NBA sportscaster Ahmad Rashad and his wife Sale Johnson are quietly negotiating a divorce settlement before they officially file for divorce later this year. Several sources tell the website that the two have been apart for months and are working out the financial details.
Johnson, a former model and ex-wife of New York Jets owner and Johnson & Johnson billionaire Woody Johnson, married Rashad in 2007. The two reportedly share a $5 million home in the posh Bears Club area of Jupiter, Fla., and Johnson is believed to be worth upwards of $100 million from her divorce from Woody.
Rashad and Johnson made headlines in 2010 when Johnson's daughter Casey Johnson died due to complications with diabetes and left her adopted daughter Ava to be raised by Rashad and Johnson.
Johnson, a former model and ex-wife of New York Jets owner and Johnson & Johnson billionaire Woody Johnson, married Rashad in 2007. The two reportedly share a $5 million home in the posh Bears Club area of Jupiter, Fla., and Johnson is believed to be worth upwards of $100 million from her divorce from Woody.
Rashad and Johnson made headlines in 2010 when Johnson's daughter Casey Johnson died due to complications with diabetes and left her adopted daughter Ava to be raised by Rashad and Johnson.
- 1/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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