From "Two and a Half Men" to a couple and a half.
CBS has handed out a pilot order to "Mike and Molly," a multicamera comedy from Chuck Lorre -- the mastermind behind the network's top comedies "Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" -- and "Men" executive producer Mark Roberts.
Roberts wrote the pilot, an ensemble revolving around a couple who struggle with overeating and meet at Overeaters Anonymous. He will executive produce with Lorre for Warner Bros. TV, where Lorre is based.
CBS bought "Molly" pre-emptively, looking to extend its winning streak with the previous Wbtv/Lorre multicamera series "Men" and "Big Bang." Those series were co-created by the Icm-repped Lorre, who serves as exec producer and showrunner on both.
The CAA-repped Roberts co-starred on 1990s sitcom "The Naked Truth" before switching to writing.
He co-penned with Lorre the 2001 Fox comedy pilot "Nathan's Choice" before joining Lorre on "Men...
CBS has handed out a pilot order to "Mike and Molly," a multicamera comedy from Chuck Lorre -- the mastermind behind the network's top comedies "Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" -- and "Men" executive producer Mark Roberts.
Roberts wrote the pilot, an ensemble revolving around a couple who struggle with overeating and meet at Overeaters Anonymous. He will executive produce with Lorre for Warner Bros. TV, where Lorre is based.
CBS bought "Molly" pre-emptively, looking to extend its winning streak with the previous Wbtv/Lorre multicamera series "Men" and "Big Bang." Those series were co-created by the Icm-repped Lorre, who serves as exec producer and showrunner on both.
The CAA-repped Roberts co-starred on 1990s sitcom "The Naked Truth" before switching to writing.
He co-penned with Lorre the 2001 Fox comedy pilot "Nathan's Choice" before joining Lorre on "Men...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC is developing an hourlong drama based on the "do-over" novel "Pretty Little Mistakes," with "Friday Night Lights" showrunner Jason Katims supervising the project from the writing team of Bruce Marshall Romans and Kiersten Van Horne.
"Mistakes," from Universal Media Studios, is based on the novel by Heather McElhatton that lets readers decide which path the female protagonist will take at the end of each chapter. It starts out with a high school graduation, after which the reader makes one of two possible choices -- college or travel -- ultimately leading to 150 possible endings.
The project, which has received a script commitment from NBC, will reflect the readers'-choice sensilbity of the book, but producers are still in the formative stages of working out the logistics.
Katims is attached as an executive producer and will supervise development of the script. Fuse Entertainment's Mikkel Bondensen and Kristen Campo (USA's "Burn Notice") are...
"Mistakes," from Universal Media Studios, is based on the novel by Heather McElhatton that lets readers decide which path the female protagonist will take at the end of each chapter. It starts out with a high school graduation, after which the reader makes one of two possible choices -- college or travel -- ultimately leading to 150 possible endings.
The project, which has received a script commitment from NBC, will reflect the readers'-choice sensilbity of the book, but producers are still in the formative stages of working out the logistics.
Katims is attached as an executive producer and will supervise development of the script. Fuse Entertainment's Mikkel Bondensen and Kristen Campo (USA's "Burn Notice") are...
- 10/30/2008
- by By Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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