Exclusive: AMC is venturing into half-hour comedy with a presentation order to Rob Roy Thomas’ How To Cheat On Your Wife. The single-camera comedy, which Thomas is writing, directing and executive producing, centers on four nice guys in flyover country dealing with middle age. Thomas originally shot a short presentation for the project on his own about six months ago. In it, the four friends meet the day after they are reunited at the funeral of their first dead friend. After seeing that footage, AMC decided to put the comedy in development at the cable network and ordered a new presentation as part of that. Thomas, creator of Fox’s Free Ride and co-creator of NBC’s Significant Others, is now tweaking the idea and will executive produce the presentation with Marc Provissiero and Naomi Odenkirk.
- 10/3/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Ever wonder what happened to the actors and actresses from your favorite cancelled shows? Here's where you'll be able to see a bunch of them from shows like Stacked, Gilmore Girls, Undeclared, Carpoolers, 7th Heaven, Firefly, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Pretender, Free Ride, American Dreams, Melrose Place, Heist, Jack & Bobby, The Dukes of Hazzard, Townies, Rhoda, and The Sopranos.
- 4/22/2008
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
NEW YORK -- The Slamdance Film Festival and 20th Century Fox Television's edgy production arm fox21 have announced the finalists in the third annual Slamdance Teleplay Competition.
The three projects vying for a "blind script deal" are Scott Burgin, David Robinson and Kerry Lambert's multifamily chronicle American Standard; Marcus Clay Carmouche and Seamus Kevin Fahey's sci-fi Western Ghost Towns; and Latrisse Goffigan's crime drama Predators.
The winning writer or writers will earn $45,000 (WGA's scale fee for scripting an hourlong pilot) to have their teleplay or another pitch idea developed into a fox21 show.
Writers of all three teleplays will participate in a round-table discussion with fox21 and Slamdance reps along with a Los Angeles pitch session at fox21 to sell other ideas.
Finalists were selected from more than 600 scripts for potential series.
The three-year-old fox21 division has developed such projects as TNT's Saved and Fox's Free Ride.
Slamdance, presented by Kodak and fox21, runs Jan. 18-27.
The three projects vying for a "blind script deal" are Scott Burgin, David Robinson and Kerry Lambert's multifamily chronicle American Standard; Marcus Clay Carmouche and Seamus Kevin Fahey's sci-fi Western Ghost Towns; and Latrisse Goffigan's crime drama Predators.
The winning writer or writers will earn $45,000 (WGA's scale fee for scripting an hourlong pilot) to have their teleplay or another pitch idea developed into a fox21 show.
Writers of all three teleplays will participate in a round-table discussion with fox21 and Slamdance reps along with a Los Angeles pitch session at fox21 to sell other ideas.
Finalists were selected from more than 600 scripts for potential series.
The three-year-old fox21 division has developed such projects as TNT's Saved and Fox's Free Ride.
Slamdance, presented by Kodak and fox21, runs Jan. 18-27.
- 12/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rob Roy Thomas, the creator of Fox's improv/scripted comedy series Free Ride, is back with another hybrid half-hour project for the network.
Fox has given a presentation order to the untitled show, which stars Brendan Hines as a reluctant congressional candidate from Arizona who unexpectedly wins and goes to Washington.
Like Free Ride, the new show hails from Fox 21, 20th Century Fox TV's lower-budget programming division where Thomas has an overall deal.
Thomas, who also created Bravo's improv comedy series Significant Others, is repped by ICM and attorney Ken Richman.
Hines co-starred on the Fox comedy pilot If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now this past development season. The actor, whose credits include the indie Ordinary Sinner, is repped by TalentWorks and Sanders Armstrong Management.
Fox has given a presentation order to the untitled show, which stars Brendan Hines as a reluctant congressional candidate from Arizona who unexpectedly wins and goes to Washington.
Like Free Ride, the new show hails from Fox 21, 20th Century Fox TV's lower-budget programming division where Thomas has an overall deal.
Thomas, who also created Bravo's improv comedy series Significant Others, is repped by ICM and attorney Ken Richman.
Hines co-starred on the Fox comedy pilot If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now this past development season. The actor, whose credits include the indie Ordinary Sinner, is repped by TalentWorks and Sanders Armstrong Management.
- 12/1/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rob Roy Thomas, the creator of Fox's improv/scripted comedy series Free Ride, is back with another hybrid half-hour project for the network.
Fox has given a presentation order to the untitled show, which stars Brendan Hines as a reluctant congressional candidate from Arizona who unexpectedly wins and goes to Washington.
Like Free Ride, the new show hails from Fox 21, 20th Century Fox TV's lower-budget programming division where Thomas has an overall deal.
Thomas, who also created Bravo's improv comedy series Significant Others, is repped by ICM and attorney Ken Richman.
Hines co-starred on the Fox comedy pilot "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now" this past development season. The actor, whose credits include the indie Ordinary Sinner, is repped by TalentWorks and Sanders Armstrong Management.
Fox has given a presentation order to the untitled show, which stars Brendan Hines as a reluctant congressional candidate from Arizona who unexpectedly wins and goes to Washington.
Like Free Ride, the new show hails from Fox 21, 20th Century Fox TV's lower-budget programming division where Thomas has an overall deal.
Thomas, who also created Bravo's improv comedy series Significant Others, is repped by ICM and attorney Ken Richman.
Hines co-starred on the Fox comedy pilot "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now" this past development season. The actor, whose credits include the indie Ordinary Sinner, is repped by TalentWorks and Sanders Armstrong Management.
- 11/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox has signed Josh Dean, the young lead on the network's midseason comedy series Free Ride, to a talent holding deal. Under the pact, Dean will be cast in a half-hour project. Canadian-born Dean is a find of Fox executive vp casting Marcia Shulman who saw him three years ago in an improv group performance at the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival in Alberta, Canada.
- 8/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After what one could call Fox's most successful seasons in its history, there are very few cancellations to report. Fox's schedule will remain the same for the most part and borderline shows (ratings-wise) like The Oc, The Loop and The War at Home have received renewal notices. The few shows that were cancelled (either this week or earlier) include:
Arrested Development - Critics loved it but few people watched. Read more information here.
The Bernie Mac Show - After five seasons and 104 episodes, this comedy aired its last original episode on April 14, 2006.
Free Ride - This partially-improved sitcom aired the last of its six episodes on April 9, 2006.
Head Cases - The Chris O'Donnell comedy was one of the first fatalities of the 2005-06 season.
Killer Instinct - This San Francisco-based crime thriller aired episode #13 (of 14 produced) in March of 2006 and hasn't been seen...
Arrested Development - Critics loved it but few people watched. Read more information here.
The Bernie Mac Show - After five seasons and 104 episodes, this comedy aired its last original episode on April 14, 2006.
Free Ride - This partially-improved sitcom aired the last of its six episodes on April 9, 2006.
Head Cases - The Chris O'Donnell comedy was one of the first fatalities of the 2005-06 season.
Killer Instinct - This San Francisco-based crime thriller aired episode #13 (of 14 produced) in March of 2006 and hasn't been seen...
- 5/18/2006
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Fox's American Idol was the 90-minute, 800-pound gorilla of primetime again Wednesday, making things especially hard for NBC's Deal or No Deal and even putting the hurt on ABC's Lost. The 8-9:30 p.m. edition of Idol delivered 29.2 million viewers and 12.0 rating/31 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. At 9:30 p.m., the debut of Fox comedy Free Ride (14.4 million, 6.3/15) did only a so-so job of capitalizing on its lead-in windfall. The third night of NBC's five-night stunt of Deal or No Deal (10.6 million, 3.3/9) had a hard time getting started against the heat of Idol. At 9 p.m., ABC's Lost (16.3 million, 6.8/16) pole-vaulted from its weak lead-in, 8:30 p.m. comedy Freddie (5.5 million, 2.2/6), but was still off its usual game. Lost perked up in its second half-hour (17.9 million, 7.6/18) once Idol was out of the way.
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