When execs at Fox Broadcasting Network handed Parker Lewis Can't Lose a series order and slotted it into their fall 1990 lineup, what they thought they were getting was a stylish, smart high school comedy. That the show wound up capturing the zeitgeist of the era so perfectly, making fans of everyone from Steven Spielberg to Ozzy Osbourne, was probably unexpected. That the show's creators, Clyde Phillips and Lon Diamond, would foster an on-set environment referred to by one director who worked on it as "the Juilliard school of cinema," and that their innovative approach to storytelling ...
- 6/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In September of 1990, Parker Lewis Can't Lose premiered amid the nascent Fox Network's Sunday primetime lineup.
The fourth broadcast net had launched in October 1986, and it was still searching for an identity. It was experiementing with everything from primetime animation to primetime sketch comedy and had found success with both. 1990 was also the year Fox debuted Beverly Hills, 90210, a show that would shape its drama direction for a decade plus. But Fox comedies were still the Wild West.
Co-created by Clyde Phillips and Lon Diamond, Parker Lewis debuted between fellow newcomer True Colors, a traditional multicam centering on ...
The fourth broadcast net had launched in October 1986, and it was still searching for an identity. It was experiementing with everything from primetime animation to primetime sketch comedy and had found success with both. 1990 was also the year Fox debuted Beverly Hills, 90210, a show that would shape its drama direction for a decade plus. But Fox comedies were still the Wild West.
Co-created by Clyde Phillips and Lon Diamond, Parker Lewis debuted between fellow newcomer True Colors, a traditional multicam centering on ...
- 6/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jim Krieg has signed a deal to write two projects at Warner Bros. Pictures. He has been hired to rewrite Amaze Your Friends, being produced by Bernie Goldman. Amaze is described as a high-concept fantasy comedy. Steve Kerper wrote the original draft. Warners also snagged Home School, a pitch from Krieg that he will co-write with scribe Lon Diamond. Set during a teachers strike that closes down the local school, the story centers on a father who becomes a teacher to his own bickering brood. Andrew Deane is producing through Industry Entertainment.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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