Exclusive: NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen’s Cloud Nine Productions (Woke) has sold four projects, two comedies and two dramas, at CBS.
The network is developing Family Insurance, a single-camera Latinx family workplace comedy co-written, executive produced and starring Al Madrigal; Mixed Signals, a single-camera romantic comedy from writer Liz Thompson inspired by her life, crime drama Peculiar from Js Mayank (The Fame Game) and Jeffrey Leiber (Lost), and an untitled legal drama. CBS Studios, where Olsen’s Cloud Nine is under a deal, is the studio for all four projects, which Olsen executive produces alongside John Will, with Anna Volain Jones as co-executive producer, for Cloud Nine.
Co-written and executive produced by Madrigal and Ryan Walls, who also have deals at CBS Studios, as well as Adam Lowitt, Family Insurance is a Latinx family workplace comedy revolving around Al Fuentes (Madrigal) who after separating from his...
The network is developing Family Insurance, a single-camera Latinx family workplace comedy co-written, executive produced and starring Al Madrigal; Mixed Signals, a single-camera romantic comedy from writer Liz Thompson inspired by her life, crime drama Peculiar from Js Mayank (The Fame Game) and Jeffrey Leiber (Lost), and an untitled legal drama. CBS Studios, where Olsen’s Cloud Nine is under a deal, is the studio for all four projects, which Olsen executive produces alongside John Will, with Anna Volain Jones as co-executive producer, for Cloud Nine.
Co-written and executive produced by Madrigal and Ryan Walls, who also have deals at CBS Studios, as well as Adam Lowitt, Family Insurance is a Latinx family workplace comedy revolving around Al Fuentes (Madrigal) who after separating from his...
- 11/22/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has assembled the cast of Work Wife, a single-camera comedy inspired by the real-life partnerships of longtime friends and Live with Kelly & Ryan co-hosts Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, and David Windsor and Casey Johnson, the longtime writing-producing team and The Real O’Neals co-creators.
Angelique Cabral (Life In Pieces) and Tone Bell (Fam) will play the two central characters, with Christopher Gorham, Annapurna Sriram, Matt Shively and Maile Flanagan also starring and Ripa playing a recurring role in the pilot, from Seacrest’s Ryan Seacrest Productions, Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo Productions and ABC Studios, where both Ryan Seacrest Prods and Milojo Prods are based.
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Angelique Cabral (Life In Pieces) and Tone Bell (Fam) will play the two central characters, with Christopher Gorham, Annapurna Sriram, Matt Shively and Maile Flanagan also starring and Ripa playing a recurring role in the pilot, from Seacrest’s Ryan Seacrest Productions, Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo Productions and ABC Studios, where both Ryan Seacrest Prods and Milojo Prods are based.
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- 3/11/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Fam star Tone Bell is returning to CBS with a new multi-camera comedy project. The network is developing the project as a possible starring vehicle for Bell, who is executive producing.
Based on a story by Bell and inspired by real-live events, the untitled comedy is from from writer-producers Craig Gerard and Matt Zinman (Happy Together), director-producer Richie Keen (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Cedric the Entertainer’s A Bird and a Bear Productions, and CBS TV Studios, where Gerard and Zinman are under a deal.
Written by Gerard and Zinman from a story by Bell, in the Untitled Tone Bell Project, after a pregnancy scare, a carefree thirty-something decides he’s ready to settle down and tries to change his life so he can go from Mr. Right Now to Mr. Right.
Gerard and Zinman executive produce with Bell and Keen, along with Cedric and Eric Rhone...
Based on a story by Bell and inspired by real-live events, the untitled comedy is from from writer-producers Craig Gerard and Matt Zinman (Happy Together), director-producer Richie Keen (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Cedric the Entertainer’s A Bird and a Bear Productions, and CBS TV Studios, where Gerard and Zinman are under a deal.
Written by Gerard and Zinman from a story by Bell, in the Untitled Tone Bell Project, after a pregnancy scare, a carefree thirty-something decides he’s ready to settle down and tries to change his life so he can go from Mr. Right Now to Mr. Right.
Gerard and Zinman executive produce with Bell and Keen, along with Cedric and Eric Rhone...
- 12/20/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Craig Gerard and Matthew Zinman (Trial & Error) have signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Under the pact, the duo has joined the studio’s upcoming CBS comedy series Happy Together as writers/co-executive producers. They also will develop new scripted projects for the studio.
Written/executive produced by Tim McAuliffe and Austen Earl and executive produced by Ben Winston and Harry Styles, Happy Together stars Damon Wayans Jr. and Amber Stevens West as a thirtysomething couple who, tired of their mundane life, start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in.
Gerard and Zinman, who are coming off a stint as co-executive producers on the current second season of the NBC/Warner Bros. TV anthology comedy series Trial & Error, have a long history with CBS. They started their writing careers on the network...
Written/executive produced by Tim McAuliffe and Austen Earl and executive produced by Ben Winston and Harry Styles, Happy Together stars Damon Wayans Jr. and Amber Stevens West as a thirtysomething couple who, tired of their mundane life, start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star who is drawn to their super-normal suburban life, moves in.
Gerard and Zinman, who are coming off a stint as co-executive producers on the current second season of the NBC/Warner Bros. TV anthology comedy series Trial & Error, have a long history with CBS. They started their writing careers on the network...
- 7/17/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Craig Gerard and Matthew Zinman, who started their writing careers on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, are returning to the hybrid format with another young ensemble comedy, Perfect 10, which has been set up at CBS with Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment (Life In Pieces, American Housewife) and Warner Bros. TV producing. Written by Gerard and Zinman, Perfect 10 is about a group of former high school classmates who become indispensable parts of each other's lives after…...
- 10/6/2017
- Deadline TV
LeBron James has sold another TV project, this time a scripted comedy series to CBS that will focus on sports assistants, TheWrap has learned. Currently titled “Thankless,” the series will follow a group of ambitious assistants who pursue their dreams at a sports agency in Chicago. James will executive produce along with his business partner Maverick Carter. Craig Gerard and Matt Zinman will serve as executive producers and writers. James’ SpringHill Entertainment will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television. Also Read: LeBron James' Lifetime Nike Deal Worth More Than $1 Billion James has been making a strong push into...
- 11/4/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
CBS has put in development Thankless, a hybrid comedy from LeBron James & Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment, former How I Met Your Mother writers Craig Gerard and Matt Zinman, and Warner Bros. TV. Co-written/executive produced by Gerard and Zinman, Thankless centers on a group of ambitious assistants who pursue their dreams at a sports agency in Chicago. James and Carter executive produce for SpringHill. Warner Bros. TV is the studio. This is the third sale for…...
- 11/4/2016
- Deadline TV
Jessy Hodges (Hindsight) is set to lead the ensemble cast of NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Good Fortune. Rounding out the core quintet in the project, from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack's Le Train Train, is Blake Lee (Mixology, Parks & Recreation). Hodges and Lee join previously cast Tone Bell, Beau Mirchoff and Diane Guerrero. 20th TV is the studio. Written by Matt Zinman & Craig Gerard and directed by Pam Fryman, Good Fortune focuses on June (Hodges), a…...
- 2/24/2016
- Deadline TV
Tone Bell (Truth Be Told), Beau Mirchoff (Awkward) and Diane Guerrero (Orange Is The New Black) are set as co-leads in Good Fortune, NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack's Le Train Train and 20th TV. Written by Matt Zinman & Craig Gerard and directed by Pam Fryman, Good Fortune is an ensemble comedy that focuses on June, a hyper-structured young woman who, after a fortune teller predicts she’ll die in 3 days, decides she’s finally going…...
- 2/18/2016
- Deadline TV
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train has set up a comedy project at NBC with writers Matt Zinman & Craig Gerard (How I Met Your Mother). 20th Century Fox TV is the studio. Jones and McCormack launched their TV producing efforts in 2013 with a pod deal at Warner Bros. TV, which yielded a series, NBC’s A to Z, and a pilot, ABC’s Mix. Because of the duo’s commitments outside of the deal — Jones and McCormack have been tapped to write Toy Story 4, and Jones stars…...
- 11/13/2015
- Deadline TV
How I Met Your Mother Season 9, Episode 3 ‘Last Time In New York’
Written by Craig Gerard & Matthew Zinman
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Airs Monday nights at 8pm Et on CBS
Like the opening episodes of the season, ‘Last Time In New York’ is at its best when the recurring jokes are put to the side and Ted is sitting at the bar in the hotel lounge. Last week, we watched him watch himself, talking to the Mother about the bitter man wondering when it was going to be his turn – and this week, Lily and Ted share a touching conversation about that bitterness, and how important it is for him to let go.
It’s really a fantastic climatic moment for the episode, succeeding where Mandy Patinkin and old people sex jokes failed with Barney and Robin: in that moment, Ted becomes defined in a way the show had only...
Written by Craig Gerard & Matthew Zinman
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Airs Monday nights at 8pm Et on CBS
Like the opening episodes of the season, ‘Last Time In New York’ is at its best when the recurring jokes are put to the side and Ted is sitting at the bar in the hotel lounge. Last week, we watched him watch himself, talking to the Mother about the bitter man wondering when it was going to be his turn – and this week, Lily and Ted share a touching conversation about that bitterness, and how important it is for him to let go.
It’s really a fantastic climatic moment for the episode, succeeding where Mandy Patinkin and old people sex jokes failed with Barney and Robin: in that moment, Ted becomes defined in a way the show had only...
- 10/1/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
NBC has put in development two single-camera projects from up-and-coming writers. An untitled family comedy from Aseem Batra (Animal Practice), exec produced by Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment and Joe and Anthony Russo, is loosely based on Batra’s life growing up in Georgia. It centers on a single dad who moves his out-of-control family from the chaos of a big city to a quiet but quirky town in the deep south. Universal TV, where Batra is under an overall deal, is producing. Under the pact, Batra, repped by Odenkirk Provissiero and Wme, also is consulting on new NBC comedy series Sean Saves The World. Craig Gerard and Matthew Zinman‘s Season Tickets, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on a New York transplant who finds family when he joins a section of season ticket holders for the Kansas City Royals. Gerard and Zinman, repped by UTA and attorney Ken Richman,...
- 9/13/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Hopeless romantic Ted Mosby gets one step closer to his soul mate when “How I Met Your Mother” Season Five arrives on DVD September 21 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee** Neil Patrick Harris (“Doogie Howser, M.D.”) leads a stellar ensemble cast including Alyson Hannigan (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Josh Radnor (“Freaks & Geeks”) and Cobie Smulders (“The L Word”) in the hit comedy that dissects the trials and tribulations of dating life in New York City.
The show is narrated by an older version of Ted (Bob Saget; “Full House”) as he fondly recalls adventures from his single days with his friends to his children. Season five of the hilarious love story told in reverse finds the gang encountering their doppelgangers, contemplating dual citizenship, struggling to achieve the ‘perfect week’ of sexual conquest, buying a house, getting mugged by...
The show is narrated by an older version of Ted (Bob Saget; “Full House”) as he fondly recalls adventures from his single days with his friends to his children. Season five of the hilarious love story told in reverse finds the gang encountering their doppelgangers, contemplating dual citizenship, struggling to achieve the ‘perfect week’ of sexual conquest, buying a house, getting mugged by...
- 8/14/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
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