Exclusive: HBO has given the green light to a half-hour comedy pilot from former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Diallo Riddle & Bashir Salahuddin, which is executive produced by Late Night exec producer Lorne Michaels. Written by Riddle and Salahuddin, the untitled project stars the duo as Bashir and Diallo, two 30-year old-reporters, as they try to make it big in the burgeoning black mecca of contemporary Atlanta, aka the New South. Riddle, Salahuddin and Michaels executive produce the pilot with Dave Flebotte who serves as showrunner. Andrew Singer co-executive produces. This marks Riddle and Salahuddin’s return to HBO, which gave the two their start in the business with the Web series The Message. They went on to write for Comedy Central’s Chocolate News With David Alan Grier and, most notably, for NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where they also regularly appeared in skits, especially Salahuddin.
- 6/10/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Disney Channel's Emmy Award-winning original series "Wizards of Waverly Place" is moving on with a fourth season and a sequel to their 2009 TV film. The network has announced that the production on the next season will kick off in August.
The filming for the fourth season of the fantasy series - starring Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera and David DeLuise - gets underway in August, with show runners Vince Cheung and Ben Montanio exec producing.
They will also be having a sequel to the made-for-tv film "Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie." The script will be written by Dan Berendsen, who also wrote the script for the first film, as well as for "Hannah Montana: The Movie" and the upcoming "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam."
President of entertainment and chief creative officer, Gary Marsh, said, "The Emmy win this past year confirmed...
The filming for the fourth season of the fantasy series - starring Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera and David DeLuise - gets underway in August, with show runners Vince Cheung and Ben Montanio exec producing.
They will also be having a sequel to the made-for-tv film "Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie." The script will be written by Dan Berendsen, who also wrote the script for the first film, as well as for "Hannah Montana: The Movie" and the upcoming "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam."
President of entertainment and chief creative officer, Gary Marsh, said, "The Emmy win this past year confirmed...
- 6/4/2010
- icelebz.com
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