Not only is Room 104 set in one room, but Jay and Mark Duplass set up rules where they couldn’t leave the show couldn’t leave the room at all, they had to shoot an episode in three days with no more than three actors, and made sure that each episode will be done in a different style.
Sound fascinating? Good.
Tune in to the series premiere tonight at 11:30PM on HBO.
Given Chatman’s resume of South Park, Louie, Wonder Showzen, and The Heart She Holler, and an eclectic mix of many facets of comedy, one has to wonder if this project is the culmination of all of Chatman’s previous work.
What we imagine, at this stage, is a stop motion animation, probably like Anomalisa, take on Edgar Allen Poe with the darkly comic twist of Damian Szifron’s Wild Tales.
If anything like that comes out of the pilot process into being a show on Adult Swim, we’re on board.
TV Land Orders Adapted Version of ‘Heathers’ as Anthology Series
The 1988 cult dark comedy Heathers will be getting its TV treatment after all, but with a big twist. TV Land has orders 10 episodes of the series that could become an anthology if renewed for future seasons.
So, an “American Heather Story”?
It looks like Bobcat Goldthwait will finally bring his filmic vision (a la World’s Greatest Dad, Windy City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie, God Bless America), which he has been celebrated for, on to the small screen.
TruTV’s latest series order is quite the doozy as they’re giving Bobcat Goldthwait, who had been serving as a director on Those Who Can’t on TruTV, his own show that allows Bobcat to tell an anthology of different stories in different genres, all at his own whim.
Whether it be “1970s-era science fiction, psychological thriller, romantic comedy and reality”, Goldthwait will get to put his lens on it, which is reliably dark, unapologetic, and always hysterical.
If you’ve seen Bobcat’s work as an auteur, you’d know this is a big deal.
(via The Wrap)
HBO has comedy about a family covered in LA. Now, they’re on to Seattle.
Lynn Shelton, director of Your Sister’s Sister and Laggies, is developing HBO’s latest comedy project that is taking an anthology angle by exploring the inner workings of different Seattle families and the comedy that lies therein.
If picked up, it should actually pair quite well with HBO’s Togetherness.