This is another step in Hulu amassing an archive of all the series you miss/missed out on.
Until now, the short lived series Happy Endings on ABC was only available over at VH1.
Now, you can enjoy Jane, Alex, Dave, Max, Brad, and Penny all you want at one of the streaming service giants, Hulu.
A wave in comedy that has been slowly building towards breaking across both TV and film has been crime themed comedy.
Already in the works, Johnny Depp has the high profile thievery comedy in Mortdecai and Zach Galifianakis is starring in Masterminds, previously titled Loomis Fargo, featuring a robbery by a more rag tag bunch. It might be a stretch, but you can this year’s unexpectedly funny revenge flick John Wick in there too.
Announced this week, Happy Endings’ David Caspe, Gil Ozeri along with producer Jamie Tarses are putting together a family crime comedy at Fox called “Frauds”. It will follow low level criminals trying to work up their way to ponzi schemes (via THR).
Todd Phillips has just cast Jonah Hill and gotten crime comedy feature “Arms and the Dudes” moving forward at Warner Bros. Hill will be part of a duo that were stoners that end up dealing arms for the U.S. government (via THR). Even though The Interview hasn’t made it to theaters and Arms and Dudes has to roll into production, we think the two would definitely make a good pairing.
Perahps, out of this trend, we’ll finally get the this decade’s Snatch.
NBC Orders David Caspe’s “Marry Me” to Series Starring Casey Wilson
NBC has ordered their latest comedy series Marry Me from Happy Endings’ David Caspe. Casey Wilson and Ken Marino will star opposite from each other, which should make for a lot of fun as Capse and Wilson last worked together on Happy Endings and are now engaged.
Comedy Central Sets Up Cop Comedy Pilot From Happy Endings’ Caspe/Libman/Tarses
Procedural comedies seem to be the hot commodity at the moment, perhaps, thanks to Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s success just in its first season. There’s Tribeca from Steve Carell at TBS, Sober Companion with Nick Frost at Fox, and now a cop comedy pilot from the creator, writers, and producers of Happy Endings David Capse, Matthew and Daniel Libman, and Jamie Tarses.
For the overflow of hour long procedural dramas and their numerous spin offs, we’re liking this trend.
Casey Wilson To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Marry Me’ From ‘Happy Endings’ Creator David Caspe
So, this is tangentially a spin off from Happy Endings? That would probably be a good thing.
ABC Buys Comedy From June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson & Jonathan Groff
Based off how much their names have been in the trades and the deals they have signed, it was only a matter of a little time before the great June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson sold a pilot to a network especially with the deal that had ABC in place.
Along with Jonathan Groff (Happy Endings), Raphael and Wilson now have sold a pilot as well as have a movie coming out in Ass Backwards.