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Jetsons Live Action Reboot Gets a Put Pilot Order from ABC

August 17, 2017

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Jetsons Live Action Reboot Gets a Put Pilot Order from ABC

Kind of funny how one major TV network announces the order of a pilot that makes run of the preponderance revivals and reboots these days and another major TV network announces the order of a pilot of such a reboot all on the same day.

We will say that if this does end up going to series, it’d be nice if one, just one, futuristic series on television was a bit hopeful and imagines an actually better world, you know, kind of like the original Jetsons.

Also, perhaps this version of The Jetsons could address or correct an oft overlooked dark detail from the original show that one Adam Newman happen to notice and write a great joke about.

Fox Orders a Put Pilot of a Comedy That Makes Fun of TV Revivals and Reboots

August 17, 2017

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Fox Orders a Put Pilot of a Comedy That Makes Fun of TV Revivals and Reboots

Even though Fox has recently had shows about the last people on this planet and time travel and mixing a live action sitcom with animated fantasy characters, this might be one of the highest concept projects that they’ve taken on.

Of course, as far as shows that skewer Hollywood for they penchant for trying to cash in on something that worked once, there was The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow and then the comeback of The Comeback. Also, BoJack Horseman does a spectacular job of satirizing the entertainment industry in this regard.

This project feels a little different from the others as it’s taking on the whole trend of how many networks and production companies can’t seem to rebooting/remaking shows as its focus. The creative team here consists of folks that have experience with high concept sitcoms including Nahnatchka Khan, Sally Bradford McKenna, Chris McKenna, and a very in-demand Michael Showalter. Maybe they’ll pull it off? We’re definitely curious to see what’s to come from such an endeavor.

So far, we’re thinking this might be a sort of a BoJack Horseman if it was live action and didn’t have anthropomorphized animals and was on Fox as opposed to Netflix.

Diablo Cody, Simon Cowell, and Ian Brennan Are Developing a Synchronized Swimming Comedy at Fox

October 28, 2016

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Diablo Cody, Simon Cowell, and Ian Brennan Are Developing a Synchronized Swimming Comedy at Fox

The minds behind Young Adult, many a reality competition series, and Scream Queens will be joining forces to make a sitcom about synchronized swimming.

All those names and elements are intriguing and the fact that Fox has gotten on board for a put pilot is more encouraging considering their penchant for high concept comedies.

Let’s hope following an anti-social synchronized swimming champ does a little better than The Bronze did in theaters.

NBC Buys Coming-Of-Age Comedy From Kourtney Kang, Nahnatchka Khan, and Fred Savage as Put Pilot

September 9, 2016

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NBC Buys Coming-Of-Age Comedy From Kourtney Kang, Nahnatchka Khan, and Fred Savage as Put Pilot

Wonder Years, but from the perspective of a mixed teenage girl from Philly?

A lot of sitcom forces are coming together here as Fresh Off The Boat creator Nahnatchka Khan and co-executive producer Kourtney Kang are teaming up with ~~Kevin Arnold~~ Fred Savage to make a new coming-of-age comedy that follows Kang’s experiences as a girl in a mixed-race family in the Philadelphia suburbs.

NBC seems to have just checked the boxes for both diversity and nostalgia in one fell swoop.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Are Developing a Time Travel Comedy at Fox

October 21, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Anyone getting the feeling that any sort of announcement that is time travel themed was being held up for Back To The Future Day?

Now that Phil Lord and Chris Miller have got being the Last Man on Earth covered, Lord and Miller are on to potentially make the next great time travel comedy, which has kind of intrigued Hollywood both on the big and small screen since Back To The Future, over at Fox. For reference watch Midnight in Paris, Safety Not Guaranteed, possibly even Lord and Miller’s own Clone High.

Family Guy’s Julius Sharpe has written this project, In Time, which centers on the time travel adventures of friends trying to alter their present to their benefit.

There’s a put pilot commitment right now, but we hope this turns into a series order really soon.

ABC Is Developing a Meta Family Sitcom from Modern Family’s Danny Zuker

October 14, 2015

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(via Deadline)

It’s being touted as a Larry Sanders Show for family sitcoms, which is a welcome change of pace.

Veteran sitcom writer Danny Zuker not only works on Modern Family, one of the most critically and commercially successful comedies on TV right now, but is now developing his own sitcom that shows a TV family and the not-so-rosy underbelly of that same family in real life called Family Show.

While you get to see a bit of that on shows like BoJack Horseman, seeing a high concept like that at ABC, where Modern Family happens to also be, is very intriguing to see.

Luckily, it has a put pilot commitment and we’ll get to see what Zuker is cooking up.

Alec Sulkin and Julius Sharpe’s Workplace Mystery Comedy “Where Are They Now?” Sold to Fox

July 24, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Sulkin and Sharpe might be on to something here.

Though the title conjures up images of all those forgotten celebrity series, Where Are They Now? will focus on the disappearance of the employees of an Internet company and the subsequent investigation. Normally, that would be the plot of one of the many hour long procedurals on TV, but this is, interestingly enough, going to be a half-hour comedy.

Alec Sulkin and Julius Sharpe have a commitment for a single camera put pilot at Fox and let’s hope it makes it to the point in the development process where we can see what they got cooking.