(via Vulture)
Last year, Fox was developing a comedy series based on Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo going through college and now the project has gotten a pilot order.
Maybe we’re crazy, but 2015 could be a big year for shows based in and around the music biz including Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll at FX, Cameron Crowe’s Roadies pilot at Showtime, Lorne Michaels’ HBO pilot Brothers in Atlanta, and now this latest pilot DeTour,
(via Deadline)
While FX has Denis Leary’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll already ordered to series and Showtime has ordered a pilot of Cameron Crowe’s Roadies, this wave of rock sitcoms doesn’t stop with those two.
Fox TV has gotten on board with this trend and has just bought a project from Psych’s Steve Franks and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. It will be based on Cuomo’s life going from rock stardom back to college of his own volition.
If this goes to series, it will be a great accompaniment to the web series that follows a Weezer cover band called The Undone Sweaters.
Jim Tews, Andrew Short, and Reid Faylor are The Undone Sweaters, a Weezer cover band/a great web series.
Together, in this episode, they find that going to a “retreat” put together by the likes of the hysterical Nick Turner, Nick Vatterott, and Lyra Smith on a NYC rooftop is not a great idea or even a good idea. It’s, you might have guessed it, a bad idea.
Watch what happens and learn here.