Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios is launching game show in the fall. Executive produced by Scott Satin (Meet My Folks), Funny You Should Ask will feature a panel of professional stand-up comics who interact with contestants for cash and prizes. The stakes increase in every episode as the game progresses. "We are very pleased and excited to launch this new comedy game show for fall 2016," said Allen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios. "Funny You Should A…...
- 12/18/2015
- Deadline TV
"Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" co-writer Jim Herzfeld is returning to his sitcom roots with "Changing Positions," a multicamera comedy project at NBC that shares some similarities with "Fockers."
Produced by Ums and Dutch Oven, "Positions" centers on a Wall Street guy in his late 30s who loses everything and is forced, along with his wife and their teen kids, to move in with his parents -- a wealthy, very sexually active couple in their mid 50s who live in a large compound in the Hollywood Hills after amassing a fortune making (and starring in) instructional sex videos in the 1980s when they also invented the "standing O" position.
"They're moving into a pretty cool place," Herzfeld said. "The challenge is raising a family the way you want to raise them around grandparents who don't have the same values you have, who have no filter when it comes...
Produced by Ums and Dutch Oven, "Positions" centers on a Wall Street guy in his late 30s who loses everything and is forced, along with his wife and their teen kids, to move in with his parents -- a wealthy, very sexually active couple in their mid 50s who live in a large compound in the Hollywood Hills after amassing a fortune making (and starring in) instructional sex videos in the 1980s when they also invented the "standing O" position.
"They're moving into a pretty cool place," Herzfeld said. "The challenge is raising a family the way you want to raise them around grandparents who don't have the same values you have, who have no filter when it comes...
- 11/3/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Despite being blitzed by the National Football League over its controversial series Playmakers, ESPN is still game for gridiron-based original programming. The sports network has commissioned a pilot script for a series set in the worlds of gambling and college football, sources said. Titled The Fix, the script will be written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, sources said, the screenwriting team whose credits include Runaway Jury and Rounders. The original concept came out of discussions between producer Bruce Nash (Meet My Folks) and ESPN brass. Nash would still serve as an executive producer on the show, sources said. It remains to be seen how the NCAA, which partners with ESPN on the programming of a wide variety of sports including football, would react to such a program should it receive a green light. The NFL publicly criticized Playmakers for its unflattering depiction of professional football even though it was a fictional series.
- 1/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An NFL preseason game between the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns on Monday wasn't enough to put ABC over the rerun-laden competition for the night. ABC was poised to rank second for the night behind NBC, which was powered by strong ratings for its 9-11 p.m. reality block For Love or Money 2 (9.7 million, 4,512) and Meet My Folks (8.5 million, 4.1/11). Reliable estimates for ABC's live game coverage won't be available until later Tuesday, but overnight household ratings indicate that NBC edged ahead of ABC for the night. Nielsen Media Research's preliminary estimates have NBC averaging 9.2 million viewers and 4.2 rating/12 share in the adults 18-49 demographic for the night. CBS' rerun slate of Everybody Loves Raymond (10.4 million, 3.5/10) and 10 p.m. CSI: Miami rerun (10.3 million, 4.1/11) fared pretty well against NBC's reality originals.
- 8/20/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WB Network is looking for the Spider-Men and Incredible Hulks of the future. The network has ordered six episodes of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? -- a tongue-in-cheek fantasy contest show from reality guru Bruce Nash (Meet My Folks) and comic pioneer Stan Lee -- for the 2003-04 season. In the series, real people with homegrown ideas for original superheroes will face off in character before a panel of celebrity judges who have played onscreen superheroes. Semifinalists will undergo a "superhero makeover" -- with a professional artistic gloss overseen by Spider-Man creator Lee -- and compete in various stunts and challenges that mimic comic book derring-do. The winner will then be eligible to have his or her idea developed and expanded by Lee's team, possibly for a comic book spinoff. The producers will conduct and film open auditions around the country in coming weeks.
The WB Network is looking for the Spider-Men and Incredible Hulks of the future. The network has ordered six episodes of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? -- a tongue-in-cheek fantasy contest show from reality guru Bruce Nash (Meet My Folks) and comic pioneer Stan Lee -- for the 2003-04 season. In the series, real people with homegrown ideas for original superheroes will face off in character before a panel of celebrity judges who have played onscreen superheroes. Semifinalists will undergo a "superhero makeover" -- with a professional artistic gloss overseen by Spider-Man creator Lee -- and compete in various stunts and challenges that mimic comic book derring-do. The winner will then be eligible to have his or her idea developed and expanded by Lee's team, possibly for a comic book spinoff. The producers will conduct and film open auditions around the country in coming weeks.
It was all about Fear Factor on Monday night as the NBC reality show soared to its highest-ever ratings with a 90-minute edition from 8-9:30 p.m. Fear Factor raked in 18.3 million viewers and 8.0 rating/20 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. That marked the highest numbers in the show's two-year history and NBC's best showing on a Monday night (sans Olympics) since May 1999. The Fear Factor juggernaut likely kept the lid on viewership of Fox's 9 p.m. Married by America reality show (7 million viewers, 3.5/8), but CBS' 9 p.m. tentpole Everybody Loves Raymond (19.5 million, 6.3/15) showed its mettle and held up well. NBC's cooled off with Meet My Folks (11.9 million, 5.9/15) from 9:30-11 p.m. while CBS' CSI: Miami (18.8 million, 6.8/18) took the lead at 10 p.m. For the night, CBS won in total viewers (16.9 million) while NBC prevailed in adults 18-49 (6.9/18). Fox was a distant third (8 million, 3.6/9) but ABC was stuck in the Nielsen cellar with 6.9 million, 2.2/6)...
- 3/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC has become the flagship for an armada of American-made reality shows heading to MIP-TV this month. The sales drive highlights a dramatic reversal of the trend that has seen European reality TV formats dominating the networks here. Now NBC Enterprises is capitalizing on the buzz surrounding a plethora of NBC's domestic reality programs to help shift the balance away from format imports flooding the U.S. from Europe. Included in the NBC format lineup to be rolled out at the MIP-TV market, set for March 24-28, are the NBC Studios/Nash Entertainment-produced shows Meet My Folks, Who Wants to Marry My Mom and Around the World in 80 Dates.
- 3/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Monday was a big night for Fear Factor and a so-so night for most everything else in primetime, including the two-hour debut of Fox's latest reality series, Married by America. NBC won the night in the adults 18-49 demographic (4.8 rating/12 share) on the strength of its 8-9:30 p.m. installment of Fear Factor (16.3 million viewers, 7.0/18). CBS prevailed in viewers (14.2 million) thanks to solid showings for repeats of its regular comedy block and CSI: Miami. NBC's 90-minute edition of Meet My Folks (11.3 million, 5.4/13) tailed off from its Fear Factor lead-in but still easily won its 9:30-11 p.m. slot in the demo. Fox ranked third for the night in viewers and adults 18-49 with the opening salvo of Married by America (8.6 million, 4.1/10), though viewership of the matchmaking show did inch up during its two-hour span. ABC was deep in the doldrums for the night (7.4 million, 2.6/7) with another lackluster showing from I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! at 8 p.m., and it didn't get any better with The Practice at 9 p.m. or Miracles at 10 p.m.
Fox had the most-watched program of the week -- thank you, American Idol -- but NBC and CBS split the overall primetime bragging rights for the week ended Sept. 1. The Wednesday edition of American Idol: The Search for a Superstar was by far the top-rated program of the week in total viewers (16.9 million) and in the adults 18-49 demo (8.3 rating/23 share). The Tuesday edition of Idol was a close second with 15 million viewers and a 7.5/20 in the demo. Still, CBS led the primetime pack in total viewers (7.6 million) for the week on the strength of not one but two CSI: Crime Scene Investigation reruns (on Monday and Thursday) and the regular Monday rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond. NBC narrowly beat Fox in the demo derby (NBC's 2.8/9 to Fox's 2.7/9) with a strong showing from its Monday reality lineup of Fear Factor, Dog Eat Dog and Meet My Folks.
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