Los Angeles — There's the Al Madrigal who speaks in the crisp, skeptical tones of a "Daily Show" correspondent, whether grilling Arizona foes of Latino studies or questioning the sanity of Puerto Ricans who want statehood in a dysfunctional United States of Sequester.
Then there's the comedian showcased in his first hour-long stand-up special, a tour guide through the life of a family man dealing with lippy kids, urban absurdity and angst. Gone is the bravado of the faux TV reporter he plays for Jon Stewart, replaced by a bemused grin and an appealing touch of goofiness.
Although no swashbuckler takes the stage in "Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit Crying?" debuting 11 p.m. Edt Friday on Comedy Central, don't be fooled by his modest soft-shoe – a few hesitant steps toward the audience, a few steps back: Madrigal is relishing success after a determined march toward a place in show business.
Then there's the comedian showcased in his first hour-long stand-up special, a tour guide through the life of a family man dealing with lippy kids, urban absurdity and angst. Gone is the bravado of the faux TV reporter he plays for Jon Stewart, replaced by a bemused grin and an appealing touch of goofiness.
Although no swashbuckler takes the stage in "Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit Crying?" debuting 11 p.m. Edt Friday on Comedy Central, don't be fooled by his modest soft-shoe – a few hesitant steps toward the audience, a few steps back: Madrigal is relishing success after a determined march toward a place in show business.
- 4/25/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Editor’S Note: This article was first published at Film Music Magazine in response to Bruce Broughton’s comments published with Chris Alpiar’s article “What I Hope, Want and Expect from a Composers Union”.
Follow The Thread:
Jai Meghan: Are You “Pro”, Union? Bruce Broughton: An Amcl Response
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We need to make plain one fundamental fact and then let’s start the debate:
The WGA Agreement Has Nothing To Do With AMPTP Negotiations — They Are Completely Separate.
The Amcl committee does its supporters no good by confusing the WGA with the AMPTP and this must stop.
This parsing of words hides a potential cancer which can eat up what we have worked 4+ years to help organize. When we parse words instead of explaining positions, we sow the seeds of disloyalty and mistrust.
We must create a union that does what is right, not merely what is convenient.
Follow The Thread:
Jai Meghan: Are You “Pro”, Union? Bruce Broughton: An Amcl Response
——————
We need to make plain one fundamental fact and then let’s start the debate:
The WGA Agreement Has Nothing To Do With AMPTP Negotiations — They Are Completely Separate.
The Amcl committee does its supporters no good by confusing the WGA with the AMPTP and this must stop.
This parsing of words hides a potential cancer which can eat up what we have worked 4+ years to help organize. When we parse words instead of explaining positions, we sow the seeds of disloyalty and mistrust.
We must create a union that does what is right, not merely what is convenient.
- 5/24/2010
- by SCOREcast Team
- SCOREcastOnline.com
They are the two comeback stories of this pilot season, projects developed years ago that have been resurrected and have landed orders at the broadcast networks.
The two comedies -- "Nirvana" at Fox and "Outsourced" at NBC -- have something else in common: They both are ensemble shows about Indians and Indian Americans.
A third project, a U.S. version of popular British comedy "The Kumars at No. 42," about an immigrant Indian family, also is poised for revival. Eight years after NBC took a stab at the format, the show's British producers are shopping it to U.S. networks, including FX.
Is it a coincidence or a delayed "Slumdog Millionaire" effect?
"I do think that 'Slumdog' had a lot to do with it," a TV studio executive said of India's rapid emergence on the U.S. pop culture scene. "It was boiling, hovering there, with the increasing popularity of Indian clothing,...
The two comedies -- "Nirvana" at Fox and "Outsourced" at NBC -- have something else in common: They both are ensemble shows about Indians and Indian Americans.
A third project, a U.S. version of popular British comedy "The Kumars at No. 42," about an immigrant Indian family, also is poised for revival. Eight years after NBC took a stab at the format, the show's British producers are shopping it to U.S. networks, including FX.
Is it a coincidence or a delayed "Slumdog Millionaire" effect?
"I do think that 'Slumdog' had a lot to do with it," a TV studio executive said of India's rapid emergence on the U.S. pop culture scene. "It was boiling, hovering there, with the increasing popularity of Indian clothing,...
- 1/31/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emmy winner Jean Smart has been tapped to star opposite John Goodman in CBS' comedy pilot Center of the Universe, while Oliver Hudson has landed the lead in The Mountain, McG's drama pilot for the WB Network. In other casting news, Al Madrigal, star of Fox's series The Ortegas, has joined NBC's untitled Matt Tarses/Bill Wrubel comedy pilot, while Patrick Breen has come on board UPN's comedy pilot Kevin Hill. Meanwhile, there has been a change at the helm of Fox's comedy pilot Mr. Ed, with Marco Pennette in negotiations to come on board as a writer/executive producer. Universe, from Warner Bros. TV, studio-based the Tannenbaum Co. and CBS Prods., centers on a family man (Goodman) who tries to keep the peace with his extended Chicago family. Smart will play Goodman's wife.
- 2/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The major broadcast networks have made significant strides in hiring Latino talent over the past year but are virtually ignoring Asian Americans in primetime series, according to reports issued Monday by two advocacy groups. Delivering its fourth annual report card that grades networks on their efforts to promote diversity, the Los Angeles-based National Latino Media Council hailed the broadcasters -- especially ABC and Fox -- for increased hiring of Latinos both on-camera and off. "The overall grades for all four networks are very encouraging; we are finally seeing some progress," Esteban Torres, a retired congressman who chairs the council, said in a statement. The council -- which graded the networks on opportunities for minority actors, directors, writer-producers and executives as well as on program development, procurement and overall commitment to diversity -- singled out for praise such Latino-themed series as ABC's sitcom The George Lopez Show, NBC's narcotics drama Kingpin (a midseason show from 2002-03 that did not make the fall schedule) and Fox's comedy The Ortegas, which was recently delayed to midseason from a scheduled fall launch.
- 10/14/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox Broadcasting Co. is tweaking its fall primetime lineup, sending The Bernie Mac Show to Sunday and The Ortegas to midseason in order to find a more desirable time slot for The O.C., the network's summer success story. The teen serial drama, which popped for Fox in its August debut, will take over the Wednesday 9 p.m. slot as of Oct. 29. Fox won't roll out the bulk of its new fall lineup until the week of Oct. 20 because of its commitment to carrying Major League Baseball postseason games. The O.C. bowed in early August and had initially been slated to air in the Thursday 9 p.m. slot once Fox was finished with baseball in October. But after a strong summer run in the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot, Fox brass decided not to send the show into one of primetime's toughest berths opposite CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and NBC's Will & Grace.
- 9/30/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gavin Polone's Pariah is bringing the acclaimed British comedy series Father Ted to the United States. NBC-based Pariah has teamed with London-based Hattrick Prods., the producer of Father Ted, which ran on Channel 4 for three years, to create an American version of the show and has recruited Emmy-nominated writer-producer Spike Feresten to adapt the original series. Father Ted marks the second collaboration between Pariah and Hattrick. Their first project, The Ortegas, based on Hattrick's hit comedy series for BBC The Kumars at No. 42, landed on the fall Fox schedule.
- 6/29/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After an extensive nationwide talent search, comedian Al Madrigal has been cast as the lead in NBC's hot half-hour project The Ortegas. Based on the hit British series The Kumars at No. 42, Ortegas revolves around a multigenerational upper-middle-class Mexican family in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley whose son, first-generation Mexican-American Luis (Madrigal), hosts a talk show on a set built by his father in the family's backyard. The original show's producer, U.K.-based Hat Trick Prods., and Gavin Polone's NBC-based Pariah Television are producing the hybrid sitcom/talk show pilot written by Wally Wolodarsky and executive produced by Polone, Wolodarsky and Hat Trick's Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue.
- 10/23/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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