CBS is back in business with Enlisted alum Geoff Stults. The network is teaming with the actor-producer to develop a comedy about a hero bachelor, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Stults and writing partner Dave Whatley will pen the script and exec produce the untitled comedy, a co-production from Sony Pictures Television and CBS Television Studios. Stults, who last year starred in CBS pilot Cuz-Bros, is also eyeing the comedy as a starring vehicle for himself. See more Faces of Fall 2014 The half-hour centers on Martin "Marty" Booker, a firefighter, average Joe, ladies' man and three-
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- 10/29/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In just four weeks, we’ll find out if Anthony Lapaglia and David Schwimmer will stage comebacks to prime time, or if Flash will really fly for the CW. Chances are it will, but what about those comic book-inspired dramas in the works at Fox and NBC?
Here’s your chance to see all the possibilities, but don’t get your hopes up too high: A majority of these pilots won’t make the cut for fall.
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NCIS: New Orleans: The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle.
Here’s your chance to see all the possibilities, but don’t get your hopes up too high: A majority of these pilots won’t make the cut for fall.
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NCIS: New Orleans: The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle.
- 4/21/2014
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
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Syfy has renewed Face Off for a seventh season. The upcoming season will have a “Life and Death” theme and introduce a new judge.
Denis O’Hare gave Vulture a teaser about his character in the upcoming season of American Horror Story. It turns out he’ll be a major rival to Jessica Lange‘s character, “We’ll have lots of scenes with each other, but we’ll be battling.” He’ll also be appearing in more episodes than last season.
Denis O’Hare with Greg Kinnear
TheWrap says that Gwen Stefani will take over Christina Aguilera‘s spot as a judge on The Voice when Aguilera takes a season off due to her pregnancy.
ABC Family is getting back into the supernatural with a new pilot about a woman who solves murders by pulling memories from the dead.
Luke Perry will appear in an episode of Hot in Cleveland according to TV Guide.
Syfy has renewed Face Off for a seventh season. The upcoming season will have a “Life and Death” theme and introduce a new judge.
Denis O’Hare gave Vulture a teaser about his character in the upcoming season of American Horror Story. It turns out he’ll be a major rival to Jessica Lange‘s character, “We’ll have lots of scenes with each other, but we’ll be battling.” He’ll also be appearing in more episodes than last season.
Denis O’Hare with Greg Kinnear
TheWrap says that Gwen Stefani will take over Christina Aguilera‘s spot as a judge on The Voice when Aguilera takes a season off due to her pregnancy.
ABC Family is getting back into the supernatural with a new pilot about a woman who solves murders by pulling memories from the dead.
Luke Perry will appear in an episode of Hot in Cleveland according to TV Guide.
- 4/21/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
Exclusive: Another actor from a comedy series whose fate is up in the air has boarded CBS’ multi-camera odd-couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros. Cougar Town co-star Ian Gomez has been cast in the pilot, toplined by Geoff Stults and Parker Young of Fox’s Enlisted. Cuz-Bros, from writers David Caspe and Erik Sommers, Sony TV, CBS Studios and Fanfare, centers on Nick (Stults), a successful, suave ladies man working as a sportscaster for a local Los Angeles TV station whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin, Barry (Young), needs a place to stay. Gomez, repped by Apa, Intellectual Artists Management and attorney Jonathan Moonves, plays Phil, Nick’s poss at the TV station. He is being cast as a guest star as he is in second position to Cougar Town, the way Stults and Young are to Enlisted, making Cuz-Bros a rare pilot where most...
- 4/18/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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EW reports that Starz has ordered The Chair, a reality series from the producer of Project Greenlight. The competition will follow two first-time directors as they direct their version of the same movie script. A team of mentors — including Zachary Quinto — will oversee the process.
Twilight alum Booboo Stewart has joined the cast of The Descendants, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That’s the Disney Channel movie about the children of villains from classic animated Disney movies. Stewart will play the son of Jafar.
Booboo Stewart
After CBS announced that Stephen Colbert would take over as The Late Show host, the fun was watching the meltdowns on the right wing blogosphere. Rush Lumbaugh responded that CBS “declared war on the heartland of America” while Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro called Colbert’s faux pundit character “political blackface“.
Meanwhile, Colbert’s promotion raises new questions like what will replace The Colbert Report...
EW reports that Starz has ordered The Chair, a reality series from the producer of Project Greenlight. The competition will follow two first-time directors as they direct their version of the same movie script. A team of mentors — including Zachary Quinto — will oversee the process.
Twilight alum Booboo Stewart has joined the cast of The Descendants, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That’s the Disney Channel movie about the children of villains from classic animated Disney movies. Stewart will play the son of Jafar.
Booboo Stewart
After CBS announced that Stephen Colbert would take over as The Late Show host, the fun was watching the meltdowns on the right wing blogosphere. Rush Lumbaugh responded that CBS “declared war on the heartland of America” while Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro called Colbert’s faux pundit character “political blackface“.
Meanwhile, Colbert’s promotion raises new questions like what will replace The Colbert Report...
- 4/11/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
Guy Branum talks gay bar names, Michael Fassbender’s Sir Ian impression, Parker Young joins Geoff Stultz for new pilot
Enlisted is almost certainly dead, and since I need a way to keep Parker Young on my television, I’m thrilled he’s joining the unfortunately titled Cuz-Bros with his Enlisted costar Geoff Stults. Stultz will play an uptight, put-together man whose life is turned upside down when his screwup cousin moves in. Young is that cousin, described as “sweet, clueless and naive with an uncanny ability to say/do the wrong thing at the wrong time, even though he means really well,” which is exactly the character Young plays to well.
Chris Geidner was in Denver for the Utah marriage appeal, and it seems one judge is on the side of equality, one thinks states have the right to make the rules, and another had pointed questions for both sides.
Enlisted is almost certainly dead, and since I need a way to keep Parker Young on my television, I’m thrilled he’s joining the unfortunately titled Cuz-Bros with his Enlisted costar Geoff Stults. Stultz will play an uptight, put-together man whose life is turned upside down when his screwup cousin moves in. Young is that cousin, described as “sweet, clueless and naive with an uncanny ability to say/do the wrong thing at the wrong time, even though he means really well,” which is exactly the character Young plays to well.
Chris Geidner was in Denver for the Utah marriage appeal, and it seems one judge is on the side of equality, one thinks states have the right to make the rules, and another had pointed questions for both sides.
- 4/11/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Exclusive: From bros on Fox’s Enlisted to cuz-bros in a CBS pilot. Parker Young is set as the co-lead opposite his Enlisted co-star Geoff Stults in CBS’ multi-camera odd-couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros, from writers David Caspe and Erik Sommers, Sony TV, CBS Studios and Fanfare. It centers on Nick (Stults), a successful, suave ladies man working as a sportscaster for a local Los Angeles TV station whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin, Barry (Young), needs a place to stay. Barry is sweet, clueless and naive with an uncanny ability to say/do the wrong thing at the wrong time, even though he means really well. Both Stults and Young are cast in second position to Enlisted, which has been pulled after a low-rated midseason run on Fridays and is not expected to come back. That series revolves around three brothers (Stults, Young,...
- 4/10/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Happy Endings creator David Caspe is finding more joy in pilot season.
He has received his third pilot order, this time from Comedy Central, which has signed up for Duty, a single-camera cop comedy to be executive produced by Caspe and written by ex-Happy Endings scribes Matthew Libman and Daniel Libman. There will be a Happy connection onscreen, too: The show follows a former football stud named Kyle (Ugly Americans’ Mike O’Gorman) who returns to his hometown after hitting hard times and joins the police force opposite his childhood best friend, Lonnie (Brooklyn Nine-Nine scribe Gil Ozeri, who...
He has received his third pilot order, this time from Comedy Central, which has signed up for Duty, a single-camera cop comedy to be executive produced by Caspe and written by ex-Happy Endings scribes Matthew Libman and Daniel Libman. There will be a Happy connection onscreen, too: The show follows a former football stud named Kyle (Ugly Americans’ Mike O’Gorman) who returns to his hometown after hitting hard times and joins the police force opposite his childhood best friend, Lonnie (Brooklyn Nine-Nine scribe Gil Ozeri, who...
- 4/2/2014
- by Dan Snierson
- EW - Inside TV
Exclusive: That ’70s Show alumna Debra Jo Rupp and Andrea Anders have joined Geoff Stults in CBS’ multi-camera odd couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros, from writers David Caspe and Erik Sommers, Sony TV, CBS Studios and Fanfare. It centers on Nick (Stults), a successful, suave ladies man working as a sportscaster for a local Los Angeles TV station whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin needs a place to stay. Rupp plays Merle, Nick’s sweet, no-nonsense, widowed mother who lives nearby. Anders plays Stacey, the smart, tough lead anchor of the local news in L.A. where Nick does the sports. Rupp, repped by Stone Manners Salners and Wright Entertainment, has been starring in the one-woman show Becoming Dr. Ruth the past few years. Related: 2014 CBS Pilots...
- 3/25/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Erik Sommers, co-creator of CBS’ multi-camera odd couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros, has signed an overall deal with the studio behind it, Sony Pictures TV. Cuz-Bros, which Sommers co-wrote with Happy Endings creator David Caspe, stars Geoff Stults as a successful, suave ladies man whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin needs a place to stay. Sommers and Caspe executive produce with Fanfare’s Jamie Tarses. This marks the first overall pact with Sommers, a rising star at Sony TV, which has been impressed by his stints as a co-executive producer on the studio’s comedy series Happy Endings and Community as well as his development. This season, Sommers sold two comedies, Cuz-Bros to CBS and a medical half-hour to ABC with Will Gluck producing. UTA-repped Sommers started his career in animation with stints on Drawn Together and American Dad!
- 3/14/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
A day after committing to three seasons of The Big Bang Theory, CBS has renewed 18 shows, which leaves only The Mentalist, Intelligence and, most worrisome, The Crazy Ones with their fates undetermined.
John Cho will star opposite Karen Gillan in the ABC comedy pilot Selfie, about a woman who starts over after being the star of a humiliating viral video. Cho will play an expert she hires to help rehabilitate her reputation.
Don’t care about the source, I just want to keep my John Cho delivery system working.
Syfy has ordered its first mini-series since 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter — and it’s a return to a series set in space. Ascension is described as “part Battlestar (Galatica) and part Downton Abbey,” and follows a space shuttle that was secretly sent on a mission to find a world that can be colonized back in 1963. If the mini-series is successful,...
John Cho will star opposite Karen Gillan in the ABC comedy pilot Selfie, about a woman who starts over after being the star of a humiliating viral video. Cho will play an expert she hires to help rehabilitate her reputation.
Don’t care about the source, I just want to keep my John Cho delivery system working.
Syfy has ordered its first mini-series since 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter — and it’s a return to a series set in space. Ascension is described as “part Battlestar (Galatica) and part Downton Abbey,” and follows a space shuttle that was secretly sent on a mission to find a world that can be colonized back in 1963. If the mini-series is successful,...
- 3/14/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
With the fate of low-rated Fox freshman comedy Enlisted in limbo, its star Geoff Stults has booked the main lead in CBS’ multi-camera odd couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros, from writers David Caspe and Erik Sommers, Sony TV, CBS Studios and Fanfare. It centers on Nick (Stults), a successful, suave ladies man working as a sportscaster for a local Los Angeles TV station whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin needs a place to stay. Stults was cast as a guest star given his commitment to Enlisted, on which he is a regular. Enlisted, which launched on Fridays, has been very soft in the ratings, though it perked up a bit when moved from 9:30 to 9 Pm. Still, a renewal is considered a very long shot. In a calculated risk, pilots often cast actors from existing bubble series. In majority of the cases, the bet pays off,...
- 3/14/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Enlisted star Geoff Stults has set up a contingency plan. The star of the critically praised but low-rated Fox freshman comedy has been tapped to star in CBS' David Caspe and Erik Sommers comedy pilot Cuz-Bros, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Stults is being credited as a guest star, but the role is in second position to Enlisted, meaning the actor would remain on Enlisted should Fox renew the comedy for a second season. Photos: Faces of Pilot Season 2014 Cuz-Bros centers on a successful and suave ladies' man whose perfect life is turned upside down when his
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- 3/14/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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