NBC's Working the Engels will not move forward. The Canadian family comedy, starring Andrea Martin and Kacey Rohl, has been canceled after one season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The co-production through former NBC exec Marc Graboff's joint venture Halfire-core Entertainment marked the first sitcom collaboration between a U.S. and Canadian broadcaster. The comedy, written and created by Katie and Jane Ford, was picked up straight to series in November. Engels launched on NBC in July to 2.7 million total viewers and has slipped in subsequent weeks. NBC on Wednesday yanked the series from its schedule,
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- 8/20/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg, Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Martin Short and Eugene Levy are set to guest star on the Andrea Martin comedy vehicle Working the Engels for NBC and Shaw Media. Martin, Short and Levy worked together in the Toronto production of Godspell before later joining Sctv as performers and writers. The Halfire-core comedy will see Short play Chuck Pastry, the head of huge corporation Big Pastry, while Levy will perform the role of Arthur Horowitz, a family-oriented, well-connected and much-loved lawyer who is a neighbor of the Engels. The series, created and written by Katie Ford and Jane Ford, centers on
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- 12/10/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC is set to team with Halfire-core for an Andrea Martin comedy vehicle. As part of its series deal with former NBC executive Marc Graboff's join-venture, the network will co-produce 12 episodes of the Canadian comedy, Working the Engels, starring the Sctv veteran. The arrangement marks the first time a U.S. and Canadian broadcaster have collaborated to produce a half-hour network comedy that will make it to air. The series, created and written by Katie and Jane Ford, centers on a family who must band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them a mountain of debt. The Engels must
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- 11/14/2013
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NBC is co-producing 12 episodes of the comedy “Working the Engels” in its first collaboration with a Canadian partner. The series will star “Sctv” vet Andrea Martin. The network has entered a deal to co-produce the half-hour singlecam comedy from producers Halfire-core Entertainment in partnership with Shaw Media. Also read: Andy Kaufman Still Alive, Still Posing as Sacha Baron Cohen The series, created and written by Katie Ford and Jane Ford, focuses on a family who come together when their father passes away, leaving them a mountain of debt. They band together to take over their father’s law firm, even though only one.
- 11/14/2013
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
NBC has picked up 12-episode series single-camera comedy Working The Engels, starring Sctv alumna Andrea Martin. NBC will co-produce the series with Core Media/Noreen Halpern’s Halfire-core Entertainment, which has a 3-for-1 drama series deal at NBC, and Canada’s Shaw Media. American networks have teamed with Canadian broadcasters on comedy projects before — most recently last season when ABC partnered with Shaw to co-produce a half-hour by Bob Martin — but this is the first time such a collaboration has gone to series. Working The Engles, created and written by Katie Ford and Jane Ford, centers on a family who must band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them a mountain of debt. The Engels must all go to work running Dad’s storefront law firm, with one minor problem — daughter Jenna is the only one who is qualified to practice law.
- 11/14/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Halfire-Core Entertainment, the joint production and financing venture between TV producer Noreen Halpern‘s Halfire Entertainment and Core Media Group led by Marc Graboff, has added two to its exec ranks. Stephanie Fontana, niece to Borgias and Oz creator Tom Fontana, will serve as Director of Development and Production based in Halfire-core’s La outpost. The 18-year TV development and production vet’s credits include the CW’s Reaper, ABC’s Desperate Housewives, and HBO’s Oz. Also joining the company is Toronto-based Ben Murray, who will serve as Director of Business Development after runs as director of biz affairs and development at Serendipity Point Films and as a programmer for the Toronto Film Festival. The pair will help develop Halfire-core’s upcoming slate including half-hour comedy Working The Engels written and exec produced by Katie and Jane Ford and exec produced by Howard Busgang, Tom Nursall and Halpern. Fontana...
- 8/12/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Faces Of Benefit. Jean and Jane Ford. Jean and Jane Ford have always been good at solving dilemmas. In 1970s, the twins from Indiana couldn’t decide whether to open a casserole cafe or a cosmetics shop. So what did they do? “We literally flipped a coin,” Jane says. That’s how the sisters came to found the San Francisco-based Benefit makeup line, which is now owned by L.V.M.H. and sold at nearly 1,000 cosmetics counters worldwide. But it’s solving women’s beauty problems that the sisters do best. “We could never find the right concealer,” says Jean, who tends to be the more design- and marketing-oriented sister. So she and Jane went out and made their own formulas, ranging from Boi-ing (an industrial-strength cover-up) to Erase Paste (a brightening camouflage that—take it from us—obliterates dark circles and blemishes). “That was our first kind of milestone,...
- 7/8/2009
- Vanity Fair
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