Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios has ordered a pilot for Dinks, an improvisational style multi-cam comedy starring and executive produced by real-life married couple June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. Grace & Frankie creator Marta Kauffman is writer, executive producer and showrunner of the project, which is produced by her Okay Goodnight banner, Amazon MGM Studios and Lionsgate Television.
Dinks (Dual Income No Kids) is about Josh (Scheer) and Charlie (Raphael), a couple who, in absence of a marriage or kids, decide to literally build a life together by renovating their nightmare of a dream house.
Alex Fernie is directing the pilot, which Kauffman co-wrote with Hannah K.S. Canter. Kauffman, Canter, Raphael and Scheer executive produce with Okay Goodnight’s Robbie Rowe Tollin. Jesse Schiller serves as a producer and Molly Arkin as a co-producer.
A previous version of Dinks – then called A Lot – with the same creative auspices, including Raphael, Scheer,...
Dinks (Dual Income No Kids) is about Josh (Scheer) and Charlie (Raphael), a couple who, in absence of a marriage or kids, decide to literally build a life together by renovating their nightmare of a dream house.
Alex Fernie is directing the pilot, which Kauffman co-wrote with Hannah K.S. Canter. Kauffman, Canter, Raphael and Scheer executive produce with Okay Goodnight’s Robbie Rowe Tollin. Jesse Schiller serves as a producer and Molly Arkin as a co-producer.
A previous version of Dinks – then called A Lot – with the same creative auspices, including Raphael, Scheer,...
- 4/22/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CBS is taking an alternative approach to comedy development with A Lot, an improvisational-style multi-camera series starring June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. The project hails from Grace and Frankie creator Marta Kauffman through her Okay Goodnight banner and Lionsgate Television. The project reunites Raphael with Kauffman after her run as a series regular on Grace and Frankie, which ran on Netflix for seven seasons.
Because of the comedy’s improv concept, after hearing the pitch, a decision was made to shoot some material for CBS executives to see rather than trying to script it through the traditional development process.
The proof of concept for the comedy, starring husband-and-wife actor-comedians Raphael and Scheer, who have improv background, already has been filmed with Alex Fernie directing, I hear. The footage is expected to be screened alongside CBS’ traditional comedy pilots ordered this season — both multi-cam — a father-son sitcom starring Damon Wayans...
Because of the comedy’s improv concept, after hearing the pitch, a decision was made to shoot some material for CBS executives to see rather than trying to script it through the traditional development process.
The proof of concept for the comedy, starring husband-and-wife actor-comedians Raphael and Scheer, who have improv background, already has been filmed with Alex Fernie directing, I hear. The footage is expected to be screened alongside CBS’ traditional comedy pilots ordered this season — both multi-cam — a father-son sitcom starring Damon Wayans...
- 2/18/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Last week, more than 400 TV creators and showrunners — all of them women — sent letters to top executives at Hollywood studios demanding that specific safety protocols be put in place for pregnant employees in states where abortion has been outlawed, or soon will be. Now, letters of support signed by 594 men — including J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Greg Berlanti, Donald Glover, Aaron Sorkin, David E. Kelley, Taika Waititi and Ryan Murphy — have been sent to the same companies.
The text of the letter is short, simply saying the undersigned stand with their “female, trans & non-binary showrunner colleagues in demanding a response from our employers regarding the imminent crisis” at hand. It was delivered by replying-all to the first letter, and was sent to Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Apple, NBC Universal, Amazon, Lionsgate and AMC.
These activist correspondences have been instigated by the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs decison, which overturned Roe v.
The text of the letter is short, simply saying the undersigned stand with their “female, trans & non-binary showrunner colleagues in demanding a response from our employers regarding the imminent crisis” at hand. It was delivered by replying-all to the first letter, and was sent to Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Apple, NBC Universal, Amazon, Lionsgate and AMC.
These activist correspondences have been instigated by the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs decison, which overturned Roe v.
- 8/1/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
Writers and others are reacting to WGA West president David A. Goodman landslide re-election win tonight. The incumbent brushed off challenger Phyllis Nagy after an often bitter campaign amid the guild’s ongoing standoff with the Association of Talent Agents. Read some of the reaction below.
Okay, good. Now let’s move on. #WGA
— Christopher Cantwell (@ifyoucantwell) September 17, 2019
Never ever prouder of my union than I am right this moment. #wga
— Harley Peyton (@HarleyPeyton) September 17, 2019
Thank you to All the #WGA candidates. It's been so inspirational to watch you advocate for our family of writers. Tactics may have differed, but you all clearly wanted what's best for us. Thank you all for your dedication and your service. I'm proud to know you. #IStandWithTheWGA
— Becky Kirsch (@BeckyKirsch) September 17, 2019
WGA Elections Are Over! Congrats to David Goodman, Marjorie David, Michele Mulroney, Liz Alper, Angelina Burnett, Robb Chavis, Dante W. Harper, Zoe Marshall,...
Okay, good. Now let’s move on. #WGA
— Christopher Cantwell (@ifyoucantwell) September 17, 2019
Never ever prouder of my union than I am right this moment. #wga
— Harley Peyton (@HarleyPeyton) September 17, 2019
Thank you to All the #WGA candidates. It's been so inspirational to watch you advocate for our family of writers. Tactics may have differed, but you all clearly wanted what's best for us. Thank you all for your dedication and your service. I'm proud to know you. #IStandWithTheWGA
— Becky Kirsch (@BeckyKirsch) September 17, 2019
WGA Elections Are Over! Congrats to David Goodman, Marjorie David, Michele Mulroney, Liz Alper, Angelina Burnett, Robb Chavis, Dante W. Harper, Zoe Marshall,...
- 9/17/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Star Wars: The Force Awakens may have revived Chewbacca's career, but it left several extras and side characters hanging out to dry. In the hilarious cold open for Conan's Thursday Star Wars-themed episode, a washed-up crew of intergalactic rejects – played by Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Ron Funches, Aisha Tyler, T.J. Miller and Alex Fernie – talk smack and air their grievances at a deli.
The crew lobs insults at "Mr. Hollwood" Chewbacca, who's flirting with a woman in a nearby booth. "Hey Chewie, you look good!" Jango Fett (Miller) sarcastically shouts.
The crew lobs insults at "Mr. Hollwood" Chewbacca, who's flirting with a woman in a nearby booth. "Hey Chewie, you look good!" Jango Fett (Miller) sarcastically shouts.
- 12/18/2015
- Rollingstone.com
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