He's baaaaack. FX has bought Charlie Sheen's new sitcom, Anger Management, to air next summer, the cable network announced Thursday.
The project, based loosely on the 2003 Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson film of the same name, will begin production in early 2012 on the 10-episode first season. Like Nicholson's character, Sheen will play an anger management therapist who is in need of some serious couch time himself and wreaks havoc on his patients' personal lives. Sheen will retain a...
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Charlie Sheen is shopping around his series based on the film Anger Management, Entertainment Weekly reports.
"I chose Anger Management because, while it might be a big stretch for me to play a guy with serious anger management issues, I think it is a great concept," Sheen said in a statement. "It also provides me with real ownership in the series, a certain amount of creative control and the chance to be back in business with one of my favorite movie producers of all time, Joe Roth."
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ABC may have plans to "tidy up" their schedule with a new small-screen version of the 2002 Jennifer Lopez movie Maid in Manhattan. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Alphabet is in negotiations for a series adaptation of the romantic comedy, which will be written by Chad Hodge and executive produced by Lopez and Joe Roth. So far the series has received a put pilot commitment.Although the hourlong dramedy will share the same name, the series will be creating new characters and new situations. The lead will remain a young Latina from the Bronx struggling with her life while working in a Manhattan hotel, but the show will center on the relationships with her coworkers, Hodge said.Roth previously developed a script for an ABC adaptation with a different writer during the 2004-05 development season. — Adam Bryant
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Major League Soccer has confirmed what Drew Carey revealed last night on Monday Night Football: Seattle will be home to MLS' 15th franchise. Carey will be a minority owner in the as-yet-unnamed team, which begins play in 2009.The Price Is Right host is a rabid soccer fan and hosted a series for Travel Channel last year called Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures, which focused on the sport's premier event, the World Cup.Former Walt Disney Studios and Twentieth Century Fox chairman Joe Roth, currently running Revolution Studios, will be a majority partner of the club.In a statement, league commissioner Don Garber said, "the inclusion of Seattle in MLS provides us with a true gateway to Asia for a sport that is at the forefront of today’s globalization. We look forward to Major League Soccer’s debut in the Emerald City in 2009."
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