Working hard or hardly working? For at least one of the stars of Retired at 35, it's the latter.
"It is like hardly working. I can tell you that's the best kind!" George Segal tells TVGuide.com. "It's [shows] like this that keep you from even considering retirement."
Retired at 35 star George Segal: Will work for cigars, banjo
On the new TV Land sitcom (premieres Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c), Johnathan McClain stars as David, a 35-year-old stressed-out business drone who abruptly quits his job while visiting his parents, Alan (Segal) and Elaine (Jessica Walter), and subsequently moves in with them. His epiphany inspires his mother to dump Alan, leaving ...
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When it came time to lure George Segal back to primetime television for TV Land's new sitcom Retired at 35, he had two mandates: his character would have to smoke cigars and play the banjo.
"I said [it was that] or no dice," the industry veteran, 76, joked Wednesday at the Television Critics Assn.'s winter preview session.
Added series creator and executive producer Chris Case: "There was no banjo in the original pilot script until George came on board. It's so collaborative, this medium. You go, you know what George Segal plays the banjo. Let's do that."
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Retired at 35, premiering Jan. 19 at 10:30/9:30c, follows David, a 35-year-old hard-working New Yorker who...
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