Jeffrey Tambor, Kyle Bornheimer
Jeffrey Tambor will reunite with the creator of Arrested Development as a cast member of The Bridget Show, a Mitchell Hurwitz-produced comedy pilot for ABC.
The Bridget Show stars Gilmore gal Lauren Graham as a former talk-show queen attempting a comeback after a disastrous romance. Tambor will play Bridget's business manager.
In other ABC pilot news, Kyle Bornheimer's Worst Week may very well be over, now that he has ...
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Will Arnett
Fox is brining Arrested Development star Will Arnett back to its network.
Arnett has inked a lucrative development deal, which will give the funnyman and frequent 30 Rock guest star a few extra perks. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the deal, promises Arnett complete creative control over choosing the writers, producers and directors he wants to work with, as well as the content of the show that will be developed for him.
See who Arnett would like to work with on his new show after the jump.
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Jason Biggs by Michael Bezjian/ WireImage.com
Arrested Development mastermind Mitch Hurwitz will tackle more family dynamics in a new CBS comedy, The Hollywood Reporter reports.The as-yet-untitled sitcom focuses on a family that "loves too much" — namely the parents who insist on butting in on their adult children's lives.Jason Biggs is in negotiations to join the project, which has received a pilot commitment and another six-episode order from CBS. Hurwitz will pen the script with Arrested cohort James Vallely. The two, along with Biggs, are executive producing the show with Hurwitz's Tantamount production partners, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. — Joyce Eng
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Jason Bateman and Will Arnett by Barry King/WireImage.com
Mitch Hurwitz has enlisted three Arrested Development alums — Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler — to voice roles for his new animated Fox comedy. Based on a live-action Aussie series, Sit Down, Shut Up centers on a staff of high school teachers who place their own needs and agendas ahead of the students'. Also among the voice cast are Cheri Oteri, Will Forte, Regina King and Nick Kroll. — MWM
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During a Friday conference call regarding Battlestar Galactica's own fate, David Eick revealed that the pilot he has over at Fox — the sci-fi-themed Them — lives on, perhaps as a mid-season premiere. "It's still in play and something the network is very actively talking about," he said. "We'll know more in the next weeks and months."Meanwhile, Mitchell Hurwitz's The Thick of It, a BBC comedy adaptation originally eyed (but ultimately passed on) by ABC, is now garnering interest from Showtime, NBC and HBO.
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The latest pilot castings, from the Hollywood Reporter:• John Michael Higgins has landed the lead — and as such will be reunited with Arrested Development's Mitchell Hurwitz — in ABC's The Thick of It.• Bill Smitrovich (Without a Trace) is Jamie Kennedy's pop and Jason Antoon (The Lost Room) is Lee Majors' lab technician in Fox's Lee & Me.• Amanda Detmer (What About Brian) and Paul F. Tompkins are wife and husband in 1321 Clover, a CBS comedy about a suburban family.• Rosa Blasi (Strong Medicine) is a big-name publicist in the CW's Eight Days a Week.• Kim Coles is an angel in the CW's Hell on Earth.
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Question: I think Arrested Development is the funniest show I've ever seen, and the BBC's The Thick of It is definitely one of the funniest shows in the post AD era. Having said that, I don't think I need to tell you how excited I got when I read that AD creator Mitch Hurwitz was tasked with adapting The Thick of It for the U.S. However, much of my excitement subsided when I heard that he is developing the show for ABC. Is the show pretty much doomed to fail? Even if this show lives up to expectations creatively, it would take a lot for it to become a show mainstream America would follow, especially given that ABC has no other great sitcoms to pair it with. I have a sick feeling in my stomach that it will have a run similar to Sons & Daughters, another gem I sorely miss.
Answer: The networks really have conditioned us to expect the worst, haven't they? You'd think we could at least take a moment to look forward to the prospect of the talented Mitchell Hurwitz taking a crack at BBC's
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Per Variety, Mayhem Pictures, known best for producing sporty big-screen fare (Invincible, Miracle) has set up a half-hour comedy pilot at the CW: Unhitched, about two thirtysomething divorcées who move in together to start new lives.... Per the Reporter, ABC has given a pilot order to The Thick of It, from Arrested Development's Mitchell Hurwitz and Richard Day. Whereas the BBC inspiration was centered on a Parliament member, the U.S. take eyes a member of Congress.... Food Network has greenlit Dinner: Impossible, in which chef Robert Irvine will tackle weekly challenges, such as preparing a first-class supper for 400 passengers on a speeding train in under four hours. Or, say, getting my son Jared to eat something besides Perdue chicken nuggets.
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Mitchell Hurwitz and former Arrested Development scribe Richard Day are developing a U.S. adaptation of the award-winning British comedy The Thick of It, about a put-upon Parliament member who is pestered by inept bureaucrats, politicians and civil servants. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series is in the process of being shopped to the networks, most of whom will likely fail to appreciate it.
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