Peter Tolan

CBS Orders Comedy Pilot from Jim Gaffigan

• Sep 17, 2012 09:43 AM ET
• by Liz Raftery

Comedian Jim Gaffigan is developing a new pilot for CBS based loosely on his life, Deadline reports.

Pilot Season: Chuck's Zachary Levi Joins Fox's Let It Go

• Feb 13, 2012 10:56 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

For those lamenting the end of Chuck, Zachary Levi may not be away from your TV screen for very long.

Levi has landed the leading role in Fox's Let It Go comedy pilot, which lifts the cast-contingency on the project, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news.

Pilot Season: Get the scoop!

Let It Go is... read more

Pilot Season: Fox Orders Comedy Pilots from Steve Levitan, Jamie Tarses, Peter Tolan

• Feb 3, 2012 10:01 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Fox has ordered comedy pilots from Modern Family's Steve Levitan, Happy Endings' Jamie Tarses and Rescue Me's Peter Tolan.

Reboundling, executive-produced by Levitan, is... read more

Cheers & Jeers: Can Peter Tolan Rescue Baywatch?

• Sep 16, 2011 11:49 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Cheers to Peter Tolan for following up Rescue Me with an even riskier project: writing a big-screen version of Baywatch. 

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Exclusive Rescue Me DVD Clip: Deconstructing Tommy's "Death"

• Sep 13, 2011 12:41 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

Rescue Me's series finale ended with Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) alive and well — perhaps better than ever.

Rescue Me postmortem: Creators talk Lou's heroism and Tommy's happy ending

But let's not forget that, despite the show's happy ending, Tommy technically "died" in the Season 6 premiere after being shot by his Uncle Teddy (Lenny Clarke) in Season 5's cliff-hanger. In the exclusive video clip from the Season 6 DVD below, co-creator Peter Tolan discusses Tommy's brief venture into the afterlife as well as his vision of eternity with his fallen first-responder brethren... read more