Zachary Levi
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...
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Jamie Tarses, Peter Tolan
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...
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David Hasselhoff
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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Rescue Me
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...
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Rescue Me
After seven seasons, FX's Rescue Me concluded with its usual blend of dark plots and dark comedy before ultimately leaving tortured hero Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) with a surprisingly sunny outlook on the future.
That ending reflects the stories of a couple real-life firefighters who inspired his character, Leary says.
Peter Tolan celebrates the end of Rescue Me by dropping his pants
"They're definitely in a place, 10 years later, where they still love the job," he tells TVGuide.com. "They're actually as happy as you could expect them to be. They're whole. They're back to as close as they could be to the men they were before the events of 9/11 happened...
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Rescue Me
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em folks!
Last night, Rescue Me rang its final alarm with an intensely fitting finale. By centering on the aftermath of Lou's death, we got a heaping load of the show's gallows humor and tough-guy heart, best displayed as the crew gathered to spread the red velvet "ashes" of their fallen Lieutenant. And while the finale was timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11, star Denis Leary and show creator Peter Tolan allowed the memory of that tragic day to...
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Denis Leary
Cheers to Rescue Me for going out in a blaze of glory.
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Even if you burned out on FX's FDNY dramedy several summers ago, you should not miss the final two episodes
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Peter Tolan, Sean Hayes
Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan and his writing partner Michael Wimer have joined Sean Hayes' upcoming NBC sitcom about two gay dads, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The untitled project, which was first announced two weeks ago, will star Hayes as half of the couple raising a 12-year-old. Tolan will serve as ...
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The X Factor panel
Some observations from the final weekend of the TCA summer press tour, which included presentations from a confident (for good reason) Fox, its ever-adventurous cable cousin FX, the once-again-rebuilding ABC, and the annual salute to the best-of-the-best known as the TCA Awards.
First (in the demos, anyway) came Fox, which spent Friday reveling in the fact that it's taking the biggest swings of any ...
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Peter Tolan
How did Rescue Me co-creator and executive producer Peter Tolan celebrate the show's final panel at the Television Critics Association fall TV previews? He dropped his pants, of course.
Rescue Me's final season: Can Tommy Gavin survive?
In typical Rescue Me fashion, the panel began as a semi-serious discussion of the show's final season and its legacy before turning crazy....
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