Bill Oakley

Profession

Writer, Producer, Actor, Soundtrack

Pilot News: Simpsons Execs to Sit Down, Shut Up

Former Simpsons executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein are teaming up to take on the same roles on Fox's new animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up.The series, yet to receive a firm placement on the Fox schedule, is based on a live-action Australian sitcom about staffers at a dysfunctional high school. The U.S. version of the comedy will take place in a northeastern fishing town.Also part of the show's DNA is Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, who wrote the show's first script.  J.R. Whalen

Mon, Apr 28, 2008

In the Works: Simpsons Vets Fly Business Class

Per Variety, Simpsons scribes Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley are developing Business Class, a single-camera NBC comedy about two sales reps on a nonstop business trip, as well as reworking 22 Birthdays, a CBS dramedy about the parents of first-graders enrolled at an exclusive private school.... Bravo has ordered a second, six-episode season of Work Out, which follows spa owner Jackie Warner and her team of trainers.

Wed, Oct 25, 2006

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