Matt Tarses

Profession

Writer, Producer, Actor

Rooster Review: Steve Carell's HBO Comedy Is a Charming Work in Progress

Carell plays an author reconnecting with his daughter in this warm, familiar new series from co-creator Bill Lawrence

Thu, Mar 5, 2026

Rooster Review: Steve Carell's HBO Comedy Is a Charming Work in Progress

Mad Love Boss: Judy Greer a Better Fit than Lizzy Caplan

CBS's new romantic comedy, Mad Love, lost cast member Lizzy Caplan before the series was picked up, but executive producer Matt Tarses says her replacement, Judy Greer, is a much better fit. Caplan signed on for a role in the pilot. Due to her commitments on the since-canceled Starz series Party Down, Caplan declined to join Mad Love as a series regular. Check out the rest of today's news "Lizzy Caplan did [the pilot] as a guest role for us; she was never going to do it for the series," Tarses said Friday at the Television Critics Association winter previews. "The part, to be honest, was a little more of a part that fits...

Fri, Jan 14, 2011

Mad Love Boss: Judy Greer a Better Fit than Lizzy Caplan

In the Works: The Contender Fights On, and More

ESPN on Sept. 4 will reenter the ring with a third round of The Contender, the first to feature full and uncut fights on ESPN2. Sugar Ray Leonard will again host, says the Reporter.... CBS has given a greenlight to the pilots Worst Week (a half-hour comedy based on the U.K.'s The Worst Week of My Life, and to be penned/exec-produced by Scrubs' Matt Tarses), as well as a medical drama from Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me) and Mark Gordon (Grey's Anatomy).... Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and scribe Sheldon Turner are developing for FX a dark drama about two cops undercover with the Russian Mafia, says Variety. The series is being eyed as a successor to The Shield.

Tue, Aug 7, 2007