PASADENA -- A&E Network has handed out its first animated pilot order to a project from the producers of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
In addition, the network is going into production on an unscripted series focusing on matchmaker Patti Novak and has ordered a pilot of a show about unexplained phenomena that it calls the "real" X-Files. The announcements were made Tuesday during A&E's portion of the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel.
Like Dr. Katz, Hollywood DMV will combine a workplace comic narrative with stand-up comedy, A&E said. The project will focus on the characters working at the DMV as they work out their petty office dramas and their bizarre personality defects; it also will feature stand-up comedy from characters standing in line who are played by actual comedians.
Hollywood DMV, from Popular Arts Entertainment, is executive produced by Tim Braine and Kevin Meagher. Robert Sharenow is executive producer and Colleen Conway is supervising producer for A&E.
A&E executive vp and general manager Bob DeBitetto said in an interview that the network is interested in animation for several reasons, including the desire to "capitalize" on the fact that its median age dropped to 45 last year and on some nights falls in the early 30s.
In addition, the network is going into production on an unscripted series focusing on matchmaker Patti Novak and has ordered a pilot of a show about unexplained phenomena that it calls the "real" X-Files. The announcements were made Tuesday during A&E's portion of the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel.
Like Dr. Katz, Hollywood DMV will combine a workplace comic narrative with stand-up comedy, A&E said. The project will focus on the characters working at the DMV as they work out their petty office dramas and their bizarre personality defects; it also will feature stand-up comedy from characters standing in line who are played by actual comedians.
Hollywood DMV, from Popular Arts Entertainment, is executive produced by Tim Braine and Kevin Meagher. Robert Sharenow is executive producer and Colleen Conway is supervising producer for A&E.
A&E executive vp and general manager Bob DeBitetto said in an interview that the network is interested in animation for several reasons, including the desire to "capitalize" on the fact that its median age dropped to 45 last year and on some nights falls in the early 30s.
- 1/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PASADENA -- A&E Network has handed out its first animated pilot order to a project from the producers of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
In addition, the network is going into production on an unscripted series focusing on matchmaker Patti Novak and has ordered a pilot of a show about unexplained phenomena that it calls the "real" X-Files. The announcements were made Tuesday during A&E's portion of the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel.
Like Dr. Katz, Hollywood DMV will combine a workplace comic narrative with stand-up comedy, A&E said. The project will focus on the characters working at the DMV as they work out their petty office dramas and their bizarre personality defects; it also will feature stand-up comedy from characters standing in line who are played by actual comedians.
Hollywood DMV, from Popular Arts Entertainment, is executive produced by Tim Braine and Kevin Meagher. Robert Sharenow is executive producer and Colleen Conway is supervising producer for A&E.
A&E executive vp and general manager Bob DeBitetto said in an interview that the network is interested in animation for several reasons, including the desire to "capitalize" on the fact that its median age dropped to 45 last year and on some nights falls in the early 30s.
In addition, the network is going into production on an unscripted series focusing on matchmaker Patti Novak and has ordered a pilot of a show about unexplained phenomena that it calls the "real" X-Files. The announcements were made Tuesday during A&E's portion of the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel.
Like Dr. Katz, Hollywood DMV will combine a workplace comic narrative with stand-up comedy, A&E said. The project will focus on the characters working at the DMV as they work out their petty office dramas and their bizarre personality defects; it also will feature stand-up comedy from characters standing in line who are played by actual comedians.
Hollywood DMV, from Popular Arts Entertainment, is executive produced by Tim Braine and Kevin Meagher. Robert Sharenow is executive producer and Colleen Conway is supervising producer for A&E.
A&E executive vp and general manager Bob DeBitetto said in an interview that the network is interested in animation for several reasons, including the desire to "capitalize" on the fact that its median age dropped to 45 last year and on some nights falls in the early 30s.
Friends star Lisa Kudrow will lend her voice to an untitled animated pilot presentation under consideration at Fox. Kudrow will contribute to a project being created by Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist) from Touchstone Television. She joins a cast of voice veterans of past Katz series, including H. Jon Benjamin, Laura Silverman and Tom Leopold, playing the mother of a family whose life is disrupted when their uncle moves in with them. Katz and Snyder will executive produce with Nina Wass and Gene Stein of Touchstone.
- 12/9/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Comedy Central has acquired five off-network series, including sketch-comedy cult favorite The Ben Stiller Show, which aired for one season on Fox in 1992-93. Stiller is the only non-animated program in the group, which includes Dilbert, Gary & Mike (both from UPN), Clerks (ABC) and Undergrads (MTV). The cartoon quartet will rotate inside a new late-night programming block starting next month. "We want to rebuild the animation block we had before," said Bill Hilary, executive vp and general manager at Comedy Central, referring to the network's past pairing of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and The Critic. "Our audience really loves this genre."...
- 10/8/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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