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After a decade in features, Spin City writer-producer Jeff Lowell is returning to television with a single-camera comedy at NBC produced by ABC Studios and Brillstein Entertainment. The untitled project, which has received a script order, is a romantic comedy about a couple from the point of view of the man and the woman whose unspoken thoughts we can hear via voiceover. “It’s a little bit like the balcony scene from Annie Hall,” Lowell said, adding that he got the idea for the project from reflecting on his relationship with his wife – together since they were 15-years-old. “The secret to happiness and a strong marriage is unexpressed thoughts,” he said. Lowell and his family left Hollywood after his short stint on NBC’s Inside Schwartz in 2001 and moved to Charlottesville, VA. He started writing movies and has had 3 produced: John Tucker Must Die, Over Her Dead Body and Hotel for Dogs. ”I never thought I’d go back but I started missing television,” UTA-repped Lowell said.
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Sure he didn’t get the idea from the wildly successful UK comedy “Peep Show”?
Seems like a thin premise to build a show around. Isn’t it going to get tedious? Besides, Woody did this idea best in that famous scene in Annie Hall.
So it’s a romantic version of “Peep Show?” How original.
Bitch all you want but it’s been a long standing fact British hits translate into American hits if done well. Throw in Jeff Lowell and I think they are on to something here. LOVE that they shake it up with man to woman.
Meh. Then again, Josh Olson hates this guy so he must be pretty cool.
Networks drool over screenwriters to write shows for them … but taking a risk on a guy who’s been out of TV for years and had a string of so-so movies either means this idea is great or is more praying and hoping for NBC to find a hit … finally ;-p
@McNulty as if NBC even had executives who knew what Peep Show is in the first place!
BTW those are some fucked up feature credits.
I’ve worked with Jeff and have always found him to be tall.
Jeff is awesome. Great guy and very talented. I’ll set my tivo now.
It hasn’t been written yet, jeez, you can’t tell anything from a one-line description! The same morons jump to judgment everytime Deadline posts a story about a sold script. Next comes the post that defends Lowell, then the one that accuses the writer of that post of being Lowell. Jesus Nikki, you tell people not to bore you with their coments — if it’s not these monotonous, predictable, bitter diatribes you post, tell me, what exactly does bore you?
You must be Lowell?
Hey, good luck with the show, Spin City guy and NBC. I won’t be watching. Because of what they did to Conan I’m avoiding NBC. So are many in my generation. (I’m 26). You know that generation, the one that advertisers care about? Yeah, that one.
You must be LOWELL! Or I’m Lowell, pretending to be you imitating Lowell. Or I’m Lowell, actually responding to your dare…Oh WTH…you got me, I may or may not be Lowell.
You know, I used to feel like S.F. and wanted nothing to to with NBC after what they did with Conan. I felt that way for about a month, then I remembered three things.
1) I like 30 Rock and The Office and Sunday Night Football and I’m sure I’ll like other NBC shows down the road so why punish myself.
2) I’m an adult and not a 12-year-old girl who holds insane grudges.
3) I still think Conan got screwed, but I am so sick of the way he keeps portraying himself as the poor sad victim. He didn’t get the ratings and NBC paid him $40 million to go away. Poor tragic Conan.
Good luck, Jeff Lowell. I hope your pilot’s great because at the end of the day all I want to see is good television. Which is why I’ll be watching Conan on TBS and hopefully laughing. I don’t think I’ll be crying and saying, “Oh he’s so good but why can’t this show be on NBC. Whyyyyyyyyyy?”
Zucker’s gone. It’s safe to like NBC again.
Check out John and Mary with Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow (streaming on Netflix) a great use of this device.
I don’t know Lowell personally but I am a writer and greatly value Jeff Lowell’s insight and contribution to beginning writers (on another forum that I won’t plug here.) Rest assured, I will be supporting him and any project he has because the guy deserves it.
The original John Tucker script was all right, considering the genre. Typically by the time it reached the screen it had been mauled and then shot ridiculously.
I love Jeff Lowell, the rest of you can go suck it.
Jeff – I’d be happy to help with rewrites during shoot week, and i’d like one of those portable GPS things as a thank you gift.
The movie jeff lowell wrote and directed got some of the worst reviews ever written in the history of cinema. He’s not coming back to TV by choice.
When I hear NBC and new comedy I think one thing: FLOP. 1.1 ratings. cancellation after 2 episodes.
Bye, bye.
How can he give up feature films? Does this mean I won’t be seeing Motel for Mice soon?
Thanks to the internet we already know everyone’s thoughts. These comments are proof.
Thanks for the warning. I will delete NBC from my Favorites at once.
Jeff’s a good guy and a good writer. Save your venom for someone who deserves it.
Speak for yourself. Not everyone has a good experience with him.
if anyone of you have ever been stuck on a plane next to a six year old who had to constantly tell you about Hotel for Dogs for the entire flight, you’ll understand why there’s venom for this writer.
HOTEL FOR DOGS was picketed during production by the WGA. And supposedly, Lowell was doing rewrites for that p.o.s. movie during the work stoppage. Can someone confirm or deny this?
And by the way, if I had his feature credits, I’d miss TV, too.
I was on the committee that investigated all accusations. Jeff was cleared of all charges after one brief interview. He was on a slate with John Wells last year. Guy’s not a scab.