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It’s pilot season, and a slew of comedy pilots are getting ready for production. But a half-hour project called Workers Comp is taking a different route to the small screen. First, it was written by two 19 year olds: Castille Landon and Harrison Sanborn. Within weeks of them completing the script, the pilot was funded, with David Sauers (Taking Woodstock) and former Universal Studios legal exec Mark Wooster producing. It has now been fully cast and is set to begin production April 10 in Tampa, Fla. Morgan Fairchild leads the cast of the pilot, which also includes Robert Carradine, Charley Koontz (Community), Castille Landon and Jennifer Lee Wiggins. Workers Comp is a workplace comedy about a family insurance business owned by Joan (Fairchild) and the often bizarre comp claims they are forced to manage. Fairchild is with Rebel and McGowan Mgmt; Koontz with Pakula/King and McGowan Mgmt; Carradine with Fortitude; and Wiggins and Landon with Liquid LQ.
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This sounds pretty funny. Good for them!
LOVE Morgan Fairchild!
Great news for the little guy. It sounds great. Congrats to you all!
Meet the future.
What separates this from the dozens of independent pilots made every year for the Independent Television Festival and the New York Television Festival?
Good for them. I don’t know enough about how the TV world works, but seeing the word “independent” in this context seems exciting.
Yay! Kudos to these upstarts for bucking the broken system!
How cool!
Sounds like it could be really cool! Especially since they are so young.
Who funded the pilot?
What separates this is one of these kids’ dads has hundreds of millions of dollars. That always makes financing a lot easier.
Actually, the money absolutely did not come from the father. The funding came as a result of the script, which has been read by numerous high-profile people in the business (including Fairchild, Carradine, and “I Am Number 4″ Line Producer Elayne Schneiderman) and attracted them to the project based on the quality of the work.
Haha…Clark, I’m not sure you know these kids at all. The dad of one of them is a karate instructor and the other dad certainly does not have “100′s of millions of dollars”. While he may do well financially, neither dad is in any way affiliated with the company funding the project, VADAR Corp, which I believe is actually more closely related to the concept behind the project than to the kids.
I’ve been a work comp case manager for 25 years. If you ever need some new material, let me know– I could give you tons of hilarious stories!
what is the release date on this?