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The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones is set to co-star opposite Heather Locklear in CBS’ comedy pilot The Assistants, a Tucker Cawley-written ensemble about the assistants who work for a celebrity, Ali (Heather Locklear), and her younger hunky husband Gale (Jones) who lives in her shadow. It centers on Mike (David Henrie) who, newly arrived in Hollywood from a small town, is hoping his job as an assistant to Ali might open doors for him. This the second consecutive broadcast pilot for Jones, repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment. Last season, he toplined ABC’s comedy pilot How to Be a Better American. He joins fellow Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle who stars in another CBS comedy pilot, Home Game.
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Hmm I wonder who John will get to replace him? No wonder Sam Bee has been on less and less lately.
I hope cbs keeps mad love in the mix, its such a well written show that is actually funny
Hmm, that’s not how I pictured this role at all. V. good script though.
Two to one “The Assistants” doesn’t become a hit.
Why?
Because most people don’t care about the behind-the-scenes of Hollywood.
Entourage doesn’t count for two reasons – it’s not really about Hollywood, it’s about male friendship (in the same way SaTC wasn’t about publishing, it was about female friendship). And it’s on HBO, not CBS. CBS has a much wider audience than HBO.
Have you read it? It’s not about Hollywood as much as the family of assistants and the crazy movie star and her sister (great role!) so it might work on that level, but yes, if they delve too deep into her career, there could be problems and Heather Locklear is waaaay too old for this role.
It won’t be a hit because it’s not funny. The script sucks and it’s not engaging. I hope, for the involved people’s sakes, that major rewrites occur prior to filming.
And people do actually care about “the behind-the-scenes of Hollywood,” thus the success of Entourage, the scads of tabloids and entertainment rags, and the hundreds of celebrity sites/blogs.
america will really relate to yet another show abut hollywood
Scripts sucks. Five million characters and no focus. SO bad