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EXCLUSIVE: AMC is venturing into half-hour comedy with a presentation order to Rob Roy Thomas’ How To Cheat On Your Wife. The single-camera comedy, which Thomas is writing, directing and executive producing, centers on four nice guys in flyover country dealing with middle age. Thomas originally shot a short presentation for the project on his own about six months ago. In it, the four friends meet the day after they are reunited at the funeral of their first dead friend. After seeing that footage, AMC put the comedy project in development and, as part of the development process, Thomas will film a new presentation. Thomas, creator of Fox’s Free Ride and co-creator of NBC’s Significant Others, is now tweaking the idea and will executive produce the presentation with Marc Provissiero and Naomi Odenkirk.
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Another improv audition where casting videos improvisors for 10-15 minutes and the exec producer uses all the jokes that he likes from the auditions and puts into the pilot and takes writing credit. This is a HUGE loophole in the casting process. Rob Roy Thomas is the worst offender. SAG should be looking out for us actors.
If your jokes were that good, you would have been cast. Go train some more and then get back in the game.
the dude is right – i’ve been on both sides of this, gotten cast in stuff where my improvised stuff made the cut, and i’ve seen stuff I did in auditions make the cut with another actor doing the part. this happens all the time, especially in commercials. The original copy, even the copy at the callbacks is usually garbage. by the time it’s on the air, it’s been rewritten by the contributions of about 30 UCB/Groundlings folks hoping it was them saying it.
Not against the idea of a comedy set around middle aged males but his previous “creations” for Fox and NBC went nowhere and picked up lousy reviews. Does AMC need another shoddy series? The Killing was bad enough and early word on Hell on Wheels is that it’s really bad….(no wonder they decided not send screeners to critics)
I hate to tell them to stick to the HBO/Showtime model…but they need to lock in another auteur driven project. The dicey sounding reality shows and poor quality scripted fare as of late is going to cause problems for AMC.
Oh well, at least Breaking Bad has been firing on all cylinders this season.
Is this an FtvS show? Aren’t they all in deals with FtvS?
Four friends … dealing with middle age … show begins after death of another friend … sounds like “Desperate Housewives” but centered on men. Fortunately it’s AMC so it has to have some amount of grit to it, right?