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Former Friends executive producers Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen have come on board Rebel Wilson’s CBS comedy pilot Super Fun Night as executive producers/showrunners. The deal is for the pilot, with an option for them to stay on if the project is picked up to series. Written by and starring Wilson, Super Fun Night, from Warner Bros TV and Conan O’Brien’s Conaco, follows three nerdy female friends — Kimmie (Wilson), Helen-Alice (Jenny Slate) and Marika — on their “funcomfortable” quest to have super fun every Friday night. Reich and Cohen have been based at Warner Bros., most recently creating and executive producing the studio’s ABC comedy series Work It.
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From the executive producers of Work It comes….
Oh no.
“Work It” was funny. It’s a shame everyone decided to hate it before it ever premiered. And seriously, how many of you haters ever actually saw it?
These guys actually wrote and shot a really good pilot called “smothered” it just didn’t get picked up. If anyone should get blamed it’s the people who decided to pick “work it” over “smothered”. Maybe they realize they made a mistake now and this is their way of saying sorry.
Yikes. Kind of liked this pilot. Andrew and Ted are nice guys, but they haven’t written or overseen a decent script since the early seasons of Friends.
These two guys create WORK IT, the worst pilot of the decade and get rewarded with another show. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair. How long can you run on the fumes for Friends. I guess forever.
Why are these guys being rewarded after “Work It” was so awful? It was the worst sit-com ever and they should be run out of town instead they are given a new show that doesn’t need them. Yet another example of failing upward. The bigger your flop the better your next gig will be. It’s disgraceful there are so many people who are better qualified than these two guys are.
Only in Hollywood do you see such glaring failure rewarded. In any other industry these guys would be punished and forced to work as low level worker bees. They should be demoted to lowest level staff writers and be forced to work their way back up the ladder.
The term HACKS is overused but in this case it applies. How do you create an abortion like “Work It” and get another shot? Why don’t they earn it and write a dynamite spec and show they can actually write something smart and funny. These two are are so out of touch this pilot has no chance of going to series. Luckily they didn’t write it.
Work It was really funny. I don’t know why people hated it so much.
Wait, no. Please.
This pilot was really funny on page. These guys just did Work It. Work It. Do you have the memory of a goldfish?!
@C’mon: At this rate, The Fumes of Friends will be the title of a future series.
If the comments on the previous Super Fun Night article are accurate, the script has already doomed this series. Not sure how Reich and Cohen can do it more harm.
A shame though. I was hoping to see this one go to series.
All you people who watched 1/2 an episode of Work It and get their entertainment news from EW should try reading some more before trashing the entire career of a writer. Andrew and Ted wrote a series of excellent pilots in their first few years off Friends, and anyone who has actually worked with them know what kind of showrunners they are. That’s why CBS and Warner Bros (you know, the places with the most successful sitcoms) keep hiring them. Good luck guy — don’t let the unemployable haters get you down.
I don’t think it’s fair for you to assume that everyone commenting here gets their news from EW & 15 minutes of Work It (although I would argue that’s enough to make up your mind on this one).
I’m an upper level television writer, gainfully employed, and I don’t like trashing other writers.
But the quality of Andrew and Ted’s pilots (from the script stage on) has been really, really low – and they seem like a horrible fit to run this quirky show.
WBTV and CBS have some very bad taste in showrunners.
Read it, liked it. The interactions between the dorks and the cool people were hilarious. Interested to see how it turns out. Hopefully they’ll make sure it has heart ala The New Girl. Work It sucked but this doesn’t necessarily have to. They didn’t write it and Rebel is talented. So, like everything else, TBD.
This is beyond pathetic. “Work it”?… worst piece of garbage ever! larry Sullivan needs to start looking for another job. Conan is going to put his name on this crap?? We read the script? If he endorses the kind of embarassement his company is turning out, he deserved to lose the Tonight show… CBS? They’re just kissinghis “political”ass. get rid of the idiots you’re listening to….or this deal will go away as will the audience for your show.
This duo is at the bottom of the sitcom totem pole. “Work It” was screened in every writing room in Hollywood and staffs used it as the butt of every bad TV show joke. It was a full on embarrassment. I’m ashamed for these guys.
Well if that’s the bottom… where the hell am I?
Good for those guys. Hope it’s a huge success for them.
I was sorta interested until I got to the point in your article where it said these guys:created & executive produced “Work it”.My interest has now faded. But,thank you Nellie-at least you warned me .Now I can avoid this like the plague. Super Fun Night? Probably not.
Everyone knows Rebel Wilson is in charge of this creatively so it’s in very talented hands. I’m sure these guys will be providing her with help and support through the process of U.S pilot making.
I’ve worked with Andrew and Ted and I can say they’re two of the funniest writers I know. They’re also excellent showrunners. Yes “Work It” was a disaster, but blame the network who tried to create something sincere out of a joke premise.
The network didn’t create the show (Work It). Do you even know how the pilot process works? These guys went into the network and pitched a show about two guys dressing as women to get work. NO matter what the network notes were, the DNA of the show was hacky to begin with. The people responsible for this idea are the writers, who apparently thought it was time to re-do an idea that even with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari lasted only a season and a half.
Deadline should be re-named The Daily Showbiz Pinata. You haven’t made it in Hollywood until you’ve been bashed in the Deadline comment section!
Congrats boys. You’ve made it.
They might be the nicest guys in the world but they are awful creators. To the poster who said they wrote a bunch of good pilots after Friends, that was 10 years ago and the pilots they wrote were fair at best. Why they keep getting hired at WB is they have friends who are Execs there, plain and simple. “Work It” wasn’t a miss, it was the “Water World” of sitcom pilots.
Maybe they should reconsider their press release & cite their credits before “Work It”.
Because no one will want to be on board anything w/ the conductors of that train wreck.
This is a prime example of what happens when you are in the business for a while and surround yourself by other rich people in the business. You’ve tasted success, and have been rewarded but have lost touch with the rest of the world and so you begin recycling garbage and premises from films and bad old sitcoms. These guys haven’t had their finger on the pulse for years and what they think is edgy or funny is… well… stupid.
Lots of sour grapes in Hollywood!
Being a good creator is different than being a good showrunner. Let them help a younger writer with a vision while they concentrate on the nuts and bolts. I agree I think their creator days are probably done but they can still be good showrunners. It is a better use of everyone’s money.
this happens to be true. look at what chuckles lorre did with 2.5 men AFTER eric lapidus had already sold it to WB, CBS and had Charlie on board. OR what Finkel & Baer are doing with New Girl. OR what Carlton Cuse did with Lost. these guys ran a billion dollar franchise, albeit they did it in the end and ran it into the ground, but still, they’ve had their hands on the yolk of a major show. maybe they won’t crash and burn this time. regardless, they have GREAT agents.
Look at the track record of the FRIENDS alumni you’ll see none of them have ever developed anything worth noting. They were lucky writers who got hired on a show that captured lightening in a bottle. The show had a stellar bunch of actors with good hair and chemistry. 95% of the FRIENDS writers have been given countless opportunities and all have failed miserably. Fact. Stop wasting money these imposters because they are clearly out of touch.
*lightning
Try being on staff with someone who actually wrote on “Friends.” At first it’s fine but the stories never end and quickly it gets mind numbing. God forbid there are more than one writing entity that wrote on the show.