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EXCLUSIVE: Former Friends executive producer Wil Calhoun has signed a two-year overall deal with Universal Television. This marks Calhoun’s return to the studio where he was under overall deals from 2004-08. “Wil is a talented writer with a Southern upbringing which adds a distinct voice to his work,” Universal TV EVP Bela Bajaria said. “He has also both mainstream single-camera and multi-camera experience.” In addition to his five-year stint on the NBC/Warner Bros TV hit comedy Friends, Calhoun co-created/executive produced another multicamera comedy series for Warner Bros, the WB’s What I Like About You. UTA-repped Calhoun’s single-camera comedy experience includes Sons & Daughters, which he worked for while at NBC Universal. For the past several years, he has been developing projects and consulting on shows.
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congrats will!!! you so desevre this! shout out from NYC. KD
How many Friends writers have created their own hit shows?
Answer: Zero. None.
Collectively they have proven to be the biggest waste of money in TV history. Friends was brilliant because Marta & David created the perfect characters in the perfect format.
None of the Friends writers will ever pay off their network or studio benefactors and yet they continue to throw money at these people knowing that it will always be wasted.
Here’s an idea. If you want to invest in showrunners how about hiring Marta & David and let them have total creative control.
Wil is a great guy, great writer, and great producer!
HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER. Canceled. GARY UNMARRIED. Canceled. KATH AND KIM, MENS ROOM, JESSE. Canceled, canceled, canceled. Producing credits that remain: FRIENDS, joined when it was already a behemoth, and WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU. Awesome. Absolutely convinced now more than ever these deals are done either 1) to accelerate the already-rolling demise of comedy, if not TV itself; or 2) to drive any right-thinking person from the business, leaving it to those behind (1). Another brilliantly worded macro press-release from Universal, though: Glad to know Calhoun is both Southern and has worked. With those qualifications, no wonder he’s being singled out.