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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple networks bidding, ABC has snagged Mixology, a comedy spec by Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, with a put pilot commitment. The project, which has been laid off at ABC Studios, marks feature scribes Lucas and Moore’s first foray into television. In the vein of the writing duo’s blockbuster Hangover, which chronicled the misadventures of three guys over one weekend, Mixology follows five guys and five girls trying to find love at a trendy Manhattan bar across the course of one night. Lucas and Moore serve as executive producers.
“We’ve been working in features for a while, and we couldn’t be more excited to now bring our trademark brand of lame dialogue, thin characters, and gimmicky concepts to television,” Lucas said. Added Moore: “Television is definitely in a Golden Era. But with a little hard work, we think we can get that down to silver or bronze.” Lucas and Moore, repped by CAA and Warren Dern, are currently finishing editing on their feature directorial debut, 21 And Over, starring Skylar Astin, Miles Teller and Justin Chon, which is due out next spring.
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How do you get 100 episodes out of this premise? I get the politics of development season but I just don’t understand this one.
And I know we aren’t talking about dramas but just look at the garbage placed into the 10pm slots- the demonic sounding, 666 Park Avenue; the unappealing sex-crazed lunatic doctors of Private Private, a show so focused on the perverted sex lives of the doctors, that they totally abandoned all the appeal of the medical stories last season, and Scandal, which reveals everything it’s about in the title. Apparently the perverted white men over at Disney plan on turning ABC into some sick, lowlife cable network that their kind will embrace. I suspect their ratings will continue to go down the gutter with their programming.
Jon Lucas… Pingry pride!
-RnsW
One of the best press quotes ever,
Read their actual “The Hangover” script and you will understand that their quote is pretty accurate. Nothing like the final product. I have no clue how Todd Phillips let them take the credit.
Todd actually has been very vocal (in the past) about how much work he did re-writing the script but he had to abide by the WGA’s draconian rules.
He’s trying to be funny but lame dialog and thin characters is exactly right and it’s what audiences like so the joke is on the viewers and the execs who bought this. It’s “Friends” set in a bar instead of a coffee place. Cancelled after six episodes and that’s all they should plan on. If they get Tom Cruise to play the bartender the same way he did in Cocktail this could last a full season.
It’s obvious how you make a hundred episodes. Each season is a different Saturday night. Duh!
These are two of the funniest men I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. I am constantly reading comedy features and these guys are on the pulse of what’s funny right now. Long live Lucas & Moore!