Jon Favreau To Direct Jason Katims’ NBC Comedy Pilot ‘About A Boy’

COMMENTS (13)

• Good to see NBC attracting real talent. The show sounds promising and if they can pull it off could work well with Michael J Fox and possibly the Sean Hayes project for a revamp their comedies. It’s just brutal having to fill up hours with the horrible crap that is 1600 Penn and new Normal.

  Comment by Revamp NBC Comedy — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 4:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• What was weird to me about reading this pilot is it’s just the movie. Like, exactly the same. if I’ve already seen the movie, why do I want to see it re-enacted for a pilot???

  Comment by Confused Reader — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 4:12pm PST  Reply to this post

  • because then you can see it stretched over months. or years. or days.

    Comment by alan of montreal — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 4:15pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yes, wasn’t this already a really decent movie with Hugh Grant, Toni Collette and Rachel Weisz that came out about 10 years back? From the British novel? I think the issue here is that the networks don’t really want to appeal anyone over 25, and with half a brain…

    Comment by bekka — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 5:34pm PST  Reply to this post

    • yeah it was a good movie and a good book. who cares? it was a decade ago and is it really that criminal to want to appeal to new audiences? by the way, both parenthood and friday night lights were complete reinventions of the originals that brought totally new characters, new stories, new depth. if anyone knows his way around this kind of thing, its katims.

      Comment by so what — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 5:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• love this pairing. favreau’s best when he’s doing character based comedies. glad he’s returning to it. and katims script is by far the best comedy this season. one to watch…

  Comment by love it — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 4:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• Any word on who’s starring in this? I heard rumors about Justin Kirk. I think he would be great, but after Animal Practice (which I liked) I don’t think he is in everybody’s good graces.

  Comment by Zachary — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 5:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hooray! Favreau is great, I will definitely give this a chance.

  Comment by polly — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 6:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• What a package — just pick up to series already!

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 9:47pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is the second crack at a pilot based on About A Boy. There was one made ten years or so ago that starred Patrick Dempsey.

  Comment by Jeffmc2000 — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 1:07am PST  Reply to this post

• I hear George Wendt is starring. Perfect casting!

  Comment by Oscar — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 7:35am PST  Reply to this post

• “Kooky” single mother? I guess that’s one way to describe suicidal depression.

  Comment by Just Sayin' — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 9:36am PST  Reply to this post

• This is the biggest problem with the TV biz. These ideas make great pilots but can’t go for 100 episodes. Blah.

  Comment by Bitter J — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 11:07am PST  Reply to this post