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Harry Potter alum Rupert Grint is set as the title character in Super Clyde, Greg Garcia’s single-camera pilot for CBS. The project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Clyde (Grint), a meek, unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero. Mike Fresco is directing the pilot as well as executive producing with Garcia. This marks the first series role for Brit Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise. He will next be seen opposite Shia LaBeouf in The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman. Grint is repped by Gersh, Untitled and UK’s Hamilton Hodell. In addition to Super Clyde, Garcia has a multi-camera pilot at CBS.
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Comedies have a good track on CBS, and Greg Garcia is great at it. It seems like a funny plot and he’s well known for HP. I can see this being a hit.
The only thing going against them? CBS and single-cam comedies don’t really get along.
All good points, Eli, but it’s your last point that is the nail on the head. So, as they say on Shark Tank, “I’m out!” This is a flop waiting to happen, but CBS is okay. More Chuck Lorre comedies are on the way.
Marc5, as hip as your name is, you may want to hip yourself to the fact that Chuck Lorre’s next pilot is single camera. So I think people should definitely bank on your opinion.
I don’t know about his next pilot after this one, but “Mom” is a multicam.
I’ve been hearing through the grapevine that there’s talk of switching it to a single cam or hybrid.
Ah. That would be really stupid, but fits with CBS’s weird chase after the prestige and unpopularity of single-cam.
CBS is looking to get into the single cam game, and this is clearly to big of a show to pass up. They will pick up Mom, but probably some single cams too. This will be one of them.
The superhero I’m waiting for is the producer who feels like they can back a story without relying on a tired gimmick.
Two words. Greg Garcia.
+1
CBS needs to stay away from the single cams.
NBC needs to shift more toward multicams.
FOX needs to stay away from multicams.
ABC is the only network currently able to navigate both.
Agreed, a million times over.
Maybe everyone just needs to stop making multicams and force the masses to watch something that might make them slightly uncomfortable for a split second.
Why not make the masses feel comfortable with the form and then serve them challenging material within that comfortable form, like the “All in the Family” approach? Single-cams do the opposite: they drive the masses away with the form and then serve them bland, unchallenging material like the sappy morals on “Modern Family” and its imitators.
“Right turn, Clyde.”
–Clint Eastwood, Any Which Way You Can
Love that he is taking on this role and so excited to see Rupert flexing more of his comedic muscles. Wicked!
A ginger lead? oy.
This guy is purely brilliant I can’t imagine anything but success here.
Is that Mike White?
Isn’t that the Kick-Ass premise?