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‘Anger Management’ Scribe Tackles BBC 3 Sitcom About Assisted Suicide

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 23, 2012 @ 10:09pm PSTTags: Anger Management, Bob Kushell

Joe Utichi contributes to Deadline’s UK coverage.

Anger Management scribe Bob Kushell has crossed the Atlantic to the UK for a new BBC Three sitcom set around the world of assisted suicide. Known for taking more risks than conservative stablemates BBC One and Two, the digital channel aimed at the 16-34 year-old demo has ordered a six-episode season of the 30-minute show Way To Go, about “three ordinary guys who find themselves forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances into setting up an assisted-suicide business”. Veteran comedy writer Kushell, whose writing credits Stateside include The Simpsons and Third Rock from the Sun, says he’s thrilled to follow in the footsteps of British comic giants like Monty Python, Black Adder and Fawlty Towers. “There has been no bigger thrill in my life than to have a show on the BBC.” The Inbetweeners‘ Blake Harrison will star alongside Ben Heathcote and Marc Wootton. Jon Plowman, the exec producer behind Absolutely Fabulous and Twenty Twelve, thinks the show deals with a difficult issue respectfully. “Working with a really great U.S. creator and a transatlantic writing team also brings us just a whiff of the way in which their shows find a different tone for mixing comedy, drama and death.”

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ABC Developing 2 Musical Series, Including A Bob Kushell Drama Starring Idina Menzel

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 30, 2010 @ 2:20pm PSTTags: ABC Development, ABC Musical Series, Bob Kushell, Sony TV, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime musical series are red-hot courtesy of Fox’s Glee, and ABC, whose sibling Disney Channel started the genre’s resurgence with High School Musical and Hannah Montana, is developing a couple of music-themed series for next fall. Leading the pack … Read More »

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NBC Developing Sitcom With Peter Murrieta

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 30, 2010 @ 7:19am PSTTags: Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea, Bob Kushell, NBC Development, NBC Development Deals, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

NBC, which has 8 comedies on tap for this season – all single-camera – is mulling a return to the multi-camera genre. In one of the last comedy buys this season, the network went for a multi-camera project from sitcom … Read More »

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