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NBC Greenlights Comedy Pilot From Cathy Yuspa & Josh Goldsmith, Aaron Kaplan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 5, 2012 @ 9:10am PSTTags: Cathy Yuspa, Gates, Josh Goldsmith, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In what marks the first early pilot order to a project pitched this development season, NBC has picked up The Gates, a single-camera comedy pilot from writers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. The project originally landed at NBC in August with a pilot production commitment after a bidding war, and I hear NBC ordered a pilot off a first draft, which rarely happens in network television.

Based on the British comedy of the same name that premiered on Sky Living in August, Gates is an adult ensemble comedy set at the front gates of an elementary school drop-off. It revolves around the parents, the school staff and the 15-minute social minefield they have to navigate at the beginning and end of each school day. Yuspa and Goldsmith wrote the script and executive produce with Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan (ABC’s The Neighbors) as well as Laurence Bowen and Philip Clarke of Feelgood Fiction, the UK production company behind the original series (watch the trailer for it below). READ MORE »

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Cathy Yuspa & Josh Goldsmith Comedy Lands At NBC With Production Commitment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 10:08am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Cathy Yuspa, Gates, Josh Goldsmith, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy continues to be hot this selling season with another single-camera pitch sparking a bidding war. Gates, from writers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, was pursued by all four major networks, landing at NBC with a pilot production commitment.

Based on the British comedy of the same name, which premiered on Sky Living two weeks ago, Gates is an adult ensemble comedy set at the front gates of an elementary school drop-off. It revolves around the parents, the school staff and the 15-minute social minefield they have to navigate at the beginning and end of each school day. Yuspa and Goldsmith will write the script and executive produce with Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan (MTV’s The Inbetweeners, ABC’s The Neighbors) as well as Laurence Bowen and Philip Clarke of Feelgood Fiction, the UK production company behind the original series. Gates, the first UK comedy commissioned by Sky Living, stars Sue Johnston, Tom Ellis and Joanna Page. (trailer below) Read More »

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Cathy Yuspa And Josh Goldsmith Move To 20th Century Fox TV With Overall Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 3, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Cathy Yuspa, Josh Goldsmith
Nellie Andreeva

This is an end of an era — after 15 years at Sony TV, comedy writer-producers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith are moving to 20th Century Fox TV with a two-year overall deal. “They are the consummate showrunners, and they’re … Read More »

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CBS Buys Comedy From Yuspa & Goldsmith

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 6:02am PSTTags: Cathy Yuspa, Josh Goldsmith, Sony Pictures TV, TV, TV Development
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: An empty nesters comedy from ‘Til Death creators Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith has landed at CBS. Titled Free, the multi-camera comedy centers on a married couple who explore their freedom and start to have fun and live … Read More »

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NBC Comedy ‘Experiment’ With Jack Black

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 29, 2010 @ 11:15am PDTTags: Book-to-Movie, Cathy Yuspa, Electric Dynamite Productions, Jack Black, Josh Goldsmith, My Life as an Experiment, NBC Comedy, Sony Pictures TV, TV
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has picked up My Life As an Experiment, a half-hour comedy project produced by Jack Black and written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith. Based on the best-selling non-fiction book Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As An Experiment by … Read More »

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