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David Walton To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘About A Boy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 2:30pm PSTTags: About A Boy, David Walton
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David Walton is set as the lead in About A Boy, NBC‘s single-camera pilot based on the Nick Hornby book and the 2002 movie. Written by from Friday Night Lights and Parenthood executive producer Jason Katims, and directed by Revolution’s Jon Favreau, About A Boy follows the relationship between a bachelor man-child (Walton) and the young boy who moves in next door with his kooky single mother. Michelle Lee, serves as producer on the pilot, from Katims’ True Jack Prods, Universal TV, Working Title and Tribeca Prods. Walton was among the most sought-after comedy actors this season, fielding multiple offers before settling on the role played by Hugh Grant in the 2002 movie. This marks his return to NBC where he starred opposite Amanda Peet in Bent last season. (He also toplined the network’s underrated comedy Perfect Couples.) Earlier this season, Walton was attached to star in a single-camera comedy project by Bent creator Tad Quill which was set up at CBS with a put pilot commitment. The project’s premise somewhat echoes that of About A Boy — it centered on a bachelor firefighter (Walton) who has to make the ultimate sacrifice of taking care of someone other than himself when a 9-year-old girl enters his life. Walton, who has been recurring on Fox’s New Girl, is with Gersh and Special Artists Agency.

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Tad Quill/David Walton’s Firefighter Comedy Lands At CBS With Put Pilot Commitment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 17, 2012 @ 6:48pm PDTTags: CBS, David Walton, Happy Madison, Tad Quill
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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, CBS has nabbed a single-camera comedy written by Tad Quill and starring David Walton. The project, from Sony Pictures TV and studio-based Happy Madison, centers on a bachelor firefighter (Walton) who has to make the ultimate sacrifice of taking care of someone other than himself when a 9-year-old girl enters his life. Quill is executive producing with Happy Maddison’s Doug Robinson, with Walton serving as producer.

The untitled comedy reunites Quill, creator/executive producer of last season’s single-camera midseason NBC comedy Bent, and the series’ male lead David Walton. The duo’s new project was pitched to all four major networks, ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS. All expressed interest, with CBS brass said to have been particularly passionate. Despite the lack of single-camera comedies on CBS’ air, the network’s programming chief Nina Tassler has been vocal about the network’s commitment to the form and, Read More »

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Tad Quill Comedy Project Starring David Walton Heats Up The Broadcast Marketplace

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 6:18pm PDTTags: David Walton, Tad Quill
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After a late and relatively quiet start of this year’s selling season with no major bidding wars so far, a single-camera comedy is garnering a lot of attention. The project, from Sony Pictures TV and studio-based Happy Madison, … Read More »

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‘Bent’s David Walton To Star In CBS’ Greg Malins/Greg Berlanti Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 10:57am PDTTags: Bent, Big Deals TV, CBS, David Walton, Greg Berlanti, Greg Malins
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EXCLUSIVE: Bent star David Walton has been tapped as the male lead opposite JoAnna Garcia in CBS’ untitled Greg Malins/Greg Berlanti multi-camera comedy pilot. He replaces Bryan Greenberg, who was originally cast in the role but exited after yesterday’s … Read More »

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David Walton To Star In NBC’s ‘Bent’, Ken Marino Joins CBS’ ‘Home Game’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 6:21pm PSTTags: David Walton, Home Game, Home Game Pilot, Smash Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals
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David Walton has been tapped as the male lead opposite Amanda Peet in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Bent. The project, from writer-exec producer Tad Quill, is a romantic comedy about a recently divorced Type A single mother (Peet) who tries … Read More »

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Kyle Bornheimer To Star in NBC’s ‘Couples’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 1, 2010 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: David Walton, Kyle Bornheimer, Kyle Howard, Kyle Howard My Boys, NBC Comedy, TBS My Boys, TV Pilots, UMS
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kyle_bornheimerEXCLUSIVE: I hear Worst Week star Kyle Bornheimer is set to star in NBC’s new comedy series Perfect Couples. He is replacing Kyle Howard, who was cast in the pilot in second position to the TBS comedy series My Boys. Potential scheduling conflict in case the TBS show, whose new season premieres later this month, is renewed, prompted NBC to recast the role. The in-demand Bornheimer himself was cast in a pilot in second position earlier this year. Read More »

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