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Ben Rappaport To Topline TBS Pilot ‘Do It Yourself’, Bill Engvall To Co-Star

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 8:00am PSTTags: Ben Rappaport, Bill Engvall, Do It Yourself
Nellie Andreeva

Outsourced star Ben Rappaport is set as the lead of another workplace comedy, TBS pilot Do It Yourself. Bill Engvall is co-starring in the multi-camera project written by Walt Becker and Rob Long and directed by James Widdoes. Do It Yourself tells the story of Nick Porter (Rappaport), a 20-something laid-off math teacher who finds himself thrust into the blue collar world when he gets a job at that most American of retail institutions: the big box home supply store. Engvall plays his co-worker Dale, an executive with 30 years of experience who was once a senior vice president at Circuit City but has been reduced to minimum wage since his company went belly-up. READ MORE »

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TBS Greenlights Blue Collar Comedy Pilot From Walt Becker And Rob Long

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 6:50pm PSTTags: Do It Yourself, TBS, Walt Becker
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After each of them has co-created a TBS series, Walt Becker (Wild Hogs) and Cheers alum Rob Long have teamed for a multi-camera comedy project, which has landed a pilot order at TBS. The network … Read More »

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