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Allison Janney & Tony Shalhoub To Star In Greg Daniels’ NBC Pilot ‘Friday Night Dinner’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 1:45pm PSTTags: Allison Janney, Friday Night Dinner, Greg Daniels, NBC, Tony Shalhoub
Nellie Andreeva

Emmy winners Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub are finalizing deals to star in Greg Daniels’ NBC comedy pilot Friday Night Dinner. The single-camera project, based on the British format, centers on a quirky family that has dinner together every Friday night. Janney will play Barbara and Shalhoub will play Gene, the matriarch and patriarch of the family. On the British series the roles are played by Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter. Daniels is executive producing the pilot with Howard Klein and the original series’ creator Robert Popper and producer Big Talk TV. Ken Kwapis, who helmed the pilot for Daniels’ NBC adaptation of another British comedy, The Office, is on board to direct. The casting brings together Janney, four-time Emmy winner for The West Wing; Shalhoub, 3-time Emmy winner for Monk; and Greg Daniels, five-time Emmy winner for SNL, The Simpsons, King Of The Hill and The Office. WME-repped Janney is coming off an ensemble SAG Award win for The Help. ICM-repped Shalhoub co-stars in the upcoming HBO movie Hemingway & Gellhorn.

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Ken Kwapis Set To Direct NBC Pilot ‘Friday Night Dinner’, Reunites With Greg Daniels

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 7:00am PSTTags: Friday Night Dinner, Ken Kwapis, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Eight years after they teamed for the pilot of The Office, Ken Kwapis is set to direct another Greg Daniels-written pilot for NBC, which too is an adaptation of a British comedy. Kwapis, who also has helmed a dozen episodes … Read More »

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David Koechner Inks NBC Talent Deal, Eyes Greg Daniels’ ‘Friday Night Dinner’ & ‘Office’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 17, 2012 @ 5:42pm PSTTags: David Koechner, Friday Night Dinner, Greg Daniels, The Office
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian David Koechner has signed a talent holding deal with NBC. Under the pact, he is attached to star in Greg Daniels’ comedy project Friday Night Dinner and possibly do more episodes of The Office, … Read More »

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