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Nickelodeon Orders Comedy Pilot Starring Jerry Trainor For Nick At Nite Block

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 10:51am PDTTags: Jay Kogen, Nickelodeon
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EXCLUSIVE: Nickelodeon is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to a comedy starring iCarly‘s Jerry Trainor for its Nick At Nite nighttime block. Titled Wendell & Vinnie, the multi-camera project was created by Emmy-winning writer-producer Jay Kogen (Frasier). It stars Trainor as Vinnie, an irresponsible goofball who becomes the guardian to his conservative genius 12-year old nephew. Kogen is executive producing the pilot with Aaron Kaplan (Terra Nova, GCB). While there has been speculation that the upcoming season of long-running comedy iCarly will be its last, Nickelodeon has not made a final decision yet and Trainor, repped by ICM and the Burstein Co., could perceivable do both series. He also voices the lead character in an animated Nickelodeon series, T.U.F.F. Puppy.

This is the second original pilot for Nick At Nite, following the October pickup of Daddy’s Home starring Scott Baio. Like Daddy’s Home, Wendell & Vinnie was greenlighted with a star already attached. For Kaplan this is the 13th pilot order since he launched his indie company Kapital Entertainment less than 3 years ago. Nick at Nite currently features reruns of Friends, My Wife & Kids, George Lopez and The Nanny. Kogen is with Paradigm.

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WGA’s “Invaluable Experiences”: Strip Club

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 20, 2010 @ 11:51am PSTTags: Jay Kogen, WGA

Now maybe the Writers Guild’s definition of a “gentlemen’s club” isn’t a strip club although that’s how I and  everybody else would interpret that phrase. But the WGA Foundation’s “Sale of Invaluable Experiences” which ends today at 5 PM includes this bizarre offering: comedy writer/producer Jay Kogen (The Simpsons, Everybody Loves … Read More »

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Disney XD Orders Live-Action Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 3, 2010 @ 7:00am PSTTags: Cable TV, Disney XD, Jay Kogen, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Disney XD has added another pilot to its growing development slate. The boy-centric cable channel has greenlighted Pack of Wolves, a comedy from writer Jason Ward (Living with Fran). Ward and Jay Kogen (Frasier) are executive producing the project, … Read More »

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