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Jeffrey Tambor To Star In Amazon Comedy Pilot ‘The Onion Presents: The News’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 8:48am PSTTags: Amazon Studios, Jeffrey Tambor, The Onion Presents: The News
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has landed another big-name actor for one of its first six comedy pilots. I’ve learned that Jeffrey Tambor is set to star in The Onion Presents: The News. The project, from The Onion’s Will Graham & Dan Mirk (The Onion News Network, The Onion Sportsdome), is described as a fast-paced scripted comedy set behind the scenes of The Onion News Network that shows just how far journalists will go to stay at the top of their game. Tambor will play David Everett, ONN’s oldest and most respected news anchor. He is intellectual, highly ambitious, cutthroat and insecure as he believes his job is being threatened by the younger Cameron, whom David detests. Todd Strauss-Schulson is directing. I hear Tambor was also courted for a broadcast pilot but opted for the Amazon project. He joins John Goodman and Bebe Neuwirth, who recently joined other Amazon Studios pilots. Tambor, repped by Gersh and the Burstein Co, next reprises his Emmy-nominated role as George Bluth Sr in Netflix’s new season of Arrested Development. On the movie side, he will be seen in Hangover III and HBO’s Phil Spector.

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TCA: AMC Launches Digital Studio, Sets First Web Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 8:05am PDTTags: Jeffrey Tambor, TCA Press Tour
Nellie Andreeva

Beverly Hills, CA – July 29, 2011 – AMC announced today from the Television Critics Association Summer 2011 Press Tour that the network is launching AMC Digital Studios, an online destination to incubate and to develop web series from up-and-coming talent to be showcased at amctv.com. The division serves as both a laboratory to develop future content for AMC TV and also a destination to produce web series that have the same high-quality storytelling for which our television series have become known.  The first web series launching is called “The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks.” It is co-written and directed by Peter Glanz and stars Adam Goldberg as Arthur Banks with Jeffrey Tambor. “The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks” is about 40 minutes in length and premieres as a co-release on amctv.com and on the free, ad-supported Hulu.com on August 22nd.

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Jeffrey Tambor Joins NBC’s ‘Bent’, ‘Work It’ Finds Lead, Two Added To ‘Council Of Dads’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 3:40pm PSTTags: Ben Koldyke, Bent Casting, Jeffrey Tambor, The Council of Dads Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots, Work It, Work It Pilot
Nellie Andreeva

Arrested Development alum Jeffrey Tambor is set to co-star in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Bent. The project, from writer/exec producer Tad Quill, is a romantic comedy about recently divorced Type-A single mother Alex (Amanda Peet), who tries hard not to … Read More »

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Comic-Con #14: The ‘Paul’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 25, 2010 @ 9:52pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Greg Mottola, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Joe Lo Truglio, Kristen Wiig, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, Sigourney Weaver, Simon Pegg

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

PAUL is a road-trip comedy written by (and starring) Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who are treated like absolute royalty by fans here. (Proof that what plays well at Comic-Con doesn’t always make it huge elsewhere; see also: “Filion, Nathan”). But PAUL is a perfect Comic-Con movie, because it actually begins at Comic-Con, as our lead duo take a road trip from San Diego to Area 51, where they pick up an escaping alien called Paul. Read More »

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