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PILOT CASTINGS: Two Land Comedy Projects

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 8:33am PSTTags: Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23, I Hate That I Love You, Jhoni Marchinko, Nahnatchka Khan, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilot Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

True Blood alumna Anna Camp has become the first actress cast in the NBC comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You, landing one of the four leads in the single-camera project from writer-exec producer Jhoni Marchinko and 20th TV. It is described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad and Missy, introduce their lesbian roommates, Brad’s Allie and Missy’s Sarah (Camp), to each other. Allie and Sarah hit it off but things get complicated when Allie becomes pregnant with Brad’s baby.

Michael “Mookie” Blaikock (Secret Girlfriend) has joined the ABC/20th TV comedy pilot Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. Written by Nahnatchka Khan, the project centers on June (Dreama Walker), an  earnest, honest, optimistic girl from the heartland who is forced to move in with Chloe (Krysten Ritter), a sexy, unstable New York City party girl who has the morals of a pirate. Blaikock, repped by Innovative and Andy Corren Management, will play Eli, the preppy perv-next-door.

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NBC Orders Steven Spielberg Musical Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 3:43pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, DreamWorks TV, I Hate That I Love You, Jhoni Marchinko, NBC Pilots, NBC Smash, Pilot Pickup, Robert Greenblatt NBC Entertainment, Smash Pilot, Steven Spielberg, TV, TV Deals, Universal Media Studios
Nellie Andreeva

New NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt is putting his stamp on the network’s development with a pilot order for a project he originally developed while at Showtime. NBC just greenlighted Smash, an ambitious one-hour musical about the mounting of a … Read More »

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CBS Developing Twitter-Based Family Comedy Produced By Jessica Alba

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 15, 2010 @ 12:15pm PSTTags: Jessica Alba, Jhoni Marchinko, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

In 1997, Kelly Oxford, a stay-at-home mother of three in Canada, started a blog that was later joined by a Twitter feed. Her Internet creations, which showcase her short comedic observations and musings about mundane things, pop culture and current events, grew to become a cultural force and attracted the attention of Hollywood’s elite, including actress Jessica Alba. Now, Oxford is writing Mother of All Something, a comedy project for CBS based on her blog and Twitter feed, with Alba attached to executive produce. Will & Grace alumna Jhoni Marchinko is supervising the pilot and is also executive producing behind her 2-script deal at 20th Century Fox TV. Oxford will serve as supervising producer on the project, which is produced by CBS TV Studios. She is with WME, which also reps Alba and Marchinko. Here is how Oxford describes herself on her blog:

more likely to be wearing animals than protecting them
Previously described as: your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. Currently described as: your mom.
If I was a mood board you would see:
gold, ativan and a photo of David Sedaris drinking my breast milk.

CBS, which launched the first series based on a Twitter account this fall, $#*! My Dad Says, has two more Twitter feed-based comedies in the works for next season, Dear Girls Above Me and Shh … Don’t Tell Steve. Here are some recent tweets by Oxford: Read More »

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