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Dennis Haysbert Joins CBS’ ‘Backstrom’, Jim Gaffigan Comedy Pilot Adds Priest

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 6:45pm PSTTags: Dennis Haysbert, Jim Gaffigan
Nellie Andreeva

Dennis Haysbert, star of the CBS military drama The Unit, is reuniting with the network and The Unit producer 20th Century Fox TV with a co-starring role in the CBS/20th TV drama pilot Backstrom. Written by Hart Hanson based on the Swedish book series, the project centers on Everett Backstrom, an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior. Gersh-repped Haysbert plays John Almond, one of the detectives working with Backstrom.

Here is a tongue twister: Tongayi Chirisa (NBC’s Crusoe) has been cast as Father Nicholas Ngungumbane in CBS’ Jim Gaffigan comedy pilot. Written by Gaffigan and Peter Tolan, the project centers on Jim (Gaffigan) a guy who lives with his wife Jeannie (Mira Sorvino) and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment. Father Ngungumbane is Catholic priest from Zimbabwe, recently relocated to New York and thrilled to be living in the United States, who tries to convince Jim to come to church more often. Chirisa is with Domain and New Wave.

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Mira Sorvino To Star In CBS’ Jim Gaffigan Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 2:32pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Jim Gaffigan, Mira Sorvino
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Mira Sorvino is returning to her comedy roots (she won an Oscar for Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite) with a starring role opposite Jim Gaffigan in his CBS comedy pilot. Written by Gaffigan and Peter … Read More »

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CBS Greenlights Jim Gaffigan-Peter Tolan Family Comedy Pilot Starring Gaffigan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 12:45pm PSTTags: CBS, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Tolan
Nellie Andreeva

A dozen years after Jim Gaffigan got his first sitcom-starring role on CBS‘ Welcome To New York, the actor-comedian is one step from another comedy series on CBS as the network has greenlighted a half-hour pilot based on his life. Gaffigan is partnered with Peter Tolan on the project, which landed at CBS with a put pilot commitment in September. Gaffigan and Tolan co-wrote the story, and Tolan wrote the script for the project, which centers on a guy who lives with his wife and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment. Sony Pictures TV, where Tolan and Michael Wimer’s company Fedora Entertainment is based, is producing, with Gaffigan, Tolan and Wimer executive producing alongside Gaffigan’s manager, Brillstein Entertainment’s Alex Murray. Read More »

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