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Joe Port/Joe Wiseman Relationship Comedy Gets Pilot Production Commitment At NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 6, 2012 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

In a very competitive situation, NBC has landed Joe & Joe & Jane, a multi-camera comedy from writers-executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, with a pilot production commitment. I hear the 20th Century Fox TV-produced project also has a series penalty behind it to rank as one of the biggest comedy sales this season.

Loosely based on the relationship between Port, Wiseman and Wiseman’s wife, Joe & Joe & Jane centers on a conflict-avoidant children’s book author caught in an ongoing tug of war between two needy, flawed people: his wife and his co-author/ best friend. It’s not about a couple, it’s about a trouple.

Last season, another Port/Wiseman comedy with semi-autobiographical roots, spec Rebounding, which was inspired by Port’s real-life experiences, was picked up to pilot by Fox with Steve Levitan executive producing, Jason Winer directing and Will Forte starring. The year before, the duo also had a strong pilot contender at Fox with Family Album, which like Rebounding, was single-camera. Last season, Port and Wiseman, who are under an overall deal at 20th TV, served as executive produced the studio’s Fox comedy New Girl. READ MORE »

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Steve Levitan-Produced Port-Wiseman Spec Gets Pilot Order At Fox, Jason Winer Directs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 3, 2012 @ 6:18pm PSTTags: Fox, Joe Wiseman, Rebounding, Steve Levitan
Nellie Andreeva

Steve Levitan is back at Fox. The network has picked up Rebounding, a single-camera comedy from the Modern Family co-creator, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, with Modern Family helmer Jason … Read More »

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Steve Levitan, Joe Port And Joe Wiseman Take Out ‘Rebounding’ TV Comedy Spec

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 11:19am PSTTags: Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, Rebounding, Steve Levitan
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Let the bidding frenzy begin! A mostly sleepy January TV spec market is being shaken up today by Rebounding, a single-camera comedy from Joe Port, Joe Wiseman and Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan. Port and … Read More »

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Weight Loss Comedy From Chris O’Dowd & Port/Wiseman Lands At NBC With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 5:36pm PDTTags: Chris O'Dowd, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy four-way bidding war among ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS, Big Men, a comedy from Irish actor-comedian (and Bridesmaids standout) Chris O’Dowd and writer-producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, has landed at NBC with a script commitment … Read More »

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‘Family Album’ Creators Joe Port And Joe Wiseman Ink Overall Deal With 20th TV, Join ‘New Girl’; ‘Album’ To Film Second Episode

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 7:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Family Album, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, New Girl, overall deal
Nellie Andreeva

Comedy writer-producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, creators of the 20th Century Fox TV-produced comedy pilot Family Album, have signed a two-year overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, the two will join New Girl, 20th TV’s hot new comedy series for Fox, as co-executive producers. Additionally, their pilot Family Album is in strong contention at Fox for midseason. Along with another half-hour pilot, Little In Common, Family Album is vying for a spot on the network’s four-show comedy block in March. To further boost the project’s chances, 20th TV has agreed to produce a second episode, which Port and Wiseman are currently working on. Family Album, which 20th TV co-produces with Marty Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods., stemmed from a blind script deal the studio signed with Port and Wiseman last year. “Having dated for a while, we all collectively wanted to take this relationship to the next level,” 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said. “They have the inspiration to create their owns show and also have the right demeanor to be able to fit into a show and support other creators when they don’t have anything going on.” Read More »

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PILOT CASTINGS: Rob Huebel Gets Fox’s ‘Family Album’ After FX Passes On ‘USS Alabama’, Jamie Bamber To ’17th Precinct’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 8:39am PSTTags: 17th Precinct, 17th Precinct Casting, 17th Precinct Pilot, Family Album, Family Album Casting, Family Album Pilot, Jamie Bamber, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, Shawn Levy, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Rob Huebel has become the first actor cast in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Family Album, written by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and directed by Shawn Levy. Huebel most recently guest starred in the FX sci-fi comedy pilot U.S.S. Alabama. … Read More »

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Fox Picks Up Peter Tolan, Joe Port/Joe Wiseman Single-Camera Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 5:45pm PSTTags: Bruce Feiler, Family Album, Family Album Pilot, Fox Pilots, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, Peter Tolan, The Council of Dads, The Council of Dads Pilot, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has picked up 2 more single-camera comedy pilots, Peter Tolan’s The Council of Dads and Joe Port and Joe Wiseman’s Family Album.… Read More »

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Another Family Comedy Finds Buyer Fast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 9, 2010 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: Fox Pilots, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Yet more proof that family comedy, especially one with a male point of view, is the hottest half-hour genre this buying season: shortly after CBS shelled out a put pilot commitment to a suburban dad comedy from writer Peter Knight and Happy Madison, a family comedy from writers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and 20th Century Fox TV landed at Fox. Read More »

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