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ABC Buys Comedies From Danny Wallace And Duo Jennifer Crittenden & Gaby Allan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Julie Anne Robinson, True Story
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has added two more comedy projects to its roster — True Story from Jennifer Crittenden and Gaby Allan and Man And Boy from British writer Danny Wallace and director-producer Julie Anne Robinson. Both comedies are single-camera and produced by ABC Studios.

True Story, described as a female take on Wonder Years, is based on Crittenden and Allan’s experience as girls growing up with single moms in the 1970s. It is a look at what happens when a freshly divorced and boundary-less mother moves herself and 2 daughters in with her party girl best friend in Laguna Beach, CA in the late 1970′s. Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond alumna Crittenden and former Scrubs writer-producer Allan are writing-executive producing through their overall deal at ABC Studios. The duo is repped by UTA and attorney Michael Gendler.

Man And Boy centers on an eccentric man who returns to his small town and becomes an important part of his young nephew’s life, imparting wisdom and a zest for life. This marks Wallace’s return to ABC. Three seasons ago, he co-wrote and starred in the network’s comedy pilot Awkward Situations For Men, which was inspired by his book. The new project stems from Robinson’s one-year development deal with ABC Studios, which includes a blind pilot directing commitment. Robinson, who is also British, helmed the pilots for ABC’s The Middle and upcoming comedy series How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life. Wallace and Robinson, repped by UTA and UK’s Independent Talent Group, will executive produce Man And Boy with 3 Arts, which manages Robinson.

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Julie Anne Robinson Signs Development Deal With ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 10:30am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Julie Anne Robinson
Nellie Andreeva

Director Julie Anne Robinson has closed a one-year development deal with ABC Studios, which includes a blind pilot directing commitment for the studio and ABC. Brit Robinson helmed the pilot for ABC’s upcoming comedy series How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life and previously directed … Read More »

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ABC Gets In Development Mode With Half-Hour Comedy ‘My Formerly Hot Life’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 5:22pm PDTTags: ABC, Julie Anne Robinson, My Formerly Hot Life
Nellie Andreeva

In what may be the first project put in development for next season, ABC has set the writing team of John Hoberg and Kat Likkel to create and executive produce My Formerly Hot Life, a half-hour single-camera comedy … Read More »

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Debbie Reynolds Lands Role Opposite Heigl

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 6, 2010 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Debbie Reynolds, Janet Evanovich, Julie Anne Robinson, Katherine Heigl, Movie Casting, One for the Money, Stephanie Plum
Mike Fleming

Debbie Reynolds, who hasn’t been on camera since Will & Grace in 2006, has been lured back to the screen by Katherine Heigl in One For The Money, the Lakeshore / Sidney Kimmel Entertainment adaptation of the Janet Evanovich novel series. Heigl stars as bounty hunter Stephanie Plum for director Julie Anne Robinson, and Reynolds will play Grandma Mazur, the outspoken and outrageous advisor and maternal grandmother to Heigl’s character. “Grandma Mazur is such a great character,” Heigl said. “She’s really feisty and Read More »

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Another Katherine Heigl Film For Sidney Kimmel And Lakeshore

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 12:16pm PDTTags: Adaline, Allison Burnett, Andy Tennant, Julie Anne Robinson, Katherine Heigl, Katherine Heigl Adaline, Lakeshore Entertainment, Movie Casting, One for the Money, Sal Paskowitz, Sidney Kimmel
Mike Fleming

katherine_heigl_112Sidney Kimmel, the schmatta magnate who verged on quitting the movie biz after making a bunch of good indie films that flopped, seems reinvigorated with a new strategy: make every film possible with Katherine Heigl.

Kimmel has joined forces with Lakeshore Entertainment … Read More »

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