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‘Little In Common’ Not Going Forward At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 17, 2011 @ 5:51pm PDTTags: Fox, Little In Common
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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Corddry’s single-camera comedy pilot Little In Common is no longer in contention at Fox. The network has passed on the project, about three families with different views on child rearing, which starred Rob Corddry, Heather Graham, Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union and Alana Ubach. The decision was made after Fox received the retooled Little In Common pilot. In lieu of a series pickup, Fox in May ordered a second pilot and some changes. Paula Marshall was recast with Graham and another character was phased out. But I hear that, while they liked the cast, Fox brass were underwhelmed with the new pilot, which also didn’t test well. READ MORE »

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Heather Graham To Star In Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Little In Common’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 9:57pm PDTTags: Fox, Heather Graham, Little In Common, Rob Corddry, Rob Thomas, TV Casting, Warner Bros. TV
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EXCLUSIVE: Heather Graham has been tapped to star opposite Rob Corddry in Fox’s comedy pilot Little In Common. Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy, produced by WBTV, centers on the Wellers (Corddry, Graham), who move from California to Texas but find that their adjustment won’t be quite that easy considering their Latina single-mother neighbor (Alana Ubach) has a radically different approach to child-rearing than they do, while their other new neighborhood acquaintances, the African American Burlesons (Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union), take sports very seriously. Graham’s role, which has been recast, was played by Paula Marshall in the original pilot, in which Ubach had a husband played by Lombardo Boyar. This is a rare series gig for Graham, who has been focused primarily on features. She previously toplined the short-lived ABC comedy Emily’s Reasons Why Not and recurred on Scrubs. Read More »

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Comedy ‘Family Album’ Not Going Forward At Fox; Will That Help ‘Breaking In’?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 7:31pm PDTTags: Breaking In, Family Album, Fox, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Little In Common, New Girl
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Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Family Album is no longer in contention for midseason. Considered one of the hotter pilots at the network this past season, the half-hour, written by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and directed by Shawn Levy, didn’t … Read More »

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Midseason Status Report: ‘Breaking In’ Stays Alive With Cast Options Pickup, ‘Common’ & ‘Album’ Keep Some Actors,’Smothered’ Dead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 2:50pm PDTTags: Breaking In, Exit Strategy, Family Album, Little In Common, Smothered
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June 30 marked the deadline for TV studios to pick up the options on the casts of broadcast pilots and series whose fate was still in limbo. Good news for fans of Fox’s midseason comedy Breaking In: The options on the series’ actors have been picked up until Nov. 15. And, in a rare move, I hear the network, Fox, has pitched in, splitting the cost of the option extension with producing studio Sony Pictures TV. Fox’s decision to cancel the Christian Slater-starring comedy after a brief midseason run was one of the biggest surprises this past upfront season.

Among the pilots left in contention for midseason, Fox’s comedies Little In Common and Family Album remain in the running for Fox’s two-hour, four-show midseason Tuesday comedy block. But both projects will undergo some tweaking as reflected in their producing studios’ decision to pick up only parts of their casts. Read More »

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Fox To Schedule Midseason Comedy Block

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 7:23am PDTTags: comedy block, Family Album, Fox, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Little In Common, New Girl, Raising Hope
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Fox will experiment with a night of all live-action half-hour comedies in midseason. During Fox’s conference call this morning, entertainment president Kevin Reilly said the network plans to launch the four-show comedy block on Tuesdays in March, when the current … Read More »

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WHO IS STILL ALIVE? ‘Exit Strategy’ Taps Ken Olin As Co-Showrunner; ‘Family Album’ Eyes Midseason Order & More

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 7:49pm PDTTags: A Mann's World, ABC, Exit Strategy, Family Album, Fox, Little In Common, Locke & Key, Metro, Smothered
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Between the VIP section of newly picked up series and the pilot of rejected pilots is the no man’s land of pilots that are neither dead nor picked up yet. Here is a rundown on what is still alive and which dead pilots are looking for life elsewhere:

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3RD UPDATE: Fox Orders ‘Finder’, ‘Alcatraz’, ‘Daughter’ & ‘New Girl’ To Series, ‘Council’, ‘Locke’, ‘Bellevue’, ‘Outnumbered’ & ‘Iceland’ Dead; ‘Exit’, ‘Album’ & ‘Common’ Still In Play

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Alcatraz, Council of Dads, Exit Strategy, Fox, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Iceland, Little In Common, Liz Meriwether, Locke & Key, Outnumbered, pickup, The New Girl, Weekends at Bellevue, Zooey Deschanel
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UPDATE 9 PM: A Locke & Key limited series/miniseries was a stretch, and it seems that it is not happening. The show is now heading to the death pile. And yes, comedy Outnumbered is dead too. Surprisingly, multi-family comedy Little In Common starring Rob Corddry and Kevin Hart, which had … Read More »

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‘Heavenly’ Casts Female Lead, Ryan Eggold; Kevin Zegers & Alanna Ubach Join Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 10:00am PDTTags: ABC, CW, Georgetown, Heavenly, Little In Common, Pilot
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Lauren Cohan has landed the female lead  in the CW supernatural drama pilot Heavenly. Ryan Eggold also has been tapped for a lead role in the project, from CBS TV Studios and writer Richard Hatem. Heavenly centers on Lily (Cohan), a dedicated young attorney, and a former angel, Dashiel Coffee (Ben Aldridge), only recently turned human, who tackle cases at the attorney’s legal aid clinic – she saves clients’ butts while he saves their souls. Eggold, repped by Gersh and Untitled, will play a pastor whom Dashiel seeks counsels from. Also previously cast in the pilot is Elizabeth Ho. Cohan has recurred on two CW series, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries.

Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead) has landed a lead role opposite Jimmy Wolk in ABC’s Georgetown. Written by Will Fetters, it centers on Andrew Pierce (Wolk), an effortlessly charming and brilliant Yale graduate and the youngest presidential speechwriter on record. Zegers will play Monty, an incredibly wealthy stockbroker from a well-connected family and an old rival of Andrew’s who has just proposed to an old girlfriend of Andrew’s. Canadian-born Zegers has been recurring on the CW’s Gossip Girl this season. Read More »

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Comedian Kevin Hart To Star In Fox Pilot ‘Little In Common’, Prep Concert Movie

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 7:40pm PSTTags: Fox, Kevin Hart, Little In Common
Nellie Andreeva

Kevin Hart is set to star opposite Rob Corddry in Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. The WBTV-produced pilot is about 3 families united through their kids’ little league sports. It centers on the Wellers … Read More »

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Rob Corddry To Lead Cast Of Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Little In Common’, Two Join ‘Tagged’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 3:12pm PSTTags: Little In Common, Little in Common Pilot, Rob Corddry, Rob Thomas, Tagged, Tagged Casting, Tagged Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Corddry is set to star in Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. Paula Marshall is finalizing a deal to join him in the pilot, from by Warner Bros. TV, which is about 3 … Read More »

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James Mangold To Direct Robert De Niro- Produced Drama, More Pilots Land Helmers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 4, 2011 @ 10:47pm PSTTags: ABC Grace, James Mangold, James Mangold Rookies, Little In Common, Little in Common Pilot, Richard Price, Robert De Niro Rookies, Rookies, TV, TV Pilots
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EXCLUSIVE: Feature director James Mangold has come on board to direct the CBS/CBS Studios drama pilot Rookies, an ensemble cop show from The Color of Money writer Richard Price, which is  executive produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal … Read More »

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Fox Picks Up Rob Thomas Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 4:21pm PSTTags: Fox, Fox Little In Common, Fox Pilots, Little In Common, Rob Thomas, TV, Warner Bros. TV
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Fox has handed a pilot order to Little in Common, a single-camera comedy from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas. The project, produced by Warner Bros. TV, is about 3 families united through their kids’ little league sports. This is Fox’s … Read More »

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Fox Has ‘Little In Common’ With Rob Thomas For Comedy Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 11, 2010 @ 12:42pm PSTTags: Fox Little In Common, Jennifer Gwartz, John Enbom, Little In Common, Rob Thomas, TV, TV Deals, Warner Bros. TV
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EXCLUSIVE: Veronica Mars creator and Party Down co-creator Rob Thomas has set up a second  broadcast project, this time at Fox. Thomas will be writing the single-camera comedy titled Little In Common, which is about three families whose lives have … Read More »

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