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Rose Catherine Pinkney Joins TV Land As VP Development

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 19, 2012 @ 9:38am PDTTags: Hot in Cleveland, TV Land
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Rose Catherine Pinkney TV LandEXCLUSIVE: TV Land has hired Rose Catherine Pinkney as VP Development and Original Programming. Based in Los Angeles, she will oversee TV Land’s existing original series and the development of new ones, working alongside VP Brad Gardner and reporting to EVP Development and Original Programming Keith Cox. “It is rare to find someone who has a wealth of experience with multi-camera sitcoms, a format our audience knows and loves,” Cox said. “Rose Catherine is a creative force who is well-respected by many of the writers that we are in business with, as well as the community at large.” Pinkney spent almost a decade in the comedy department of Paramount Network TV, where she shepherded the sales of more than 30 projects, several of which went to series including Becker, Girlfriends and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Pinkney also served as EVP Programming and Production for TV One. Most recently, she was Head of Television for Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods. TV Land’s slate of original series includes Hot In Cleveland, Happily Divorced, Retired At 35, The Exes and the upcoming Cleveland spinoff The Soul Man.

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TV Land Fast-Tracks Twin Brothers Comedy From Joe Keenan And Scott Ellis

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 9:47am PSTTags: Scott Ellis, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: You know when a premise of a show is so unusual, it looks completely made up? Well, this is not one of those cases. TV Land has put in development a half-hour sitcom from Frasier and Desperate Housewives alum Joe Keenan and director Scott Ellis about two adult identical twin brothers, one gay and one straight, who return home and help their mother raise their deceased sister’s child. The project is based on personal experience, times two. Both Keenan and Ellis are gay and have identical twin brothers who are straight. It has been “fascinating” tackling the same premise from the points of view of two very different experiences, said Keenan, whose brother is conservative evangelist and has not spoken to him since Keenan got married four years ago. Meanwhile, Ellis is very close with his brother, who is supportive of him.

As for the brothers on the show, who were brought up by their mother to be very competitive, “their lives implode within weeks of each other,” Keenan said. The straight one, who makes a good living as a minor-league pitcher, is caught cheating on his wife and, while trying to flee his lover’s apartment, hurts his arm, breaking his marriage and career at the same time. Meanwhile, his brother is dumped by his wealthy, older gay partner after a long relationship, left to fend for himself for the first time in years. Keenan and Ellis conceived the idea in the fall, but Ellis was busy developing a 1970s mother/daughter hourlong project already set up at ABC, and by the time the two were ready with the pitch, they missed the current broadcast window. Keenan and Ellis were then approached by TV Land, which was interested in fast-tracking the comedy for a possible June pilot shoot. Instead of waiting another year to get a shot at the broadcast networks, the two jumped in with TV Land. Read More »

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TV Land Renews ‘The Exes’ For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 10:22am PSTTags: The Exes, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: TV Land’s streak of every freshman series going to a second season continues. The cable network has renewed its latest original sitcom, The Exes. Its sophomore season will premiere in June along with the network’s newest comedy, Hot In … Read More »

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TV Land Buys Comedy Based On Israeli Format From Writer Jon Sherman & Electus

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 5:19pm PSTTags: Electus, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: TV Land has reached to a foreign land for its latest comedy project. In a competitive situation, the cable network has picked up for development an U.S. version of the Israeli format Zanzuri from Ben Silverman’s Electus. Frasier alum … Read More »

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It’s Official – TV Land Renews ‘Cleveland’, Picks Up Spinoff Series Starring Cedric: TCA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday January 14, 2012 @ 10:08am PSTTags: Cedric the Entertainer, Hot in Cleveland, TV Land
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TV Land Renews ‘Hot In Cleveland’, Picks Up Cedric The Entertainer Spinoff To Series

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TV Land Renews ‘Hot In Cleveland’, Picks Up Cedric The Entertainer Spinoff To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 12, 2012 @ 10:34am PSTTags: Cedric the Entertainer, Hot in Cleveland, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: Hot In Cleveland is becoming a franchise for TV Land. On the heels of the sitcom landing a best cable comedy prize at last night’s People’s Choice Awards and just in time for star Betty White’s 90th birthday on Tuesday, I’ve learned that TV Land has renewed its flagship comedy series for a fourth season. Additionally, I’ve also learned that the network has picked up the untitled Hot In Cleveland spinoff starring Cedric The Entertainment to series. The project, written by Cedric and Hot In Cleveland creator Suzanne Martin, originated as an August Cleveland episode introducing Cedric’s character, Reverend Boyce. The network in October greenlighted a standalone pilot, which followed Boyce as he moves to Cedric’s hometown of St. Louis and has to balance his wild past with the expectations of his congregation and his family. The project, co-starring Niecy Nash, is executive produced by Cedric, Martin and Hazy Mills’ Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, who also executive produce Hot In Cleveland with Martin. Read More »

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TV Land’s ‘Hot In Cleveland’ Down In Return, New Comedy ‘Exes’ Just OK

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 2:33pm PSTTags: Hot in Cleveland, The Exes, TV Land
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UPDATE: TV Land’s first original series Hot In Cleveland opened its third season with 1.9 million viewers last night. That was down from the show’s second season premiere in January, which drew 2.95 million viewers, from the launch of the … Read More »

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Joel Gretsch, Gillian Vigman And Todd Stashwick Among Latest Cable Castings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 5:24pm PSTTags: AMC, FX, Gillian VIgman, How To Cheat On Your Wife, Legit, Lifetime, Of two Minds, TV Land
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Joel Gretsch (V) has joined Lifetime’s original movie Of Two Minds. The film chronicles the relationship between a woman (Kristin Davis) and her younger sister (Tammy Blanchard), who has schizophrenia. Gretsch, repped by APA and Mosaic, will play Davis’ husband. Jim O’Hanlon is directing from a script by Richard Friedenber.

Gillian Vigman and Dan Bakkedahl have joined Jim Jefferies and Peter O’Fallon’s FX comedy pilot presentation Legit. Directed by Peter O’Fallon, Legit centers Jim (Jefferies), a misanthrope trying to go legit. Former Daily Show correspondent Bakkedahl, repped by Paradigm and Principal, will play Jim’s world-weary, floundering, divorced roommate. Vigman, repped by APA and Brillstein, will play a funny and smart Harvard-trained psychiatrist forced to diffuse Jim’s endless advances. The actress, best known for her role in The Hangover franchise, has been recurring on ABC’s Suburgatory and Fox’s New Girl. Read More »

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Niecy Nash To Star In TV Land’s Cedric Pilot, Summer Glau Joins TNT’s ‘Scent’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 7:02am PDTTags: Cedric the Entertainer, Niecy Nash, Scent Of The Missing, TNT, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: Niecy Nash has landed the female lead opposite Cedric the Entertainer in his TV Land pilot, a spinoff from hit comedy Hot In Cleveland. Meanwhile, former Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star Summer Glau and Daryl Mitchell (Brothers) have joined TNT’s drama pilot Scent Of The Missing.

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TV Land Orders Potential ‘Hot In Cleveland’ Spinoff With Cedric The Entertainer To Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 10:20pm PDTTags: Cedric the Entertainer, TV Land
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TV Land’s proposed Hot In Cleveland spinoff starring Cedric the Entertainer is moving one step closer to reality with a pilot order. The pilot order was somewhat surprising given that Cedric’s minister character was introduced on an episode of … Read More »

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TV Land Picks Up ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 3:08pm PDTTags: The Dick Van Dyke Show, TV Land

TV Land has acquired broadcast rights to The Dick Van Dyke Show. The sitcom will premiere on Oct. 3, exactly 50 years after it debuted on CBS. TV Land is marking its anniversary by running episodes in a three-hour block … Read More »

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Eliot Goldberg Named SVP Development & Programming For CMT

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 8:30am PDTTags: CMT, E!, TV Land
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EXCLUSIVE: Former TV Land and Ryan Seacrest Prods executive Eliot Goldberg has joined CMT on the West Coast as SVP Development and Programming. He will oversee development of new programming — both unscripted and scripted — reporting to Jayson Dinsmore, EVP Development and Programming. CMT has been expanding into reality, most recently launching new Thursday series Texas Women and Sweet Home Alabama. It also ventured into scripted television with sitcom Working Class, which ran for one season. Goldberg recently served as SVP Development and Original Programming at a cable network that has found success with original sitcoms — TV Land. There he developed and oversaw scripted and non-scripted programming. Goldberg was involved in the development of scripted comedies Hot in Cleveland, Retired at 35 and Happily Divorced. His recent reality series include High School Reunion and Harry Loves Lisa. Before TV Land, Goldberg was EVP Programming and  Development for Ryan Seacrest Prods at the company’s launch. He created, developed and executive produced such series as mega hit Keeping Up With the Kardashians, offshoot Khourtney and Khloe Take Miami and Denise Richards: It’s Complicated. Read More »

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TV Land Renews Fran Drescher’s Sitcom ‘Happily Divorced’ For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Fran Drescher, TV Land
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No surprise here – Fran Drescher’s new sitcom for TV Land Happily Divorced has done well in the ratings, so a second-season renewal was a given. TV Land is building a nice streak – all 3 original series it has launched so far, Hot In Cleveland, Retired at 35 and now Happily Divorced, have gone to a second season. Next off is the winter premiere of The Exes. Here is TV Land’s release on the Happily Divorced renewal”

New York, NY, July 20, 2011 — TV Land announced today that it has picked up its original sitcom “Happily Divorced,” starring and co-written by Fran Drescher, for a second season with 12 new episodes tentatively scheduled to premiere in Spring 2012.  “Happily Divorced,” inspired by Drescher’s own life, also stars John Michael Higgins, Tichina Arnold, Rita Moreno, Robert Walden and Valente Rodriguez. According to Nielsen, “Happily Divorced” is averaging over 2.2 million total viewers, a 1.0 among A25-54 and a 1.3 among W25-54 season-to-date, posting triple digit gains over the network’s primetime average.

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TV Land’s ‘Hot In Cleveland’ Slips In Return, ‘Happily Divorced’ Solid In Premiere

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 16, 2011 @ 4:14pm PDTTags: Breakout Kings Premiere Ratings, Cable Ratings, Happily Divorced, Hot in Cleveland, TV Land
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TV Land’s flagship comedy series Hot In Cleveland launched the second part of its second season last night with 2.4 million total viewers at 10 PM. That was exactly half of the scorching 4.8 million viewers the sitcom logged for … Read More »

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Hammond: Morgan Freeman Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 4:52pm PDTTags: AFI, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier, TV Land
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He may have only received his first major big-screen break at the age of 50 in 1987′s Street Smart, but Morgan Freeman has created such a distinguished body of work in the quarter of a century since then that Thursday night he was named the 39th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for a career in film. Just after the honor was announced by the American Film Institute on October 11th, I ran into Freeman at an awards-season event and he was ebullient, telling me, “Now I am one of the big boys.” During Thursday’s warm ceremony on Sony’s Stage 15 and at the after-party nearby on the lot, Freeman still seemed just as happy about the honor.

In fact, after he accepted the award from his Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby co-star and director Clint Eastwood and made his speech, he became the first of the AFI’s 39 honorees to actually remain on stage and sing along to one of his theme songs, “Lean On Me,” from the 1989 film in which he starred as real-life school principal Joe Clark. Earlier in the evening, Garth Brooks and a large chorus sang the song — actually twice, as a snafu forced them to perform it again. The black-tie industry crowd didn’t seem to mind at all.

Among those in attendance who offered toasts or onstage tributes with personal anecdotes about Freeman were Sidney Poitier, AFI Board of Trustees chair Howard Stringer, AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale, Betty White, Samuel L. Jackson, Rita Moreno, Don Cheadle, Matthew Broderick, Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr, Matthew McConaughey, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker and Tim Robbins. Filmed tributes were also shown from Chris Rock, Dan Ackroyd, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher and Ashley Judd.

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Other TV News: Jerry Lewis To Retire As Telethon Host; Premiere Date For ‘Hot In Cleveland’; Tribune Preps ‘Bill Cunningham’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 2:01pm PDTTags: Happily Divorced, Hot in Cleveland, Jerry Lewis, Tribune Broadcasting, TV Land

With the upfronts in full swing in New York, it’s easy to forget there’s plenty of news that doesn’t break inside hotel ballrooms. A roundup:

– Jerry Lewis said today that he will retire as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual Labor Day Telethon, which he has hosted since 1966. … Read More »

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TV Land Announces ‘Hot In Cleveland’ Spinoff Starring Cedric The Entertainer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 1:13pm PDTTags: TV Land
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TV Land said today that it is proceeding with plans for a Hot In Cleveland spinoff starring Cedric the Entertainer. The planted spinoff, starring Cedric as a minister, will be introduced in multiple episodes of Hot In Cleveland’s upcoming season … Read More »

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UPDATED: TV Land Picks Up Two New Series, Renews ‘Retired At 35′

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 21, 2011 @ 12:17pm PDTTags: Mark Reisman, pickup, Pilot, series, TV Land
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UPDATE: TV Land just officially announced the series pickups of Fran Drescher’s Happily Divorced; Mark Reisman’s project, now called The Exes; and the second-season renewal of Retired at 35. As expected, the orders for Happily Divorced and The Exes are for 10 episodes each. Happily Divorced will premiere June 15, … Read More »

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Fran Drescher’s Comedy Pilot ‘Happily Divorced’ Nears Series Pickup At TV Land

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Fran Drescher, Happily Divorced, TV Land
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They’ve done it again – almost 10 years after they co-created The Nanny, Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson are close to landing another comedy series starring the nasal-voiced actress. I hear TV Land is finalizing a series pickup … Read More »

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