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Margo Martindale Cast In Greg Garcia’s CBS Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 8:00am PSTTags: Margo Martindale, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

Margo MartindaleEmmy winner Margo Martindale (Justified) is set to co-star opposite Will Arnett in CBS‘ untitled Greg Garcia comedy pilot. The project, written and executive produced by Raising Hope and My Name Is Earl creator Garcia, centers on Jack (Arnett), a recently divorced guy whose life gets more complicated when his parents have marital problems of their own. Martindale plays the mother, Carol, a vibrant but meddlesome and slightly controlling character who has to have her finger in every pie. CBS Studios is producing. Last season Gersh-repped Martindale also was cast in a comedy pilot, ABC’s Counter Culture, which was not completed after co-star Delta Burke sustained an injury on set.

In another CBS comedy pilot casting, Christian Barillas has joined the untitled Jim Gaffigan project, about Jim (Gaffigan), a guy who lives with his wife Jeannie (Mira Sorvino) and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment. Barillas plays Arlen, the neighborhood’s drag queen who is one of Jim’s closest friends and a friend to his family as well.

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Will Arnett To Star In Greg Garcia’s Multi-Camera CBS Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 6:15pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, CBS, Greg Garcia, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

Up All Night’s Will Arnett has been tapped as the lead in CBS‘ untitled Greg Garcia comedy pilot. The project, written and executive produced by Raising Hope and My Name Is Earl creator Garcia, centers on Jack (Arnett), a recently divorced guy whose life gets more complicated when his parents have marital problems of their own. CBS Studios is producing. For Arnett, the pilot is formally in second position to NBC’s Up All Night. After recently scrapping its planned transformation from a single- to a multi-camera comedy, I hear the sophomore comedy is not going forward but it has not been officially cancelled by the network and the cast, sans star Christina Applegate who left 10 days ago, has not been released. Since Applegate’s exit, which threw NBC’s plans for Up All Night in turmoil, Arnett had been courted for a slew of pilots. He fielded multiple offers until settling on CBS’ Greg Garcia project whose main character’s story dovetails with Arnett’s real-life experience of going through a divorce. His Up All Night co-star Maya Rudolph also has been approached for pilots, including NBC’s Sean Hayes comedy.

Related: Is NBC’s ‘Up All Night’ Experiment Over? Read More »

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Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser Lend Voices To Animated ‘The Nut Job’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 1:04pm PSTTags: Brendan Fraser, Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett
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EXCLUSIVE: The animated feature The Nut Job has drawn a voice cast that will be led by Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon, and Jeff Dunham. The feature, which Peter Lepeniotis … Read More »

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TBS Pacts With Will Arnett And Jason Bateman’s Outfit For Branded Web Shorts

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 8:59am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Electus, Jason Bateman, TBS, Will Arnett

TBS Will Arnett Jason BatemanWill Arnett and Jason Bateman’s advertising and digital production company DumbDumb is behind the online talk show for Denny’s restaurants as well as campaigns for Orbit and Old Navy. They will produce up to six short-form comedy videos for TBS.com featuring sponsor integration and DumbDumb’s star power (Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Will Forte and Kristen Bell have appeared in ads in the past) to push the video virally via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube among other platforms. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Disney’s English-Language Version of ‘The Secret World Of Arrietty’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 5:56pm PDTTags: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett

Disney has released the official trailer for its February 17, 2012 U.S. opening of The Secret World of Arrietty. The Studio Ghibli production is directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi from a screenplay by the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. It’s based on the novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton. … Read More »

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EMMYS: First Primetime Presenters Set

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 12:49pm PDTTags: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, Amy Poehler, Ashton Kutcher, Emmy Presenters, Julianna Margulies, Sofia Vergara, Will Arnett, Zooey Deschanel

Will Arnett, Julianna Margulies, Amy Poehler, Sofia Vergara, Zooey Deschanel and Ashton Kutcher have been tapped as the first group of presenters announced for the 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, set for Sept. 18 at NOKIA Theatre L.A. Live in … Read More »

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Will Arnett To Co-Star In NBC’s Emily Spivey Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 30, 2011 @ 4:30pm PDTTags: Christina Applegate, Emily Spivey, Lorne Michaels, Maya Rudolph, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

NBC’s untitled Emily Spivey comedy pilot is building a star-studded cast. Arrested Development alum Will Arnett has closed a deal to join Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph in the project, executive produced by Saturday Night Live honcho Lorne … Read More »

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Ricky Gervais Wants Will Arnett On ‘Office’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais The Office, Steve Carell, Steve Carell Departure, Steve Carell The Office, The Office, The Office Casting, TV, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

As an executive producer on the U.S. version of his British series The Office, Ricky Gervais has a say in what happens on the show. If it things go his way, Arrested Development star Will Arnett would be joining the … Read More »

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‘Running Wilde’ Benched For 2 More Weeks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 11, 2010 @ 4:57pm PSTTags: Christian Slater Breaking In, Fox Running Wilde, Running Wilde, Running Wilde Low Ratings, TV, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

Fox’s struggling freshman Running Wilde seems to be facing a slow and painful death. The low-rated show, which just came back on Tuesday after two weeks of preemptions, is being benched again for the rest of the November sweep, slated … Read More »

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David Cross vs. The Volcano: The Peculiar Story Behind The ‘Wilde’/'Arrested’ Reunion

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 2:15pm PDTTags: David Cross, Fox, Keri Russell, Lionsgate TV, Mitch Hurwitz, Running Wilde, Running Wilde Pilot, TV, TV Casting, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

davidcrossdaly_andrewBy now you may have already heard that David Cross is joining Mitch Hurwitz and Will Arnett’s new comedy series Running Wilde, bringing in another piece to the Arrested Development reunion that’s … Read More »

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Peter Serafinowicz Joins ‘Running Wilde’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday July 11, 2010 @ 10:03pm PDTTags: Detroit 1-8-7, Fox Comedy, Keri Russell, Lionsgate TV, Running Wilde, Shaun of the Dead, TV, TV Casting, Video, Will Arnett
Nellie Andreeva

PeterSerafinowiczEXCLUSIVE: Peter Serafinowicz has joined the cast of the new Fox comedy series Running Wilde as a regular. Serafinowicz was made a regular after he popped in his guest-starring turn in the pilot as Fa’ad Shaoulin, the Oxford-accented neighbor and frenemy of Steve Wilde (Will Arnett). Similarly, Erin Cummings, who guest-starred in the pilot for ABC’s Detroit 1-8-7 as the medical examiner, was recently upped to regular on the new drama series. The Lionsgate TV-produced Running Wilde centers on Steve Wilde, a filthy-rich, immature playboy trying desperately to win (or buy) the heart of his childhood sweetheart and uber-liberal humanitarian (Keri Russell). Read More »

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