Another Web Series Getting a Shot at the “Big Time”

…Unless you consider the web to already be Big Time, which, btw, we do.

Fox Buys Comedy Based On ‘Couple Time’ Web Series With Ellen DeGeneres Producing – by Nellie Andreeva (Deadline.Com)

Allyn Rachel & Patrick Carlyle’s digital series Couple Time is headed to television with Ellen DeGeneres executive producing. Fox has bought Couple Time, a single-camera comedy project based on Rachel and Carlyle’s series of vignettes (watch sample below) that the two say explore “weird stuff couples do when no one else is around!” (That is the PG/R-rated silly stuff couples talk about, not the XXX stuff they sometimes do when alone!) read article

munchman Visits Some Shows His Pals Recommend…

…What? You didn’t know I had pals? Well, maybe I won’t after this. But I gotta be honest, you know?

NECESSARY ROUGHNESS
So many jocks. So little game.

THE FIRM
So many gambits. So little result. read article

Did You Know That Markie Mark Produces BOARDWALK EMPIRE?

From Wikipedia: “Scorsese and Winter are joined as executive producers by Mark Wahlberg…”

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Ah, men of the people, yes, indeedy! And we only discovered this because we got a P.R. announcement that, well, here it is:

NBC Orders Legal Drama From Pair Behind ‘Entourage’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ read article

TV Guide Interviews a Daytime Soap Writer

This could be a first:

Exclusive: Bold and the Beautiful Boss Bradley Bell Reacts to the Sudden Exit of Ronn Moss – by Michael Logan

Ronn Moss‘ decision to end his 25-year run as Ridge Forrester on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful — reportedly over salary issues — is quite the industry shocker!…What will B&B do without him? Will the role of Ridge be recast? TV Guide Magazine got the answers in this exclusive interview with the soap’s executive producer-head writer Bradley Bell. read article

Deadline.Com Features New Writing Deals

…Complete with pics of the writers and verbiage that makes them seem, if not exactly stars, definitely important. You don’t see that everyday, and it’s one of the reasons (the biggest one) why we report on Deadline.Com’s reporting as much as we do. (Oh, so that’s what we do. Good to know.) Deadline’s latest announcement:

ABC Buys Extended Family Comedy, NBC Goes For International Crime Drama – by Nellie Andreeva(Deadline.Com)

ABC has handed a script commitment with penalty to Dumb F*ck, a single-camera comedy from FishBowl Worldwide Media. Written by Hank Nelken (Saving Silverman), the project is about an average guy and his brilliant wife who, due to financial hardship, are forced to live with her family of highly intelligent but emotionally stunted geniuses. Vin Di Bona, Bruce Gersh, Susan Levison and Shaleen Desai executive produce. FishBowl is repped by CAA, Nelken by Gersh. read article