Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 by Angie Han
Today’s TV Bits centers mostly around renewals, pickups, and projects in development, though there’s an interesting holiday-appropriate video in here for you as well. After the jump:
- Showtime renews Homeland for a third season
- CBS’ Elementary and Vegas get full-season orders
- CW wants more Arrow, Beauty & the Beast, and Emily Owens
- Jimmy Fallon’s Guys With Kids gets five more scripts
- Big Bang Theory writer is developing Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Fox’s New Girl and Raising Hope get two more episodes
- ABC commits to bar-set Mixology, from Hangover scribes
- Jane Fonda books a starring sitcom gig on ABC’s Now What?
- Boardwalk Empire writer sells Jane Austen and West Memphis Three dramas
- Fox is working on non-superpowered superhero comedy The B Team
- Jennifer Garner returns to TV as an executive producer
- Watch a new clip from NBC’s Mockingbird Lane
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Posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Angie Han
Seth Rogen is probably most familiar from the R-rated comedies he’s starred in, many of them involving Judd Apatow. But he’s actually got a plenty of experience with family-friendly credits as well, lending his vocal talents to films like Horton Hears a Who! and the Kung Fu Panda films. Now, he’s signed on to produce and possibly star in a new project that’ll likely fall in the latter category, a Disney spy comedy called The B Team. More details after the jump.
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“Woo.” To Hollywood’s long line of buddy-cop duos we can now add Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. The pair will team up for The B Team, an action-comedy from director and uber-reliable Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers). “Woo.” No other plot-points were given, but according to the trades, a bitchin’ bidding battle went down on Tuesday. The script is by Chris Henchy, who wrote Ferrell’s Land of the Lost reboot and co-produces HBO’s Entourage with Wahlberg and East Bound & Down for Gary Sanchez Prod.
So, what do you guys think? Under McKay’s eye, the project won’t make for smelly summer tripe a la Bulletproof or I-Spy, and if an R-rating is in the cards, that would equal amazing in blood spray. Though, I doubt that’s the case, judging by a title that spoofs a Mr. T show and upcoming remake. Ferrell remains attached to star in a Sherlock Holmes comedy alongside Sacha Baron Cohen and produced by Judd Apatow, and is still making a mint on Broadway (and Conan‘s final show) as some Texan guy.
via Pop Watch
