Exclusive: Fox’s ramp-up in animation continues with a series order to Housebroken (fka Therapy Dog). The half-hour project, originally picked up by the network with a script plus presentation commitment, stars Lisa Kudrow, Clea Duvall and Nat Faxon and hails from writer-producer-actress Sharon Horgan, who also provides a voice, actress DuVall (Veep, American Horror Story), writer-producers Jennifer Crittenden & Gabrielle Allan (Veep, Divorce) and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment (A Million Little Things, Divorce).
Housebroken will be a co-production between Kapital and Fox Entertainment. It marks Kapital’s first animated series, With the pickup, Kapital is going 5 for 5 in pilots financed by the indie company going to series (including straight-to-series orders). It joins CBS’ 9Jkl and Fam , ABC’s A Million Little Things and CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story.
Fox’s recently acquired animation house Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers) also will co-produce Housebroken and will do the animation.
Housebroken will be a co-production between Kapital and Fox Entertainment. It marks Kapital’s first animated series, With the pickup, Kapital is going 5 for 5 in pilots financed by the indie company going to series (including straight-to-series orders). It joins CBS’ 9Jkl and Fam , ABC’s A Million Little Things and CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story.
Fox’s recently acquired animation house Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers) also will co-produce Housebroken and will do the animation.
- 12/19/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has put in development People Person, a single-camera comedy from Mad Love and Alex, Inc. creator Matt Tarses, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV. Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses has been under a deal for a long time, is co-producing with Fox Entertainment.
Written by Tarses, People Person is a comedy about the marriage of Sam, who doesn’t like people and doesn’t like doing things, and Emmy, the friendliest, most outgoing woman in the world.
Tarses executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Kapital, TrillTV and Tarses previously teamed for blended family comedy Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, which went to pilot at CBS in 2017.
Scrubs alum Tarses serves as consulting producer on Sony TV’s Mad About You revival for Spectrum Originals.
TrillTV and Kapital have three multi-camera half-hour projects projects in development at CBS,...
Written by Tarses, People Person is a comedy about the marriage of Sam, who doesn’t like people and doesn’t like doing things, and Emmy, the friendliest, most outgoing woman in the world.
Tarses executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Kapital, TrillTV and Tarses previously teamed for blended family comedy Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, which went to pilot at CBS in 2017.
Scrubs alum Tarses serves as consulting producer on Sony TV’s Mad About You revival for Spectrum Originals.
TrillTV and Kapital have three multi-camera half-hour projects projects in development at CBS,...
- 12/13/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Pivoting, a half-hour single-camera comedy from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV, has landed at Fox in a script-plus-penalty development deal that includes one additional backup script.
Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, where we follow three close-knit childhood friends, after the death of another. During the grieving period, when psychologists advise not to make any big decisions, our three friends do exactly that and upend their lives in an effort to find happiness while there is still time, taking on the mid-life challenge they never saw coming – becoming un-stuck.
Astrof executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
This marks Astrof’s second broadcast sale this season. She also is writing and executive producing The Last Happy Couple, a comedy in the works at CBS based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia,...
Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, where we follow three close-knit childhood friends, after the death of another. During the grieving period, when psychologists advise not to make any big decisions, our three friends do exactly that and upend their lives in an effort to find happiness while there is still time, taking on the mid-life challenge they never saw coming – becoming un-stuck.
Astrof executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
This marks Astrof’s second broadcast sale this season. She also is writing and executive producing The Last Happy Couple, a comedy in the works at CBS based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia,...
- 11/15/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Just in time for today’s Veterans Day, Fox has closed a deal for a script commitment plus penalty to Stateside, about a military veteran who returns to his job as a state trooper. The project, inspired by a true story, comes from The Enemy Within writer-producer Tony Camerino, an 18-year veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Reserves; Royal Pains creator Andrew Lenchewski; and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Written by Lenchewski and Camerino, Stateside centers on a fearless Special Ops veteran who returns from Iraq to his job as a Massachusetts State Trooper, and is shocked to find his hometown in even worse shape than the war-torn village he spent the past year rebuilding. Gangbangers are rolling through the streets, Ak-47s slung over their shoulders, dealing drugs with impunity. He boldly decides to take the lessons learned in battle and apply them on the streets of an American city.
Written by Lenchewski and Camerino, Stateside centers on a fearless Special Ops veteran who returns from Iraq to his job as a Massachusetts State Trooper, and is shocked to find his hometown in even worse shape than the war-torn village he spent the past year rebuilding. Gangbangers are rolling through the streets, Ak-47s slung over their shoulders, dealing drugs with impunity. He boldly decides to take the lessons learned in battle and apply them on the streets of an American city.
- 11/12/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox is developing Sanchez, Ohio (working title), a multi-camera/hybrid comedy written by Isaac Gonzalez (Mr. Iglesias) and comedy veteran Chris Case, creator of Retired at 35, and directed by Victor Gonzalez. The project hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and SideCar Content Accelerator, the Fox Entertainment-owned production company ran by Gail Berman.
In Sanchez, Ohio, after he gets a promotion, Tony Sanchez, a Mexican-American dad with traditional values, moves his family from liberal Los Angeles to conservative Ohio, where they find out they have more in common than they ever could have imagined with their new neighbors, a red state white family.
Isaac Gonzalez and Case executive produce alongside Victor Gonzalez and Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
The project stems from Victor Gonzalez’s exclusive development arrangement with Kapital Entertainment focused on developing Latinx multi-camera comedy series for broadcast, cable and streaming.
Gonzalez, a sought-after multi-camera episodic director,...
In Sanchez, Ohio, after he gets a promotion, Tony Sanchez, a Mexican-American dad with traditional values, moves his family from liberal Los Angeles to conservative Ohio, where they find out they have more in common than they ever could have imagined with their new neighbors, a red state white family.
Isaac Gonzalez and Case executive produce alongside Victor Gonzalez and Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
The project stems from Victor Gonzalez’s exclusive development arrangement with Kapital Entertainment focused on developing Latinx multi-camera comedy series for broadcast, cable and streaming.
Gonzalez, a sought-after multi-camera episodic director,...
- 10/31/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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