Quick News: Matthew Perry back on TV, Daily Show losing correspondents to CBS, CW Sunday nights put on hold
By fred | October 14, 2008
* Matthew Perry will be back on television. As mentioned previously Perry has been working on a new project, The End Of Steve, a dark comedy produced and written by Matthew Perry and Peter Tolan, starring Perry as lead, an egomaniacal local talk show host who is on a reluctant path to redemption, as well as looking for love with the station’s morning show host.
And the pilot must have been good, as the show was picked up by Showtime.
* Do you watch The Daily Show With Jon Stewart ? Do you like correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee ? Well, enjoy them while you still can, because they might be following Steve Carell’s path and leave the show. Married Jones and Bee have signed on to co-create and co-write a script for a sitcom for The Eye, in which they’ll both star, about the behind-the-scenes world of a celebrity chef (Jones) and the two women who help him run his empire (one of whom being played by Bee). The couple are working on the project as part of a new, for which they also sealed separate talent holding pacts with CBS and sister studio CBS Paramount Network TV.
* The Sunday nights on The CW haven’t really been doing too well, and MRC has halted production on both Valentine and Easy Money. Both shows will be shut down for about four to six weeks, although Media Rights Capital insist that there’s no cancellation in the air and this is part of a pre-planned hiatus, and all 13 ordered episodes will be produced for both series.
Of course, if the ratings continue to go down in the coming weeks, MRC is likely not to resume production. Not that anyone cares, I mean, does anyone watch any of those shows ? I tried, but they both suck…
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Shows: Easy Money, The End Of Steve, Valentine Inc
