Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Leave it to Beaver Leaves TV Land in December; ABC Family Pilot Phys Ed Begins Production
Elsewhere on TV Land, they will have movie premieres for Mission Impossible (Sunday, Dec. 2 at 6pm) and Starsky & Hutch (Monday, Dec. 17 at 10:30am) in December, and we mentioned last week about their annual Thanksgiving Laugh More-a-thon (Nov. 22-25), which includes Leave it to Beaver. Also, season four of Hot in Cleveland will premiere on TV Land on Wednesday, November 28 at 10:00pm and the second half of season two of Happily Divorced will begin at 10:30pm on the same night. Stay with us in the coming weeks for the TV Land Merry-thon schedule airing on Christmas Day that will consist of classics like The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and modern classics like Everybody Loves Raymond and The King of Queens.
ABC Family begins production this week in Los Angeles on the multi-camera comedy series pilot Phys Ed, starring Ryan Sypek (Wildfire), Kate Lang Johnson (Persons Unknown), Sunkrish Bala (I Just Want My Pants Back, Notes from the Underbelly), Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks), and Chelsea Harris (Just Jordan). We mentioned the casting news last month, but now production has begun on the pilot.
Phys Ed is a half-hour multi-camera comedy about a high school's star jock, Ed (Sypek), who returns to teach at his former alma mater only to find that, even though he's changed, nothing else really has. Ed's new colleagues include Janie (Johnson), a Government/Civics teacher at the school who was ignored by Ed in high school and now finds herself cautiously drawn to his affections; nerdy and needy chemistry teacher Matt (Levine), who quickly befriends Ed and provides him with the latest faculty gossip; popular English teacher Alan (Bala), who likes being the alpha male at school and feels an overpowering need to put Ed in his place, just as if they were still both in high school; and Wendy (Harris), a hot history teacher and cheerleading coach who is rumored to be having an affair with Alan.
The pilot is written and executive-produced by David H. Steinberg (American Pie 2) and directed by Ted Wass (Melissa & Joey). It is produced by Prodco, Inc. Ryan Sypek is an ABC Family alum, having starred in the network's first original scripted series Wildfire. As we mentioned before, should Phys Ed get picked-up to series, we will let you know...but for now this is just a pilot order.
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Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of September 9)
Monday, September 9
- Keegan-Michael Key (Schmigadoon!/Friends from College/Playing House/Gary Unmarried) - Watch Keegan-Michael on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Jim Parsons (Young Sheldon/The Big Bang Theory) - Jim is a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35pm on CBS.
- Natasha Rothwell (How to Die Alone/Insecure) - Natasha appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:35pm on CBS. Natasha and Conrad Ricamora talk about How to Die Alone on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
- Skylar Astin (Ground Floor) and Mary Holland (The Big Door Prize/Robbie/Blunt Talk) - Skylar and Mary are guests on After Midnight at 12:37am on CBS.
- Drew Barrymore (Santa Clarita Diet) - Drew will be on CBS Mornings some time between 7-9am.
- Chloe Bailey (grown-ish) - Chloe joins the Tam Fam for an epic hour on Tamron Hall, so check your local listings.
- Dax Shepard (Bless This Mess) - Dax and Drew chat about turning fifty, the weirdest rumor they've ever heard about themselves and more on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Eugene Levy (Schitt's Creek/Greg the Bunny/Hiller and Diller) and Dan Levy (Schitt's Creek) - ABC News correspondent Chris Connelly talks with Eugene and Dan Levy about hosting the 76th Emmy® Awards on ABC's Good Morning America some time between 7-9am.
- Connie Britton (SMILF/Lost at Home/The Fighting Fitzgeralds/Spin City) - Connie talks about her film Here After on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
- Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine/Are We There Yet?/Everybody Hates Chris) - Terry discusses his new film, The Killer's Game, and America’s Got Talent on The Talk on CBS at 2pm ET/1pm CT-PT.
- Sasheer Zamata (Home Economics/Woke/Robbie) - Sasheer is a guest on New York Living on WPIX in New York at 10:15am.
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