George Lopez
It looks like comedian George Lopez is about to come back to television! We hear that Lopez has landed a major distribution deal, and he will not only star in the new series, but he will also produce. George Lopez has closed a deal in principal with Lionsgate TV subsidiary Debmar- Mercury to co-create and star in a new multi-camera comedy about a Latino family. Lopez will executive produce the series with his manager, 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg. The project will be developed and produced under Debmar-Mercury’s 10-90 model, in which the company sells sitcoms to cable networks with an initial 10-episode straight-to-series order, which, if meeting a ratings target, triggers a multi-season order as big as 90 episodes. The goal is for Debmar-Mercury to quickly amass enough episodes for the sitcom’s launch in broadcast syndication, area where Lopez has been successful. While never a major hit in its original run on ABC, George Lopez has enjoyed a strong afterlife in syndication. A decade after its ABC premiere, the show continues to do well in primetime on cable, Nick at Nite and a Spanish-language version on MTV’s Tr3s, and in the afternoon in broadcast syndication. The George Lopez sitcom follows in the footsteps of Debmar-Mercury’s previous successes under its model, all minority family sitcoms: Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne and Meet The Browns and Ice Cube’s Are We There Yet?. All three went beyond the initial 10-episode orders on TBS, with the first already above the syndication threshold. Debmar- Mercury’s first non-ethnic sitcom, the upcoming Charlie Sheen comedy series Anger Management for FX, is written/executive produced by Bruce Helford, who co-created and ran George Lopez.
Jay Pharoah
We discovered over the weekend during NBA All Star in Orlando that comedian Jay Pharoah has just landed two new films! That's right, the new Saturday Night Live comedian has landed two new films that will be shooting this summer, and we were told that Pharoah will be using his strengths in both roles- the characters! Stay tuned as we will broadcast the interview that Jay told us EXCLUSIVELY about his new films and his other hot new projects that are NOT affiliated to Saturday Night Live.
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