Soon after wrapping four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the cult CW musical that saw her segue from screenwriter to showrunner, Aline Brosh McKenna decided to revisit her past before turning her attention to the future. She rented the garden apartment in the same Larchmont-adjacent duplex she and her now-husband shared during the mid-’90s, not too far from the home where they now live. “We’d always look down at this unit and say, ‘Ugh, we wish we had that,’ ” she says of her shingle’s headquarters. “Now this is my office, which feels wonderfully full circle.”
The company, Lean Machine, is a vehicle for McKenna’s own scripts — the latest of which marks her feature directorial debut, the Netflix romantic comedy Your Place or Mine (out Feb. 10) — but the bulk of the 15 film and TV projects in various stages of development come from other voices. That’s the piece...
The company, Lean Machine, is a vehicle for McKenna’s own scripts — the latest of which marks her feature directorial debut, the Netflix romantic comedy Your Place or Mine (out Feb. 10) — but the bulk of the 15 film and TV projects in various stages of development come from other voices. That’s the piece...
- 2/10/2023
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Sept. 27, 1992, The Ben Stiller Show premiered on Fox, showcasing the titular star’s now well-known talent for emulating celebrities and crafting original characters. The sketch comedy series was abruptly canceled before its first season finished airing, but almost a year after it debuted, the show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program.
“We had no idea,” Stiller told Et backstage at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards. Apparently, none of the show’s writers had attended the ceremony with the notion they might beat out comedy institutions such as Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman. At some point leading up to the night, Stiller thought maybe he should put together a few words, just in case. “And then at the last minute, I thought, You know, I'm not gonna prepare a speech, because I'll feel like such a jerk when I don't win.”
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“We had no idea,” Stiller told Et backstage at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards. Apparently, none of the show’s writers had attended the ceremony with the notion they might beat out comedy institutions such as Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman. At some point leading up to the night, Stiller thought maybe he should put together a few words, just in case. “And then at the last minute, I thought, You know, I'm not gonna prepare a speech, because I'll feel like such a jerk when I don't win.”
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- 9/27/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Families continue to be an endless source of fascination for ABC, seeing as ABC spent its childhood being bounced around the foster system, its only constancy a sense of shame for not being smart and pretty enough to love. ABC's latest families that it will own and who can therefore never leave it come from Ben Stiller's Red Hour Television: Between Two Kings, from longtime Stiller collaborator Jeff Kahn, focuses on a divorced father of an 11-year-old boy who moves back in with his ailing, self-centered dad, only to discover that sometimes the parent can be every bit ...
- 12/17/2012
- avclub.com
Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Television has scored two more sales in its maiden development season for comedies You’re Not Doing It Right and Between Two Kings. Both have been set up at ABC with a script commitment through ABC Studios, where Red Hour is under a deal, and are executive produced by Stiller, Red Hour TV’s Debbie Liebling and Stuart Cornfeld. Single-camera You’re Not Doing It Right is starring and written by Michael Ian Black who is also executive producing with his manager Ted Schachter. Based on Black’s book and set “in the wilds of Connecticut,” the show is described as a comedy about modern marriage and parenting and takes a hard look at what happens when you wake up, look around, and don’t recognize the life you are living as your own. Black is repped by UTA. Between Two Kings is written/executive produced by Jeff Kahn.
- 12/17/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Ben Stiller is getting in the family way at ABC. Stiller's production company has sold the multi-generational half-hour sitcom Between Two Kings to the network, which will develop the script with an eye toward next fall.
Jeff Kahn, whose credits include The Ben Stiller Show and Crackle's digital series The Writers Room, will write the comedy and executive produce with Stiller. Between Two Kings centers on a divorced dad with sole custody of his 11-year-old son who wind up moving in with the man's ailing father. The lead character, torn between a narcissistic father and demanding son, must still find time run a business and re-enter the dating scene.
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Jeff Kahn, whose credits include The Ben Stiller Show and Crackle's digital series The Writers Room, will write the comedy and executive produce with Stiller. Between Two Kings centers on a divorced dad with sole custody of his 11-year-old son who wind up moving in with the man's ailing father. The lead character, torn between a narcissistic father and demanding son, must still find time run a business and re-enter the dating scene.
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- 12/17/2012
- by Michael Schneider
- TVGuide - Breaking News
New York -- Perhaps the single best decision made before Saturday evening's reunion of "The Ben Stiller Show" cast at the Paley Center for Media on Saturday was to allow Judd Apatow to host the discussion in lieu of a traditional moderator. After all, Apatow served as a co-creator and producer of the short-lived MTV series, and his intimate relationship with the show allowed the conversation to flow better than an outlier's moderation would have provided.
In the two-hour program, which was part of the annual New York Comedy Festival, Apatow led a talk that included Stiller as well as cast members Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick and via Skype, Bob Odenkirk. Staff writers Robert Cohen and Jeff Kahn were also in attendance.
Time has been kind to "The Ben Stiller Show." It only ran for one season in the 1992-93, but after being canceled, the show won an Emmy for...
In the two-hour program, which was part of the annual New York Comedy Festival, Apatow led a talk that included Stiller as well as cast members Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick and via Skype, Bob Odenkirk. Staff writers Robert Cohen and Jeff Kahn were also in attendance.
Time has been kind to "The Ben Stiller Show." It only ran for one season in the 1992-93, but after being canceled, the show won an Emmy for...
- 11/12/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
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