On March 26th at 8pm, ABC is making the web-to-network jump with In the Motherhood, a show that started out as roughly six-minute episodes online. The original show was an odd sort of game, and existed in large part to see how many Suave and Sprint product placements we could really manage in such a short time. It was a show that followed three friends, and was only loosely held together by anything like an overarching plot. It was a show of snippets on the trials and tribulations of motherhood, with each mother spitting out a strange anecdote here and there. Child locks mommy in the bathroom because dad put the doorknob on the wrong way around, and you're off to the races. The gag of the show, apart from all three moms having very different parenting ideas while remaining equally cynical, was that many of the anecdotes were sent...
- 3/25/2009
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Manny Ramirez and Brett Favre aside, there were relatively few sports stars changing places in 2008.
However, you couldn't say the same about TV shows. Several series switched homes this year, including "Project Runway," "Scrubs," "Beauty and the Geek," "Inside the NFL," "Nashville Star" and Tyra Banks' talk show.
And after years of promise, the Internet-to-tv series pipeline finally started to produce (albeit mixed) results with transplants "quarterlife," "Sanctuary" and "In the Motherhood."
The biggest headline-grabber was the shocking April announcement of the move of Bravo flagship series "Project Runway" to Lifetime. Eight months and several lawsuits later, the shift has been put on hold by the courts, with the fate of the completed sixth season of the hit fashion series up in the air after Bravo's parent NBC Universal won an injunction barring Lifetime from airing it.
Another cable staple, "Inside the NFL," made a less acrimonious switch between...
However, you couldn't say the same about TV shows. Several series switched homes this year, including "Project Runway," "Scrubs," "Beauty and the Geek," "Inside the NFL," "Nashville Star" and Tyra Banks' talk show.
And after years of promise, the Internet-to-tv series pipeline finally started to produce (albeit mixed) results with transplants "quarterlife," "Sanctuary" and "In the Motherhood."
The biggest headline-grabber was the shocking April announcement of the move of Bravo flagship series "Project Runway" to Lifetime. Eight months and several lawsuits later, the shift has been put on hold by the courts, with the fate of the completed sixth season of the hit fashion series up in the air after Bravo's parent NBC Universal won an injunction barring Lifetime from airing it.
Another cable staple, "Inside the NFL," made a less acrimonious switch between...
- 12/22/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"In the Motherhood" is moving from the Web to primetime with some new leading ladies.
ABC has handed out a 13-episode order to a comedy series based on MindShare's online series, which stars Chelsea Handler, Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy as three mothers and girlfriends whose exploits are based on real-life stories of moms across the country.
Of the three, only comedian/talk show host Handler is expected to be on the ABC series, with "Will & Grace" alumna Megan Mullally and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" leading lady Cheryl Hines in talks to join her.
ABC Studios is producing the ABC series, which will be shepherded by the team behind the ABC/ABC Studios comedy pilot "Bad Mother's Handbook," writers Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield and executive producer Stu Bloomberg. Also making the transition from "Handbook" to "Motherhood" is Emmy winner Mullally, who co-starred in the pilot.
Konner, Rushfield and Bloomberg will...
ABC has handed out a 13-episode order to a comedy series based on MindShare's online series, which stars Chelsea Handler, Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy as three mothers and girlfriends whose exploits are based on real-life stories of moms across the country.
Of the three, only comedian/talk show host Handler is expected to be on the ABC series, with "Will & Grace" alumna Megan Mullally and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" leading lady Cheryl Hines in talks to join her.
ABC Studios is producing the ABC series, which will be shepherded by the team behind the ABC/ABC Studios comedy pilot "Bad Mother's Handbook," writers Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield and executive producer Stu Bloomberg. Also making the transition from "Handbook" to "Motherhood" is Emmy winner Mullally, who co-starred in the pilot.
Konner, Rushfield and Bloomberg will...
- 9/8/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva and James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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