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TBS Engages in More Funny Business
Just as sister cabler TNT disclosed its own plan to pump up the volume of original content, TBS unveiled its own development slate. Among the series to one day join the ranks of My Boys, The Bill Engvall Show and Frank TV:
• A sitcom based on Jane Ganahl's memoir Naked on the Page; The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife. Betty Thomas (Dream On) will direct.
• A series penned by Dave Caplan (The Drew Carey Show), about a jilted single mom with two kids and a struggling lumberyard. (Note to TV execs: Enough with the shows set at a lumberyard!!)
• A domestic comedy about a low-level judge and her prosecutor hubby.
TBS has also ordered pilots for a Match Game reboot (previously reported on here) and Stay Tuned, in which animated couch potatoes channel-surf through animated offerings.
Late-night shows in development include a sketch series fronted by Robert Townsend and one puppet-ulated by The Jim Henson Company.
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Mar 3, 2008 5:55 PM
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"puppet-ulated" Very good, Matt. I'm impressed. Or maybe I'm just so tired I'm giddy.
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Mar 3, 2008 9:45 PM
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When is My Boys coming back? I want to know who PJ's taking to Italy!!
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Mar 4, 2008 12:07 AM
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I LOVE My Boys and Frank TV is hilarious. None of these new shows sound particular appealing to me, but who knows.
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Mar 4, 2008 9:04 AM
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(Note to TV execs: Enough with the shows set at a lumberyard!!)
Are you kidding? Imagine all the "wood" puns and jokes that can be set up with this one...
Nice to see TBS starting their own original programming - as long as it's not based on monkeys running their own network! (Waitaminute, they already did that!)
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Mar 4, 2008 1:30 PM
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