Fox Picks Up John Hamburg Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 8:00pm PDT

It will go down in the annals of TV Selling Season 2010 as the project that was pitched and sold over the phone. Fox has closed a deal for a single-camera comedy from Meet the Parents writer John Hamburg. The untitled project, which Hamburg co-created and will co-write with Ian Helfer, is about a father and son, both recently divorced, who become roommates and explore the dating world together. It?hails from 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment. It stems from a blind script deal Hamburg signed with the 20th TV in August. Hamburg, Helfer,?Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope are all executive producing.?Hamburg, who co-wrote all 3 films in the?Meet the Parents franchise, has been so busy working on the upcoming third installment, Little Fockers, in New York that he couldn't fly in for pitch meetings with the networks. He ended up pitching the project over the phone to Fox's entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who bought it on the spot. WME-repped Hamburg also?co-wrote and directed?I Love You, Man and wrote and directed?Along Came Polly. In TV, he previously worked on Fox as a director on the cult Judd Apatow comedy Undeclared and also created, executive produced and directed the short-lived CBS comedy series?Welcome to the Captain. Hamburg and Helfer have been friends since they went to Brown together. Helfer, repped by Gersh and Principal Entertainment, co-wrote the upcoming feature The Oranges.

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CBS picks up family comedy with Rob Schneider and produced by Tannenbaums

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday, October 28, 2010 @ 8: 25 pm PDT

Exclusive: Eric and Kim Tannenbaums are fine mode on the market in their first round of development in their new home, CBS TV studios. But great sale last minute CBS comedy: half an hour featuring Rob Schneider, in his first concert of TV series in 13 years. The project title, be written by Lew Morton (Saturday Night Live, large lake) and Schneider, is based on the life and centres on a lonely guy who married to a Mexican-American family huge Schneider.Morton, Eric Kim Tannenbaum and executive production, Schneider and his John Schneider brother production through their output of nowhere prods.CBS TV studios and Co. Tannenbaum produce comedy, which received a script command.

Last major TV gig of SNL alum Schneider was like a star in the comedy men behaving badly, which ran on NBC from 1996-1997. He has since focused on films, often in collaboration with the cohort of BN Adam Sandler, including summer hit Grown Ups.It feels like a familiar territory for Eric and Kim Tannenbaum.The last time they landed a truck last minute to CBS for a comedy about a single guy who had a player with a background of Comedy TV and attached as the lead feature, it leads to long hit two and a half men.Schneider is Gersh.Morton and Co. Tannenbaum CAA.

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