Anthony Anderson is attached to star in a comedy series in development at Amazon titled “Miraculous,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Per the official logline, the single-camera show would center “on a happily amoral car salesman (Anderson) who one day, for no particular good reason, walks on water. A miracle of God might just be the worst thing to happen to him in his life.”
The project hails from writer and executive producer Blake Masters, with Anderson set to executive produce in addition to starring. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman of Berlanti Productions will also executive produce, as will David Madden and E. Brian Dobbins. The series will be produced by Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios, with Berlanti Productions currently under an overall deal at Wbtv.
This marks the first potential comedy series starring role for Anderson since”Black-ish” ended at ABC after eight seasons in 2022. Anderson...
Per the official logline, the single-camera show would center “on a happily amoral car salesman (Anderson) who one day, for no particular good reason, walks on water. A miracle of God might just be the worst thing to happen to him in his life.”
The project hails from writer and executive producer Blake Masters, with Anderson set to executive produce in addition to starring. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman of Berlanti Productions will also executive produce, as will David Madden and E. Brian Dobbins. The series will be produced by Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios, with Berlanti Productions currently under an overall deal at Wbtv.
This marks the first potential comedy series starring role for Anderson since”Black-ish” ended at ABC after eight seasons in 2022. Anderson...
- 2/1/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Actor Lou Myers, who was best known as Vernon Gaines on NBC sitcom "A Different World" has passed away.
According to a report by TMZ, Myers was hospitalized in December for pneumonia. A few weeks after his release, he collapsed at home and returned to the hospital. On Feb. 19, Mr. Myers' heart stopped.
Though doctors at Charleston Medical Center in West Virginia initially revived Myers, he slipped into a coma and died hours later.
Myers' most recent role was in a move called "Dreams," released on Feb. 1. He can be seen in the film's trailer below. His previous credits included "All About the Andersons," "NYPD Blue," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." Myers also received the NAACP Image Award for his role in the play, "King Hedley II."
Though the birth date on Myers' IMBb page reflects the actor's age at death as 67, sources tell TMZ his true birth date was 10 years earlier,...
According to a report by TMZ, Myers was hospitalized in December for pneumonia. A few weeks after his release, he collapsed at home and returned to the hospital. On Feb. 19, Mr. Myers' heart stopped.
Though doctors at Charleston Medical Center in West Virginia initially revived Myers, he slipped into a coma and died hours later.
Myers' most recent role was in a move called "Dreams," released on Feb. 1. He can be seen in the film's trailer below. His previous credits included "All About the Andersons," "NYPD Blue," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." Myers also received the NAACP Image Award for his role in the play, "King Hedley II."
Though the birth date on Myers' IMBb page reflects the actor's age at death as 67, sources tell TMZ his true birth date was 10 years earlier,...
- 2/20/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
David Frankel, director of the summer hit The Devil Wears Prada and the pilot of HBO's Entourage, has signed with Endeavor. Frankel comes to Endeavor from ICM on the heels of former ICM co-president Nancy Josephson's move to Endeavor as a partner (HR 8/9). Other former ICM clients making the move along with Josephson include writer-producers Adam Chase (Friends), Adam Glass (All About the Andersons), Mark Gross (Rodney), Christopher Keyser (Party of Five), Claudia Lonow (The War at Home), Steve O'Donnell (Jimmy Kimmel Live), Richard Sakai (The Simpsons), Tom Straw (Grace Under Fire), author Adriana Trigiani and Steve Young (Late Show With David Letterman).
- 8/31/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TV One, a channel that targets black viewers, said Monday that it has signed a multiyear agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution to acquire rights to a slew of theatrical titles and off-network series, including UPN's All of Us and Eve. The deal, which marks the biggest programming acquisition for the network in its two-year history, also includes rights to such series as Living Single, For Your Love, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper, The Parent 'Hood, Wanda at Large, All About the Andersons, Fastlane and A Man Called Hawk as well as recent episodes of Showtime at the Apollo. Through the agreement, TV One also is renewing rights to air the comedies Roc and Martin. In addition, TV One has snapped up rights to a range of movie titles, including windows on such films as The Color Purple, Malcolm X, Lean on Me, New Jack City, Purple Rain, Shaft and Superfly. Other movies in the deal include Round Midnight, Rosewood, Boiling Point, Uptown Saturday Night, Strictly Business, Cabin in the Sky, Krush Groove and Sparkle.
- 4/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rape charges against Barbershop star Anthony Anderson have been dismissed. A woman seeking a job as an extra on the set of the actor's movie Hustle And Flow in Memphis, Tennessee, claimed Anderson and director Wayne Witherspoon attacked her in a trailer on the set. The unnamed plaintiff also alleged she had forced sex with both men over a period of several days before the reported rape took place in July . But in court yesterday, a Tennessee judge said the accuser's testimony did not produce probable cause to let the charges stand and that the woman's testimony was the most "incredulous" he had ever heard. The two men refused to comment when they left the preliminary hearing. Anderson still faces another lawsuit in Los Angeles by a woman who claims the actor sexually assaulted her on the set of his cancelled TV series All About The Andersons.
- 10/7/2004
- WENN
State Street Pictures has set up a script for a half-hour comedy at ABC with Sony Pictures Television on board to produce. Titled Neighbors, the project chronicles the culture clash between two multigenerational black families from different tax brackets living in the suburbs. Jay Dyer (All About the Andersons) is attached as writer. Executive producers are State Street principals George Tillman Jr. and Robert Teitel, the team behind the Barbershop films. This is their first entry into the broadcast business, but they have already made inroads into television at Showtime, where they produced Soul Food and the upcoming TV adaptation of Barbershop with John Ridley attached to write the script. Up next in theaters from State Street is Roll Bounce, which recently wrapped shooting for Fox 2000 Pictures. The deal was brokered by CAA and Principato-Young.
- 10/5/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kangaroo Jack star Anthony Anderson's troubles are starting to pile up - he's facing a sexual assault lawsuit only months after being charged with rape. The chubby actor was still reeling from the cancellation of his sitcom All About The Andersons in July when an extra on the set of his movie Hustle & Flow hit him with rape charges. And now Anderson and Warner Bros Television bosses have been named in a $900,000 suit by a woman who claims Anderson made suggestive comments, grabbed her genitalia and sexually assaulted her in his dressing room on the All About The Andersons set. A spokesman for the star, who celebrates his 10th wedding anniversary next year, is confident the actor will be "completely exonerated" when "all the facts come out".
- 9/17/2004
- WENN
New Line Cinema is in negotiations with Scary Movie 3 star Anthony Anderson to topline its kidnapping comedy King's Ransom. Anderson will play a rich, cocky and generally despised businessman who realizes he might lose half his wealth to the obnoxious wife he's trying to divorce. He decides to arrange his own kidnapping in order to wipe himself out and claim poverty, but he discovers that several other parties have plans to kidnap and ransom him as well. Ransom is being directed by Jeff Byrd from a Wayne Conley script. It is being produced by Darryl Taja of Catch 23's Alter Ego Pictures and is being overseen for New Line by production execs Matt Moore and Luke Ryan. Anderson has been busy lately with roles in the upcoming comedies My Baby's Daddy, Agent Cody Banks 2 and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. He also stars in the WB Network series All About the Andersons. Anderson is repped by ICM, Principato-Young Entertainment and attorney Rick Genow.
- 11/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WB Network has picked up all four of its new comedies, giving Like Family and Run of the House a full back-nine episode order and ordering three episodes each of All About the Andersons and Steve Harvey's Big Time. The network, which is still trying to make inroads in comedy after scoring its first comedy hit Reba, is known for sticking with its new half-hours for a full season and to accommodate that often gives some of them a partial back order. "Amidst an unstable broadcast landscape, we are confident that continuing our commitment to all of our first-year comedies will pay dividends in the future," the WB co-CEO Jordan Levin said. The pickups for the four sitcoms comes after a good week for most of the WB's comedies last week.
- 11/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anthony Anderson is reuniting with his Malibu's Most Wanted co-star Kal Penn. Penn has been tapped to co-star on Anderson's upcoming comedy series for the WB Network, All About the Andersons. Meanwhile, Anderson will make an appearance in Penn's upcoming starring feature vehicle, "Harold and Kumar Go to the White Castle," in which Penn plays a medical school candidate. On Warner Bros. TV's All About the Andersons, about an unemployed actor (Anderson) who moves back in with his parents, Penn will play a doctor who rents a room from the family. The role has been recast. Penn's upcoming features also include Love Don't Cost a Thing, an urban remake of the '80s comedy Can't Buy Me Love, as well as the indies The Arrangement and American Made. His credits also include National Lampoon's Van Wilder and American Desi. Penn is repped by Gold/Liedtke and Evolution Entertainment.
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