Dr. Phil and Jay McGraw have sold two hourlong projects to CBS via their Stage 29 Productions, faith-themed medical drama Chaplain with Nick Weiss (Drunk Wedding), Isaac Laskin and Reign co-creator/executive producer Laurie McCarthy; and legal drama Melanie, with Scott Prendergast (Silicon Valley). Both projects hail from CBS TV Studios, where the McGraws’ Stage 29 has a deal, with Phil and Jay McGraw executive producing alongside Stage 29’s head of scripted Julia Eisenman.
The sales expand the McGraws’ relationship with CBS where Stage 29 produces legal drama series Bull, which was based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s experience.
Written by Weiss and Laskin, Chaplain centers around a talented, scientifically minded ICU doctor and her free-thinking, faith-oriented brother clash over the best approach to the business of saving lives when he is hired as chaplain at her hospital.
Weiss executive produces with McCarthy, while Laskin is co-executive producer.
Written/executive produced by Prendergast,...
The sales expand the McGraws’ relationship with CBS where Stage 29 produces legal drama series Bull, which was based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s experience.
Written by Weiss and Laskin, Chaplain centers around a talented, scientifically minded ICU doctor and her free-thinking, faith-oriented brother clash over the best approach to the business of saving lives when he is hired as chaplain at her hospital.
Weiss executive produces with McCarthy, while Laskin is co-executive producer.
Written/executive produced by Prendergast,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Hail Caesar!
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino has revealed he's planning a special screening event featuring 1970s Australian westerns "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "Mad Dog Morgan" during his visit to Australia next month to promote "The Hateful Eight" release. [Source: Smh]
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Avalanche Studios has posted an update on the Steam page for the just released video game "Just Cause 3", the update apologising for the various bugs that have impacted primarily the game's frame-rate and server log-in issues. A patch is reportedly coming soon...
- 12/4/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
CBS is developing Hot Sauce, a half-hour comedy from Drunk Wedding filmmaker Nick Weiss, writer-actor Gary Lundy and ABC Studios. Co-written by Weiss and Lundy, Hot Sauce follows a high-powered, no-nonsense mom who relocates her family to small-town Louisiana to work for the most popular hot sauce company in the world. There she finds herself pitted against a culture and community she doesn't want infiltrating her family. Weiss will direct the potential pilot and…...
- 10/16/2015
- Deadline TV
Have you ever wanted to spend a tequila-fueled weekend with the worst people in the worldc Well, have I got the film for -- oh... what's thatc That sounds like a horrible way to spend your timec I am so happy to hear you say that. Then I do not have to recommend you see the found footage "comedy" that has sat on Paramount's shelf for two years, Drunk Wedding. And that's a good thing, because this is a film that should not be recommended under any circumstance whatsoever. This is a film that made me angry people now have the capabilities to make a movie whenever they want, not just because it isn't funny, but because it screams, "Qualityc You want qualityc How about I sh*t on your facec" Adam Sandler is often criticized that his films feel like he is just getting paid to go on vacation...
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- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
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- 5/12/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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- 5/5/2015
- Deadline TV
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