Bob Odenkirk could find himself in the rare Emmy air this year. AMC will submit Odenkirk’s new series, “Lucky Hank,” in comedy categories for this year’s Emmy competition, Variety has confirmed.
Of course, AMC is also submitting the final episodes of Odenkirk’s “Better Call Saul” in the drama fields. Should Odenkirk be nominated in both the best drama actor and best comedy actor races, he would become the first performer in history to be nominated in both genres in the same year.
Several performers have been nominated and even won Emmys as both drama and comedy leads — but never at the same time. It’s a possibility: Odenkirk has been nominated five times in the best drama actor category for “Better Call Saul,” and this will be his final opportunity to compete in that race for “Saul”. Meanwhile, Odenkirk has been known first and foremost as a comedy performer,...
Of course, AMC is also submitting the final episodes of Odenkirk’s “Better Call Saul” in the drama fields. Should Odenkirk be nominated in both the best drama actor and best comedy actor races, he would become the first performer in history to be nominated in both genres in the same year.
Several performers have been nominated and even won Emmys as both drama and comedy leads — but never at the same time. It’s a possibility: Odenkirk has been nominated five times in the best drama actor category for “Better Call Saul,” and this will be his final opportunity to compete in that race for “Saul”. Meanwhile, Odenkirk has been known first and foremost as a comedy performer,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
When prolific producer Mark Johnson acquired the TV rights to Richard Russo’s 1997 novel Straight Man, he knew that Saul Goodman actor Bob Odenkirk would be the perfect fit to play its lead character, William Henry Devereaux Jr. But Johnson, who also served as a producer on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, was hesitant to bring the role of the ornery Railton College English department head Odenkirk’s way for one very understandable reason.
“I’m the idiot who had the book for I don’t know how long and I was afraid to give it to Bob,” Johnson tells Den of Geek during SXSW. “I was afraid it was going to break his concentration for Saul Goodman.”
“What concentration?” Odenkirk quips.
Obviously, Johnson’s caution was well-founded. Saul Goodman proved to be the role of a lifetime for Bob Odenkirk. After spending much of his career as arguably...
“I’m the idiot who had the book for I don’t know how long and I was afraid to give it to Bob,” Johnson tells Den of Geek during SXSW. “I was afraid it was going to break his concentration for Saul Goodman.”
“What concentration?” Odenkirk quips.
Obviously, Johnson’s caution was well-founded. Saul Goodman proved to be the role of a lifetime for Bob Odenkirk. After spending much of his career as arguably...
- 3/21/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This Lucky Hank review contains no spoilers.
Bob Odenkirk’s journey to stardom has been unconventional to say the least. He was first known as a legendary comedy writer on massive hits like Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His biggest role in front of the camera during this time was on the HBO’s sketch comedy series he co-created: Mr. Show with Bob and David. Despite critical success in this realm of Hollywood, he was never an A-lister by any means. It wasn’t until he was casted as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad, one of the greatest characters in the history of TV, that he became a household success story. Odenkirk always talks about how honored he was to be given the keys to such a complex role, but his humility undermines the brilliance of his performance. Odenkirk’s comedy background allowed him to ground...
Bob Odenkirk’s journey to stardom has been unconventional to say the least. He was first known as a legendary comedy writer on massive hits like Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His biggest role in front of the camera during this time was on the HBO’s sketch comedy series he co-created: Mr. Show with Bob and David. Despite critical success in this realm of Hollywood, he was never an A-lister by any means. It wasn’t until he was casted as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad, one of the greatest characters in the history of TV, that he became a household success story. Odenkirk always talks about how honored he was to be given the keys to such a complex role, but his humility undermines the brilliance of his performance. Odenkirk’s comedy background allowed him to ground...
- 3/19/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Better call…Hank? Bob Odenkirk, famous as the scamming lawyer Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul, returns to TV in Lucky Hank as grumpy Hank Devereaux, a middle-aged English department chair and professor at a low-rent Pennsylvania college. In the comedy-drama, the husband and father spirals into a midlife crisis fueled by his entitled Generation Z students, his brainy but peculiar colleagues, and his doubts about his career. (The school bookstore doesn’t even carry his one novel.) The project is based on the 1997 novel Straight Man, by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo. Odenkirk — who says as a college kid he aspired to be a Jack Kerouac-style novelist — warmed to it partly because it brought him back to his comedy roots: “Saul was funny at times, but he wasn’t part of the joke. Hank’s a wisecracker. He laughs at his situation while he suffers.” (Credit: AMC...
- 3/18/2023
- TV Insider
Surprised to see Bob Odenkirk starring in a new TV series just seven months after Better Call Saul ended? Yeah, he is, too.
“I said yes to the show, but I thought I’d have a break!” Odenkirk tells TVLine with a laugh. He’s referring to AMC’s new dramedy Lucky Hank, premiering this Sunday at 9/8c and starring him as Hank Devereaux, the grumpy and disgruntled chairman of the English department at a small Pennsylvania college. Odenkirk first read the pilot script written by Aaron Zelman (Damages) and Paul Lieberstein (The Office) — and the Richard Russo novel it’s based on,...
“I said yes to the show, but I thought I’d have a break!” Odenkirk tells TVLine with a laugh. He’s referring to AMC’s new dramedy Lucky Hank, premiering this Sunday at 9/8c and starring him as Hank Devereaux, the grumpy and disgruntled chairman of the English department at a small Pennsylvania college. Odenkirk first read the pilot script written by Aaron Zelman (Damages) and Paul Lieberstein (The Office) — and the Richard Russo novel it’s based on,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
If anybody deserved a break after completing the acclaimed run of Better Call Saul, it was Bob Odenkirk.
Odenkirk spent six seasons delivering an Emmy-worthy performance as the lead in an Emmy-worthy show, and somehow found a way to star in Amazon’s Undone, do a season of the Mr. Show-adjacent W/Bob & David for Netflix, play a key supporting role in The Post and a surely arduous lead role in Nobody, and to fit in various cameos and guest turns along the way. With all that happening, why aspire to be the cable version of David Boreanaz — a broadcast TV regular without pause since 1997 — at the same time?
Well, if Breaking Bad was Odenkirk’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a key supporting role that became more important to the overall show as it progressed) and Better Call Saul was his Angel (a spinoff that didn’t inherently seem like a great idea,...
Odenkirk spent six seasons delivering an Emmy-worthy performance as the lead in an Emmy-worthy show, and somehow found a way to star in Amazon’s Undone, do a season of the Mr. Show-adjacent W/Bob & David for Netflix, play a key supporting role in The Post and a surely arduous lead role in Nobody, and to fit in various cameos and guest turns along the way. With all that happening, why aspire to be the cable version of David Boreanaz — a broadcast TV regular without pause since 1997 — at the same time?
Well, if Breaking Bad was Odenkirk’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a key supporting role that became more important to the overall show as it progressed) and Better Call Saul was his Angel (a spinoff that didn’t inherently seem like a great idea,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Some of the best television shows are about whip-smart operators and the political nuances of their professional worlds. So why then is it so challenging to make a satisfying series about academia? It’s not only difficult to think of a television show that has succeeded in lifting the veil of a university, it’s tough to think of shows that have even tried. The most recent swipe at it was Netflix’s “The Chair,” a thin but charming dramedy starring Sandra Oh that ended after a single season. Even as college campuses remain a go-to battleground for American culture wars, the inner lives of the professors caught in the crossfire are usually reserved for novels.
The latest such attempt to animate the tenured life is AMC’s “Lucky Hank,” which is built from just such a novel. It’s an adaptation of “Straight Man,” the Richard Russo novel that...
The latest such attempt to animate the tenured life is AMC’s “Lucky Hank,” which is built from just such a novel. It’s an adaptation of “Straight Man,” the Richard Russo novel that...
- 3/17/2023
- by Joshua Alston
- Variety Film + TV
Lilah Fitzgerald has signed on to join AMC’s “Lucky Hank” in a guest role.
Formerly titled “Straight Man,” the eight-episode dramedy follows William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr. (Bob Odenkirk), an unlikely chairman in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Just as Hank’s career and home life begins to unravel, his wife Lily (Mirielle Enos) also decides to take a look at some of her past choices that led to her current reality. Based on the novel by Richard Russo, the series is told in first person from Hank’s point of view.
The “Monster High” alum will play one of the students at the school with a special interest in starting an organization to “avert mediocrity.” However, she seems to have some underlying ulterior motives.
Other previously announced cast members include Alvina August, Sara Amini, Diedrich Bader, Suzanne Cryer, Olivia Scott Welch, Arthur Keng and Cedric Yarbrough.
Formerly titled “Straight Man,” the eight-episode dramedy follows William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr. (Bob Odenkirk), an unlikely chairman in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Just as Hank’s career and home life begins to unravel, his wife Lily (Mirielle Enos) also decides to take a look at some of her past choices that led to her current reality. Based on the novel by Richard Russo, the series is told in first person from Hank’s point of view.
The “Monster High” alum will play one of the students at the school with a special interest in starting an organization to “avert mediocrity.” However, she seems to have some underlying ulterior motives.
Other previously announced cast members include Alvina August, Sara Amini, Diedrich Bader, Suzanne Cryer, Olivia Scott Welch, Arthur Keng and Cedric Yarbrough.
- 1/28/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
“Lucky Hank”, based on the 1997 novel “Straight Man” by Richard Russo, is a new series starring Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) premiering March 19, 2023 on AMC:
“…set at ‘West Central Pennsylvania University’ the series chronicles the mid-life crisis of ‘William Henry Devereaux, Jr.’ , the unlikely interim chairman of the English department.
“Devereaux hides in the rafters as the faculty vote on his dismissal, and his threat to kill a goose in the campus pond each day until his department receives a budget.
“The series presents flirtations between faculty and students, satire on academic scholarship and stardom, and love and health in the season of grace…”
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“…set at ‘West Central Pennsylvania University’ the series chronicles the mid-life crisis of ‘William Henry Devereaux, Jr.’ , the unlikely interim chairman of the English department.
“Devereaux hides in the rafters as the faculty vote on his dismissal, and his threat to kill a goose in the campus pond each day until his department receives a budget.
“The series presents flirtations between faculty and students, satire on academic scholarship and stardom, and love and health in the season of grace…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 1/25/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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