Sentences with phrase «sitcom writer»

Named after the British television sitcom writer, a renowned animal lover and activist this centre's mission is to rehabilitate, rescue and rehome as many animals as they can.

Felicia Henderson was a TV producer and sitcom writer before she became a comic book writer.

Rowell's new novel, Landline, aims to capture adult fans with the story of sitcom writer Georgie and the conflict between her relationship with her best friend, the womanizing Seth, and her husband, the long - suffering Neal.

Mid-20th century light sitcom writer Neil Simon decided to take a look at a few short stories by the deeply intellectual Russian storyteller Anton Chekhov.

Created by veteran sitcom writer / producer Tom Hertz («Spin City», «Less Than Perfect», «Married to the Kellys»), «Rules of Engagement» centers on a circle of adult friends living in New York City in different stages of relationships.

BBC New Comedy Award winner and BBC Radio 4 sitcom writer.

Goldstein is a well traveled sitcom writer,...

Segel and his frequent writing partner Nicholas Stoller get screenplay credit alongside sitcom writer - producer Kate Angelo, who originated the story.

Buoyed by scalpel - sharp writing and even keener performances, The Big C (created by comedian and sitcom writer Darlene Hunt) walks a fine line of having it both ways.

The evidence suggests that Derbez and sitcom writer - turned - director Rob Greenberg (who co-wrote with Wedding Crashers writer Bob Fisher) wanted to keep this all as light and inoffensive as possible.

The rest of the cast is actually decent, but the tone's all wrong and the lines are out of the hack sitcom writer's playbook.

We call your attention to the labors of John Vorhaus, a Los Angeles - based television sitcom writer with a specialized computer program and way too much free time, who has extracted what he calls the «secret meaning» of several sports names by turning them into anagrams.

I should also point out to would - be sitcom writers that you're officially touched by God if you're hired for a network program before you have an agent.

Unfortunately, the TV adaptation «Living Biblically» owes more to typical sitcom writers than the Book of Luke, although Ian Gomez and David Krumholtz have a sinfully good time playing two - thirds of a joke about a priest, a rabbi and a minister walking into a bar.

Well, let's leave such hyperboles to sitcom writers and Lawrence Krauss, respectively.

Not exact matches

To avoid bad but vaguely plausible start - up ideas — what the Y Combinator team calls sitcom ideas, i.e., the kind of ideas TV writers would make up if a character on a show had a start - up — choose something that some people want a lot rather than something lots of people might sort of want a little.

A HubSpot writer characterized the value proposition as the marketer's version of a sitcom catchphrase — but try to be more telling than the Fonz's «aaayyy.»

Fey is the creator of Kemper's hit Netflix sitcom, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as a producer and writer on the show, which was just picked up for a third season.

«It's weird to me, a little bit, that officials and writers joke about it good - naturedly, like they're talking nostalgically about an old sitcom: coming up after «Happy Days,» it's «Three Men in a Room,»» he said, to laughter and applause.

Sitcom characters have a team of writers controlling the narrative structure of their dating lives, while those of us who live nonfictional lives require technology companies to provide a script for us.

I am unfamiliar with Lister - Jones's previous work (she is best known for the sitcom «Life in Pieces»), but she's a compelling screen presence, on top of her achievements as a writer - director; her close - ups register glib resistance and genuine vulnerability, often in rapid succession.

Writer - director Lorene Scafaria's film is an unconvincing character study that plays like a painfully unfunny sitcom.

Sherman - Palladino began her career as a producer and staff writer on the sitcom Roseanne in 1990, and her work would be the basis for much of the show's most critically acclaimed material, including an Emmy - nominated storyline about birth control.

In the first season of this sitcom, Jimmy (Chris Geere), a selfish and insensitive writer, and Gretchen (Aya Cash), a cynical and self - destructive PR executive, hook up at a mutual friend's wedding.

Like many first - time writer - directors, she packs five films» worth of drama, crises and revelations into one, and often lapses into sitcom triteness.

«Permanent Midnight» is based on writer Jerry Stahl's hyped memoir about his descent into drugs while cranking out scripts for awful sitcoms like «ALF.»

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

Veteran Tv writer and producer Norman Lear is in talks to revamp his classic sitcom All In The Family.The 92 year old broke ground with the 1970s...

I am glad that Jules and Grayson seem like a steady thing, not going for the typical sitcom route of «on and off relationship» that we have seen with Ted and Robin, Ross and Rachael, Leonard and Penny... I was worried that that would be the deal - breaker for Cougar Town, but the writers don't take the obvious route.

Meanwhile, several key writers have moved on to other projects, including Andy Bobrow, who's now on Fox's Will Forte comedy Last Man on Earth, and Erik Sommers, now working on NBC's new sitcom Marry Me.

It's like an anniversary clips show for a long - in - the - tooth sitcom, filmed with the same sort of production values as a backyard porno and scripted (by an uncredited writer) with almost exactly the same kind of ear.

After Tracy Morgan triumphantly returned to television in October with a Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the comic will soon be back on TV on a more regular basis after Morgan signed on for a new FX sitcom from Key & Peele's Jordan Peele and Eastbound & Down writer John Carcieri.

Sharon Horgan is the Hackney - born Irish actor, writer and director behind the hugely popular sitcoms «Pulling» and «Catastrophe».

Streaming-wise, you'll also get a trio of personal visions from comedy writers and a cavalcade of vintage - ish sitcoms courtesy of Hulu.

«Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You» provides an affectionate profile of the revered television writer and producer whose groundbreaking sitcom, «All in the Family,» confronted and obliterated countless taboos during its acclaimed run in the 1970's.

What makes the Russos such an interesting choice to direct Captain America 2 is that considering the specific voices of the sitcoms they've directed, it seems like they have a real knack for preserving the work of writers and actors by helping them best display what they've created while still putting their stamp on something.

Not bad for a writer / director who most people know as a sitcom star.

Jim Rash & Nat Faxon («The Way Way Back») Sure, «The Way Way Back» writers / directors Jim Rash & Nat Faxon might have already won an Oscar, but even with both actors killing it in regular roles on network sitcoms (Rash is the Dean on «Community,» Faxon is one half of the title duo on Fox «s recently axed «Ben & Kate «-RRB-, most of the country, and even the industry, might have struggled to pick them out of a line - up, but that could all start to change once their directorial debut, «The Way Way Back,» leaves Park City and finds audiences around the world.

A seminal moment in New York's musical counterculture gets the biopic it certainly didn't deserve in «CBGB,» which transforms the glory days of Hilly Kristal's Bowery punk / No Wave club into exactly the sort of moldy sitcom one might expect from writer - director Randall Miller (a veteran of the middling, mid - «90s Disney comedies «Houseguest» and «The Sixth Man»).

Conceived by two veteran Coronation Street writers, John Stevenson and Julian Roach, Brass was a sitcom unlike any other.

Josh Radnor, probably best known for his continuing role in the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother, is not only the writer - director of the semi-autobiographical Liberal Arts, but he also plays its main character, Jesse Fisher, a 35 - year - old New Yorker experiencing some sort of midlife crisis.

CHARLIE SHEEN has fired off an angry missive to TWO AND A HALF MEN writer CHUCK LORRE after the hit sitcom was shut down for the rest of the...

We last ran one of these nearly two years ago, and all five of our picks have gone on to big things — Emma Forrest has David Yates and Emma Watson adapting her memoir «Your Voice In My Head ``; «Prometheus» writer Jon Spaihts just got hired to reboot «The Mummy ``; Michael Diliberti is writing «Little White Corvette» for Emma Stone; Brian K. Vaughan is adapting Stephen King «s «Under The Dome» for Showtime, and Liz Meriwether created the smash - hit sitcom «New Girl.»

Greta Gerwing, seen this month at the Berlin International Film Festival, where she's a jury member, will star in (and be a writer for) the sitcom «How I Met Your Dad.»

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

Jane Levy One of the most pleasant surprises of this past TV season has been «Suburgatory,» a smart, often hilarious sitcom from «Parks and Recreation» writer Emily Kapnek that plays out like a small - screen take on «Mean Girls.»

Whether it's a serious drama, a wacky sitcom, or some dramedy that melds the two — TV writers and producers find excuses to let their characters cut a little rug on the boob tube.

Her prime attachee is Ashton Kutcher's Adam, an aspiring TV writer and the son of a famous blowhard sitcom star played by Kevin Kline.

The story goes behind the scenes of her hit sitcom, where writers Tony and Bill, director Dennis and Sophie's male co-star, Clive, are enjoying the success — until some of the scripts start to bear too much of a resemblence to real life.

I think that some TV writers have sneaked a peek at Mr. Parker's new algorithm, because so many sitcoms and cop shows look like they've been written by a computer: they all seem to follow a formula.