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At long last, Kate & Allie is available to binge — more than 40 years after its series premiere.

All six seasons of the Susan Saint James-Jane Curtin comedy are now streaming, free of charge. The CBS classic has quietly surfaced on the ad-supported Roku Channel, which is accessible via the Roku app and TheRokuChannel.com.

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Exclusive: Mentorship Matters, an initiative aimed at boosting opportunities for emerging writers of color, has announced 25 writer mentees for its 2023 program, along with participating showrunner/executive producers.

Now in its second year, Mentorship Matters was developed by showrunners committed to using their positions to advocate for and help create opportunities for writers of color. With sponsorship from Amazon and AMC Networks, the program includes a year of consistent, in-depth mentorship and creative advocacy from a committed showrunner. It also includes guidance with developing and polishing an original writing sample along with panels and seminars with high-level industry professionals. Each mentee will be paired with a participating showrunner/executive producer mentor.

In the program’s inaugural year, 14 out of 23 mentees found representation, 8 were staffed on shows including Billions (Showtime), Criminal Minds: Evolution (Paramount+), Walker: Independence (The CW), and The Power (Amazon), and 1 signed an overall deal with Sony TV Studios.

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Exclusive: Comedy writer-producer Erica Oyama (Young Rock) has signed a three-year overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under the pact, Oyama will develop and produce projects for the studio, run by Erin Underhill, aimed at a variety of platforms.

Oyama most recently was a co-executive producer on the first season of Universal TV’s breakout NBC comedy series Young Rock.

“When I was growing up in Alabama my dream was to become a cashier at Piggly Wiggly,” said Oyama. “I feel like this deal might be even cooler than that! I’ve loved working with Jim, Erin and the Utv team the past few years. I’m so thankful for the opportunity to continue collaborating with such supportive, fun people.”

Sasid Jim Donnelly, EVP Comedy at Universal Television: “We’re ecstatic that we’ve finally convinced Erica to hit pause on her true dream of...

Exclusive: Mentorship Matters, an initiative aimed at boosting opportunities for emerging writers of color, has been officially unveiled, along with the participants in its inaugural 2021-22 cycle.

Developed by executive producers/showrunners, including Aaron Rahsaan Thomas (S.W.A.T.), Raelle Tucker, Gianna Sobol (Counterpart) and Melinda Hsu Taylor with sponsorship by AMC Networks, Amazon, The Walter Kaitz Foundation and Sony Pictures Entertainment, the year-long mentorship program provides consistent, in-depth mentorship and creative advocacy from a committed showrunner. The first set of pairings will connect 23 leading showrunners with promising mentees to foster growth and build invaluable industry contacts.

The program includes meeting at least monthly in addition to offering guidance with developing and polishing an original writing sample, panels and seminars with high-level industry professionals, and opportunities to meet agents, managers, and executives.

Mentees were selected from over 1,200 applicants throughout the U.S., with varying experiences and backgrounds.

A reboot of ’80s series “Kate & Allie” from Erica Oyama and Nahnatchka Khan has received a put pilot order at NBC.

Here’s the logline for their version, straight from NBC: “An updated take about two best friends raising their kids together in one household. Like sister wives, only they don’t have to pretend to love the same man with bad hair. Through their unconventional arrangement, the two prove romance isn’t necessary to be a successful woman and mother.”

The original “Kate & Allie” aired from 1984 to 1989 and starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin, respectively, in the title roles. The logline for that one was a lot more to the point: “Two divorced mothers and their children share an apartment.”

In 1984 and 1985, Curtin won back-to-back Emmys for her role. She would be nominated twice more. The show itself was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series three times,...

Kate & Allie, the sitcom starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin, is the latest 1980s comedy being reworked for the present day.

NBC is developing a reboot of the comedy, created by Sherry Coben, that originally aired on CBS between 1984 and 1989.

It comes from Erica Oyama and Nahnatchka Khan, two of the team responsible for NBC’s upcoming comedy Young Rock.

The network has handed the project a put pilot commitment.

The move comes the same day that ABC handed a pilot order to Saladin Patterson’s reboot of The Wonder Years. It is the latest reboot in the works at NBC, which is also developing a reboot of Night Court with The Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch and a new take on drama Zorro with Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara.

Oyama, a writer on Young Rock and co-exec producer of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, will write,...

Everything old is new again — literally, everything. To wit: NBC is developing a reboot of the classic CBS sitcom Kate & Allie.

The project, which has received a “put pilot”* order at the network, is being billed as an updated take on the ’80s original about two best friends raising their kids together in one household. They’re “like sister wives, only they don’t have to pretend to love the same man with bad hair,” the logline reads. “Through their unconventional arrangement, the two prove romance isn’t necessary to be a successful woman and mother.”

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NBC has given a put pilot order to a reboot of the classic sitcom “Kate and Allie.”

The updated series hails from writer and executive producer Erica Oyama. It follows two best friends raising their kids together in one household. They are like sister wives, only they don’t have to pretend to love the same man with bad hair. Through their unconventional arrangement, the two prove romance isn’t necessary to be a successful woman and mother.

Nahnatchka Khan and Jen Carreras will also executive produce via Fierce Baby Productions. Oyama and Khan currently work together on the upcoming NBC comedy “Young Rock,” which Khan co-created, and previously worked together on ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat.” Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Rodney Ferrell, and Gregory Lipstone of Propagate will also executive produce along with Peter Principato and Brian Dobbins. Universal Television will produce. Khan and Fierce Baby are...

NBC is looking back to the 1980s for its newest piece of comedy development.

The network has given a put pilot commitment to a remake of Kate & Allie, about two best friends who raise their kids in the same household. The original series, which starred Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, ran from 1984-89 on CBS.

Erica Oyama (Never Have I Ever, Fresh Off the Boat) is writing the script, which comes from Universal Television, Propagate and Nahnatchka Khan’s Fierce Baby. Khan has an overall TV deal at Universal.

As with the original, the updated Kate & Allie will center on ...

NBC is looking back to the 1980s for its newest piece of comedy development.

The network has given a put pilot commitment to a remake of Kate & Allie, about two best friends who raise their kids in the same household. The original series, which starred Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James, ran from 1984-89 on CBS.

Erica Oyama (Never Have I Ever, Fresh Off the Boat) is writing the script, which comes from Universal Television, Propagate and Nahnatchka Khan’s Fierce Baby. Khan has an overall TV deal at Universal.

As with the original, the updated Kate & Allie will center on ...

Exclusive: ABC has handed a put pilot commitment to Valley Trash, a single-camera family comedy from Speechless writer-producer Niki Schwartz-Wright, Fresh off the Boat creator/executive producer Nahnatchka Khan and Universal TV, where Khan and her Fierce Baby Productions are under an overall deal.

Written by Schwartz-Wright, in Valley Trash, when 14-year-old Abby gets accepted to a prestigious private L.A. high school, neither she nor her hard-working, financially strapped parents are prepared for the culture shock they’re about to experience when Abby is thrust into a world occupied by a bunch of brilliant, snobby, rich kids who want nothing to do with her, her family or their 818 area code.

Schwartz-Wright executive produces with Khan via her Fierce Baby Productions. Universal TV, part of NBCU Content Studios, is the studio.

Schwartz-Wright most recently was a co-executive producer NBC/Uni TV comedy series Abby’s. She worked on the first two...

“Crazy Rich Asians,” with a $35 million five-day opening, over-performed initial box office estimates, which had pegged the picture to open to $18 million just three weeks ago.

As with other groundbreaking films featuring diverse casts, tracking projections underestimated the opening weekend — the same thing that happened with “Black Panther,” “Wonder Woman,” “Girls Trip,” “Coco,” and others over the last few years.

Estimating the opening haul for any film is an inexact science, part market research and part gut feeling. Films with black, female, Asian-American, or Latino leads — groups grossly underrepresented in Hollywood — can be even harder to predict because of the lack of comparable films, or comps, some box office trackers say. Of course, studios are also conservative in their estimates, eager to not look bad by over-shooting the potential opening number.

One thing tracking can’t take into account for films like “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” is concerted...

The poster for “Dog Days” amputates its human characters just above the knee, focusing our attention instead on the collection of adorable canines assembled at their feet: a pug in a pizza box, a giant labradoodle with a shoe in its mouth, a chihuahua wearing a pink vest and helmet, and so on. “Forget the people. See this movie for its four-legged characters,” the campaign might as well be saying, and yet, the dogs in “Dog Days” serve as little more than man’s best plot devices, conveniently cute critters designed to spark the interactions between their otherwise bland owners and friends in this ingratiating ensemble comedy.

Then again, what else would you expect from a movie called “Dog Days” that falls squarely into the dump month of August, those summer doldrums when outdoor temperatures rise and the quality of megaplex offerings dips? It’s as if the folks who...

With a title like “Dog Days” and the promise of well-trained, furry cuties of all sizes, there’s little that would have stopped dog lovers in the moviegoing public from turning this August release into a late summer hit. But the gentle surprise is that director Ken Marino’s ensemble romantic comedy mixing adorable canines and humans who need as much rescuing as the animals they adopt, is something of a shaggy charmer itself.

The movie, written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama but juiced liberally by some of the ad-lib-honed comedians in its cast, is a glossy mutt of many movie breeds: the dog flick (obviously), the intertwined-lives anthology, the brochure-for-la spread of beautiful actors in sunny surroundings, the you-complete-me romance, and the PG family comedy that can aim the occasional sex/drugs reference to the adults because – full circle – it’s got “aww”-inspiring pets to distract the little ones.

“The world is a really hard place right now to deal with every day. I wanted to dive into a movie that would make people feel good for a while,” says Ken Marino. “And I am sucker for dogs.”

Enter Dog Days. Out Aug. 10, Marino’s new film is a “Love Actually meets Marley and Me” canine rom-com stacked with an impressive animal-loving cast. Eva Longoria, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wolfhard, Nina Dobrev, Adam Pally and more are the stars of this multi-narrative film — and of the exclusive photos below that offer a sneak peek into this summer family movie.

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Mike Rosenstein, former senior executive at Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, has lined up the first projects under his own production company, Sunset Rose Pictures, including Bad Trip, a comedic documentary about psychedelics, and TV series with Erica Oyama and one Armen Weitzman.

A half-hour special, Portraits with Yung Jake, premieres tonight at 11:30 Pm on Viceland. It follows rapper-artist Yung Jake as he takes “high art” to the next level creating an emoji portrait of guest Kate Upton in this post-modern instructional art and interview show. Rosenstein executive produces alongside Jake and Vice’s Spike Jonze. Kitao Sakurai is director/co-executive producer.

Sunset Rose’s first project was the 2016 Reggie Watts’ Spatial one-hour comedy special produced with A24 that is available on Netflix.

Rosenstein recently sold comedy projects to FX and Comedy Central. Additionally, he continues as an executive producer on Red Hour’s Comedy Central series Another Period,...

Greenlit means a project is officially a go, so all you have to do is follow these leads to stay up to date. You never know where you’ll find an opportunity to land an audition! Summer might be over, but “Dog Days” is just about to gear up production in Los Angeles as more names are added to the cast list of the Ken Marino–directed project. Nina Dobrev and Finn Wolfhard were already attached to the indie rom-com, and Vanessa Hudgens is the latest to join the film. The plot follows an ensemble cast of people who want more from life and look to their dogs for support. The characters’ stories will become intertwined throughout the film. Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama wrote the script, and Susie Farris is handling casting. Shooting is expected to begin later this year in L.A, so SoCal actors, look out for...

Exclusive: Eva Longoria is in negotiations to join Nina Dobrev, Finn Wolford and Tone Bell in director Ken Marino’s sophomore feature Dog Days, from Ld Entertainment (Megan Leavey, Jackie). Written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama, the film is slated to go before cameras next month. Dog Days follows a group of humans brought together by their canine pets as they work through hardships in life. Longoria is in talks to play Grace, a loving wife and mother who can't bear…...

Exclusive: Finn Wolfhard, who is riding with the recent blockbuster horror pic It, has set his next film project. The young actor has come aboard the Ken Marino-directed film Dog Days, from Ld Entertainment. Written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama, the pic follows a group of interconnected humans brought together by their canine counterparts as each faces hardships in life with their trusty pets at their side. Wolfhard will play Tyler, an altruistic and thoughtful…...

Fox has put in development a half-hour single-camera comedy series written by Erica Oyama, creator, writer and executive producer of the Yahoo/E! comedy series Burning Love, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project is part of Fox’s initiative to buy and develop more series outside of the traditional pilot cycle. Based on Oyama's life, the family comedy centers on Olivia, a single mom who returns to Alabama where her Japanese karate-master father still lives…...

IP rules in TV development nowadays, with inspiration coming from everywhere, including the home organization section in a bookstore. NBC is developing The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, a half-hour comedy from Burning Love creator Erica Oyama and veteran Greg Malins. The project, from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life), is based on The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, the #1 New…...

Bourne 5: Producer Frank Marshall shared the first photo from the set of the untitled fifth installment in the Bourne action thriller series, featuring a shirtless Matt Damon. Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, and Tommy Lee Jones are also starring; Paul Greengrass is directing. The movie is scheduled for release on July 29, 2016. [Twitter]   Schooled: Amy Poehler is going back to school. She will serve as a producer for Schooled, a pitch by Erica Oyama about a high school teacher who goes to extremes "to gain the respect she feels she deserves." It sounds like the kind of starring role that would be right up Poehler's alley, but for now she is only attached to the comedy project as producer. [Deadline]   The Snowman: Michael...

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Bourne 5: Matt Damon is featured in the first photo from the set of the untitled fifth installment in the Bourne action thriller series. Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones are also starring; Paul Greengrass is directing. The movie is scheduled for release on July 29, 2016. [Twitter]   Schooled: Amy Poehler is going back to school. She will serve as a producer for Schooled, a pitch by Erica Oyama about a high school teacher who goes to...

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Universal Pictures has acquired the pitch Schooled, from writer Erica Oyama, that Amy Poehler will produce alongside Brooke Posch through their Paper Kite Productions banner. Plot details are being kept in detention, but the comedy will explore the lengths a high school teacher will go to gain the respect she deserves. Executive vp production Erik Baiers will oversee the project for the studio. The sale extends Universal’s relationship with Poehler, who stars with Tina Fey in the studio's December comedy Sisters. She also is producing the comedy Balls for the studio. The actress currently is shooting The House with Will Ferrell

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Exclusive: Universal Pictures has acquired Schooled, a pitch that will be written by Erica Oyama that Amy Poehler will produce with Brooke Posch through their Paperkite Productions banner. They are keeping plot under wraps, but I’m told it involves the lengths a high-school teacher will go to gain the respect she feels she deserves. At this point, Poehler is attached as producer only. This comes as Universal prepares for the release of sisters, which stars Poehler and her…...

Universal Pictures has acquired the pitch Schooled, from writer Erica Oyama, that Amy Poehler will produce alongside Brooke Posch through their Paper Kite Productions banner.

Plot details are being kept in detention, but the comedy will explore the lengths a high school teacher will go to gain the respect she deserves.

Executive vp production Erik Baiers will oversee the project for the studio.

The sale extends Universal’s relationship with Poehler, who stars with Tina Fey in the studio's December comedy Sisters. She also is producing the comedy Balls for the studio. The actress currently is shooting The House with Will Ferrell for New Line.

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Universal Pictures has acquired the pitch Schooled, from writer Erica Oyama, that Amy Poehler will produce alongside Brooke Posch through their Paper Kite Productions banner.

Plot details are being kept in detention, but the comedy will explore the lengths a high school teacher will go to gain the respect she deserves.

Executive vp production Erik Baiers will oversee the project for the studio.

The sale extends Universal’s relationship with Poehler, who stars with Tina Fey in the studio's December comedy Sisters. She also is producing the comedy Balls for the studio. The actress currently is shooting The House with Will Ferrell for New Line.

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The incredible news came out this week that Netflix picked up a Wet Hot American Summer TV series. "After months of deal-making and prep work, I've learned that filming has started this week on an 8-episode limited series," Deadline Hollywood reported, "with virtually its entire ensemble cast returning."

After the initial shock and excitement faded, some basic questions have come up. They began filming this week? It was famously cold when they filmed the original, but if they're back at Camp Towanda in Honesdale, Pennsylvania it's about 10 degrees Fahrenheit and probably covered in snow.

Will Packer Productions has sold “Me Time,” a comedy pitch from Ken Marino and Erica Oyama, to Universal Pictures, the studio announced Friday. While the plot is being kept under wraps, “Me Time” is described as a female two-hander road comedy in the vein of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.��� Packer will produce, while Barbara Dreyfus will executive produce. Universal's Erik Baiers will oversee the project for the studio. Also read: NBC Orders Casey Wilson-Ken Marino Sitcom ‘Marry Me’ Packer's “Ride Along” has grossed more than $150 million worldwide for Universal this year, and the studio is already developing a “Ride Along” sequel along with.

Universal has bought a Will Packer Productions comedy pitch from husband-and-wife team Ken Marino and Erica Oyama. While the plot of Me Time is being kept under wraps, it's described as a female road comedy in the same vein as Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Will Packer will produce while Barbara Dreyfus, his head of motion pictures, will executive produce. Universal's senior vp production Erik Baiers will oversee for the studio. Story: Ken Marino to Co-Star in NBC Comedy From 'Happy Endings' Creator Packer, who struck a three-year first-look deal with Universal in 2013, produced the hit comedy

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Two days after landing the male lead on the NBC comedy pilot Marry Me, Party Down alum Ken Marino has signed with Paradigm for acting representation. The multihyphenate is bolstering his ties to the agency, where he already is a lit client. Marino recently wrapped a role in the Veronica Mars movie and had a seasonlong arc on the final season of HBO’s Eastbound & Down. He also played a strip club owner in last year’s hit comedy We’re The Millers and starred in and directed the Yahoo/E! series Burning Love, which he co-created with partner Erica Oyama, for Ben Stiller’s Red Hour. Marino, who is managed by Principato-Young, and Oyama also are writing the Fox 2000 feature Go The F*** To Sleep.

Ken Marino is set as the male lead opposite Casey Wilson in Marry Me, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot from Happy Endings creator-showrunner David Caspe, Sony TV and Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare. The project, directed by Seth Gordon, is said to be in the vein of Mad About You and revolves around a young couple (Marino and Wilson) who get engaged, something they quickly realize is harder than it looks. Party Down alum Marino, repped by Principato Young, recently wrapped the Veronica Mars movie and had a seasonlong arc on the final season of HBO’s Eastbound & Down. He is writing the features Go The F*** To Sleep with Erica Oyama for Fox 2000 and Return Of The Jocks for 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox. He starred in and directed the popular Yahoo/E! series Burning Love, from Ben Stiller’s Red Hour, and has directed episodes of Super Fun Night and Trophy Wife.

“House of Cards” producers Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti will join the judging panel for the 18th Annual Webby Awards, which launched its official Call for Entries on Thursday. Also named to the panel: “Burning Love” producers Ken Marino and Erica Oyama, Droga5 founder David Droga, Ted Media executive producer June Cohen, Gif (Graphics Interchange Format) inventor Steve Wilhite also will make up the panel, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced. They join over a 1000 Iadas, members such as Harvey Weinstein, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, and Huffington Post Founder Arianna Huffington. Also read: Jerry Seinfeld,...

While Netflix aims to be the new HBO in its original series and Hulu is building up an impressive library of international imports, Yahoo!'s biggest success for its Yahoo! Screen section has been "Burning Love," its scripted "Bachelor" spoof created by Erica Oyama that features a range of famous faces, from comedians like Michael Ian Black and Ken Jeong to actors like Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller. Yahoo! is set to premiere eight more digital comedy series on September 9th, and in the vein of "Burning Love," the new originals feature plenty of celebrity cameos and involvement. The site has premiered trailers for four of the eight today, and announced plans to premiere nearly all of the episodes of the fall slate on the 9th, alongside the complete "Saturday Night Live" archives, which the company made an exclusive year-long deal for in April. "Ghost Ghirls" is a comedy co-produced...

Ken Marino and wife Erica Oyama will team with producer Will Gluck to co-create a single-camera comedy for Fox, based on Sam and Mariah Calagione, the married couple who own and operate the popular Delaware-based Dogfish Head Brewery. The show, which Marino is set to star in, will tell the story of a couple and a family—both biologically and work-related—who prop one another other up and, inevitably, drive each other crazy while trying to run their business. Marino and Oyama have previously worked together on the reality TV parody Burning Love, and are currently co-scripting two feature films ...

Jason Dohring will soon try his hand at being one of The CW’s Tomorrow People.

The Veronica Mars fave has been cast in an upcoming episode of the new fall drama (premiering Oct. 9), EW.com reports.

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Dohring will play an ex-operative who once worked with the paramilitary group that hunts down the Tomorrow People. After going off the grid, the character is back to seek revenge.

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• Chuck heartthrob Ryan McPartlin is will guest-star in a Season 3 installment of Hart of Dixie, TVGuide.com reports,...

Exclusive: In a preemptive buy, Fox has taken in a single-camera comedy from the husband-and-wife writing team of Ken Marino & Erica Oyama, producer Will Gluck and Sony TV with a significant penalty attached. Childrens Hospital co-star Marino is set to topline the project, which he and Oyama have based on the life of another couple, Sam Calagione, founder of the popular Dogfish Head Brewery, and his wife/business partner, Mariah. According to the producers, this is a show about a couple who are working on their American Dream, a couple who support each other, inspire each other, are madly in love, drive each other crazy, build a company from the ground up and blend their employees and children into one big happy family. Marino, Oyama and Olive Bridge’s Gluck and Richie Schwartz executive produce.

As an actor, Party Down alum Marino has a season-long arc on the upcoming fourth...

Exclusive: In a preemptive buy, Fox has taken in a single-camera comedy from the husband-and-wife writing team of Ken Marino & Erica Oyama, producer Will Gluck and Sony TV with a significant penalty attached. Childrens Hospital co-star Marino is set to topline the project, which he and Oyama have based on the life of another couple, Sam Calagione, founder of the popular Dogfish Head Brewery, and his wife/business partner, Mariah. According to the producers, this is a show about a couple who are working on their American Dream, a couple who support each other, inspire each other, are madly in love, drive each other crazy, build a company from the ground up and blend their employees and children into one big happy family. Marino, Oyama and Olive Bridge’s Gluck and Richie Schwartz executive produce. As an actor, Party Down alum Marino has a season-long arc on the upcoming fourth...

Did you know that House of Cards and its Netflix cohorts were not the only online TV programs to score Primetime Emmy nods? Burning Love, which landed on E! back in February, also received a nomination in the category for 'Outstanding Special Class - Short-Format, Live-Action, Entertainment Program.' As it turns out, Ken Marino and Erica Oyama's hilarious parody of The Bachelor was a big hit on TV, and its small screen distributor is hungry for more. E! has also picked up the show's second and third seasons, and will air them beginning in the fall. Burning Love's first season, which originally debuted on Yahoo in 2012, made the move to TV just eight days after it obliterated the competition at the 3rd Streamy Awards, where it scooped up four trophies. TV viewers instantly took to the pitch-perfect satire, and it scored more than seven million viewers across its seven full-length episodes.

Exclusive: Lionsgate is closing two deals for book adaptations that will be produced by Pitch Perfect producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman through their Brownstone Productions banner. They’ve just closed a deal to acquire a pitch for hot scribe Erica Oyama to write a comedy based on Babe Walker’s bestseller White Girl Problems, a comic pseudo-memoir by a pampered gal out to show that even rich people deserve sympathy too. For example: She hates her horse and all the wealthy men she dates, and she has a shopping addiction that caused her once to spend $246,000 at Barneys in an afternoon. Authors Tanner Cohen, David Oliver Cohen and Lara Schoenhals wrote the book under the alias Babe Walker. Lionsgate is separately acquiring for Brownstone Heist Society, the Ally Carter bestseller about a woman who has been part of a larcenous family and tries to go straight. That ends when...

The Shining Girls

Mrc and Appian Way are developing a TV adaptation of South African writer Lauren Beukes' upcoming book "The Shining Girls".

The novel tells the story of a serial killer named Harper Curtis who discovers a house in Depression-era Chicago that allows him to time travel through the decades. To keep traveling, he must kill girls burning bright with talent and potential. [Source: Heat Vision]

Jump

Relativity has acquired John Scott Shepherd's romantic dramedy spec script "Jump" at Vendetta Entertainment.

The story has a strong male role at the center, while Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein will produce. [Source: Deadline]

Keeping Time

Bon Aire Productions has optioned Nathan Zoebl's spec script "Keeping Time".

The story follows a for-hire time traveler who specializes in 'preventing' bad relationships. He meets his match with a mysterious woman who is determined to stop him from completing his mission. [Source: Deadline]

True Freshman

Scribes Ken Marino & Erica Oyama...

Exclusive: Husband and wife scribe team Ken Marino & Erica Oyama have been set by 20th Century Fox to script the comedy True Freshman, which 21 Laps & Radar are producing. Studio hired the duo after getting them recently to adapt Go The F To Sleep for Fox 2000. True Freshman is a campus comedy in the vein as Revenge Of The Nerds and Animal House, as a team of underdogs attempt to restore athletics to their long past position of greatness at a snooty Ivy League school. Jeremy Kramer is overseeing for Fox, and Shawn Levy is producing through his 21 Laps Shingle with Radar’s Ted Field. Michael Weber is Exec Producing. The scribes are repped by Paradigm and Principato Young.

Ken Marino is the public face of "Burning Love," the hit comedy series that began on Yahoo and has since been picked up by E! for a run on TV. Marino is both the award-winning show's director and the star of its first season, playing the fatuous Mark Orlando. Yet his wife, Erica Oyama, is the series' unspoken creative anchor, its co-creator and lead writer. She crafted the milieu of this faux reality show, creating indelible characters like Willow, a homeless woman played by Malin Akerman, and Robby Z, an irrepressible...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Jason Clarke, Kerri Russell and Gary Oldman are the human stars of the upcoming sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but many people ae convinced the real star is Andy Serkis, who will reprise his role as Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. New photos from the set show off Serkis and other apes without hair covering up their motion-captured bodies. [Daily Mail via Collider] Go the F--- to Sleep: The surprising publishing sensation titled Go the F--- to Sleep is, surprisingly (?!) heading to the big screen. Actor-writer Ken Marino (Role Models, Wanderlust) and his wife Erica Oyama have been hired to pen the screenplay, based on the book written by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes. The source material is quite slender...

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Jason Clarke, Kerri Russell, and Gary Oldman are the human stars of the upcoming sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but many people ae convinced the real star is Andy Serkis, who will reprise his role as Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. New photos from the set show off Serkis and other apes without hair covering up their motion-captured bodies. [Daily Mail via Collider] Go the F--- to Sleep: The surprising publishing sensation titled Go the F--- to Sleep is, surprisingly (?!) heading to the big screen. Actor/writer Ken Marino (Role Models, Wanderlust) and his wife Erica Oyama have been hired to pen the screenplay, based on the book written by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes. The source material is quite slender...

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Fox 2000 has picked up "Flightplan" scribe Peter Dowling's thriller spec script "Highrise". Jon Shestack ("Air Force One") is on board to produce.

The story is said to be in the vein of Stephen King's "Misery," albeit with the action set within a Manhattan skyscraper.

Meanwhile, Ken Marino & Erica Oyama Marino have been hired to adapt the book "Go The F To Sleep" for Fox 2000 and producer Karen Rosenfelt.

Adam Mansbach penned the children’s book for adults which became a sensation after various actors, notably Samuel L. Jackson, did readings of it that became viral sensations.

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Go the Fuck to Sleep is a brilliant picture book for grown-ups. How it'll be transformed into a full-length film isn't entirely clear, but Party Down's Ken Marino and Erica Oyama (a writer on Childrens Hospital and Burning Love; married to Marino) are on the case. We already know Charlize Theron reads the book to her young son, so there's a head start for casting.

Some days, it seems like every other story on this site is about an adaptation of some kind. Young adult fantasies, mystery thrillers, romantic epics, comic series and video games are an endless river of original stories for filmmakers to swoop in and snatch the rights for. Truthfully, this is a process that is usually as frustrating as it is exciting, seeing as how often the visual medium can destroy the tone and narrative of the source material. But when that source material is the hilarious .children.s book. Go the Fuck to Sleep, one has to wonder how a film could ever exist. Fox 2000 has certainly raised expectations by hiring one of the funniest guys on the planet to adapt it. Deadline reports Ken Marino (Wanderlust) and his wife Erica Oyama will be adapting Adam Mansbach.s book, whose lovingly illustrated pages by Ricardo Cortes will probably not make...

Fox 2000 is going to adapt the hilariously vulgar children's parody book Go the F--k to Sleep for the big screen. They've hired husband and wife screenwriting team Ken Marino and Erica Oyama Marino to write the script. The title for the film has also been slightly changed to Go the F to Sleep.

The book was written by Adam Mansbach who became frustrated with being unable to get his young daughter to go to sleep at night. The book was illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, and it became famous when Samuel L. Jackson ended up narrating it, which I've included below.

Here's the official description of the book:

"Go the F--k to Sleep" is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book...

After a reading by Samuel L. Jackson took the Internet by storm, the children's book for adults, Go the Fuck to Sleep, written by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, became quite the popular item. And as is the case with any tangible property that becomes popular nowadays, the book is headed to the big screen. Deadline reports Fox 2000 has just hired comedian Ken Marino (Role Models, Wanderlust, Wet Hot American Summer) and his wife Erica Oyama Marino to adapt the funny book into a film with The Twilight Saga producer Karen Rosenfelt and All You Need is Kill producer Erwin Stoff. More below! Here's Samuel L. Jackson reading the book with a masterful use of the word "fuck" as only he can deliver: Ken Marino should be a familiar face from his appearances in various comedies, but he may be even more recognizable for his TV appearances as...