"It's an ideal landscape for a creator's vision to be realized." "Working in tandem with our colleagues at every level within our Entertainment and Publishing divisions brings a wealth of opportunities for writers, producers, and other creatives to develop projects across various verticals simultaneously," said Paul Davidson, Executive Vice President IDW Entertainment. We know their vast background, combined with IDW's robust expertise, will produce great content, both in print and on-screen." "We're thrilled that our first Entertainment and Publishing co-development project is with Matt and Dave their comedic talent is off-the-charts. "At IDW, we are perfectly poised to develop properties that live in the same universe, across various platforms," said Nachie Marsham, Publisher, IDW. This is the first of many creative partnerships th at leverage IDW’s experience and resources to develop stories that reach audiences through a variety of ways. Writer James Asmus ( Quantum and Woody, Survival Street, Gambit ) and Artist Edison Neo ( Snake Claws, No-Brainer, Tights) are also attached to the project. The comic is scheduled for release next summer. Under the partnership, the team will develop and produce the sci-fi comedy, “Family Time”, into a television series and original comic book property. SAN DIEGO/LOS ANGELES, CA (August 25, 2022) – IDW (NYSE American: IDW), a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms, today announced a new co-development deal with writing duo Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser ( Drawn Together, Solar Opposites, Accidental Love). They also perform - or rather, the puppets built to look like Wu Tang mouth the words to one of the rap supergroup's songs.Drawn Together Creators To Develop Comic Book And Television Series Based On Comedy Sci-Fi Project, Family Time In puppet form, they take part in a prank. Maybe Carolla and Kimmel should hire him as a writer.Īnd in perhaps one of the more inexplicable things ever aired on television, rappers The Wu Tang Clan are billed as "musical guests" in the first episode. Some of the calls are just seconds in length, and end abruptly when the caller hangs up.Īnd in one case - in which a fictional woman claims that a tow-truck driver left a "steaming turd" in her backseat - the victim (who suggests the woman bring the offending item back so it can be put in a lineup for identification) throws out far better one-liners than the perpetrator. It looks as if the producers went with the first call made, regardless of the victim's reactions. Though the staged puppetry is elaborate - and such name talent as Tracy Morgan ( Saturday Night Live), Denis Leary ( The Job), Sarah Silverman and Dave Chapelle has been recruited to make calls - it seems as if the whole show was shot on one take. The rest is boilerplate basic-cable bad-boy humor - there's a visit to an all-puppet strip club, during which a blind stripper calls about applying for a job a jilted lover who urges a florist to address the card on a bouquet to his "cheatin' ho" and a man who tries to buy a "penis pump" from an adult bookstore - only to have his mom pick up the other line. Carolla and Kimmel offer up (though an Asian-American character called "Moo Shu, the Chinese rapper" comes pretty close). Mercifully, at least for those who don't offend easily, that's the most offensive thing Messrs. His vignettes are more offensive than funny for those whose sense of humor has progressed past thinking it's humorous to knock down the weak kid in the schoolyard. If the idea is simple, though, then so is the show's sense of humor.Ĭase in point - "Special Ed," one of the program's recurring characters that is, as his name suggests, mentally disabled. is simple: Get some famous friends to make prank telephone calls with humorous premises and have cute, Sesame Street the creation of Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla, who brought us The Man Show
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