Sep 28 2009 Gordon Ramsay Is Getting a Stop-Motion Sitcom?
OK, so you've seen Gordon Ramsay shout that someone is a "donkey" who "could have killed someone" on Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and possibly on all the other British shows where he also does that, but now you're looking for a new way to see that same caricatured, "fuck me"-throwing-food-on-the-floor action in a new format. Right? I thought so. Lucky for you, there's this now:
Celeb chef Gordon Ramsay is ... set to be the star of his own stop-motion animation series after striking a deal with Toronto-based animation house Cuppa Coffee Studios.“Gordon Ramsay, at Your Service” is described as a half-hour laffer that will take “the essence of who he is and have a bit of fun with it,” according to Adam Shaheen, prexy of Cuppa Coffee.
Cuppa Coffee is the animation house behind Nick at Nite’s primetime toon series “Glenn Martin, DDS” and MTV’s “Celebrity Deathmatch,” among other shows.
Why does claymation Gordon Ramsay look so much like someone dipped the Hulk villain Leader in a vat of peroxide? And why not just give brilliant child parodist Little Gordon a show? There probably aren't suitable answers to those questions, so I guess I'll just be happy that this will probably eventually end up on Food Network Nighttime, hopefully meaning one less Bobby Flay Purposely Shames a Once-Proud Chef I'll end up tolerating when I can't sleep at 3 AM.
Though, personally, I'd rather see Ramsey in a series I'm working on called "Surf Ogre."
May 29 2009 'Yo Teach...!' Clip and Behind-the-Scenes!
Every group of underachieving, inner-city high schoolers needs a Michelle Pfeiffer, or a Pryzbylewski, or a Steve Harvey to show them that someone cares, that rapping is like funky poetry, and that dice is like math. This fall on NBC, one such group will get theirs in Mark Taylor Jackson, the "wise-cracking mentor of Yo Teach...!"
As this clip and behind-the-scenes featurette demonstrate, the show looks hilarious. And heartwarming:
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Mar 2 2007 Geico Cavemen Coming to TV
ABC has announced that they are developing the popular "Caveman" series of Geico Auto Insurance commercials into a half-hour comedy project, or, if you prefer, a thinly-disguised infomercial series. The ads have gathered a following for their jokes about prehistoric men fighting prejudice from the modern world, much in the way hobos fight the prejudice of me and my "hobo stick."
Strange as is it seems, this won't be the first time a commercial has made the jump to a series, as Baby Bob, based on dot-com ads, did the same thing in 2002. It also won't be the first time a caveman stars in a regular sitcom, with Ted Danson having played a caveman bartender on Cheers and a caveman doctor on Becker to mixed results.
