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Post by Naitch on Oct 1, 2008 17:34:21 GMT -5
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Norman Lear, creator of both "All In the Family" and "The Jeffersons," as well as many other TV projects will be teaming with HBO to produce a new dramatic series set in the world of 1970s professional wrestling entitled "Everybody Hurts."
The series will be written by Aaron Blitzstein, who was a former Vice President of marketing for World Championship Wrestling has also written for FX's The Riches, The Late Show with David Letterman and other shows.
"Everybody Hurts" will be based on a family running a pro-wrestling business in New York with looks into the lives of the wrestlers and their fans.
Credit: Pwinsider.com
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Post by MasterSnit on Oct 1, 2008 17:38:47 GMT -5
The owner character should be a real hoot.
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Post by Naitch on Oct 1, 2008 17:58:11 GMT -5
All I know at this point is that the creator from All in the Family is making this and in my opinion thats the second best sitcom (right behind Sanford and Son).
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Post by Champ on Oct 1, 2008 21:32:46 GMT -5
All in the Family and Sandford and Son are definitely 2 of the best sitcoms in history. Any show about going into the life of wrestling is interesting and with the resume being brought into it should be interesting
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Post by Naitch on Oct 2, 2008 0:00:23 GMT -5
All in the Family and Sandford and Son are definitely 2 of the best sitcoms in history. Any show about going into the life of wrestling is interesting and with the resume being brought into it should be interesting I just said that about All in the Family because the guy making this show made that show. Hes a proven commodity in good TV. And according to that bio worked for WCW so what that tells me is that he knows a thing or two and this show should be down right awesome. |
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Post by Champ on Oct 2, 2008 3:44:13 GMT -5
Yeah I'm excited about it! No word on when it's beginning though?
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Post by Naitch on Oct 2, 2008 9:01:02 GMT -5
None, it hasn't even begun taping yet from what I can tell.
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Post by Velkontés on Oct 2, 2008 11:56:03 GMT -5
And according to that bio worked for WCW so what that tells me is that he knows a thing or two I LOTI'd. I'm not convinced. Wrestling is inherently silly, I don't think it's possible to satirise it. I've got a feeling it will be fun for a couple episodes, but once the novelty wears off it'll just be another bad show. Perhaps if they took "The Larry Sanders Show" (possibly the best sitcom ever) as a template it might work. |
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Post by MasterSnit on Oct 2, 2008 15:02:34 GMT -5
A nice touch would be, instead of on a sitcom where an established character walks into the shot, the audience applaud, well for this, if a good guy walks on they get applauded, but if a bad guy walks on he gets boo'ed.
If only I was a Jewish cocksucker I could have a job writing this shit and getting paid an inflated salary.
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Post by Naitch on Oct 2, 2008 17:42:28 GMT -5
This looks to be more of a drama then a comedy fellas so I don't think either of you have anything to worry about. Looking at the top post again he also wrote for the Riches which is a drama a lot of people like. I've only seen commercials for it but its about a family that pretends they're rich and get away with it or something along those lines. And in addition (in the ads anyways) Eddie Izzard doesn't make me want to choke him to death.
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Post by evilmasterbetty on Oct 2, 2008 21:44:36 GMT -5
Between this and the movie The Wrestler coming out, it looks like Hollywood is actually realizing that wrestling isn't just for inbred rednecks who don't care about quality.
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Post by Velkontés on Oct 3, 2008 11:27:51 GMT -5
This looks to be more of a drama then a comedy fellas so I don't think either of you have anything to worry about. I got that. It's impossible for a show about wrestling not to have a sense of humour, though. Even if it is superficially a "drama". I mentioned Larry Sanders because that show had an "on screen" and a "backstage" element. (They even filmed them differently - the "on screen" stuff was glossy and the "backstage" stuff was grainy). A lot of the comedy came from contrasting the "showbiz" personas with the "real" personalities of the characters, and how one bled into another. You just need to replace "on screen" with "in ring" and the format could work for a show about wrestling. |
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Post by Champ on Oct 4, 2008 14:02:19 GMT -5
Yeah, these idiots are actually finally realizing there's money to be made in portraying something wrestling related. Raw beats out Monday Night football in ratings almost every week. That alone says a lot
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