Brian Damage
10-09-2011, 11:35 PM
In a bid for brand names and broad comedy, NBC snatched up Roseanne Barr's comeback sitcom, Downwardly Mobile.
The multi-camera ensemble, which landed a script plus penalty commitment from the network, is set in a mobile home community with former Roseanne writer/executive producer Eric Gilliland on board as a co-creator, writer and executive producer.
The Twentieth Century Fox TV-produced project, which also includes writer, executive producer and longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent and non-writing executive producer Steven Greener (Roseanne's Nuts), was waiting on a showrunner before being shopped to networks. Scoring Gilliland, who served as an executive producer and writer on Roseanne's long-running ABC comedy, was widely perceived as a coup.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roseanne-barrs-comeback-comedy-downwardly-231806
The multi-camera ensemble, which landed a script plus penalty commitment from the network, is set in a mobile home community with former Roseanne writer/executive producer Eric Gilliland on board as a co-creator, writer and executive producer.
The Twentieth Century Fox TV-produced project, which also includes writer, executive producer and longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent and non-writing executive producer Steven Greener (Roseanne's Nuts), was waiting on a showrunner before being shopped to networks. Scoring Gilliland, who served as an executive producer and writer on Roseanne's long-running ABC comedy, was widely perceived as a coup.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roseanne-barrs-comeback-comedy-downwardly-231806