Brian Damage
01-16-2009, 02:38 PM
If you've created and run one of most successful comedy series of all time, what do you do for an encore?
"Everybody Loves Raymond's" Phil Rosenthal has little time to contemplate that. Three-and-a-half years after his series left the CBS airwaves, he has three projects in the works at HBO and a sitcom set up at the BBC. Oh, and he's writing a feature for Universal. And a play.
To top it off, he's shepherding a Russian version of "Raymond" and making a feature documentary about it.
"The business is terrible right now, so like everybody else I had to diversify," Rosenthal said.
At HBO, which co-produced "Raymond," he is in talks about a comedy, "The Jeannie Tate Show"; a drama, "Random Family"; and a movie about 1960s Freedom Riders.
"Jeannie" is based on the WB.com digital series created by Liz Cackowski and Maggie Carey that stars former "Saturday Night Live" writer Cackowski as a neurotic soccer mom who hosts a talk show from her minivan.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i989acc6090241ec6dbf4478eb21d4736
"Everybody Loves Raymond's" Phil Rosenthal has little time to contemplate that. Three-and-a-half years after his series left the CBS airwaves, he has three projects in the works at HBO and a sitcom set up at the BBC. Oh, and he's writing a feature for Universal. And a play.
To top it off, he's shepherding a Russian version of "Raymond" and making a feature documentary about it.
"The business is terrible right now, so like everybody else I had to diversify," Rosenthal said.
At HBO, which co-produced "Raymond," he is in talks about a comedy, "The Jeannie Tate Show"; a drama, "Random Family"; and a movie about 1960s Freedom Riders.
"Jeannie" is based on the WB.com digital series created by Liz Cackowski and Maggie Carey that stars former "Saturday Night Live" writer Cackowski as a neurotic soccer mom who hosts a talk show from her minivan.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i989acc6090241ec6dbf4478eb21d4736