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Ty Burrell and Bryan Cranston are set to walk a Tightrope! for the Roku Channel.

The two Emmy winners are teaming up for a comedic reworking of a short-lived detective drama from the late 1950s (exclamation point very much included). Burrell will star in and executive produce the six-episode series, while Cranston is an executive producer.

Roku made the announcement Tuesday at its newfronts presentation to advertisers, where it also showcased upcoming programming including a travel series from Tracee Ellis Ross, culinary competition Best Bite Wins hosted by Josh Peck and a talk show from John Cena, among others.

Tightrope! aired for one season in 1959-60 on CBS. The drama starred Mike Connors as an undercover police officer who infiltrated various criminal organizations. The Roku show will “reshape the drama of the vintage 1950s series into a slapstick comedy, where Burrell plays a lone wolf detective following cases city to...

In today’s TV news roundup, Ozy Media announced Tan France, Jameela Jamil and others as headliners of Ozy Fest, and Netflix dropped the official trailer of “On My Block” Season 3.

Dates

Disney Channel‘s second season of “Just Roll With It” will premiere on Sunday, March 15 at 8:45 p.m. The sitcom follows the Bennett-Blatt family as they navigate everyday family life and adolescence. The series stars Tobie Windham, Suzi Barrett, Ramon Reed and Kaylin Hayman, as well as J.C. Currais, who is now a regular cast member. “Just Roll With It” is executive produced by co-creators Adam Small and Trevor Moore, with a production crew led by co-exec producer Skot Bright.

First Looks

Netflix released the trailer of Season 3 of “On My Block.” The eight-episode coming-of-age comedy follows four street-savvy friends as they navigate their way through the “triumph, pain and the newness” of high school in a rough inner city.

In today’s TV news roundup, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are among the celebrity contestants on “25 Words or Less.” Also, Ruby Rose, Sarah Snook and Dacre Montgomery will be honored at the Australian in Film Awards.

Castings

Fox TV announced Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Chelsea Handler, Jane Lynch and Rick Fox are among the celebrity contestants to appear on new game show “25 Words or Less.“ The half-hour game show is produced by Dino Bones Prods. and executive produced by Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, Mary McCormack, Michael Morris, Michael Canter (who also showruns) and Bruce Sterten. Two teams comprised of celebrities and civilians are pitted against each other as they compete to see who will win the top prize of $10,000. Hosted by Meredith Vieira, “25 Words or Less” will debut Sept. 16.

Renewals

Food Network has renewed “Delicious Miss Brown” for a 13-episode second season. Starring Kardea Brown, the daytime series, shot on-location in South Carolina,...

Exclusive: Disney Channel has ordered a second season of multicamera comedy Just Roll With It, a unique scripted/improvisational hybrid that includes the live participation of the studio audience. Additionally, the network has entered into an overall development deal with the show’s creators and executive producers Adam Small and Trevor Moore to write and produce programming for Disney Channel and Disney+. Production on season two will begin this month.

Just Roll With It blends a scripted family sitcom with improvisational elements and allows the studio audience the opportunity to vote on the outcome of certain scenes. It follows the newly blended Bennett-Blatt family as they navigate everyday family life and the ups and downs of adolescence. Tobie Windham (Walk the Prank) and Suzi Barrett star as fun-loving newlyweds and parents Byron and Rachel. Ramon Reed (Disney’s The Lion King...

Network: Disney Channel.

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).

Seasons: Ongoing.

TV show dates: June 14, 2019 — present.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Tobie Windham, Suzi Barrett, Ramon Reed, Kaylin Hayman, Candace Kozak, Michael Lanahan, and J.C. Currais.

TV show description:

From creators Adam Small and Trevor Moore, the Just Roll With It TV show is something of a choose-your-own-adventure story for the audience. Although it is a scripted family sitcom, it mixes in some improvisational comedy, which allows the studio audience to choose in which direction key scenes will advance.

The series centers on preteens Blair (Hayman) and Owen (Reed), newly minted step-siblings in Bennett-Blatt family. Blair's mom, Rachel (Barrett), recently married Owen's...

Disney Channel has given a series order to multi-camera family comedy Just Roll With It, a unique scripted/improvisational hybrid that includes the live participation of the studio audience, from co-showrunners Adam Small and Trevor Moore (Disney Xd’s Walk the Prank).

Starring Kaylin Hayman (One Day At A Time), Suzi Barrett (Kirby Buckets), Ramon Reed (The Lion King Broadway musical), and Tobie Windham (Walk the Prank), Just Roll With It let’s studio audience members decide the outcome of certain scenes, while the cast “just rolls with it.”

The series is centered around the blended Bennett-Blatt family and features step-siblings Blair (Hayman) and Owen (Reed) who could not be more different. Blair, often a rebel without a cause, is the polar opposite of her strict, regimented, ex-military mom Rachel (Barrett). Reed’s Owen, a born athlete with a taste for scheduling and organization, is always trying to clean up...

Disney Channel has greenlit a multi-camera sitcom that is part scripted and part improvisational, Variety has learned exclusively.

The hybrid series is called “Just Roll With It.” Filmed before a studio audience, the series follows the blended Bennett-Blatt family. Blair, played by Kaylin Hayman, often a rebel without a cause, is the polar opposite of her strict, regimented, ex-military mom, Rachel, played by Suzi Barrett. Ramon Reed plays Owen, a born athlete with a taste for scheduling and organization, who is always trying to clean up his creative and charismatic father and morning radio show host Byron, played by Tobie Windham.

At the sound of a horn, the actors break from the scene and go backstage while the audience decides which of three outrageous stunts will take place next. Once votes are cast electronically, the actors return to the stage to continue the scene, waiting for the next surprise, which...

Disney Channel has greenlighted a new multicamera sitcom that lets the audience decide the outcome of certain scenes.

Just Roll With It, from co-showrunners Adam Small and Trevor Moore (Disney Xd’s Walk the Prank), is described as a "first-of-its-kind format." The show is a hybrid of a scripted family comedy and an improvisational comedy, in which the studio audience members select the outcome of certain scenes while the cast "just rolls with it."

The series centers on the blended Bennett-Blatt family, focusing on step-siblings Blair (Kaylin Hayman, One Day at a Time) and Owen (Ramon ...

Disney Xd has ordered a new comedy "prank" series -- Walk the Prank. Created by Adam Small and Trevor Moore, Disney Xd says the single-cam Walk the Prank is, "a series that blends comedic storytelling with hidden camera reality pranks." Production is set to begin in January, with a series premiere in 2016.

The Walk the Prank cast includes: Cody Veith as Chance; Bryce Gheisar as Herman; Jillian Shae Spaeder as Bailey; Brandon Severs as Dusty; and Tobie Windham as Will. Read More…...

Disney Xd has given a pilot green light to Epic Offenders, a single-camera comedy that combines unscripted hidden camera pranks with live-action scripted comedy. Adam Small (Mad TV, Jamie Kennedy Experiment) and Trevor Moore (Whitest Kids U Know) penned the pilot and Tom Gianas (Tenacious D) is directing. Newcomer Cody Veith stars as Chance, the charismatic leader of a team of four young pranksters, known as “The Epic Offenders,” who host a fictitious popular online…...

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File this under: Shows You Were Pretty Sure Were Cancelled But Didn’t Know For Certain Until Now.

Fox has axed its short-lived sketch comedy series In the Flow with Affion Crockett. The network aired six episodes of the show earlier this fall. The series had a rather ridiculous comedy pedigree — producers included In Living Color alum Jamie Foxx, Mad TV co-creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small, Arrested Developmemt creator Mitch Hurwitz and Two and a Half Men’s executive producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum were all on board. Too many cooks?

The news comes on the heels of Fox...

CBS has handed a series order to Same Name, a new fish-out-of-water comedic reality series about celebrities trading places with total strangers who happen to share the same name, which will air this summer. The network originally greenlighted a pilot for the project (then The Same Name) in October. Each hourlong, self-contained episode of the series, executive produced by Cris Abrego and Eugene Young, will feature a well-known personality who switches places with a person bearing the same name. For one week, the star and their counterpart live in each other's houses, meet and interact with family, friends and co-workers and experience how the other lives. "They may have the same names, but their lives couldn't be more different," CBS head of alternative Jennifer Bresnan said. "Walking in each other's shoes and experiencing their home life, work and other activities reveals moments of humor, laughter and unexpected emotion." In the pilot episode,...

Nominated for an unprecedented 35 Emmy Awards and winner of 8, "MADtv", the sketch comedy television series debuted October 1995, created by Fax Bahr and Adam Small, produced by Bahr/Small Productions and Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (Qde).

The series finale aired May 2009.

Salzman said at the time he would be continuing the series on another channel, possibly cable, while Warners TV reports that a new Mad Magazine animated TV series is currently in development.

Sneak Peek "Madtv" musical parodies of Britney Spears/Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Shakira...

By Greg Hernandez

Deadline Hollywood’s Nellie Andreeva is reporting that The Wanda Sykes Show is being canceled by Fox after just one season!

Writes Nellie: The late-night talk show started off strong but tumbled in the ratings as the season went on and fell below the performance of predecessor MadTV in the Saturday 11 Pm hour. Fox has options for the late-night Saturday slot. It has been actively developing sketch comedies this pilot season and ordered two pilots, one written by and starring Dana Carvey and Spike Feresten, with another, from Jamie Foxx and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small.

I’d be more outraged if I’d watched it more than just a few times. It’s hard to change your Saturday night viewing habits and if I’ve been out and about, I like to come home and watch SNL. I just don’t think Wanda’s show created enough buzz-worthy moments.

Exclusive: I hear Fox is canceling The Wanda Sykes Show after one season. The late-night talk show started off strong but tumbled in the ratings as the season went on and fell below the performance of predecessor MadTV in the Saturday 11 Pm hour. Fox has options for the late-night Saturday slot. It has been actively developing sketch comedies this pilot season and ordered two pilots, one written by and starring Dana Carvey and Spike Feresten, with another, from Jamie Foxx and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small. Coincidentally, Fox aired MadTV and Spike Feresten's talk show in late-night on Saturday before canceling them [...]...

It looks like the new sketch comedy show from Jamie Foxx and Affion Crockett is shaping up to look more and more like Fox's former hit show In Living Color.

As with the new untitled project about to premiere from Fox, the new show- like In Living Color- is casting some sketch comedy vets for their new show. We hear that the new series regulars added Erica Ash (of MadTV fame), Eric Andre, Kyle Dunnigan (of Reno 911! fame) and Dana DeLorenzo.

As we previously reported, the show is the brainchild of Foxx, Crockett and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small. As of this writing we also discovered that the cast should be rounded out in the next couple of days.

More on this story as it develops.

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Oscar winner Jamie Foxx will try his hand at the small screen again.

The "In Living Color" alum and star of "The Jamie Foxx Show" is teaming up with "MadTV" creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small for comedy sketch comedy pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Foxx won't necessarily be in front of the cameras though. Affion Crockett of "Wild 'N Out" is attached to star. He's known for his impersonations of Chris Brown, Kanye West and Russell Simmons.

"The Boondocks" producer Carl Jones will co-produce alongside Crockett, a producer. Small, Bahr, Jones and Crockett are writing.

More pilot news:

 - Christine Woods, who plays FBI agent Janis Hawk on ABC's "FlashForward," has joined the NBC comedy pilot "Perfect Couples" in the female lead. Woods' character Julia will be happily married to Dave (Tba), and they need to find some time alone to celebrate their anniversary. The project revolves around three couples.

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When we first heard the news that Jamie Foxx was developing a new television show, we thought the same thing you did: Boy, he's really getting into this 'Laverne and Shirley' remake. (Which his reps have since denied.) But as it turns out, while his latest project does feature the return of a classic series, it's one that is perhaps a bit more understandable for Foxx: 'In Living Color.'

Well, sort of. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Foxx is teaming with former 'In Living Color' writers Fax Bahr and Adam Small to develop a new "urban-flavored sketch-comedy show" for Fox.

Foxx, of course, rose to super-stardom thanks to his role on 'In Living Color,' which ran from 1990-1994, while Bahr and Small went on to create Fox's seminal sketch series 'MADtv.'

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Almost 20 years since his breakout role on In Living Color, Jamie Foxx may be headed back to Fox for another sketch-comedy show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The network has ordered the untitled pilot with Foxx and fellow In Living Color writers Fax Bahr and Adam Small serving as executive producers.

Jamie Foxx apologizes for Miley rant

Wild 'N Out alum Affion Crockett is also attached to the project. The comedic actor is best known for his spoofs of ...

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, we just discovered that Jamie Foxx has teamed up with comedic actor Affion Crockett for a new urban-flavored sketch-comedy show, which will air on the Fox network.

Fox has ordered a pilot for an untitled project executive produced by Foxx and fellow "In Living Color" scribes, "MadTV" creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small, with "Wild 'N Out" alum Crockett attached.

According to the report, the pilot is the result of merging two projects. Foxx was looking to do a sketch-comedy series with an urban twist and paired with Bahr and Small to pitch the idea to Fox.

Separately, Sony TV-based Tantamount was working on a sketch-comedy project starring Crockett, probably best known for his spoofs of Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Drake and Jay-z. Crockett also was attached to co-write with Carl Jones, a producer on Sony's animated comedy "The Boondocks," on which Jones...

Fox has ordered an untitled comedy pilot to be executive produced by Jamie Foxx and to feature Affion Crockett.   According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox had been pitched on two different sketch comedy projects, one from Foxx and one from Crockett, and elected to squish them together.   Foxx will executive produce along with Fax Bahr and Adam Small. The three producers all worked together way back in the day on a little Fox series called "In Living Color." Bahr and Small then went on to create "MadTV" for Fox, while Foxx went on to star in "The Jamie Foxx...

Jamie Foxx will executive produce this Fox show In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has purchased an urban-flavored sketch comedy pilot from Jamie Foxx.

The network ordered a pilot for an untitled project to be produced by Foxx and Fax Bahr and Adam Small. They all worked together on In Living Color.

Affion Crockett (Wild 'N Out) is presently attached as one of the stars.

Foxx had been looking to do a sketch-comedy series and teamed with Bahr and Small to pitch the idea to Fox. At the same time, Sony TV-based Tantamount was putting together a sketch-comedy project with Crockett. Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly listened to both pitches and then proposed merging the projects.

Almost two decades after his breakout stint on "In Living Color," Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is back at Fox with another urban-flavored sketch-comedy show.

The network has ordered a pilot for an untitled project executive produced by Foxx and fellow "Color" scribes, "MadTV" creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small, with "Wild 'N Out" alum Affion Crockett attached as one of the stars.

Tantamount and Fox TV Studios are producing.

The pilot is the result of merging two projects. Foxx was looking to do a sketch-comedy series with an urban twist and paired with Bahr and Small to pitch the idea to Fox.

Separately, Sony TV-based Tantamount was working on a sketch-comedy project starring Crockett, probably best known for his spoofs of Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Drake and Jay-z. Crockett also was attached to co-write with Carl Jones, a producer on Sony's animated comedy "The Boondocks," on which Jones...

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"Mad tv", the sketch comedy television series, licensing the name/logo of "Mad".

debuted October 14, 1995, airing Saturday nights on Fox and in syndication on Comedy Central. The series was created by Fax Bahr and Adam Small, originally produced by Bahr/Small Productions and Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment.

Comedy Central picked up the show after its syndication package of Saturday Night Live reruns was acquired by the E! Entertainment Network, and has aired 30-minute and full-hour reruns of episodes from seasons eight to eleven.

Producer Salzman said he is exploring the continuation of the show on cable...

Comedian Katt Williams is set to star in the workplace comedy Mission: Intolerable, the first film slated for production from the Weinstein Co./Robert L. Johnson-owned Our Stories Films.

Our Stories president and COO Tracey Edmonds and Mike Karz will produce the film. John Whitesell (Deck the Halls) is in talks to direct.

Williams will play a wannabe CIA agent who starts a business as a "temp from hell" whom companies hire to get unwanted employees to quit their jobs. His latest assignment goes awry, however, when his new target fights back.

The film is based on an original screenplay by Steven List and Astrid Neal, rewritten by Fax Bahr and Adam Small with additional contributions from Williams. Dave Phillips and Josh Woodward are executive producing and Damon Lee is co-executive producing. Production is expected to begin before the end of first-quarter 2008.

Most Our Stories features, aimed by BET founder Johnson for a black audience, will be theatrically distributed through the Weinstein Co.'s genre arm Dimension Films and released on DVD via the company's Genius Products partnership.