While it might have been a TV program, the influence of "Mr. Show" on the ensuing decade of both movies and television has been a substantial one. Now, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk are putting together a project that will once again team the warped comic masterminds.
"Bob and I are going to shoot something for HBO, a pilot, which was something we wrote," Cross told us recently in Shreveport, Louisiana during a break from shooting the Jack Black-Michael Cera flick "Year One." "It's based on Bob’s idea, but we both co-wrote it and I’ll act in it."
Although the duo's return to Home Box Office will be like "Mr. Show" in some ways, Cross insisted that it will also play with the clichés of situation comedies. "It’s a sitcom," the "Arrested Development" funnyman explained. "It will follow a traditional sitcom feeling, but will also feel like a big sketch, even though the characters will remain the same each week." Read More...
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