Exclusive: Freeform is in early development on drama series Rush. Written by Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski and Kevin O’Hare and to be directed by Alexis Ostrander (Mayfair Witches), Rush is based on the Israeli series The Station, whose third season aired earlier this year.
It revolves around four high-school students who join Rush — a teenage first-responder program that exists nationally, and internationally. These young heroes work side-by-side with adult firefighters and EMTs, in real life-or-death emergencies. All while juggling their school work, home lives, and romantic entanglements. Our young heroes may find that by saving others, they may be able to save themselves.
Lenchewski, O’Hare and Ostrander executive produce alongside Underground’s Trevor Engelson (Snowfall), the original series’ creators Shahar Segall and Oren Jacobi, Add’s Hadas Mozes (Euphoria), Rinat Klien, Yaron Lichtenstein, as well as Hybe America’s Scooter Braun, James Shin and Scott Manson. Kyle Vinuya...
It revolves around four high-school students who join Rush — a teenage first-responder program that exists nationally, and internationally. These young heroes work side-by-side with adult firefighters and EMTs, in real life-or-death emergencies. All while juggling their school work, home lives, and romantic entanglements. Our young heroes may find that by saving others, they may be able to save themselves.
Lenchewski, O’Hare and Ostrander executive produce alongside Underground’s Trevor Engelson (Snowfall), the original series’ creators Shahar Segall and Oren Jacobi, Add’s Hadas Mozes (Euphoria), Rinat Klien, Yaron Lichtenstein, as well as Hybe America’s Scooter Braun, James Shin and Scott Manson. Kyle Vinuya...
- 11/7/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Shondaland Audio, the podcast arm of Shonda Rhimes’ production company, has set its debut podcast slate with a slew of scripted and non-scripted series.
This comes after the Grey’s Anatomy creator partnered with iHeartMedia on a tranche of original podcasts.
Dylan Brown, a writer and producer on Power prequel Raising Kanan, is writing, producing and directing #Matter, a series told through the lens of a reporter looking back at a case of police brutality, as a father intervenes in his teenage son’s beating and later finds himself, his badly hurt son and a wounded cop barricaded in a nearby restaurant as they all struggle to stay alive. It will launch in the fall.
American Coup is a series from Law and Order: Svu writer Aaron Tracy and Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski. It explores the untold story of Edith Wilson, the woman who hijacked the Oval Office and will launch this winter.
This comes after the Grey’s Anatomy creator partnered with iHeartMedia on a tranche of original podcasts.
Dylan Brown, a writer and producer on Power prequel Raising Kanan, is writing, producing and directing #Matter, a series told through the lens of a reporter looking back at a case of police brutality, as a father intervenes in his teenage son’s beating and later finds himself, his badly hurt son and a wounded cop barricaded in a nearby restaurant as they all struggle to stay alive. It will launch in the fall.
American Coup is a series from Law and Order: Svu writer Aaron Tracy and Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski. It explores the untold story of Edith Wilson, the woman who hijacked the Oval Office and will launch this winter.
- 8/11/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox’s ramp-up in animation continues with a series order to Housebroken (fka Therapy Dog). The half-hour project, originally picked up by the network with a script plus presentation commitment, stars Lisa Kudrow, Clea Duvall and Nat Faxon and hails from writer-producer-actress Sharon Horgan, who also provides a voice, actress DuVall (Veep, American Horror Story), writer-producers Jennifer Crittenden & Gabrielle Allan (Veep, Divorce) and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment (A Million Little Things, Divorce).
Housebroken will be a co-production between Kapital and Fox Entertainment. It marks Kapital’s first animated series, With the pickup, Kapital is going 5 for 5 in pilots financed by the indie company going to series (including straight-to-series orders). It joins CBS’ 9Jkl and Fam , ABC’s A Million Little Things and CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story.
Fox’s recently acquired animation house Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers) also will co-produce Housebroken and will do the animation.
Housebroken will be a co-production between Kapital and Fox Entertainment. It marks Kapital’s first animated series, With the pickup, Kapital is going 5 for 5 in pilots financed by the indie company going to series (including straight-to-series orders). It joins CBS’ 9Jkl and Fam , ABC’s A Million Little Things and CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story.
Fox’s recently acquired animation house Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers) also will co-produce Housebroken and will do the animation.
- 12/19/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has put in development People Person, a single-camera comedy from Mad Love and Alex, Inc. creator Matt Tarses, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV. Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses has been under a deal for a long time, is co-producing with Fox Entertainment.
Written by Tarses, People Person is a comedy about the marriage of Sam, who doesn’t like people and doesn’t like doing things, and Emmy, the friendliest, most outgoing woman in the world.
Tarses executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Kapital, TrillTV and Tarses previously teamed for blended family comedy Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, which went to pilot at CBS in 2017.
Scrubs alum Tarses serves as consulting producer on Sony TV’s Mad About You revival for Spectrum Originals.
TrillTV and Kapital have three multi-camera half-hour projects projects in development at CBS,...
Written by Tarses, People Person is a comedy about the marriage of Sam, who doesn’t like people and doesn’t like doing things, and Emmy, the friendliest, most outgoing woman in the world.
Tarses executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Trilling.
Kapital, TrillTV and Tarses previously teamed for blended family comedy Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, which went to pilot at CBS in 2017.
Scrubs alum Tarses serves as consulting producer on Sony TV’s Mad About You revival for Spectrum Originals.
TrillTV and Kapital have three multi-camera half-hour projects projects in development at CBS,...
- 12/13/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Fox has handed a put pilot commitment with a big penalty to Football Book Club, a multi-camera comedy from Robert Horn and Scott Ellis, the duo behind the Tootsie Broadway musical, former New England Patriots wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros. TV.
Written by Horn and to be directed by Ellis, Football Book Club is inspired by Mitchell’s experiences. In the comedy, when a career-threatening injury sidelines professional football wide receiver Lawrence Lasalle, a trip to an Athens, Georgia, bookshop unexpectedly lands him as the only male in an all-female Southern book club, started by recent suburban widow Nancy Leverett, looking to reconnect with life. These two opposite lives collide at a time of major transition for both, as a surprising relationship forms over beginnings, Beaujolais and books, bonding a group of opinionated Southern women...
Written by Horn and to be directed by Ellis, Football Book Club is inspired by Mitchell’s experiences. In the comedy, when a career-threatening injury sidelines professional football wide receiver Lawrence Lasalle, a trip to an Athens, Georgia, bookshop unexpectedly lands him as the only male in an all-female Southern book club, started by recent suburban widow Nancy Leverett, looking to reconnect with life. These two opposite lives collide at a time of major transition for both, as a surprising relationship forms over beginnings, Beaujolais and books, bonding a group of opinionated Southern women...
- 11/22/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Pivoting, a half-hour single-camera comedy from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV, has landed at Fox in a script-plus-penalty development deal that includes one additional backup script.
Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, where we follow three close-knit childhood friends, after the death of another. During the grieving period, when psychologists advise not to make any big decisions, our three friends do exactly that and upend their lives in an effort to find happiness while there is still time, taking on the mid-life challenge they never saw coming – becoming un-stuck.
Astrof executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
This marks Astrof’s second broadcast sale this season. She also is writing and executive producing The Last Happy Couple, a comedy in the works at CBS based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia,...
Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island, where we follow three close-knit childhood friends, after the death of another. During the grieving period, when psychologists advise not to make any big decisions, our three friends do exactly that and upend their lives in an effort to find happiness while there is still time, taking on the mid-life challenge they never saw coming – becoming un-stuck.
Astrof executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor.
This marks Astrof’s second broadcast sale this season. She also is writing and executive producing The Last Happy Couple, a comedy in the works at CBS based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia,...
- 11/15/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Just in time for today’s Veterans Day, Fox has closed a deal for a script commitment plus penalty to Stateside, about a military veteran who returns to his job as a state trooper. The project, inspired by a true story, comes from The Enemy Within writer-producer Tony Camerino, an 18-year veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Reserves; Royal Pains creator Andrew Lenchewski; and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Written by Lenchewski and Camerino, Stateside centers on a fearless Special Ops veteran who returns from Iraq to his job as a Massachusetts State Trooper, and is shocked to find his hometown in even worse shape than the war-torn village he spent the past year rebuilding. Gangbangers are rolling through the streets, Ak-47s slung over their shoulders, dealing drugs with impunity. He boldly decides to take the lessons learned in battle and apply them on the streets of an American city.
Written by Lenchewski and Camerino, Stateside centers on a fearless Special Ops veteran who returns from Iraq to his job as a Massachusetts State Trooper, and is shocked to find his hometown in even worse shape than the war-torn village he spent the past year rebuilding. Gangbangers are rolling through the streets, Ak-47s slung over their shoulders, dealing drugs with impunity. He boldly decides to take the lessons learned in battle and apply them on the streets of an American city.
- 11/12/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CBS has put in development dramas Near Death, from writer Chase creator Jennifer Johnson, and St. Bernie’s, from Instinct creator Michael Rauch. Both hail from producer Glenn Geller and CBS Television Studios.
Written by Johnson, in Near Death, following a horrible accident, a young woman’s near-death experience leads to inexplicable visions that prove surprisingly useful in helping her detective father solve crimes, and may also reveal dark secrets that threaten to permanently fracture their family.
Johnson executive produces with Geller and DeVon Franklin (Breakthrough).
Written by Rauch, St. Bernies revolves around an idealistic but immature doctor, who, when a small town’s hospital is forced to close, leads a determined group of locals who co-opt a diner-turned-veterinarian clinic into a medical practice to deliver much-needed care to their community.
Rauch, who has been under an overall deal at CBS TV Studios, and Geller executive produce.
Near Death and St.
Written by Johnson, in Near Death, following a horrible accident, a young woman’s near-death experience leads to inexplicable visions that prove surprisingly useful in helping her detective father solve crimes, and may also reveal dark secrets that threaten to permanently fracture their family.
Johnson executive produces with Geller and DeVon Franklin (Breakthrough).
Written by Rauch, St. Bernies revolves around an idealistic but immature doctor, who, when a small town’s hospital is forced to close, leads a determined group of locals who co-opt a diner-turned-veterinarian clinic into a medical practice to deliver much-needed care to their community.
Rauch, who has been under an overall deal at CBS TV Studios, and Geller executive produce.
Near Death and St.
- 11/6/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has bought for development Family Emergency, a sibling/medical drama from Instinct developer/executive producer Michael Rauch, Jane the Virgin and Charmed’s Jennie Snyder Urman and CBS TV Studios where Rauch and Urman are based.
Written by Rauch, Family Emergency revolves around three sisters who often clash but always have each other’s backs work together in a busy ER, saving patients’ lives while navigating the complications of love, medicine and family.
Rauch executive produces with Urman and Joanna Klein.
CBS is the only Big 4 broadcast network without a medical drama currently on the air following the cancellation of Code Black. The network is looking to get back in the medical procedural game with Family Emergency and two other dramas in development, MD-1 and Nurses.
Rauch wrote the pilot for and executive produces CBS’ crime drama series Instinct starring Alan Cumming, which is set to return for a second season later this season.
Written by Rauch, Family Emergency revolves around three sisters who often clash but always have each other’s backs work together in a busy ER, saving patients’ lives while navigating the complications of love, medicine and family.
Rauch executive produces with Urman and Joanna Klein.
CBS is the only Big 4 broadcast network without a medical drama currently on the air following the cancellation of Code Black. The network is looking to get back in the medical procedural game with Family Emergency and two other dramas in development, MD-1 and Nurses.
Rauch wrote the pilot for and executive produces CBS’ crime drama series Instinct starring Alan Cumming, which is set to return for a second season later this season.
- 11/16/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The Felicity love triangle is now complete: Scott Foley — who played the titular heroine’s R.A./boyfriend Noel — will attend the WB college drama’s reunion panel at this year’s Atx Festival, EW.com reports.
The actor joins fellow participants/series stars Keri Russell (Felicity), Scott Speedman (Ben), Tangi Miller (Elena), Amanda Foreman (Meghan), Amy Jo Johnson (Julie) and Ian Gomez (Javier). Director/producer Lawrence Trilling will also be in attendance.
The Atx Festival takes place June 7-10 in Austin, Texas.
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* Queer Eye will return for Season 2 on Friday,...
The actor joins fellow participants/series stars Keri Russell (Felicity), Scott Speedman (Ben), Tangi Miller (Elena), Amanda Foreman (Meghan), Amy Jo Johnson (Julie) and Ian Gomez (Javier). Director/producer Lawrence Trilling will also be in attendance.
The Atx Festival takes place June 7-10 in Austin, Texas.
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* Queer Eye will return for Season 2 on Friday,...
- 5/25/2018
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: FX is developing Run, a female-driven drama inspired by the political career of retired U.S Sen. Barbara Boxer. The project comes from Boxer and her daughter, documentary producer Nicole Boxer; Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski; and Nina Tassler and Denise DeNovi’s recently launched PatMa Productions.
Written by Lenchewski, Run centers on a woman launching a highly improbable bid for Congress.
Lenchewski executive produces with Barbara Boxer and Nicole Boxer, along with Tassler and Dinovi via PatMa and Chuck Ortner.
The project will draw inspiration from Boxer’s experiences in Congress, where she served 34 years representing the state of California — 10 years in the House of Representatives and 24 years in the Senate. She was elected to the Senate in 1992, dubbed the “Year of the Woman,” topping an all-male field of rivals, and made big inroads into the male-dominated institution. In her 2004 re-election, she set the record for the most...
Written by Lenchewski, Run centers on a woman launching a highly improbable bid for Congress.
Lenchewski executive produces with Barbara Boxer and Nicole Boxer, along with Tassler and Dinovi via PatMa and Chuck Ortner.
The project will draw inspiration from Boxer’s experiences in Congress, where she served 34 years representing the state of California — 10 years in the House of Representatives and 24 years in the Senate. She was elected to the Senate in 1992, dubbed the “Year of the Woman,” topping an all-male field of rivals, and made big inroads into the male-dominated institution. In her 2004 re-election, she set the record for the most...
- 5/25/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
USA Network has made a decision on its last outstanding pilot, passing on period drama The Tap, from Rob Reiner and Andrew Lenchewski. The project, originally set up at USA in 2014 and ordered to pilot in 2016, was set at the most famous secret society in American college history, Yale's Skull and Bones. It took place around 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution — a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and…...
- 6/20/2017
- Deadline TV
Milo Ventimiglia, one of the stars of the breakout new NBC/20th TV drama This Is Us, has teamed with Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski for Kin, a 20th TV-produced drama project which has been set up at Fox with script commitment plus penalty. This marks the first professional collaboration for Ventimiglia and Lenchewski who have been friends for two decades, dating back to their time as students at UCLA. Kin hails from Divide Pictures, Ventimiglia’s production…...
- 10/13/2016
- Deadline TV
Variety reports Colin Woodell has been cast as Jay Butler in The Tap TV show pilot for USA Network. Erinn Westbrook is set as Gloria Murphy, one of the first female students at Yale, and one of the few African Americans.Additionally, Ginny Gardner has been cast as Michelle Cuttriss, who is also part of the "historic, inaugural female class." David Corenswet will play Kirk Lewis, a Skull and Bones legacy. Simon Cellan Jones is directing the pilot, from writers and EPs Andrew Lenchewski and Aaron Tracy. Rob Reiner, Alan Greisman, and Charlie Ebersol are also executive producing.Read More…...
- 9/6/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Hallelujah! American Gods has found its Jesus.
Lost alum Jeremy Davies will play the son of God on Starz’ adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel, EW.com reports.
PhotosAmerican Gods: First Look of Kristin Chenoweth as Easter
The drama, airing in 2017, follows a brewing war between the old and new gods; the old crew feels upstaged by the newbies, who reflect modern society’s obsession with money, drugs, celebrities, etc. The 100′s Ricky Whittle stars as Shadow, an ex-con who becomes the bodyguard of Mr. Wednesday (Deadwood‘s Ian McShane), an old god who seeks to build...
Lost alum Jeremy Davies will play the son of God on Starz’ adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel, EW.com reports.
PhotosAmerican Gods: First Look of Kristin Chenoweth as Easter
The drama, airing in 2017, follows a brewing war between the old and new gods; the old crew feels upstaged by the newbies, who reflect modern society’s obsession with money, drugs, celebrities, etc. The 100′s Ricky Whittle stars as Shadow, an ex-con who becomes the bodyguard of Mr. Wednesday (Deadwood‘s Ian McShane), an old god who seeks to build...
- 9/1/2016
- TVLine.com
USA Network’s The Tap drama pilot from Rob Reiner and Royal Pains co-creator/executive producer Andrew Lenchewski, has set its cast and hired Simon Cellan Jones (Boardwalk Empire) to direct. Colin Woodell, Erinn Westbrook, Ginny Gardner and David Corenswet will play the lead roles. Written by Lenchewski and Aaron Tracy (Sequestered), The Tap is set at the most famous secret society in American college history, Yale's Skull and Bones. The drama takes place around 1969…...
- 8/31/2016
- Deadline TV
Empire star Taraji P. Henson will take on a different type of empire for The Simpsons’ first-ever one-hour episode.
RelatedNew Girl-Brooklyn Nine-Nine Crossover Event Set for Fall on Fox
The special installment, airing January 2017, finds Mr. Burns seeking revenge on a music producer with the help of Homer, Bart, the mogul’s ex-wife, Cookie Praline (voiced by Henson), and rapper Jazzy James (Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key).
The Simpsons returns for Season 28 on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 8/7c on Fox.
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The special installment, airing January 2017, finds Mr. Burns seeking revenge on a music producer with the help of Homer, Bart, the mogul’s ex-wife, Cookie Praline (voiced by Henson), and rapper Jazzy James (Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key).
The Simpsons returns for Season 28 on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 8/7c on Fox.
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- 8/8/2016
- TVLine.com
USA Network has given a pilot order to The Tap, an hourlong period drama from Rob Reiner and Royal Pains co-creator/executive producer Andrew Lenchewski set at the most famous secret society in American college history, Yale’s Skull and Bones. Written by Lenchewski and Aaron Tracy (Sequestered), The Tap was originally set up at USA in 2014 as a spy thriller, involving the CIA installing a mole in Skull and Bones. The Tap, as greenlighted to pilot by USA, takes place at…...
- 8/8/2016
- Deadline TV
Royal Pains aired its series finale last night. Recently, executive producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch spoke with Deadline about the end of the USA Network series.The light drama centered on Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein), a former ER doctor who becomes a concierge physician in the Hamptons. The cast also included Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Brooke D’Orsay, Campbell Scott, Ben Shenkman, and Henry Winkler.Read More…...
- 7/8/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
There is no doubt that television has changed in the eight seasons Royal Pains has been on the air.
Since it's one of the last truly inspiring shows on television with characters you'd really like to know, we talked not only about how Hank and Evan's relationship changed over the course of the series, but what it means that we're losing Royal Pains at a time when darkness is so prevalent on TV.
Take a few minutes and say goodbye to creator Andrew Lenchewski, executive producer Michael Rauch and stars Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Ben Shenkman and Henry Winkler when you watch the videos below.
Then watch the Royal Pains Season 8 Episode 8 tonight and be back here at TV Fanatic for one final review!
1. Royal Pains - A Tale of Two Brothers Paulo Costanzo and Mark Feuerstein talk about playing Evan R. Lawson and Hank Lawson over 8 seasons...
Since it's one of the last truly inspiring shows on television with characters you'd really like to know, we talked not only about how Hank and Evan's relationship changed over the course of the series, but what it means that we're losing Royal Pains at a time when darkness is so prevalent on TV.
Take a few minutes and say goodbye to creator Andrew Lenchewski, executive producer Michael Rauch and stars Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Ben Shenkman and Henry Winkler when you watch the videos below.
Then watch the Royal Pains Season 8 Episode 8 tonight and be back here at TV Fanatic for one final review!
1. Royal Pains - A Tale of Two Brothers Paulo Costanzo and Mark Feuerstein talk about playing Evan R. Lawson and Hank Lawson over 8 seasons...
- 7/6/2016
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
The Atx Festival, in case you don't know about it, is a festival for television lovers.
In its fifth year, the festival brings together all kinds of programming, including that which you don't often find at big showcases like ComicCons.
It's not the first time Royal Pains has been featured at the Atx Festival, but it may have been their last (then again, canceled series are never forgotten at Atx!), because it's going off the air. After tonight's episode there will be only two more to go!!
I had the chance to sit down with this TV family to talk about the show and what it's meant to them along the way. The clips below are about that. Next week, I'll have more as we talked a bit about what Royal Pains has meant to us as fans of the show, and the tight relationship between Hank and Evan, as well as Mark and Paulo,...
In its fifth year, the festival brings together all kinds of programming, including that which you don't often find at big showcases like ComicCons.
It's not the first time Royal Pains has been featured at the Atx Festival, but it may have been their last (then again, canceled series are never forgotten at Atx!), because it's going off the air. After tonight's episode there will be only two more to go!!
I had the chance to sit down with this TV family to talk about the show and what it's meant to them along the way. The clips below are about that. Next week, I'll have more as we talked a bit about what Royal Pains has meant to us as fans of the show, and the tight relationship between Hank and Evan, as well as Mark and Paulo,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Although newer USA Network series like Mr. Robot have grabbed more of the spotlight over the years, Royal Pains has steadily been a tried-and-true audience favorite for the channel. The drama series begins its eighth and final season this month. “It’s with great sadness, but even greater thankfulness, that we prepare for our final summer sunsets as Royal Pains comes to an end,” said co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski and executive producer Michael Rauch in a release. USA says that the final season, along with featuring the show’s 100th episode midway through, will explore pivotal life decisions for everyone … Continue reading →
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- 5/18/2016
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
The doctors are out.
Royal Pains‘ upcoming eighth season will be its last, USA Network announced Thursday. The Hamptons-set drama’s eight-episode farewell season will kick off Wednesday, May 18 at 10/9c.
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“It’s with great sadness, but even greater thankfulness, that we prepare for our final summer sunsets, as Royal Pains comes to an end,” said exec producer/series creator Andrew Lenchewski and fellow Ep Michael Rauch in a statement. “We want to thank our [entire] network and studio family for tirelessly supporting us over eight magical seasons,...
Royal Pains‘ upcoming eighth season will be its last, USA Network announced Thursday. The Hamptons-set drama’s eight-episode farewell season will kick off Wednesday, May 18 at 10/9c.
RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard 2016: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?
“It’s with great sadness, but even greater thankfulness, that we prepare for our final summer sunsets, as Royal Pains comes to an end,” said exec producer/series creator Andrew Lenchewski and fellow Ep Michael Rauch in a statement. “We want to thank our [entire] network and studio family for tirelessly supporting us over eight magical seasons,...
- 3/10/2016
- TVLine.com
It has been no secret that USA’s long-running medical drama Royal Pains — the last of the network’s blue-skies procedural brand — was closing out its run with the upcoming eight-episode eighth season. The network has now made it official, setting a premiere date and releasing the first promo for the final chapter. (You can watch it above). The summer series, from creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski and executive producer Michael Rauch, will launch its eighth…...
- 3/10/2016
- Deadline TV
Fox has put in development The Diplomats, a drama project from Royal Pains co-creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Andrew Lenchewski and producer Will Packer (Ride Along, Straight Outta Compton). Created and written by Lenchewski, The Diplomats — like Royal Pains — has a buddy element at the center. It revolves around two female State Department agents who are assigned to work together on a major diplomatic crisis, but the fate of the world might rest on whether these…...
- 11/4/2015
- Deadline TV
While it is currently enjoying the success of shows such as the long-running Suits, the second-season renewal Sirens, and the brand new Dig, USA Network has now announced its 2015/2015 development slate, and it contains nine new scripted dramas to get excited about.
Backed by big names – including Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Len Wiseman, Barry Sonnenfeld and Charlize Theron – these fledgling projects indicate a major push forward in original programming for the channel, and a major shift into television for high profile filmmakers.
Paradise Pictures: From the team that delivered Suits (Aaron Korsh, Rick Muirragui), this period drama is set in 1940s Hollywood and follows the fortunes of those trying to make it to the top of the entertainment industry tree, against a backdrop of blacklists, the rise of television, and the fall of studio monopolies.
Starchitects: An episodic drama exploring the workplace pressures at a top-level Los Angeles architecture firm.
Backed by big names – including Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Len Wiseman, Barry Sonnenfeld and Charlize Theron – these fledgling projects indicate a major push forward in original programming for the channel, and a major shift into television for high profile filmmakers.
Paradise Pictures: From the team that delivered Suits (Aaron Korsh, Rick Muirragui), this period drama is set in 1940s Hollywood and follows the fortunes of those trying to make it to the top of the entertainment industry tree, against a backdrop of blacklists, the rise of television, and the fall of studio monopolies.
Starchitects: An episodic drama exploring the workplace pressures at a top-level Los Angeles architecture firm.
- 4/8/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The man who created Supernatural has turned his attention to a superhero.
Eric Kripke’s Amped, a drama that follows a neurotic man who takes a pill and becomes incredibly strong and powerful, is one of several projects on USA Network‘s 2015-2016 development slate.
Kripke will pen both the Vertigo comic book on which Amped is based and the series itself, which he’ll also executive-produce.
Related Cable Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Other potential series the cable channel announced Tuesday include:
* The Tap, a 1969-set spy thriller set at Yale University,...
Eric Kripke’s Amped, a drama that follows a neurotic man who takes a pill and becomes incredibly strong and powerful, is one of several projects on USA Network‘s 2015-2016 development slate.
Kripke will pen both the Vertigo comic book on which Amped is based and the series itself, which he’ll also executive-produce.
Related Cable Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Other potential series the cable channel announced Tuesday include:
* The Tap, a 1969-set spy thriller set at Yale University,...
- 4/7/2015
- TVLine.com
Boris' move to buy Hamptons Heritage and invite the entire HankMed team to be on the board of directors may have caught Royal Pains fans by surprise, but behind the scenes, it was a long time coming.
"This was a twist that we initially planned to put in last season's finale. It didn't quite feel like the right time to do it, but we loved the idea," co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski tells TVGuide.com. "We loved that it could really be a satisfying payoff for everything that Boris and Hank have been going through together, and we also loved that it could really platform a lot of great things to come with Boris at the helm of Hamptons Heritage."
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"This was a twist that we initially planned to put in last season's finale. It didn't quite feel like the right time to do it, but we loved the idea," co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski tells TVGuide.com. "We loved that it could really be a satisfying payoff for everything that Boris and Hank have been going through together, and we also loved that it could really platform a lot of great things to come with Boris at the helm of Hamptons Heritage."
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- 9/1/2014
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The Leftovers
HBO has announced that it has renewed Damon Lindelof's drama series "The Leftovers" for a second season.
Though debuting to just 1.7 million viewers who watched the premiere live in June, the series has pulled its biggest ratings from time-shifting, encores and streaming and now grabs nearly eight million weekly viewers once all platforms are taken into account. [Source: The Live Feed]
Game of Thrones
One more obvious difference between George R.R. Martin's books and HBO's TV adaptation "Game of Thrones" is that the latter on occasion delivers some gay sex involving characters only suggested as gay in the books. Martin himself recently explained why he never wrote any gay sex into the novels:
"Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books. A television show doesn't have those limitations. Will that change? It might. I've had letters from fans who...
HBO has announced that it has renewed Damon Lindelof's drama series "The Leftovers" for a second season.
Though debuting to just 1.7 million viewers who watched the premiere live in June, the series has pulled its biggest ratings from time-shifting, encores and streaming and now grabs nearly eight million weekly viewers once all platforms are taken into account. [Source: The Live Feed]
Game of Thrones
One more obvious difference between George R.R. Martin's books and HBO's TV adaptation "Game of Thrones" is that the latter on occasion delivers some gay sex involving characters only suggested as gay in the books. Martin himself recently explained why he never wrote any gay sex into the novels:
"Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books. A television show doesn't have those limitations. Will that change? It might. I've had letters from fans who...
- 8/13/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is fielding another single-camera comedy project at ABC, this time inspired by her own parenting experience. The network has put in development Raising Mom, from Vergara and Luis Balaguer’s Latin World Entertainment, Electus and ABC Studios. Gail Mancuso, hot off her Emmy directing win for Modern Family, is on board to helm. Written by Christine Zander (Raising Hope), Raising Mom is inspired by Vergara’s experiences raising her son and follows a young single mom and her 21-year-old son who discover that they have done a pretty good job of raising each other, only now they decide it might be time to gain some independence. The idea for the show was conceived by Balaguer from observing Vergara’s relationship with her son during the more than 20 years he has been producing partners with the Colombian-born actress. (A pic of her and her son...
- 10/4/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Sofia Vergara and Luis Balaguer’s Latin World Entertainment and Ben Silverman’s Electus have teamed with Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski and writer Benjamin Brand for Speak American, a half-hour comedy that has been sold to Fox. Universal Cable Prods, where Lenchewski is under an overall deal, is producing. Written by Brand (IFC’s Bollywood Hero), Speak American centers on America Aviles, a young accent-reduction teacher of Latin descent who hires a stranger with unconventional methods to teach her class. Brand and Lenchewski originally developed Speak American at USA with the lead of European heritage. The two then changed direction and approached Silverman and Modern Family star Vergara, who have extensive experience in Latino-themed projects. Silverman executive produced ABC’s Ugly Betty, based on a Colombian telenovela, and he and Vergara executive produce ABC’s upcoming drama Killer Women, based on an Argentine series. They also have partnered on their premium YouTube channel,...
- 9/21/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Pills! Pregnancy! Politics! It's been a surprisingly intense season for the Hamptons' top concierge medical team on Royal Pains, and no one is more aware than the show's executive producers. "It was a very challenging prospect to deal with creatively and figuring out how to tell the story ... because we wanted to continue to show the chinks in the Hank armor and in a way that still protected the character and still protected the tone of the show," co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski tells TVGuide.com. "Hopefully when the audience sees how this all turns out in terms of the character, they'll understand why we told the story we told."
After overcoming the rough waters of Hank's addiction and Evan's first-ever political campaign, where does HankMed & Co. go from here? Ahead of...
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- 9/11/2013
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
On the USA Network primetime show "Royal Pains," actor Mark Feuerstein plays Hank Lawson, a physician who treats well-heeled denizens of the Hamptons, the ritzy beach community on New York's Long Island. But three years ago, he was just a worried father of a very sick little girl.
Feuerstein's daughter Adelaide, now 3, was born with a congenital defect that put her in intensive care at Children's Hospital Los Angeles for almost three months, where she had two open-heart surgeries. The cost of her treatments came to more than $1 million. Feuerstein and his wife Dana Klein, a TV producer and writer who worked on "Friends," have the means to pay for such expensive care, but the ordeal gave them a new perspective on the plight of of the uninsured.
"The reality that there are families all over this country who are discovering heart defects and any other kind of disease or...
Feuerstein's daughter Adelaide, now 3, was born with a congenital defect that put her in intensive care at Children's Hospital Los Angeles for almost three months, where she had two open-heart surgeries. The cost of her treatments came to more than $1 million. Feuerstein and his wife Dana Klein, a TV producer and writer who worked on "Friends," have the means to pay for such expensive care, but the ordeal gave them a new perspective on the plight of of the uninsured.
"The reality that there are families all over this country who are discovering heart defects and any other kind of disease or...
- 7/26/2013
- by Jeffrey Young
- Huffington Post
President Obama drew some major Hollywood star power to help drum up for support of his Obamacare health care exchanges on Monday – including Jennifer Hudson, Amy Poehler and former White House special advisor Kal Penn. YouTube's Daniel Kellison and Royal Pains creator Andrew Lenchewski were also on hand, while Funny or Die production president Mike Farah said he'd start looking at scripts for videos to feature on his site. Farah said he would enlist both Fod vets and newcomers to produce videos by September to support the Affordable Health Act program,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Ira Teinowitz
- The Wrap
A group of Hollywood artists, actors, musicians, writers and producers met with President Barack Obama and top White House staff Monday to offer their help informing young people about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Jennifer Hudson, Kal Penn, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Funny or Die's Mike Farah, The Talk co-host Aisha Tyler, Jash and YouTube Comedy producer Daniel Kellison, Royal Pains creator Andrew Lenchewski, and singer Jason Derulo attended the meeting, according to administration officials. Also in attendance were representatives for Oprah Winfrey, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Naras, and The Latin Recording Academy. Related: Hollywood Braces for the
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- 7/22/2013
- by Tina Daunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s that time of year - and I’m not talking about the upcoming July Fourth weekend.
Comic-Con 2013 kicks off on July 18th in San Diego and while we’ve been keeping you updated on the schedules of the various networks (such as MTV) and studios (such as Warner Bros.), you’ll already want to bookmark TV Fanatic because we’ll be covering as much of the Con as we can.
In the meantime, I’m emptying out this week’s Notebook with Noah Wyle telling me about this Sunday’s high-stakes Falling Skies episode; Lamorne Morris’s hope for New Girl Season 3; and whether Royal Pains is going to go dark soon.
New Girl Though the hit Fox sitcom’s third season hasn’t started filming yet, Morris filled me in at the recent Atx TV Festival on what he’d like to see with Winston, even pitching...
Comic-Con 2013 kicks off on July 18th in San Diego and while we’ve been keeping you updated on the schedules of the various networks (such as MTV) and studios (such as Warner Bros.), you’ll already want to bookmark TV Fanatic because we’ll be covering as much of the Con as we can.
In the meantime, I’m emptying out this week’s Notebook with Noah Wyle telling me about this Sunday’s high-stakes Falling Skies episode; Lamorne Morris’s hope for New Girl Season 3; and whether Royal Pains is going to go dark soon.
New Girl Though the hit Fox sitcom’s third season hasn’t started filming yet, Morris filled me in at the recent Atx TV Festival on what he’d like to see with Winston, even pitching...
- 6/28/2013
- by jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
- TVfanatic
In the battle of old money vs. new money, who will win?
On the Royal Pains premiere, Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo) met Hamptonite Blythe Ballard (Frances Conroy), who went from a new patient to their biggest adversary yet. Before the Lawsons knew it, Blythe was presenting them with a cease-and-desist letter, ordering HankMed to stop practicing in the Hamptons immediately. But the brothers are never ones to stay quiet. With Hank dealing with his own issues stemming from his brain surgery, Evan will take it upon himself to wage war.
Royal Pains bosses, cast spill on the season premiere shocker
"One of the big arcs for the season, both narratively and emotionally, is Evan finally confronting this outsider status that he's always felt since he got [to the Hamptons], creator Andrew Lenchewski tells TVGuide.com. "Blythe ... represents everything he's always felt rejected by — the old Hamptons guard, old money, the...
On the Royal Pains premiere, Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo) met Hamptonite Blythe Ballard (Frances Conroy), who went from a new patient to their biggest adversary yet. Before the Lawsons knew it, Blythe was presenting them with a cease-and-desist letter, ordering HankMed to stop practicing in the Hamptons immediately. But the brothers are never ones to stay quiet. With Hank dealing with his own issues stemming from his brain surgery, Evan will take it upon himself to wage war.
Royal Pains bosses, cast spill on the season premiere shocker
"One of the big arcs for the season, both narratively and emotionally, is Evan finally confronting this outsider status that he's always felt since he got [to the Hamptons], creator Andrew Lenchewski tells TVGuide.com. "Blythe ... represents everything he's always felt rejected by — the old Hamptons guard, old money, the...
- 6/18/2013
- by Robyn Ross
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The Season 5 premiere of USA Network’s Royal Pains last night was watched by 3.682 million viewers. That’s down from the 3.95 million total viewers who tuned in for the Season 4 debut of the Hamptons-based medical drama back on June 6, 2012. The show was also down among the key demos too. Last night’s Royal Pains drew 901,000 viewers among Adults 18-49, down from the 1.24 million that Season 4′s opener garnered. The show pulled in 1.07 million viewers from the Adults 25-54 demo. That was down from the 1.44 million that its Season 4 debut had. Having said that, last night’s debut was the top show in basic cable in overall viewership. Besides returning for another cycle, last night also saw Frances Conroy join stars Mark Feuerstein and Paulo Costanzo in the cast of Royal Pains as a suspicious socialite. Royal Pains was renewed for a sixth season last September. The series’ executive producers and...
- 6/13/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
While USA’s Royal Pains occasionally will delve on the darker side of things (the explosion supposedly killing Boris last season, for example), the long-running series also possesses a strong funny bone with banter and outlandish situations involving its cast of characters.
This past weekend I saw firsthand where those elements come from by sitting down with stars Mark Feuerstein and Reshma Shetty, along with Executive Producers Michael Rauch and Andrew Lenchewski, at last weekend’s Atx Television Festival.
As is seen weekly in the show, the group clearly likes to have fun with each other - but they also take their jobs seriously in talking about what’s to come in tonight’s Royal Pains Season 5 premiere. Read on for an exclusive preview...
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TV Fanatic: Does it change the creative process at all knowing that you have a lot more story ahead of you with the two-season renewal?...
This past weekend I saw firsthand where those elements come from by sitting down with stars Mark Feuerstein and Reshma Shetty, along with Executive Producers Michael Rauch and Andrew Lenchewski, at last weekend’s Atx Television Festival.
As is seen weekly in the show, the group clearly likes to have fun with each other - but they also take their jobs seriously in talking about what’s to come in tonight’s Royal Pains Season 5 premiere. Read on for an exclusive preview...
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TV Fanatic: Does it change the creative process at all knowing that you have a lot more story ahead of you with the two-season renewal?...
- 6/12/2013
- by jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
- TVfanatic
Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein will debut the USA dramedy's Season 5 premiere at the second annual Atx Television Festival, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
"I love television, I love Austin, and I love that we're going to show you the premiere of Season 5 of Royal Pains," Feuerstein says in the video below.
Royal Pains Exclusive Video: Get your first look at Season 5
Joining the actor will be co-star Reshma Shetty and executive producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch.
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"I love television, I love Austin, and I love that we're going to show you the premiere of Season 5 of Royal Pains," Feuerstein says in the video below.
Royal Pains Exclusive Video: Get your first look at Season 5
Joining the actor will be co-star Reshma Shetty and executive producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch.
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- 5/15/2013
- by TV Guide News
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Exclusive: As production on the fifth season of USA Network hit Royal Pains begins, the series’ executive producers and showrunners Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch have renewed their individual overall deals with the studio behind it, Universal Cable Prods. Under the pacts, Lenchewski and Rauch will continue to oversee the series starring Mark Feuerstein. Additionally, Rauch and Lenchewski each have projects in development at USA. Rauch will executive produce a family drama, written and co-executive produced by Ken Lin, following two brothers (one an ex-con, the other a small-town cop) who inherit their failing family business and turn it into a multibillion-dollar cult pyramid scheme. As they reunite and re-tie family bonds, they navigate the dangers inherent in selling the most addictive, seductive, and volatile substance in the world: hope. Lenchewski will executive produce and write drama American Confidential, in which a principled Secret Service agent is forced by the...
- 3/26/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Royal Pains, which stars Mark Feuerstein as the go-to Hamptons “doctor for hire”, has cast Frances Conroy (American Horror Story, Six Feet Under) in a multi-episode story arc for Season 5 of the USA Network series. She will star as Blythe Ballard, a member of the Hamptons “royalty” who lives in the estate next to Hank (Feuerstein) and Evan’s (Paulo Costanzo) residence, Shadow Pond. Also cast are Callum Blue (Smallville, The Tudors) in a recurring role and Stephen Bishop (Moneyball), Kevin Kilner (House Of Cards), and Liza Lapira (Don’t Trust the B— In Apartment 23) in guest-starring roles. Ben Shenkman has been upped to regular for the show’s 13-episode fifth season, which is set to premiere in the summer. Season 5 production began last week. It moves to Savannah, Ga, then internationally before returning to its Brooklyn and Long Island home base. The Universal Cable Prods-produced series is written...
- 3/26/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Just because the characters of "Royal Pains" typically are seen at play in the Hamptons in the summer, that doesn't mean they don't celebrate the end-of-year holidays, too.
USA Network confirms it by giving the series -- which wrapped its fourth round a few months ago -- a new, stand-alone offering with "Off-Season Greetings" Sunday, Dec. 16. The two-hour movie both advances the saga and goes back in time with it, as doctor-to-the-rich Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) recalls his earlier romances while his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) prepares to walk down the aisle with fiancee Paige (Brooke D'Orsay).
"It's directed by one of our executive producers, Michael Rauch," the friendly Feuerstein tells Zap2it, "and no one knows the DNA of the show more than him ... other than our other executive producer, Andrew Lenchewski. The two of them have built such an efficient and creative machine, and the show has gone in so many interesting directions.
USA Network confirms it by giving the series -- which wrapped its fourth round a few months ago -- a new, stand-alone offering with "Off-Season Greetings" Sunday, Dec. 16. The two-hour movie both advances the saga and goes back in time with it, as doctor-to-the-rich Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) recalls his earlier romances while his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) prepares to walk down the aisle with fiancee Paige (Brooke D'Orsay).
"It's directed by one of our executive producers, Michael Rauch," the friendly Feuerstein tells Zap2it, "and no one knows the DNA of the show more than him ... other than our other executive producer, Andrew Lenchewski. The two of them have built such an efficient and creative machine, and the show has gone in so many interesting directions.
- 12/16/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Dust off your cufflinks and put on your best dancing shoes, because Royal Pains' Evan (Paulo Costanzo) and Paige (Brooke D'Orsay) are getting hitched! "When we first wrote Paige Collins into the show, we never foresaw that it would end up the way that it did," executive producer Michael Rauch tells TVGuide.com of the special two-hour movie, airing Sunday at 9/8c on USA. "The more we told the story with them together, the more we realized this was the love story of the series so far." So what's in store for the couple on their big day? We talked to Rauch and co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski about what to expect...
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- 12/15/2012
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
White Collar, Royal Pains and Covert Affairs have all been renewed by USA. Deadline reports that Royal Pains created by Andrew Lenchewski and John P. Rogers, has landed 26 episodes over two seasons (season five and six). Covert Affairs created by Chris Ord and Matt Corman, starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham and Kari Matchett, has added 16 episodes as has White Collar lead by Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay. USA's co-presidents Jeff Wachtel and Chris McCumber said that “In an increasingly competitive landscape, these series got new season pickups the old-fashioned way – they earned it."...
- 9/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
White Collar, Royal Pains and Covert Affairs have all been renewed by USA. Deadline reports that Royal Pains created by Andrew Lenchewski and John P. Rogers, has landed 26 episodes over two seasons (season five and six). Covert Affairs created by Chris Ord and Matt Corman, starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham and Kari Matchett, has added 16 episodes as has White Collar lead by Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay. USA's co-presidents Jeff Wachtel and Chris McCumber said that “In an increasingly competitive landscape, these series got new season pickups the old-fashioned way – they earned it."...
- 9/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper -- someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.
Recently, I've been given two different credits on Royal Pains. I'd like to clarify just how much genuine credit is due me!
Producer: Mark Feuerstein
Uh, yeah, not sooo much. If my producer hat were shot off my head by a bunch of resentful line-producers tomorrow, the show would get produced perfectly without a scratch. I have definitely had a hand in helping to cast a bunch of roles on our show, and I certainly keep things positive and upbeat on set, but it's not like I'm on the phone all-day, like our Upm, Kathy Ciric who...
Recently, I've been given two different credits on Royal Pains. I'd like to clarify just how much genuine credit is due me!
Producer: Mark Feuerstein
Uh, yeah, not sooo much. If my producer hat were shot off my head by a bunch of resentful line-producers tomorrow, the show would get produced perfectly without a scratch. I have definitely had a hand in helping to cast a bunch of roles on our show, and I certainly keep things positive and upbeat on set, but it's not like I'm on the phone all-day, like our Upm, Kathy Ciric who...
- 8/1/2012
- by Mark Feuerstein
- Aol TV.
Exclusive: USA Network is expanding its relationship with the creators of two of its most successful series. The cable network has put in development a drama executive produced by Psych creator Steve Franks and a half-hour comedy executive produced by Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski. Both projects hail from Universal Cable Prods where Franks and Lenchewski are under overall deals. Franks will supervise writers Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Terra Nova), who will write and co-executive produce the drama about a brother and sister who take over the family’s successful investment firm after the untimely death of their parents, only to discover that the business isn’t quite what it seems. Franks will executive produce with Chris Henze and Kelly Kulchak of Tagline Television, which has a first-look development deal with Ucp. Tagline, whose sister company Thruline manages Franks, also produces Psych, which is in production on its seventh season.
- 7/27/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Following last week's Royal Pains episode, all fans of this fun USA series have just one question: Have we seen the last of Jill Flint as Jill Casey?
In an interview with TV Guide, Executive Producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch touched on this topic, explaining why they sent Jill to Africa and what it will mean going forward.
"I think we felt we were at the point where we really owed the audience some definitive answer to that storyline," Lenchewski said. "This is a show that is about these characters trying to find themselves and chase dreams and passions. Her passion had always been to create some kind of community clinic and [she] had struggled with really creating something of her own in the Hamptons."
Complimenting Casey for handling news of her departure as well as possible, the producers also made a promise to fans. According to Rauch...
"I would...
In an interview with TV Guide, Executive Producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch touched on this topic, explaining why they sent Jill to Africa and what it will mean going forward.
"I think we felt we were at the point where we really owed the audience some definitive answer to that storyline," Lenchewski said. "This is a show that is about these characters trying to find themselves and chase dreams and passions. Her passion had always been to create some kind of community clinic and [she] had struggled with really creating something of her own in the Hamptons."
Complimenting Casey for handling news of her departure as well as possible, the producers also made a promise to fans. According to Rauch...
"I would...
- 6/27/2012
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
On last week's Royal Pains, Dr. Hank's longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend Jill Casey (Jill Flint) left the sunny beaches of The Hamptons for the rural jungles of Africa for good. Although this wasn't the first time Jill said goodbye (see: her trip to Uruguay, when she lost original job in Africa), don't expect to see her on the next return flight to New York come Wednesday's episode (9/8c on USA). Executive producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch talked with TVGuide.com about writing out one of the show's original stars, why Jill and Hank's romance had "run its course" and what's next for Hank's love life. Plus: Could Jill return...
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- 6/27/2012
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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