Paul Hauser, who participated on the pilot presentation of the Charles & Hines Project, has been kind enough to allow me share this picture of him, Nicollette and Paul Kaye on set last year.

Behind The Scenes

I had heard of the posibility of Nicollette’s pilot presentation for 2010/2011 season to be called Lee Mathers but I didn’t have real proof, until now.
I’ve been lucky enough to find exclusive information of the plot and characters (names, ages, etc) and now I can share it with all of you.

Lee Mathers was in the States trying to reconnect with his daughter, whom he hasn’t seen in 10 years, and is now a teen superstar alas Hannah Montana. All of his attempts are being filmed by his manager Denny, who wants to sell the footage to any interested network. Needless to say the girl’s mother is less than thriller to know her exlover wants to be back in their lives. Lee ends up finding a son he didn’t know he had, a 17-year-old boy named Keanu.
Lacey stars in a tv show called Carlee Marr – Superstar! His tv dad, Warren, is played by (character name) Kenny Nistor.

For more information, check the TV Series page of the site. And remember you read it here FIRST!

CBS has picked up just one midseason show for 2010-11 so far, but that may change in the next couple of weeks.

Nina Tassler, the president of CBS Entertainment, says that 12 of the 15 pilots it ordered tested well enough to go on the air. Given that and the fact that the network currently has no new comedies in reserve and only one drama — the “Criminal Minds” spinoff starring Forest Whitaker — more pickups could be on their way in the near future.

On the comedy side, “we have ‘Mad Love’ [starring Lizzy Caplan, Jason Biggs and Minka Kelly], ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ [from the 'How I Met Your Mother' team] — there are still a lot of [choices],” Tassler says. “I don’t mean to imply anything by omission, but I think we had a very strong development season. The objective goal was we needed to have a lot of options.”

For the record, the other comedy pilots CBS ordered this year were “Hitched,” “Team Spitz,” “Open Books” and an untitled project from “Bruno” co-writer Ant Hines and director Larry Charles.

Dramas that are reportedly still in play include a medical show executive produced by John Wells and “Chaos,” about CIA agents. Tassler says she and her team will make other decisions on midseason shows when they return to Los Angeles following the upfronts.?

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CBS just made public its fall schedule and the Ant Hines/Larry Charles Untitled Project didn’t make the cut of the new shows. I’ve heard rumors they might unveil more mid-season orders tomorrow but there’s no word of it on their official release.

You can see the full schedule over at Televisionary.

While I got this idea from Josh Henderson’s fans about his new pilot, I’ve been thinking about doing something like this ever since I hear about Nicollette’s new show. I should have started this before because in less than a month CBS will announce the new shows for the 2010/2011 season.

Unless the petition receives lots of support I’m not planning on sending it to CBS directly; the main idea is to create some buzz about the show in the internet and that it gets to their ears.

Please, sign and spread the word. We need Nicollette on our tvs every week again!

http://www.petitiononline.com/hines1/petition.html

Atomic Popcorn has decided to take a look on the pilots waiting to be picked that are not getting much press unlike Chase or Undercovers. Among the ones jyates is interested in it’s the Untitled Ant Hines Project.

However, I’m trying to look at the pilots picking daisies out in left field. So here it goes.  I’m intrigued by the Untitled Ant Hines project.

The project is pitched as a single camera sitcom centering on a British lowlife who moves to Los Angeles to reconnect with his celebrity daughter. Again, it might just be my love of the personal side to the entertainment industry. I mean I sat through Grosse Pointe. Hopefully Mitch Hurwitz, of Arrested Development fame, will be less self-indulgent than Darren Star and his show more hilarious.

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We get some more news about the pilot. It’s not Nicollette related but I’m trying to put together all the information available about the show.

Jason Mantzoukas (“I Hate Valentine’s Day“) and Matt Walsh (“Players“) have each landed roles on the comedy presentation, about a dad (Paul Kaye) who re-enters the life of his now-famous daughter. Details about their characters however weren’t specified. Nicollette Sheridan and Wayne Knight also star in the half-hour, which comes from writer Ant Hines and director Larry Charles. Sony Pictures Television-based Tantamount is producing.

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Zap2it announces Wayne Knight, known for his roles on Seinfield and Jurassic Park, has joined the cast of Nicollette’s new project.

CBS’ Ant Hines/Larry Charles comedy is saying “Hello, Newman” to Knight (“Seinfeld“), who’s joining Nicollette Sheridan in a show about a father who re-enters the life of his famous daughter.

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The news we all were waiting for! Now we need to pray for the pilot to be picked up.

Former “Desperate Housewives” star Nicollette Sheridan is set as the lead in a CBS comedy pilot headlined by Ant Hines, a longtime collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen.

Hines’ semi-scripted presentation, directed by Larry Charles (“Borat“), stars English actor Paul Kaye as a British lowlife moving to L.A. to reconnect with his daughter, a precocious teen superstar.

Returning to her Blighty roots, British born-and-raised Sheridan will play the girl’s outrageous stage mother and the deadbeat dad’s long-lost love.

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The article also talks about Neal getting a part on a new ABC series. Congratulations to the latest Mr. Britt