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I used to read Lee Child's Jack Reacher books when I traveled, burning through a paperback on a long flight. Post-pandemic, I don't find myself in planes that often anymore, but I need still need my regular fix of preposterous action, hard-boiled mystery, and glorious tough guy nonsense. So the world of Reacher, built around a hulking former U.S. Army cop who travels the country as a homeless drifter and solves crimes/snaps necks along the way, now lives in my ears. I've gone full audiobook. Child's famous "frictionless" prose is ideal gym listening -- you don't need to concentrate too hard when you're on the treadmill, as the plotting is designed to go down real easy. Jack Reacher books are written to be enjoyed effortlessly by a wide audience, after all. Even a listener who is struggling through mile three of that daily jog can enjoy every twist and turn.

The Outfit Review — The Outfit (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Graham Moore and written by Graham Moore and Johnathan McClain and starring Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, Johnny Flynn, Chiedu Agborh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell Beale and Alan Mehdizadeh. Mark Rylance stars in a role that definitely “suits” his talents in [...]

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So far, The Outfit has been very well received by critics and audiences, with its performance on the Rotten Tomatoes website currently at “90 fresh.” One of the things about the film that’s been winning praise is its script, co-written by director Graham Moore and Johnathan McClain. But that praise hasn’t come as a surprise […]

The post Zoey Deutch Has Been An ‘Outfit’ Fan For Ages appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

As Hollywood events return to full force in New York and Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings, including red carpets for WeCrashed, Pachinko, Life & Beth and Cheaper by the Dozen.

SXSW

The annual music, tech and film festival returned to Austin this year, kicking off on March 11 and running until March 20, with premieres of Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Lost City, Bodies Bodies Bodies, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, along with debuts of upcoming shows Dmz, Halo, Swimming with Sharks and The Girl From Plainville.

Pachinko Global Premiere Event

Apple TV+ hosted a starry premiere for its global series on Wednesday at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, where the cast, including Yuh-jung Youn, Lee Minho, Jin Ha, Minha Kim, Anna Sawai and Jimmi Simpson, was joined by guests Natalie Portman, Damon Lindelof, Ashley Park,...

This is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.

Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.

The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain. Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month. Deadline review here.

Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron,...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on March 17th, reviewing “The Outfit,” a new crime thriller noir set in Chicago, in theaters on March 18th.

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Mark Rylance is Leonard, a fabric cutter in 1956 Chicago. His front desk gal is Mable (Zoey Deutch) and his shop began with help from the neighborhood godfather Roy Boyle (Simon Russell Beale). He and his son Richie (Dylan O’Brien) is involved in a turf war with the Lafontaines, and they all want to get a hold of a hot tape recording that the FBI has that could send people to jail. Richie’s lieutenant is Francis (Johnny Flynn), a hot-headed henchman who has ambitions of his own. They all are about to clash regarding who knows what about that tape.

“The Outfit” is in theaters on March 18th. Featuring Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien,...

Graham Moore is, by his own admission, not a very good planner.

The jump from winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2014 drama “The Imitation Game” to making his directorial debut with a noir-inspired crime thriller was not part of some grand design to one day get behind the camera. In fact, Moore followed the “surreal and overwhelming” experience of winning an Academy Award with writing a book.

“There was a lot of attention, and I went home at the end of all that with a gold trophy,” Moore told TheWrap during a recent interview. “And that was pretty surreal and a bit overwhelming, and then it was nice to get to spend some time writing another novel. And I bounced around after that between novels and films.”

Indeed, Moore said he still spends half his life writing books and the other half making films, but as the story for “The Outfit” germinated,...

The key to a good mystery isn’t tricking the audience as much as it is entertaining them. The more you watch from this genre, the less slips past your perception. The moment the filmmaker fails to maintain their “trick” is therefore the moment they lose their viewer—there’s nothing else for us to grasp onto. Director Graham Moore and co-writer Johnathan McClain understand this fact. They know they can lean into the usual double-cross tropes if they keep the pace moving and characters on their toes. The quickest way to accomplish both is by targeting those same characters with their trickery instead. There’s no better deflection. If we’re too busy smiling about what we know that the people onscreen don’t, maybe we’ll end up surprised too.

That which is hidden throughout The Outfit is thus that which is left unsaid. Not lies. Not subterfuge.

It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to the lead role of Graham Moore’s “The Outfit” than Mark Rylance — the story of a Savile Row tailor who works more or less exclusively for an Irish mobster in 1956 Chicago. Rylance’s character, Leonard Burling, knows the rules: You keep your head down and your mouth shut, and in return, you’re treated almost like family by the Boyle clan. And if you don’t, well, we’ve all seen enough gangster pictures to know the consequences.

Leonard hardly ever leaves his workshop, and neither do we, in “The Outfit,” a contained, almost play-like film noir the likes of which John Huston and Nicholas Ray were making in the early ’50s.

Today, of course, this is yet another example of the Covid-era trend of drawing a handful of characters into a single location where some kind of crime takes place.

Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance’s special gift is an appearance of unspoiled authenticity, as if someone from real life had wandered into the frame, or — considering his extensive, legend-status background — onto the stage, his very presence ready either to blend in, or to shake things up.

It’s a talent that puts him in good stead to rivet our attention in establishing his role as a dedicated tailor facing dire circumstances in Graham Moore’s “The Outfit.” But it’s not enough to offset what’s questionably designed and ill-fitting about this claustrophobic, one-night-in-one-location thriller.

Moore, who wrote the film adaptation of the Alan Turing biopic “The Imitation Game,” directs for the first time from an original screenplay (co-written with Johnathan McClain). He was inspired by the alluring family detail that a beloved doctor grandfather of Moore’s had regularly treated a New Jersey mobster. In this case, the unassuming...

Focus Features has pushed back the release date for its crime thriller The Outfit—starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance—by three weeks, from February 25 to March 18.

The news comes following the announcement that Focus, Universal International and Carnival Films are pushing the release date for Downton Abbey: A New Era from March 18 to May 20 in the U.S. and April 29 in the UK.

The Outfit was initially set to open against Lionsgate’s horror-thriller The Devil’s Light, MGM and United Artists Releasing’s musical adaptation of Cyrano, Good Deed Entertainment’s Moon Manor, Open Road Films’ Foo Fighters horror-comedy Studio 666, Sony Pictures Classics’ romantic drama Mothering Sunday, Greenwich Entertainment’s doc Let Me Be Me, and Paramount Pictures’ re-release of The Godfather.

It will now play opposite the anime Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie, IFC Films’ music doc The Torch, Roadside Attractions’ Sundance acquisition Alice,...

Keenly anticipated film sequel “Downton Abbey: A New Era” has shifted its release dates forward.

Focus Features, Universal Pictures International and Carnival Films revealed on Wednesday that the film, previously dated for March 18, 2022, will now release in U.K. cinemas on Apr. 29 and in the U.S. on May 20.

Created by Julian Fellowes, the sequel reunites the cast as they go on a journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the Dowager Countess’ newly inherited villa. The original principal cast, including Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt and Penelope Wilton return alongside new additions Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West.

The film, based on the Emmy and BAFTA winning TV series, is a sequel to 2019 film “Downton Abbey.”

The screenplay is written by Fellowes, with Emmy and BAFTA-winning Gareth Neame and Emmy Award-winning Liz Trubridge producing. BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Simon Curtis...

Overachiever Graham Moore moved from New York Times bestseller novelist to an Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (The Imitation Game) and this past March, became a filmmaker with The Outfit. Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch and Johnny Flynn star in what happens when a tailor’s world is entrenched in gangster — it looks like a handsome production with all the trimmings of the era — the screenplay was co-written by Moore and actor-writer Johnathan McClain (Mad Men). Dropping on the 25th of February, if this doesn’t go to Sundance then Berlin is another high value lieu for a premiere.…...

The Outfit Trailer — Graham Moore‘s The Outfit (2022) movie trailer has been released by Focus Features. The Outfit trailer stars Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, Johnny Flynn, Simon Russell Beale, and Nikki Amuka-Bird. Crew Johnathan McClain and Graham Moore wrote the screenplay for The Outfit. Alexandre Desplat created the music for the film. Dick [...]

Continue reading: The Outfit (2022) Movie Trailer: Tailor Mark Rylance gets in over his Head with Gangsters in Graham Moore’s Film...

Focus Features has set a moderate release for The Outfit on Feb. 25, 2022.

The pic reps Oscar winner Graham Moore’s directorial debut, and follows Leonard, played by Oscar winner Mark Rylance, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: A family of vicious gangsters. Maze Runner actor Dylan O’Brien also stars.

Moore, who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Imitation Game, co-wrote the screenplay with actor/writer Johnathan McClain (Mad Men). The cast also includes Zoey Deutch (Set It Up) Johnny Flynn (Emma), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Nw) and Simon Russell Beale (The Hollow Crown). Producers are Scoop Wasserstein, Ben Browning and Amy Jackson.

Focus currently has Paul Schrader...

Since we’ve already had faith-based features involving football, baseball (“Where Hope Grows”), basketball (“Slamma Jamma”), boxing (“Carman: The Champion”), competitive skateboarding (“Hardflip”) and even mixed martial arts (“The Fight Within”), it was doubtless inevitable that someone would produce a movie where the Lord works in mysterious ways on the golf course. Robert Redford’s “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000) didn’t quite qualify, given the nondenominational nature of its spirituality. On the other hand, “Walking With Herb” is explicitly and unashamedly upfront about depicting how an agent of God, or someone of an even higher pay grade, might directly intervene in providing a shot at redemption — and no handicap at all — for a golfer far from the fairway.

Striking perfect balances of gruffness and grief, taciturn skepticism and bemused self-awareness, Edward James Olmos is dead solid perfect in the lead role of Joe Amable-Amo, a bank manager and devoted family man in Las Cruces,...

Exclusive: BAFTA winner Simon Russell Beale (The Hollow Crown) and BAFTA-nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Nw) have joined the cast of The Imitation Game scribe Graham Moore’s directorial debut The Outfit.

As we previously revealed, starring in the film are Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Zoey Deutch (Set It Up) and Johnny Flynn (Emma).

The crime-drama, which recently wrapped production in London, follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Oscar-winner Moore is directing from his own screenplay which is co-written with actor-writer Johnathan McClain (Mad Men).

Producers are Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment,...

Exclusive: In a hot under-the-radar package, we can reveal that Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (The Trial Of The Chicago 7), Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien, Set It Up star Zoey Deutch and The Dig actor Johnny Flynn are set to star in Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore’s (The Imitation Game) directorial debut The Outfit.

Focus Features has struck a deal to pre-buy world rights to the crime-drama from FilmNation Entertainment with shoot set to begin in March in London.

The film follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Moore will direct from his own screenplay which is co-written with actor-writer...

FilmNation is financing Chicago-set drama due to star shooting in London in March.

Focus Features has boarded worldwide rights to the upcoming Mark Rylance drama The Outfit.

Production has been earmarked for a March start in London on the feature directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.

Rylance will play a tailor who leaves London to live in Chicago where he opens a business making quality clothes for gangsters.

Rounding out the cast are Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch and Johnny Flynn.

Moore will direct from a script he co-wrote with Johnathan McClain. Scoop Wasserstein, Ben Browning and Amy Jackson are producing.

After receiving nearly 400 nominations for the 2020 Popsugar Book Club Awards, it's finally time to reveal the shortlist. Take a peek at the full slate of Popsugar Book Club-approved nominees ahead, including Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno, Jasmine Guillory's Party of Two, and more. Final voting takes place exclusively in our Popsugar Book Club Facebook group starting today, with polls closing on Nov. 18 at 9 p.m. Et. If you're not a member yet, it's not too late! Join right here and cast your vote in each category. Winners will be announced on Nov. 20.

Once you've voted in the Facebook group polls, stay tuned for our 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge, launching Dec. 1. Cheers to all the wonderful books that made their debut in 2020 and to the nominees who gave us stories to cherish during a difficult year.

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Freddie Prinze Jr., best known for his roles as teen heartthrob in I Know What You Did Last Summer, She’s All That, and Scooby-Doo, has been keeping himself busy the past few years doing a lot of voice work for series like Star Wars Rebels and Robot Chicken. He is now back on the scene in some life action series. We reported earlier this year that he had joined the cast of the upcoming Nancy Drew series, but he has since left that project.

Now he has joined a different series, and that is the Punky Brewster reboot that is coming to the upcoming NBC streamer, Peacock. We know so far that original series star Soleil Moon Frye is reprising her role as the title character, Punky, Cherie Johnson is also coming back in the role of Cherie, and Johnathan McClain has joined the cast.

Here’s the description...

Network: Netflix.

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).

Seasons: Ongoing.

TV show dates: November 16, 2018 — present.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Gavin Lewis, Theodore Barnes, Shelby Simmons, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Haley Tju, Gabriel Hogan, Conor Husting, Kyle More, Johnathan McClain, Nate Torrence, Brooke Star, Chelsea Summer, Zach Zagoria, and Jared Wernick.

TV show description:

From creators Nick Stanton and Devin Bunje, the Prince of Peoria TV show is a live-action sitcom for tweens. The series centers on Teddy Jackson (Barnes) a 13-year-old student, mom Regina (McWilliams), and their 13-year-old exchange student, Prince Maxemil Vanderklaut III of Buronia, aka Emil (Lewis).

A serious student, Teddy tends to spend his time tinkering on robots, and his other creations, and...

Network: TV Land

Episodes: 20 (half-hour)

Seasons: Two

TV show dates: January 19, 2011 -- August 29, 2012

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: George Segal, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jessica Walter, Marissa Jaret Winokur, George Wyner, Peter Bonerz, Christine Ebersole, John Ross Bowie, and Danneel Ackles.

TV show description:

While visiting his parents at a retirement home in Florida, successful New York executive David Robbins (Johnathan McClain) decides that he's had enough of the rat race. He drops everything and moves in with them in an attempt to reconnect with them, re-evaluate his life, and live the dream of retirement that so many others spend a lifetime chasing.

Of course, the transition doesn't go as smoothly as he expects. The move prompts his parents Alan (George Segal) and Elaine Robbins (Jessica Walter) to make an unexpected life...

TV Land has cancelled Retired at 35 after two seasons. It's their first original sitcom to get the axe.

Retired at 35 revolves around a successful New York businessman named David (Johnathan McClain) who visits his father (George Segal) and mother (Jessica Walter) in a retirement community in Florida. While there, he quits his job and starts to re-evaluate his life. He also learns that his parents are separating and each exploring new ways of life. Others in the cast include Josh McDermitt, Ryan Michelle Bathe, and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

The sitcom's pilot was produced at about the same time as Hot in Cleveland's. But, while Cleveland went on to become a big hit for TV Land, Retired at 35 did not.

The first season debuted on January 19th of 2011 to a bit more than two million viewers but lost...

TV Land has canceled "Retired At 35." According to Deadline.com, the sitcom will not return for new episodes.

Starring Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain and George Segal, the series followed a young man who quits his job and decides to live the retired life with his parents. The series did well in the ratings when it followed "Hot In Cleveland" in its first season with the premiere attracting more that 2 million viewers. However, the debut of its 10-episode Season 2 only had 600,000 viewers.

Request for comment from TV Land was not immediately returned.

Guest stars over the show's two seasons included Robin Givens, Estelle Harris, Shelley Long, John O'Hurley and Fred Willard.

TV Land recently renewed two comedies, "The Exes" and "The Soul Man."

Click over to Deadline.com for more.

Though she's best known for her work on the perpetually angsty "One Tree Hill," Danneel Ackles has always felt more at home in the comedy world, so it's no surprise that she fits right in to TV Land's multi-cam "Retired at 35." On Wednesday's new episode, Ackles plays Jenn, a single mom who meets David (Johnathan McClain) at a grocery store -- and leaves the audience guessing as to who's fooling whom.

Zap2it visited Ackles and McClain on set in December while they filmed one of her three episodes in the second season. McClain explains that when David meets Jenn, he's still living off his parents and showing little initiative toward a lifestyle change.

"David at the beginning of Season 2 is still in a state of perpetual retirement, floundering and trying to figure his life out," McClain says. "In pretty short order [he] winds up meeting Jenn in a grocery store...

Retired at 35 is back for its second season with some big changes brewing. Sibling rivalry heats up now that David's sister Amy (played by Marissa Jaret Winokur) is in town, and David just may have found a girlfriend who can deal with all his baggage... and his parents!

We talked with star Johnathan McClain to get the scoop on working with Marissa, getting a longtime love interest and more!

What can you tell us about season 2 and your character?

Johnathan: Well, in season 2 the show has evolved from being mostly about a guy giving up his job and living with his parents into much more of a family comedy. It's been incredibly valuable for my character to have the character of his sister added back in. He now has someone his own age, with whom he has an intimate history, to play off, and that has made a world...

TVLand comedy "Retired at 35" returns for Season 2 next week, and this season, David (Johnathan McClain) may have met his match when Danneel Ackles joins the show -- and Zap2it has your first look photo of her character, Jenn.

After a few years on "One Tree Hill," Ackles was looking to trade in teen angst for some laughs, and has sought out comedic roles -- from "Harold and Kumar" to her underrated turn opposite Ryan Hansen on NBC's "Friends With Benefits."

On "Retired at 35," she tries her hand at playing a parent for the first time.

When we visited her on set, she admitted that it was a little weird for her to play a mom. "It's my first kid!" she jokes, giving credit to seven-year-old Caitlin Carmichael, who plays her daughter. "She's actually incredibly talented and sweet and smart, all those things that child actors are."

McClain...

We recently reported that Happily Divorced and Retired at 35 would be kicking off their second seasons on March 7th, at 10pm and 10:30pm respectively. TV Land has already changed their plans.

Happily Divorced, which recently resumed production, will be back as previously announced but is moving to 10:30pm. Retired at 35 is being bumped until later this year. A timeframe hasn't been announced and no reason was given for the schedule change.

Starring Fran Drescher, John Michael Higgins, Tichina Arnold, Rita Moreno, Robert Walden and Valente Rodriguez, Happily Divorced was renewed for a second season of 12 episodes last July.

Retired at 35 -- which stars George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, and Josh McDermitt -- was renewed last March and was given a 10 episode order. Marissa Jaret Winokur joins the cast in season two.

Production on the second season of TV Land's original sitcom Happily Divorced began today. Starring Fran Drescher, John Michael Higgins, Tichina Arnold, Rita Moreno, Robert Walden and Valente Rodriguez, the cable channel renewed the TV series for a sophomore season of 12 episodes last July. Happily Divorced returns to TV Land on March 7th at 10pm.

It'll be followed by the second season premiere of Retired at 35. That show -- which stars George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain and Josh McDermitt -- was renewed last March and was given a 10 episode order. Marissa Jaret Winokur joins the cast this time around.

TV Land's "Happily Divorced" Starts Production Of Its Second Season Starring Fran Drescher

New Episodes to Kick-Off Line-up at 10:00pm Et/Pt followed by the Second Season Premiere of "Retired at 35"

January 14, 2012 -...

TV Land comedy "Retired at 35" is getting a new hot mom!

Danneel Ackles, best known from her "One Tree Hill" days as not-so-Clean-Teen Rachel Gatina, will join the series' second season, which went into production last month, for a guest starring gig -- and Zap2it has your exclusive details!

"Retired at 35" follows David (Johnathan McClain), an overworked 35-year-old who leaves the hectic NYC business world behind in favor of moving in with his parents... in a senior-living community.

In a three-episode arc, Ackles plays a single mother with an 8-year-old son who meets David in a grocery store, sparking up an immediate connection. When he finds out that she's got a kid -- and that they're clearly in very different places in their lives -- he's hesitant to embark on a relationship, but they decide to give dating a try anyway. Hilarity ensues.

Currently on the big...

Marissa Jaret Winokur is re-entering the workforce with a gig on Retired at 35.

The Stacked actress has landed a series-regular role on the sophomore season of the TV Land comedy, TVLine has confirmed. Winkour is set to play a role described as the “bubbly” and “quick-witted” Amy Robins, the business-savvy but unlucky-in-love daughter of the show’s retirees (Jessica Walter and George Segal), and sister to Retired‘s leading man, David (Johnathan McClain).

Exclusive: Judith Light Joins TV Land’s The Exes

Winkour most recently co-hosted CBS’ The Talk before departing midway through its first season.

Marissa Jaret Winokur has landed the new regular role on TV Land’s comedy series Retired At 35, which centers on successful New Yorker David (Johnathan McClain) who moves in with his father (George Segal) and mother (Jessica Walter) in a Florida retirement community. Winokur will play David’s sister Amy, a sharp-tongued, quick-witted successful saleswoman for a pharmaceutical company with a bubbly personality who is bad man picker, so her personal life is a mess. Winokur most recently served as a co-host on CBS’ The Talk.

TV Land announced three sitcoms . two new series and a renewal for .Retired at 35.. These series join .Hot in Cleveland. which is now up to a 24 episode order for season three. These pick-ups take TV Land from zero to four scripted sitcoms within less than a year.s time, along with several additional sitcoms in development. New are .Happily Divorced. marking Fran Drescher.s return to television joined by John Michael Higgins, Tichina Arnold and Rita Moreno as well as .The Exes. (working title) starring Donald Faison, Wayne Knight, David Alan Basche and Kristen Johnston. Additionally, TV Land has renewed its hit sitcom .Retired at 35. starring George Segal, Jessica Walter and Johnathan McClain for a second...

Living large on the fairly amazing success of Hot in Cleveland, TV Land is not only bringing back its newest venture, Retired at 35, but has also given the go ahead to two more, brand new sitcoms. Thus far, there seems little doubt that the people at TV Land know how to get audiences, and as things continue to play out with the two sitcoms they have, it seems that there are plenty of people looking for a return to the glory days of sitcom, in more ways than one.

Given a solid fanbase of viewers tuning in for "old school" comedy fare, the channel apparently figured it could put together some fresh meat with perhaps more in common with those bygone classics than today's efforts, and the results have been surprisingly positive.

The two newcomers are Happily Divorced with Fran Drescher, and The Exes, which focuses on three divorced men - Donald Faison,...

TV Land proved one thing with its premiere of Retired at 35 last night: This cable net has got its brand formula down. Like USA before it, with its quirky-light-heroes-solve-cases gambit, the channel — formerly reserved for endless repeats of classic TV (not that I’m complaining about the All in the Family on my DVR) — has nailed what will clearly now become its go-to approach. The hit Hot in Cleveland served up the template checklist: 1. Ridiculous premise that it’s best to accept without too much thinking. (L.A. ladies of a certain age “crash land” in Cleveland on their way...

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Once a place to catch reruns of your favorite classics, TV Land is now asserting itself as a network for original programming. They're following the first season success of 'Hot In Cleveland' with another sitcom shot in front of a studio audience, 'Retired at 35' (premieres Wed., Jan. 19, 10:30Pm Et).

'Retired' follows David Robbins (Johnathan McClain), a young businessman who decides he'd much rather retire than work his way further up the corporate ladder. So he moves to Florida to crash with his dad (George Segal) and mom (Jessica Walter), in turn shaking things up for them as well.

I visited the set to hear all about the very esteemed cast, to bring the hilarious Segal up to speed on modern technology and the Internet ("Wait a second -- this whole thing is being conducted on a telephone?") and to...

Chicago – Has television become so repetitive that it copies itself only four months after the fact? Of course, TV Land’s “Retired at 35,” a new hump day companion for the network’s hit “Hot in Cleveland,” must have been in some sort of production before CBS’s “Sh*t My Dad Says” but they are so similar that one could be forgiven for mistaking the two. And the bigger problem is that neither of them are all that funny.

Television Rating: 2.0/5.0

As they did with the successful “Hot in Cleveland,” TV Land are once again trying to recreate a nostalgic, punchline & laugh track-driven form of situation comedy. And they’re doing it with at least one star of a previous success — George Segal of “Just Shoot Me.” The great Jessica Walter (“Arrested Development,” “Archer”) also appears in the pilot to steal a few scenes before moving on to something better.

Working hard or hardly working? For at least one of the stars of Retired at 35, it's the latter.

"It is like hardly working. I can tell you that's the best kind!" George Segal tells TVGuide.com. "It's [shows] like this that keep you from even considering retirement."

Retired at 35 star George Segal: Will work for cigars, banjo

On the new TV Land sitcom (premieres Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c), Johnathan McClain stars as David, a 35-year-old stressed-out business drone who abruptly quits his job while visiting his parents, Alan (Segal) and Elaine (Jessica Walter), and subsequently moves in with them. His epiphany inspires his mother to dump Alan, leaving ...

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Former "Will & Grace" star Debra Messing will guest-star on an episode of "Law & Order: Svu" in February. She'll play a TV reporter who is "working to expose pedophiles" and whose path crosses with the Svu team when her life is threatened. [NBC]

"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" will be down one housewife if and when it returns for a second season. Camille Grammer, the soon-to-be ex of Kelsey Grammer, "has no interest in participating," a source close to the production says. Her publicist, meanwhile, says she's "undecided" on a return. [The Hollywood Reporter/The Wrap]

Generally awesome actress Illeana Douglas has been cast in a potentially recurring role on "Gossip Girl." She'll first appear as Lily's (Kelly Rutherford) sister Carol in an April episode, where the two characters will likely remissness about their wild, undocumented time in the '80s. [TVLine]

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HollywoodNews.com: Jessica Walter reports that she and George Segal are having a blast shooting their forthcoming “Retired at 35″ comedy. The second TV Land original series, it will be paired with the oh-so-hot “Hot In Cleveland” come January.

“Initally, they offered me a guest-starring role as George Segal’s wife, who leaves him. I hoped I’d get back on for an episode or two. But then they came back to me and I”m going to be in all shows produced,” says the actress, who lets us know her new character is not as mean as such well-known Walter women as “Arrested Development’s” Lucille Bluth.

“Retired at 35″ has a New York professional man (Johnathan McClain) becoming so charmed by his parents’ upscale retirement community in Florida, he decides to quit the rat race and move in with them. “Now he’s...

Ryan Michelle Bathe, whom you should all know from Sonya Steele’s Celeste Bright web series, which we’ve been featuring on this site, is officially part of an ensemble cast for an upcoming new TV series titled Retired at 35 for the TV Land network.

George Segal and Johnathan McClain star in the sitcom that centers on a successful young businessman (McClain) who moves into his father’s Florida retirement home, after saying goodbye to the competitive struggles of New York City.

Also co-starring on the show, in addition to Bathe, are names I don’t immediately recognize, like Casey Wilson, Christine Ebersole, Jessica Walter, Josh McDermitt, and a few others.

In addition to the pilot, 9 episodes of the series have been ordered by the network, with an early 2011 debut expected, in glorious prime-time hours!

Not sure what Bathe’s role will be. We’ll find out soon enough,...

TV Land announced has picked up to series "Retired at 35," ordering 10 episodes of the sitcom starring George Segal.

"Retired," which is set to debut in first-quarter 2011, becomes TV Land's second original sitcom pickup following the recently greenlighted "Hot in Cleveland."

"Retired" centers on David (Johnathan McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the rat race of New York and move into his parents' (George Segal, Jessica Walter) Florida retirement home.

The cast also includes Josh McDermitt, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Casey Wilson, Christine Ebersole, Matt Champagne, George Wyner and Jere Burns.

"Retired" is executive produced by writer Chris Case as well as Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis.

"Cleveland," which stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White, debuts June 16.

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No, this isn't a trick question: According to Variety, the purveyor of classic TV has ordered nine episodes of the original scripted series 'Retired at 35,' set to launch during the first quarter of 2011. The episodes will reportedly air during the network's "TV Land Prime" time slot.

George Segal ('Just Shoot Me') stars in the comedy series, about a party-loving retiree whose 35-year-old son David (Johnathan McClain) decides to quit the rat race and move into his Florida retirement home with him. Casey Wilson ('Saturday Night Live'), Jessica Walter ('Arrested Development') and Tony winner Christine Ebersole co-star as Segal's character's daughter, ex-wife and potential love interest, respectively.

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Exclusive: TV Land has picked up the pilot Retired at 35 to series. The multicamera sitcom starring George Segal and Johnathan McClain has received a nine-episode order in addition to the pilot for a launch in the first quarter of 2011. Retired follows David (McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father Alan's (Segal) Florida retirement home. Co-starring on the show are Saturday Night Live alums Casey Wilson and Christine Ebersole, Jessica Walter, Josh McDermitt, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Matt Champagne, George Wyner, Jere Burns and Faye DeWitt. Retired hails from Reba [...]...

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Joining George Segal (Just Shoot Me) in Retired at 35, TV Land’s first foray into scripted television, will be Johnathan McClain, Casey Wilson (previously of Saturday Night Live), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development) and Christine Ebersole. Retired will be about David, a young businessman (McClain) who leaves his successful life in New York behind for ostensibly...

TV Land has rounded up an ensemble cast for multicamera pilot Retired at 35, including Johnathan McClain, Saturday Night Live alum Casey Wilson and veterans Jessica Walter and Christine Ebersole, joining previously cast George Segal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Retired at 35 follows David (McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father Alan's (Segal) Florida retirement home. Wilson will play David's sister. Arrested Development alumna Walter will play David's mom, while Ebersole will play a potential love interest for Alan. Also cast in the pilot are Josh McDermott as David's best friend, Ryan Michelle Bathe as David's love interest, Matt Champagne as Amy's boyfriend, George Wyner as Alan's best friend as well as Jere Burns and Faye DeWitt.

TV Land has assembled the cast of multicamera pilot "Retired at 35."

Johnathan McClain, "Saturday Night Live" alum Casey Wilson and veterans Jessica Walter and Christine Ebersole have landed starring roles opposite previously cast George Segal.

"Retired" follows David (McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father Alan's (Segal) Florida retirement home.

In her first TV gig since her headline-grabbing abrupt exit from "SNL" in September, Wilson will play David's sister. "Arrested Development" alumna Walter, repped by Innovative and manager Sandra Chang, will play David's mom, while Ebersole will play a potential love interest for Alan. McClain is with Innovative and Jackson-Medavoy.

Also cast in the pilot are Josh McDermitt as David's best friend, Ryan Michelle Bathe ("Trauma") as David's love interest, Matt Champagne as Amy's boyfriend, George Wyner as Alan's best friend as well as Jere Burns and Faye DeWitt.