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NBC picks up Norman Lear's passion project, "Guess Who Died".
TV's really coming back with shows that star more old people: "Grace & Frankie", that Michael Douglas Netflix comedy, this, "Great News".
First teaser for AHS: Cult.
Executive producer of "Kevin Can Wait": We killed off Erinn Hayes' character out of respect for her.
Based on Lear's personal experiences and in partnership with Tolan, Guess Who Died is described as a humorous and inspiring look at the shared joys and challenges we all experience at any stage of life.
Lear and Tolan executive produce via their production companies, Act III Productions and The Cloudland Company, respectively, alongside Lear's associate Brent Miller.
Lear, who recently celebrated his 95th birthday, originally wrote Guess Who Died, set at a retirement village, about seven years ago and had been trying to get it made ever since. In a 2016 NYT documentary, which featured Lear as he was casting the project, he calls it ”a show about the elderly that nobody wants." A reading of his script was held at the 2016 at the Austin Film Festival.
”The right people read it, the right people thought it's funny, but the right people said it's not our demographic," Lear says in the documentary, lamenting TV networks' obsession with younger demos. ”I wrote it because we are so underrepresented."
TV's really coming back with shows that star more old people: "Grace & Frankie", that Michael Douglas Netflix comedy, this, "Great News".
First teaser for AHS: Cult.
Executive producer of "Kevin Can Wait": We killed off Erinn Hayes' character out of respect for her.
”The goal was to give Kevin's character a real drive and a real predicament [involving] how a family comes back together [after tragedy]," Long says. ”Also, out of respect for the character of Donna — and certainly the way that Erinn Hayes portrayed her — it seemed like the only right and fair way to treat her character."
Asked whether they ever considered reshaping the series in Season 2 to focus solely on Kevin's professional life (and thus letting Donna live, albeit off camera), Long says that simply was not in the cards. The ”nucleus of the idea," he shares, was ”Kevin being a single father... [We] were really attracted" to watching Kevin ”learn how to do all of the stuff" that comes with being a single parent to three kids — four if you count Kendra's fiancé Chale.