Sunday, May 2, 2010

Pineapple Express Director will have Two New Comedies on MTV

Deadline TV reports that MTV is adding two projects to its scripted slate. The cable network is close to a 12-episode order to Good Vibes, an animated comedy from The Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green.  Additionally, it has ordered a comedy pilot tentatively titled THAT Girl.  

Launching a scripted lineup of live-action and animated series has been a priority for MTV’s president of programming Tony DiSanto who recently hired veteran David Janollari to head the network’s scripted development.
Good Vibes was originally developed at Warner Bros. TV through Tom Werner’s studio-based Good
Humor TV production company. It was given a pilot presentation order by Fox in the fall of 2008, with 20thGood Vibes series for MTV as is the animator of the original presentation Brad Ableson. Talks are underway with the cast of the presentation to possibly return. Century TV attached to produce. Good Humor’s Werner and Mike Clements, along with Green, executive produced the presentation, whose voice cast included Adam Brody, Alan Tudyk, Danny McBride, Debi Mazar, Jake Busey, Josh Gad and Olivia Thirlby. Green, Werner and Clements are now on board to executive the Vibes series for MTV as is the animator of the original presentation Brad Ableson. Talks are underway with the cast of the presentation to possibly return. 

The single-camera THAT Girl centers on Jenna Hamilton, a high school sophomore and wallflower striving for attention who gets her wish and more when a clumsy bathroom accident has the whole school convinced she'd tried to commit suicide. Lauren Iungerich wrote the script and is executive producing. Millicent Shelton is set to direct the pilot, which is now casting.

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