EXCLUSIVE: Eric and Kim Tannenbaum are fashionably late to the marketplace in their first development season at their new home, CBS TV Studios. But their last-minute comedy sale to CBS is a big one: a half-hour starring Rob Schneider in his first TV series gig in 13 years. The untitled project, to be written by Lew Morton (Saturday Night Live, Big Lake) and Schneider, is based on Schneider's life and centers on a solitary guy who marries into a huge Mexican-American family. Morton, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum are executive producing, with Schneider and his brother John Schneider producing through their From Out of Nowhere Prods. CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum Co. are producing the comedy, which has received a script order.
SNL alum Schneider's last major TV gig was as a star of the comedy Men Behaving Badly, which ran on NBC from 1996-97. He has since been focused on films, often collaborating with SNL cohort Adam Sandler, including on this summer's hit Grown Ups. This feels like a familiar territory for Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. The last time they landed a last-minute pickup at CBS for a comedy about a single guy that had an actor with a TV and feature comedy background attached as the lead, it resulted in long-running hit Two and a Half Men. Schneider is with Gersh. Morton and the Tannenbaum Co. are with CAA.
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The Tannenbaums are great Producers and good people. Glad they got another show and on CBS. CBS could use something other than Two and a Half Men to get viewers.
Don’t think this means they “got another show” on CBS. Think it just means a script got sold with Rob Shneider attached if it goes to pilot.
“like.” you’re exactly right. it’s a script.
familiar territory and check out the built-in pandering to Mexicans THIS IS GONNA BE BIG I CAN FEEL IT
Shocked that Giarraputo and Robinson aren’t involved in this in some way. Sandler is usually the one who throws Schneider a bone. I’m really interested to see if he can pull off leading a weekly half-hour series… it’s been fifteen years since SNL. This could be an epic fail.
Rob Schneider is…a stapler.
another movie star turns to tv.
What are the odds that his bride is stacked, spicy, and sassy?
Paging 30something spanish actresses a la Sofia Vergara…
And… cut. You get 5 stars for that one. Called it on the money! LOL!
This show sounds excellent. Schneider is one of the funniest guys around. I recommend “Big Stan” – his film about a white collar criminal in prison.
There is a typo in the headline. “Rob Schneider” follows the word “comedy” in the same sentence.
hate the game, not the players!
I misread the headline as “CBS Picks Up FAILING Comedy Starring Rob Schneider & Produced By Tannenbaums/”
From the creators of Der and Tum Ta Tittaly Tum Ta To, Rob Schneider is: Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb… rated PG13!
Schn. is one of my fav actors and always fun talker, comic; grownups was great. Big fan of these stars.
and the hits keep coming…
How can anyone possibly pick up ANYTHING with Rob Schneider attached. For the last decade the man’s entire career has consisted of four words… You Can (NOT) Do It… Rob.
Stretching the term “movie star” aren’t we?
@ Steve; comment by Steve bullying remarks:
Robs movies are some of the funniest and most famous ever made; u must be a jealous agent not getting any content to represent.
Rob Shneider means its gets lit, gets a pilot, and is cancelled in 6 weeks after airing.
let me guess – you knew from the pilots that “Seinfeld” and “Everybody Loves Ray” would be big hits?
I don’t understand scott f. kelly’s comment about “and the hits keep coming…” Is he being facetious? Maybe they will keep coming. Maybe they won’t. Kind of hard to tell at this early juncture. It all depends on how the pilot script and subsequent pilot (if it get shot) turn out and then how it does once it airs (if it airs). It’s really all about execution.