CLIENT
General Motors/Oldsmobile.
PRODUCTION CO.
Orbit Productions, Hollywood. Danny Weisberg, director; Russell Swanson, DP; Lee Nelson, executive producer; Amy Peck, producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Leo Burnett Co., Chicago. Charley Wickman, creative director; Ron Nelken, executive producer; Ray Swift, producer; Ron Smith, associate creative director/copywriter; Roger Simpson, associate creative director/art director.
EDITORIAL
Edit Sweet, Chicago. Jan Maitland, editor; Jennifer Plasch, postproduction coordinator.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Optimus, Chicago. Craig Leffel, colorist; Mike Weber, online editor; Glen Noren and Mike Ciacciarelli, type animation/ composite artists; Julia Finlayson, postproduction coordinator.
AUDIO POST
Cutters Inc., Chicago. John Binder, mixer.
THE SPOT
Set to Fat Boy Slim’s "Right Here Right Now," "Pomegranate" features fast-paced, high energy lifestyle vignettes and stylish type treatments to spotlight Oldsmobile’s Intrigue, Alero, Bravada, Silhouette and Aurora. The :60 ends with the tag, "Get out of neutral and get into drive."
Spot broke Jan. 31.
Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. Explore Generations, Old School vs. New School, In “Poppa’s House”
Boundaries between work and family don't just blur in the new CBS sitcom "Poppa's House" starring father-and-son comedy duo Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. They shatter.
"It's wonderful to come to work every day and see him and some of his kids and my sister and my brother and nieces and nephews. They all work on this show. They all contribute," says the senior Wayans. "I don't think there are words to express how joyful I am."
Wayans plays the titular Poppa, a curmudgeonly radio DJ who's more than comfortable doing it his way, while Wayans Jr. plays his son, Damon, a budding filmmaker who's stuck in a job he hates.
"My character, Pop, is just an old school guy who's kind of stuck in his ways," says Wayans, who starred in "In Living Color" and "My Wife and Kids."
Pop yearns for the days when a handshake was a binding contract and Michael Jordan didn't complain if he got fouled on the court. Pop laughs at the younger generation's participation trophies.
"It's old school versus new school and them teaching each other lessons from both sides," says Wayans Jr., who played Coach in the Fox sitcom "New Girl."
"They (the characters) bring the best out in each other and they're resistant initially. But then throughout the episode they have revelations and these revelations help them become better people," he adds.
The two have worked together before — dad made an appearance on son's "Happy Endings" and "Happy Together," while son was a writer and guest star on dad's "My Wife and Kids." But this is the first time they have headlined a series together.
The half-hour comedy — premiering Monday and co-starring Essence Atkins and Tetona Jackson — smartly leaves places in the script where father and son can let... Read More