CLIENT
Chase Manhattan Bank USA.
PRODUCTION CO.
Concrete Productions, Dallas. Raymond Bark, director; Paul Talton, DP; Steve Johnson, executive producer; Joan Bell, producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Foote, Cone & Belding, New York. Tom Rost and Saskia Mossel, senior VPs/group creative directors; Wendy Vitolo, senior VP/senior producer; Jim Mochnsky, senior VP/senior creative director/art director; Jan Prager, VP/creative director/ copywriter.
EDITORIAL
Foote, Cone & Belding. Wendy Vitolo, editor.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Spontaneous Combustion, New York. Tony Robins, creative director; Trevor King, producer; Thomas Downs, Flame artist. Eyes Post, Toronto. Judy Paul, colorist.
AUDIO POST
The Mix Place, New York. Frank Alter, mixer; Joe Miuccio, engineer.
MUSIC
tomandandy, bicoastal. Jeremy Adelman and Mitch Davis, arrangers; Scott Brittingham, executive producer.
THE SPOT
Four stylish and witty :30s-"Balloons," "Max," "Ice Cream" and "Snow"-showcase Chase’s "Weekends On Us" promotion, in which Chase credit card members can "win back" their weekend charges in a weekly drawing. The spots feature new adaptations of the tunes "Happy Birthday," "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?" as well as a reggae version of "Jingle Bells."
Spots broke Nov. 23.
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