CLIENT
Toys ‘R Us/Nikko/Deceptor.
PRODUCTION CO.
Firehouse Films, Mamaroneck, N.Y. John Sturner, director; Peter Barrow, DP; Phil Mohtares, executive producer; Mike Alfieri, producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York. Linda Kaplan Thaler, creative director; Lisa Bifulco, executive producer; Sharon Petro, freelance producer; Priscilla Croft, art director; Valerie Nadler, copywriter.
EDITORIAL
Sauce E., New York. Michael Palermo, editor.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Sauce E. David Bone, visual effects artist. Post Perfect, New York. Mark Tyler, online editor. Cyclotron, New York. Lee Dyer, visual effects. SMA Video, New York. Eli Friedman, colorist. Animation by The Ink Tank, New York. Tony Eastman and Maria Vidney, animators; Santiago Cohen, illustrator.
AUDIO POST
The Mix Place, New York. Kenny Fredrickson, mixer.
MUSIC
Macrose Music, New York. Fred Thaler, composer.
THE SPOT
The :30 "Road Cruncher" spotlights Nikko’s Deceptor vehicle (available at Toys ‘R Us), which changes from an off-road truck to a race car as it performs various feats, including scaling rocks and flipping over.
Spot broke Nov. 29.
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