CLIENT
Honda Regional Marketing.
PRODUCTION CO.
Ocean Park Pictures, Venice, Calif. Bill Linsman, director; Jon Mentzer, DP; Tim Goldberg, executive producer; Deb McClune, production manager. Shot at South Bay Studios, Long Beach, Calif., and on location.
AGENCY
RP alpha, Santa Monica. Jon Yarbrough, creative director; John Tripp, executive producer; Theresa Aycock and Julie Curtis, copywriters; Lynn Crosswaite and Laura Della Sala, art directors.
EDITORIAL
The Reel Thing, Santa Monica. Moody Glasgow, editor.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Encore Santa Monica. Bob Festa, Mark Wilkins and Jais Lamaire, colorists; Vikki North and Nigel Randall, Henry artists. Digital Magic, Santa Monica. Wayne Hampton, colorist.
AUDIO POST
RavensWork, Venice. Eric Ryan, mixer.
MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN
Primal Scream, Santa Monica. Reinhard Denke, composer/ sound designer. bbm (bill bodine music), Pacific Palisades, Calif. Bill Bodine, composer.
THE SPOTS
Seven :30s-"The Right Gear," "Zero Tolerance," "Marriage Ceremony," "Be Yourself-Fashion," "Be Yourself-Hair," "Mailbox" and "Around The Corner"-feature quirky stories of people who love driving their Hondas. In one spot, a man marries his Honda, while another commercial features a pair of slackers who drive a Honda from the garage to the bottom of a driveway just to pick up the mail.
Spots broke in November.
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