CLIENT
The Coca-Cola Company/Fanta.
PRODUCTION CO.
Holiday, Los Angeles. Gavin Bowden, director; Max Malkin, DP; Bruce Mellon, executive producer; Carol Case, managing director; Line Postmyr, producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York. David Angelo, executive creative director and creative director/art director, "Bull"; Eric Silver, creative director/copywriter, "Bull"; Adam Chasnow, copywriter, "Reverse"; Dan Kelleher and Mark Schruntek, art directors, "Reverse"; Maresa Wickham and David Verhoef, producers.
EDITORIAL
Mad River Post/New York. Lucas Eskin, editor for "Reverse"; Dick Gordon, editor for "Bull."
POST
Nice Shoes, New York. Rich Schreck, online editor. Company 3, Santa Monica. Michael Pethel, colorist.
AUDIO POST
East Side Audio, New York. Tom Goldblatt, engineer.
MUSIC
"Reverse" composed by Andy Bloch and Ray Loewy at JSM Music, New York.
THE SPOT
In the :30 "Reverse," a band of rowdy musicians leaves a gig in Manchester, England, playing on in their time-worn van, so involved in their music that they drive right past a store selling Fanta. When they realize their mistake, they reverse back down the road to buy the soda. In the :30 "Bull," a young man afraid of a bull takes a roll in the mud to cover up his bright red shirt, not realizing that the animal is color blind.
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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