CLIENT
Home Box Office (HBO).
PRODUCTION CO.
PYTKA, Venice, Calif. Joe Pytka, director/DP; Suellen Wagner, executive producer. Shot at The Culver Studios, Culver City, Calif., and on location.
AGENCY
BBDO New York. Ted Sann, chief creative officer; Michael Patti, creative director/copywriter; Regina Ebel, producer; Don Schneider, art director.
EDITORIAL
Crew Cuts, New York. "Germs" edited by Sherri Margulies. "Guardian Angel" edited by Clayton Hemmert.
POST
Manhattan Transfer, New York. Peter Flack, online editor; Ron Brower, colorist.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Quiet Man, New York. Johnnie Semerad, director of visual effects/Flame/effects artist; Amy Taylor, executive producer; Carrie Gattayan, associate producer.
AUDIO POST
Sound Lounge, New York. Tom Jucarone, mixer.
MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN
"Germs" music composed by David Horowitz of David Horowitz Music Associates, New York. "Germs" sound designed by Stephen Dewey of Machine Head, Venice. "Guardian Angel" sound designed by Clayton Hemmert of Crew Cuts.
THE SPOTS
In the :30 "Germs," actor George C. Scott exhorts a massive army of microbes to act in unison-jumping on a remote control to turn on HBO. The :30 "Guardian Angel" highlights the misadventures of a heavenly spirit who follows his assignment through the streets of New York. The spots end with the tag, "It’s not TV. It’s HBO."
Spots broke in October.
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