DECEMBER 1, 2000 Bicoastal/international Partizan has signed director Aaron Priest in what marks the helmer’s first commercial representation deal….In a move to help revitalize the agency, Ogilvy & Mather, Culver City, Calif., has hired Geoff McGann as creative director….Graphic design and production boutique Eyeball NYC, New York, has hired executive producer Mike Eastwood….Fish Media, New York, a graphics, animation and title design company founded in October 1996, has added Niki Bern as a Flame artist….V12, a broadcast design and production company based in Hollywood, has formed a division, dubbed Project V12, to provide design, animation and production services for high-end Web sites and other interactive media….
DECEMBER 1, 1995 Director Tenney Fairchild, formerly with Barking Weasel Productions, Los Angeles, has signed with Cucoloris, Venice, Calif., for exclusive spot representation….Heiko Hagemann, a director/cameraman through Meta Goldstern, his Hamburg, Germany and London-based production house, has signed with bicoastal The End for exclusive spot representation in the U.S….Directors Paul Arden and Thomas Krygier of London-based production house Arden Sutherland-Dodd have gained exclusive U.S. representation through bicoastal Smillie Films….Janet Luhrs resigned last week as executive director of the International Teleproduction Society (ITS). She had served in that capacity since the post facility trade organization was formed nearly 10 years ago….
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