PRODUCTION CO.
Anheuser-Busch/Bud Light.
PRODUCTION CO.
Visitor, Santa Monica. Dave Merhar, director; Amir Mokri, DP; Olivier Katz, executive producer; Grayson Bithell, producer; Roeban Katz, special effects supervisor. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Fusion Idea Lab, Chicago. Mike Oberman, Dave Merhar and Matt Brennock, creative directors/art directors/copywriters; Rob Jaeger, executive producer.
EDITORIAL
Cosmo Street, Santa Monica. Roeban Katz, editor; David Sowell, assistant editor; Tatiana Derovanessian, producer.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Company 3, Santa Monica. Mike Pethel, colorist. Planet Blue, Santa Monica. Pierre LaQuerre, online editor; Nathan McGuinness, special effects supervisor/visual effects artist; Andy Davis, rotoscoping; Milt Alvarez, executive producer; George Sanchez, producer.
AUDIO POST
POP Sound, Santa Monica. Mark Meyuhas, mixer. Chicago Recording Company. Dave Gerbosi, mixer.
MUSIC
Elias Associates, bicoastal. Michael Sherwood, composer; Jonathan Elias, creative director, "Launch." Jonathan Elias, creative director/composer; Chip Jenkins, composer, "Foxhole."
THE SPOT
In the :30 "Launch," a man uses a slingshot to fling his goggle-wearing pet mouse named "Willie" through the open window of a woman’s apartment. Frightened, the woman shows up at the man’s place with a six-pack of Bud Light to "wait it out" until the mouse leaves. In the :30 "Foxhole," three guys hang out in what appears to be a foxhole, waiting for a friend to join them with a pack of Bud Light. He arrives with the brews and joins his buddies, as a woman emerges from the house above, talking to a friend on a cellular phone. She tells her friend that she’s trying to find the guys who were supposed to have finished planting a tree in her yard hours ago.
"Launch" broke Jan. 31, and "Foxhole" aired Feb. 1.
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