CLIENT
Sprint Business Services.
PRODUCTION CO.
Flying Tiger Films, New York. Ken Arlidge, director/DP; Jeff Devlin, executive producer; John Romaine, producer. Shot on location.
AGENCY
Grey Advertising, New York. Doug Bartow and Ed Taussig, creative directors; Maura Dausey, producer; Jonathan Lee, copywriter; Fred Liedtke, art director.
EDITORIAL
Shoot First Editorial, New York. Jeff Dell, editor.
POST
Manhattan Transfer, New York. Connie Griffin, executive producer; Kieran Walsh, online editor; Dino Regas, colorist.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Manhattan Transfer. David Isyomin, director of visual effects; Brad Fox, lead CG animator; Julie Watkins and Matt Reilly, digital artists; Mary Maffei, producer; Kieran Walsh, lead digital artist; Grant Adam, Keith Stichweh and Patrick O’Brien, CG animators; Hoon Chong, Macintosh artist. Viewpoint DataLabs, Orem, Utah. Rich Agren, project leader; Kevin Malling and Derek Ramsay, modelers.
AUDIO POST/SOUND DESIGN
JSM Music, New York. Andrew Bloch, mixer/sound designer.
THE SPOTS
"Security" and "Reliability" promote Sprint Business, a global communications provider and carrier of Internet traffic. The :30s, which feature a mix of live action, graphics and CG, focus on a hypothetical automobile manufacturer that runs its operation on Sprint Business technology.
Spots broke Feb. 15.
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