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LARRY SANDERS’ Peter Tolan
To Team With STUDIO 60’s
Matthew Perry On Showtime’s
Backstage Comedy Pilot STEVE!!

I am – Hercules!!



Peter Tolan’s name is on more teleplays of “The Larry Sanders Show,” likely the best sitcom ever forged, than the name of any other human.

Tolan is now teaming with “Studio 60” vet Matthew Perry for another comedy set behind the scenes of a TV show. “Steve” is a Showtime pilot about the bitter host of a local afternoon talk show who falls for his co-host.

Perry co-created “Steve” much as Denis Leary co-created “Rescue Me” with Tolan. Will Perry have an active role in the scripting, as Leary does?

Things are hopping over at Showtime these days. Monday’s “Weeds” season premiere, the first to star comedy genius Albert Brooks, garnered the best ratings in the channel’s history. Newcomer “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” on the same night eclipsed previous record holder “The L Word” with the best premiere ratings in Showtime history.

Read all of Variety’s story on “Steve” here.


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Eh?
by LordPorkington
Jun 19th, 2008
12:02:26 PM
Can someone explain why Albert Brooks is a comedy genius?
by happywaffle
Jun 19th, 2008
12:09:18 PM
I think I've become a Matthew Perry fan...
by commiepinko
Jun 19th, 2008
12:17:50 PM
happywaffle
by Hercules
Jun 19th, 2008
12:25:59 PM
happywaffle...
by LordPorkington
Jun 19th, 2008
12:39:15 PM
sounds good to me
by Basehead
Jun 19th, 2008
12:46:03 PM
but
by Basehead
Jun 19th, 2008
12:46:20 PM
Studio 60 was a real loss for smart, quality TV...
by Gabba-UK
Jun 19th, 2008
12:54:42 PM
Hercules re: Albert Brooks...
by Sailor Rip
Jun 19th, 2008
01:15:59 PM
dioxholster...
by LordPorkington
Jun 19th, 2008
01:17:00 PM
"...“The Larry Sanders Show,” likely the best sitcom ever forged
by MrSensitive
Jun 19th, 2008
01:21:18 PM
dioxholster, the fact that they took their jobs so
by Big Jim
Jun 19th, 2008
02:43:23 PM
You lost me at "Matthew Perry"
by MaxCalifornia.
Jun 19th, 2008
03:11:19 PM
Studio 60 was too preachy and elitist for its own good
by TVguy4566
Jun 19th, 2008
03:11:51 PM
MaxCalifornia
by TVguy4566
Jun 19th, 2008
03:14:55 PM
This sounds fucking perfect for me...
by DanielKurland
Jun 19th, 2008
03:55:48 PM
People complained that Studio 60 wasn't funny...
by DanielKurland
Jun 19th, 2008
04:01:22 PM
I still think Jim Carrey's best comedic performance is...
by DanielKurland
Jun 19th, 2008
04:04:16 PM
bacci40, the Christmas episode was also good
by Big Jim
Jun 19th, 2008
04:05:04 PM
Sorkin did more work than people think on the sketches...
by DanielKurland
Jun 19th, 2008
04:12:43 PM
Studio 60 deserved a second season
by supertoyslast
Jun 19th, 2008
05:28:20 PM
I think this is just what Matthew Perry needs
by skimn
Jun 19th, 2008
05:47:04 PM
Albert Brooks
by skimn
Jun 19th, 2008
05:52:35 PM
Studio 60 was one of the best shows around
by Nabster
Jun 19th, 2008
07:31:47 PM
Another behind the scenes show?
by INWOsuxRED
Jun 19th, 2008
08:37:36 PM
Matthew Perry ruins EVERYTHING he touches
by Nasty In The Pasty
Jun 19th, 2008
09:39:20 PM
On Studio 60
by TVguy4566
Jun 19th, 2008
10:54:00 PM
Nasty In The Pasty
by TVguy4566
Jun 19th, 2008
10:57:06 PM
Studio 60 was genius
by GregoryHarbin
Jun 20th, 2008
12:18:05 AM
loved Studio 60
by oisin5199
Jun 20th, 2008
01:23:54 AM
REMEMBER TIM BATALE
by SnapT
Jun 20th, 2008
02:49:37 AM
Oh, how I love 30 Rock.
by David Cloverfield
Jun 20th, 2008
03:58:17 AM
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.
by JMcLovin
Jun 20th, 2008
06:24:44 AM
Studio 60 was good and could be brilliant
by CrichtonAstronut
Jun 20th, 2008
10:08:45 AM
Studio 60 was a failure as a show...
by Brians Life
Jun 20th, 2008
11:06:38 AM
More Arrested Love
by skimn
Jun 20th, 2008
11:24:54 AM
Arrested Development...best show in the last 10 years
by Brians Life
Jun 20th, 2008
11:31:07 AM
Yeah. Set in Rochester?
by Darth_Nader
Jun 20th, 2008
10:39:18 PM
Saddest thing about AD...
by DanielKurland
Jun 21st, 2008
05:16:03 PM
Brian's Life..
by DanielKurland
Jun 21st, 2008
05:17:59 PM
'none of us ever believed...the BIG THREE of late night comedy t
by GregoryHarbin
Jun 22nd, 2008
08:05:15 AM
Arested Development
by p0llk4t
Jun 22nd, 2008
02:46:15 PM
The Larry Sanders show isn't the greatest sitcom ever. Curb Your
by Luscious.868
Jun 23rd, 2008
10:40:06 AM
What does this mean for Rescue Me?
by BLWiseass
Jun 23rd, 2008
12:12:06 PM
Just re-watch Weber's monologue in "Nevada Day, Part II"...
by DanielKurland
Jun 23rd, 2008
10:05:21 PM

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