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Date Posted: 04/11/04 10:07pm
Author: Cookie
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Green Screen pilot for WB

I just caught this over at Yahoo...Check it out!

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Drew Carey's 'Green' on WB's Screen
Sunday April 11 10:50 PM ET

The WB Network has given the green light to "Green Screen," a live-action/animated improv comedy pilot from former sitcom star Drew Carey .

The concept calls for the cast to film -- in front of a green screen -- several improv games involving topics and settings suggested by the audience. In postproduction, using different animation styles, the audience suggestions will be brought to life, inserting the actors into the skit in an animated version of the theme or environment pitched by the audience, like a barbershop or a soda can, for example.

Carey, who created the show, is executive producing with Ron Diamond, the CEO of Acme Filmworks, which will provide the animation for the greenscreen effects.

While the premise of "Green Screen" bears some similarity to a recurring segment on ABC's improv comedy "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" -- which Carey hosted and executive produced -- the new show is not a spinoff of "Whose Line," said Mike Clements, the WB's co-executive vp comedy development.

"This is something that's completely different, sort of taking improv in a new interesting direction," he said. "It's got a unique twist to that genre that's never been tried before, and it feels like a really good experiment to try."

The cast of the project includes "Whose Line" and "The Drew Carey Show" alumni Colin Mochrie , Kathy Kinney , Brad Sherwood, Jeff Davis, Charles Esten, Jonathan Mangum, Greg Proops and Sean Masterson, with Ryan Stiles set to guest star in the pilot.

The animated elements will do more than merely illustrate the improv game's theme.

"There is probably a whole 'nother level of comedy that can come from these very different animation techniques that will be used," Clements said.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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We now have another show to wait and see about.

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Replies:

Taping report... -- Michelle, 04/15/04 9:15pm
- Thank you! -- Cookie, 04/15/04 10:10pm
  - Re: Thank you! -- M, 04/21/04 7:45am
  - Another Report -- Julia, 04/21/04 7:09pm
    - Thank you, Julia -- Cookie, 04/22/04 1:23am
      - Re: Thank you, Julia -- Anita, 04/22/04 10:51am
        Re: Thank you, Julia -- Julia, 04/25/04 4:58pm
        Re: Thank you, Julia -- Anita, 04/29/04 6:00pm
        Re: Thank you, Julia -- Julia, 04/30/04 5:10am
        Re: Thank you, Julia -- Anita, 04/30/04 12:53pm
        Re: Thank you, Julia -- Julia, 05/ 2/04 4:44pm
      - Re: Thank you, Julia -- Julia, 04/25/04 5:01pm

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