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CBS orders NCIS spinoff, The Odd Couple | EW.com
Image Credit: Skip Bolen/CBS CBS gave the go-ahead to another NCIS spinoff, along with a retelling of the classic comedy The Odd Couple that will star Matthew Perry. Tea Leoni will also debut on CBS this fall as the��.
SUBBERS 2 PLAYS NEAR MILESTONES; Barefoot to Hit 1,000 Mark Odd Couple a Year Old
Saint Subber has two good reasons these days for feeling pleased. The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park are about to celebrate memorable dates.. Barefoot in the Park, by N Simon: to play 1,000th performance
Jack Klugman, Actor of Everyman Integrity, Dies at 90
Mr. Klugman was a character actor who leapt to television stardom as Oscar Madison on “The Odd Couple” and as the crusading pathologist of “Quincy, M.E.”. Jack Klugman, the rubber-mugged character actor who leapt to television stardom in the 1970s as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple and as the crusading forensic pathologist of Quincy, ME, dies at age 90.
Revamped yet stale Odd Couple is a mismatch
But yes, it is odd that CBS would order an update of the classic 70s series The Odd Couple (Thursday, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, * out of four) ��� by way of Neil Simon s equally classic play and movie ��� and somehow end up with a show that feels so tired and.
CBS Midseason Pilot Review: The Odd Couple - Premieres.
That question was asked, of course, on the famous Tony Randall and Jack Klugman sitcom, The Odd Couple. The series was based upon the Neil Simon play (and movie) of the same name. The series was never exactly a��.
Garry Marshall On The Odd Couple Reboot and Pretty.
Marshall concurs and reminds me that the line is from the Broadway script of The Odd Couple and was cut by the censors from the beloved 1970-1975 sitcom starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, which Marshall��.
Wendell Pierce enjoys challenge of sitcom work in CBS.
The CBS remake of The Odd Couple, premiering at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 19) on WWL-TV, carries a New Orleans flag into prime time. True, it stars Matthew Perry as Oscar Madison and Thomas Lennon as Felix Unger��.
THE ODD COUPLE of Cloning Research: Mitalipov and Woo Suk.
Remember that old TV show the Odd Couple with very proper Felix Unger and his polar opposite Oscar Madison who has all kinds of baggage? Theyve cloned it into a remake to be on TV soon here in the US in 2015.
Doc Simons Rx for Comedy; Doc Simons Rx for Comedy
IN a scene in The Odd Couple, a new comedy by Neil (Barefoot in the Park) Simon opening Wednesday at the Plymouth, someone asks a newswriter for C.B.S.: Where do you gel your ideas? When the same question is addressed, offstage, to the author of The Odd Couple, Simon replies, unhelpfully: From my life.. article on Simon; illus
New On CBS Primetime, The Odd Couple �� CBS Seattle
A remake is difficult to pull off, but CBS does it with ���The Odd Couple,��� a comedy about two former college buddies who become unlikely roommates after the demise of their respective marriages. Starring Matthew Perry as��.
Odd Couple With Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon: Will It.
���Its such an elastic concept and its been steeped in TV for the last four decades,��� executive producer Bob Daily said about why Neil Simons 50-year-old comedy The Odd Couple is not a dusty sitcom premise for todays��.
Its Bicker, Bicker In New Odd Couple
NEIL SIMONS 1965 comedy, The Odd Couple, has become a classic American work of comic art. The story, based on the personalities of Mr. Simon and his brother, follows the problems faced by two unhappy roommates who discover that their conflicting personal habits interfere with everything from poker to sleep. One of them likes everything and everyone around him neat, clean and on time, while the other has not emptied an ashtray in months and has not even noticed the mess.
The Odd Couple Might Be Matthew Perrys First Successful Show Since Friends.
And now hes got a headlining role on The Odd Couple, which premieres tomorrow night on CBS. The existence of this sitcom is baffling, not only because its a weird show to reboot in 2015, but also because its weird that television keeps giving.
Corrections
An obituary of the actor Tony Randall yesterday misstated the nationality of a character in the Broadway drama M. Butterfly, in which he played an American diplomat. The diplomats love interest -- a spy who turns out to be a man in disguise -- is Chinese, not Japanese.. Correction of May 19 obituary about Tony Randall regarding several roles he played during his career
IS THIS COUPLE TOO ODD, OR NOT ODD ENOUGH?
You may well have forgotten that there was once an enterprising soul who translated a Charles Dickens novel into contemporary English in order to make it easier to read. As I remember it, when James Thurber was confronted with the results of this experiment, he announced with simple dignity, What we have here is an important step in the wrong direction. Now I dont suppose for a minute that Neil Simon has gone to the trouble of reworking his perfectly dandy comedy, The Odd Couple, in order to help us understand it. We always understood it just fine. When two divorced men decided to share an apartment, they began to behave with each other exactly as intolerably as they had with their wives. Right? The compulsively tidy Felix drove the sloblike Oscar nuts, and vice versa. We grasped it, we believed it, we laughed at it, we loved it. It didnt need help. In all probability, Mr. Simon has now decided to switch genders, turning Felix into Florence (Sally Struthers) and Oscar into Olive (Rita Moreno), because he figured the plot would function just as sturdily as it always had while the sex change would open up a whole new barrel of jokes. But it, too, is an important step in the wrong direction. Step? Its like strolling confidently off the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Can 2 Magazine Cultures Find Happiness Together?
David Cudaback, the editor of Institutional Investor, returned from a weeks vacation on Nantucket on Aug. 25 to discover that he had been dismissed. It was not the greatest 52d birthday present. For Mr. Cudaback, though, it was hardly a surprise. Euromoney Publications P.L.C., the hard-driving British publisher, had just bought his magazine and had indicated that it would replace much of Institutional Investors top management.. Euromoney Publications PLC has ousted David Cudaback, editor and 21-year veteran of Institutional Investor, and put its own managers in charge of main units of magazine, which it recently acquired; Euromoneys $142 million acquisition is British takeover of Wall Street institution; Euromoneys challenge will be to find way to merge decidedly different cultures on opposite sides of Atlantic, without jarring Institutional Investors editorial independence and established reputation for reporting and writing; photos; chart (M)
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NEIL SIMON waived his royalty for a benefit performance of The Odd Couple Sunday night, starring TONY RANDALL and JACK KLUGMAN. The sold-out evening, with dinner afterward at the Pierre, raised nearly $1.2 million for Mr. Randalls National Actors Theater. In thanks, Mr. Randall gave the first annual Odd Couple award to Mr. Simon, which was accepted by Mr. Klugman. The other recipient was AUGUST BUSCH 3d, chairman of Anheuser-Busch, who handed Mr. Randall the final $100,000 of a $300,000 company gift.
The Odd Couple Gets Post-Big Bang Theory Slot - Deadline
It will be preceded by the series debut of Odd Couple, which is getting the strongest comedy lead-in on television, The Big Bang Theory, in the Thursday 8:30 PM slot. The Odd Couple premiere will be sandwiched between an��.
Odd Couple Was Entertaining
With reference to Leah D. Franks review of The Odd Couple [ Its Bicker, Bicker in New Odd Couple, Aug. 30 ] at the Studio Theater in Lindenhurst, I saw that show and cannot believe that Ms. Frank saw the same show that I did. I found the show to be very entertaining and the cast to be very capable, especially Kathy Coletti. If the constant laughter from the audience was any barometer, this show was definitely a big hit. As a longtime subscriber to several Broadhollow Theaters, I can report that this is not the first time Ms. Frank has given a Broadhollow production a review that was less than satisfactory. After all, we attend the theater to be entertained, and entertained we are. My advice is to sit back, relax and enjoy the show. BURT LEVINE Brentwood
The One Where Matthew Perry Makes (Another) Bad Sitcom
Its unfortunately obvious why CBS has chosen to revive The Odd Couple for television. In a changing media landscape, the network remains devoted to the traditional laugh-track sitcom, and theres nothing more traditional than Neil Simons dusty old.
Was He Or Wasnt He?
Long before Carson Kressley, before Will Truman, before Frasier and Niles selected their first perfectly elegant accessory, there was Felix Unger. A metrosexual before magazines had pinpointed his demographic, Felix was the ultimate neatnik noodge, the odder half of the Odd Couple -- played with a kind of brilliantly finicky melancholy by Tony Randall. Based on the 1965 Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple was the story of two divorced men, the slobby sportswriter Oscar (Jack Klugman) and the neurotic commercial photographer Felix (Mr. Randall), living as roommates in order to save for alimony. The original opening sequence featured a dryly funny voiceover: On Nov. 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. While the shows first season in 1970 was stagy and stiff, with one camera and a laugh track, in its second year the series hit its stride, relying on a zingy comic chemistry between the two actors, whose easy rhythm elevated even the corniest jokes. Garry Marshall, the shows creator, began filming before a live audience, and the series developed a sophisticated vibe unusual for television at the time.. Emily Nussbaum article on 1960s TV series The Odd Couple, starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, focuses on whether Randalls Felix Unger character was gay; says series final episode, which will be shown on WPIX, has Ungers wife Gloria taking him back and two remarry; photo (M)
The Odd Couple review: Three strikes and Matthew Perrys out?
Friends alumnus Matthew Perry shuffles through the latest remake of The Odd Couple like a survivor of a particularly virulent form of PTSD -- post-traumatic sitcom disorder. This is Perrys third attempt in four years to revitalize his TV career.
CBS THE ODD COUPLE: What the Critics Are Saying
Theres no reason to bet against The Odd Couple, even if you werent rooting for a remake. The New York Times Alessandra Stanley says it isnt so bad. It may even work.. The new show updates the surface details without dissolving the central bond .
THE ODD COUPLE Gets Off to a Flat, Unnecessary Start
I wanted to like the pilot for CBS new show The Odd Couple, really I did. I wanted to really, really like it. But, lets face it, theres something fundamentally wobbly with making a TV show that has already been a Broadway play, then a movie, and.
Tony Randall, 84, Dies; Fussbudget Felix in Odd Couple, He Loved the Stage
Tony Randall, the sardonic actor with the commanding voice and precise diction whose career in light-comic parts in Hollywood and on the New York stage seemed the perfect preparation for his signature role as the fussbudget Felix Unger in the classic television series The Odd Couple, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 84 and lived in Manhattan. Mr. Randall died in his sleep at N.Y.U. Medical Center with his wife, Heather, by his side, said Joe Trentacosta of Springer Associates, Mr. Randalls publicity firm. Mr. Trentacosta said Mr. Randall had been hospitalized since December, when he underwent a triple heart bypass and later contracted pneumonia.. Tony Randall, stage and screen actor best known for his role in television series The Odd Couple, dies at age 84; Broadway theaters dim their lights in tribute; photos (M)
Matthew Perrys Odd Couple - Entertainment Weekly
CBS has greenlit a pilot for its The Odd Couple remake starring Matthew Perry. Theres no story details yet, with CBS simply saying the project based on Neil Simons Broadway classic about two mismatched roommates ��� the��.
Review: The Odd Couple Gets Off to a Flat, Unnecessary.
CBSs The Odd Couple is an unnecessary remake of a premise done better as a Broadway show, movie, and TV show.
The Odd Couple Review: Are the New Felix and Oscar Funny?
The Odd Couple as invented by playwright Neil Simon in the 1960s is the tale of slobbo sportswriter Oscar Madison, who makes the comic mistake of letting an old friend, neatnik Felix Unger, move in with him after Felixs wife kicks him out of their house.
The Odd Couple Producers, Stars Preview CBS Modern Reboot
As you approached this show, was there anything you really wanted to steer clear from that was handled in any of the previous version of The Odd Couple? Was there anything you had to incorporate? Lennon: I think everyone thinks, Oh, are you playing .
Popular Demand
Most first-season top sellers are fairly recent shows. The first season of The Odd Couple is being released tomorrow. The ultimate buddy comedy starred Tony Randall (above, left, in a scene from 1972) and Jack Klugman as mismatched roommates. The Odd Couple had a five-year run starting in 1970, and many more in syndication. It has attained classic sitcom status, in spite of its one-joke premise, alongside more socially nuanced hits like All in the Family (on the air from 1971-79) and M*A*S*H (1972-83). SHELLY FREIERMAN. Popular Demand column discusses release of first season of The Odd Couple television show on DVD; top sellers of television programs complete first seasons are listed; photo (S)
The new Odd Couple is not The New Odd Couple: 11 TV.
On Thursday, February 19, CBS unveils The Odd Couple, the third TV adaptation of Neil Simons play about a slovenly sports writer (Matthew Perry) rooming with his fastidious pal (Thomas Lennon) after their respective��.
F.Y.I.
Mystery Island Q.: My street map shows a speck of land called Mussel Island in the middle of Newtown Creek, roughly where it splits into Maspeth Creek and the English Kills, on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. I have looked for the island, but I cant seem to find it. Where did it go? A.: According to the current Hagstrom maps, Mussel Island should be right there behind the old Brooklyn Union Gas tanks in East Williamsburg. That stretch of Newtown Creek is for the most part inaccessible to the public, but several longtime employees of the company, known today as KeySpan Energy, said there was simply no island there, nor could anyone remember one. Local historians, including those who have explored the creek by boat, concur.. FYI column answers questions on location of Mussel Island in Newtown Creek, silencing of Bell Ringers Clock in Herald Square and location of Felix and Oscars apartment in Odd Couple movie and television series; drawings (M)
Whats on TV tonight? The Italian Americans, The Odd Couple, Two and a.
But yes, it is odd that CBS would order an update of the classic 70s series The Odd Couple (Thursday, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, * out of four) ��� by way of Neil Simons equally classic play and movie ��� and somehow end up with a show that feels so tired and.
Can Matthew Perrys Odd Couple Beat the TV Remakes Curse?
Instead, as the new Odd Couple moves into prime time this week, premiering Thursday, February 19th at 8:30 p.m. on CBS, nestled between The Big Bang Theory and the series finale of Two and a Half Men, well focus on what it has going for it besides.
Memorial Service for Tony Randall
A memorial service for Tony Randall, the actor and producer who died at 84 on May 18, is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Oct. 5 at the Majestic Theater, 245 West 44th Street. With James Naughton as its host and John Tillinger as its director, the event is to feature appearances by Harry Belafonte, Jacques dAmboise, former mayor David N. Dinkins, Charles Durning, Julie Harris, Marilyn Horne, Marthe Keller, Jack Klugman, Garry Marshall, Ethan McSweeny, Ben Vereen, Eli Wallach and others.. Memorial service for actor-producer Tony Randall to be held Oct 5 at Majestic Theater (S)
THE ODD COUPLE: Matthew Perrys vanity project falls flat
Am I supposed to know The Odd Couple? Yes. It is a 1965 Neil Simon play about two guys who both get divorced and are forced to live together. One is an irascible slob named Oscar and one is an uptight ninny named Felix. It was made into a movie, .
Community star Yvette Nicole Brown joins CBS Odd Couple
EW has confirmed that Yvette Nicole Brown, whos known for playing the god-loving and guilt-mongering housewife Shirley on Community, has been cast in the CBS reboot of The Odd Couple. Brown will play the messy Oscar��.
THE ODD COUPLE Is a Real Mess
A new Odd Couple is a valid enough setup for a show, particularly because many, many comedies are more or less The Odd Couple anyway. But this spin seems so out of touch with the world and contemporary comedy. Two different characters mention .
THE ODD COUPLE: Not nearly odd enough by todays standards
���The Odd Couple,��� premiering Thursday on CBS, is an odd choice for the latest act of dusting off a TV relic. Ive noticed that people who remember the popular Jack Klugman and Tony Randall series (which ran on ABC from 1970-1975, after a 1968 film .
Why Matthew Perry is doing CBS THE ODD COUPLE | EW.com
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS Matthew Perry is taking another swing at multi-camera comedy with CBS The Odd Couple adaptation, which comes after years of starring on mostly critically acclaimed, but low-rated series,��.
TV Review: The Odd Couple
Over the years ���The Odd Couple��� has been an extraordinarily durable concept on stage and screen, whether rewritten for women or simply ripped off. But this still feels, ultimately, both conceptually flawed and a test of how much goodwill Perry ��� who.
Trombone Shortys version of Neal Heftis iconic The Odd.
Asked to submit an updated version of Neal Heftis iconic theme to The Odd Couple movie and TV series for CBS upcoming remake, New Orleans Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews turned to senior family members for��.
CBS new sitcom THE ODD COUPLE still finding its way
Indeed, with alterations for era and situation comedy, the pilot collapses the meat and the arc of the play into 22 minutes. (It incorporates a couple of its jokes as well ��� Felix now leaves Oscar annoying electronic messages where once he left little.
Thomas Lennon brings his annoying talents of yoga and cello to The Odd.
The network has remade the classic 1970s sitcom, ���The Odd Couple,��� which originally starred Jack Klugman and Tony Randall and is based on the 1965 Neil Simon play. This time around, Matthew Perry stars as the slob, Oscar Madison, and Thomas Lennon .
Arts, Briefly
Lane & Broderick Inc. How much are theatergoers who were dazzled by The Producers willing to pay to see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, left, co-starring again on Broadway? How about more than $5 million since Monday, when individual tickets to their next show went on sale? According to Emanuel Azenberg, the lead producer, the sales were made on the Internet and by telephone. The attraction in question is the revival of the Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple, scheduled to open at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in previews on Oct. 4 and officially on Oct. 27. Mr. Lane is to play the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison and Mr. Broderick his roommate, the fussy photographer Felix Unger. Shakespeare Finds a London Home The Royal Shakespeare Company, without a home in London since it left the Barbican in 2001, has entered a five-year agreement with Sir Cameron Mackintosh, right, to present its annual London season in one of the West End theaters he owns. For its 2005-6 season the troupe will present four Shakespeare comedies at the recently renamed Novello Theater (formerly the Strand) from December to March. They are Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It and A Midsummer Nights Dream. In future years, the company will perform at the Novello, the Albery (to be renamed the Noël Coward this year) or the Gielgud. Vikki Heywood, executive director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, said, The deal secures the companys future in London while we continue our search for a long-term home for the R.S.C. in the capital. A Niemeyer Design For Potsdam Oscar Niemeyer, 97, the Brazilian architect, below, who played a major role in the 1950s and 60s in planning Brasília, the countrys futuristic capital, is to design a gigantic landscaped water park in Potsdam, near Berlin, Agence France-Presse reported. In a landscaped setting where visitors will be able to indulge a taste for saunas and thermal baths, the $38.7 million project, with four domed pools connected by glass walkways, is scheduled for completion late in 2007. Exit the Panther The Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin, below, has been withdrawn from Sony Pictures summer schedule, Reuters reported. The comedy, with Mr. Martin in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau made famous by Peter Sellers, had been scheduled for release on Aug. 5. But Sony, which got the film when it acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in April, said it wanted to give its marketing department the time and opportunity to launch this very important franchise. Release is now scheduled for Feb. 10. Josh Lucas, who until Sunday played the gentleman caller in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway, will join Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel in Wolfgang Petersens remake of the 1972 disaster drama The Poseidon Adventure, Reuters reported. Molly Ringwald, now 37, says she is in discussions to make a sequel to her popular 1984 film Sixteen Candles, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Ringwald, who has been appearing in theater and small television and film roles and rearing a daughter who is now 1 1/2 years old, said she had repeatedly turned down approaches to do a Sixteen Candles sequel but had recently read a script that she liked. Now, it seems right, she said. The Potter Files Just in case the world didnt know that a new Harry Potter novel was scheduled for release on July 16, two men were arrested in Britain over the weekend and accused of trying to sell a copy of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to a reporter for $90,800. On this side of the Atlantic, Barbara Marcus, the president of childrens publishing at Scholastic, the American publisher, said 10.8 million copies had been printed, Reuters reported. She said that security was tight and that Scholastic was relying on booksellers to make sure there were no leaks or early sales. They really know what their responsibility is, she said, adding that the threat of being cut off from future shipments helped to deter rule breaking.. Arts, Briefly column; producer Emanuel Azenberg reports more than $5 million in sales in two days for revival of Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, which is opening on Broadway in October; photo (S)
CHRONICLE
After 10 years spent trying to make it happen, TONY RANDALL expects to establish the National Players on Broadway this fall. Mr. Randall and JOHN NEVILLE will be the artistic directors of the players, a national classical repertory company to be based at the Belasco Theater. Mr. Neville, an actor, is a former director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Mr. Randall said yesterday that he had raised the companys first-year budget of $3 million and planned to announce the repertory and actors soon. The first season will be a six-month season of three plays, he said, with at least one American classic a year. To benefit the company, he will appear on June 23 in a one-performance production of The Odd Couple at the Belasco, reunited after 10 years with JACK KLUGMAN. The actor underwent surgery for cancer of the throat two years ago, but a spokeswoman said yesterday: Hes perfectly healthy. He wouldnt commit to the performance if he didnt think he could do it. In a casting coup, Mr. Randall flew to London last weekend to engage VANESSA and LYNN REDGRAVE for the show. They are to play the dizzy Englishwomen, the Pigeon sisters, who live upstairs from Felix and Oscar in the NEIL SIMON comedy.
New On CBS Primetime, The Odd Couple - KPIX - CBS Local
A remake is difficult to pull off, but CBS does it with ���The Odd Couple,��� a comedy about two former college buddies who become unlikely roommates after the demise of their respective marriages. Starring Matthew Perry as��.
Whats on TV this week? NCIS: New Orleans, The Odd.
The Mentalist Back-to-back episodes, the second of which is the series finale. 7 p.m. WWL. Thursday. The Odd Couple The remake - with Wendell Pierce in a supporting role and Trombone Shorty powering an updated theme��.
The Odd Couple
Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in Big Mouth, which originally aired Sept. 22, 1972.
