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NBC is Giving This Penn Alum “Friends with Benefits”…and How You Can Get A Studio To Produce Your TV Pilot
For all those aspiring Penn TV writers, here’s some advice for you, if you write a hit film, studios are more receptive to giving you your own TV pilot. Case in point for one talented Penn alum…Recently, NBC okayed the single-camera comedy pilot “Friends With Benefits” for (500) Days of Summer writer Scott Neustadter (C’98, […]
He’s the TV Medical Consultant on this New Show Promoted On The Superbowl
At last year’s Penn in Pictures event, Zach Lutsky (C’97, AEPi) talked about his experiences working as a medical consultant on the hit show “ER”. Now Zach tells me about “Miami Medical”, the new Jerry Bruckheimer CBS drama he’s been working on that debuts on April 2. And if you saw the Superbowl yesterday, […]
Here’s the Situation: MTV’s Jersey Shore Pokes Fun of Themselves! (PENN ALUM VIRAL VIDEO)
Last August, I I posted about producer Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series) and his hot viral video take-offs about (1) Trojan Condoms and (2) the film American Psycho. Since then, Jake has produced a very funny, very NSFW viral video with Scott Baio. And now Jake […]
This Beauty Is Playing A Hag on TV (VIDEO)
Another Penn “winning woman” on TV’s “Modern Family” this Wednesday (11/18) night! In the episode Elizabeth Banks (C’96) guest stars as a longtime friend of new parents Cam and Mitchell. Based on the clip above, it looks like she’s going to be pretty funny! More of DT’s Liz Banks posts HERE Share Tweet Homecoming Oct. […]
He’s Getting Down and Dirty in the Ancient World (New TV Series alert!)
If you got a BA at Penn in Classics, and then went on to get your PhD in Classics from UT Austin, as well as a Fullbright scholarship and an American Academy in Rome fellowship, you just know the History Channel is going to be knocking at your door… And they are for Penn alum […]
This Real Life Doctor Is “Acting” as a Doctor on TV Again (VIDEOS)
Did you catch doctor-turned-actor Roy Vongtama (C’96) on last Thursday’s “Private Practice”? Yes, another alum associated with ABC/Disney. Speaking of “Private Practice”, remember when actress Kate Walsh came to Penn for the Obama campaign? (Videos HERE) In last week’s episode, Roy plays a top notch psychiatrist. Roy tells me that his part is potentially recurring […]
