Posted on 11/05/2003 7:59:49 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Oscar winner Mel Gibson has teamed with ABC to develop a family comedy inspired by his life as a father of six boys, Backstage.com reports. The still-untitled project, which has received a pilot commitment, centers on a blue-collar single father who is raising five teen boys on his own. The web site also reported that Gibson is working with veteran producer Aaron Spelling on "The Clubhouse," a coming-of-age drama for CBS. Emmy winners Julie Thacker and Mike Scully ("The Simpsons") created the ABC comedy and will write the script. The husband-and-wife duo will executive produce the Universal Network TV project with Gibson and his Icon Prods. partner, Bruce Davey. Gibson and his wife of 23 years have seven children, six of them boys. As a father of six boys, Gibson will be "an endless source of material" for the show, Universal TV Prods. president David Kissinger told Backstage. "Mel, Mike and Julie have come up with a hilarious show that portrays the rough-and-tumble and noisy truth about raising boys," he said. "It's a perfect fit with the smart, contemporary family sitcoms that are ABC's hallmark." In addition to the ABC comedy and the CBS drama, Icon also is developing an NBC drama about a family man-turned-government assassin and another drama for UPN about a hotshot attorney who gives up his playboy lifestyle to raise his 6-month-old niece.
Wow, when you're right, you're right. I have 4 girls and only one boy, and HIS room is the stinkiest. And he hasn't even been in it for awhile since he's away at school. The fragrance lingers...
The Gibson Bunch, the Gibson Bunch, thats the way they became the Gibson Bunch.
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