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Icon Productions and Universal have placed a put comedy pilot at ABC, to be executive produced by Mel Gibson, producing partner Bruce Davey, and series creators Julie Thacker and Mike Scully. The half-hour comedy series is about a blue-collar single father who is raising five boys on his own, who range in age from 13-17. Former Simpsons writer Thacker and writer/producer Scully will serve as executive producers and writers/show runners. “There are no better comedy writers than Mike and Julie and we have been looking for a project to do together for some time.” said Bruce Davey. “Mike and I decided to do a comedy about five boys because we have five girls and, trust me, there’s nothing funny about that,” said Thacker. With Scully adding, “Julie’s a very lucky woman to be working with the sexiest man alive, and Mel Gibson.” Read More >>>

Former Simpsons writer/producer Mike Scully’s series “The Pitts” was cancelled on Thursday, so where does he go from here? “We are definitely planning on shopping the show to other networks,” Mike said. “The way ‘The Pitts’ was handled by Fox has been disappointing and frustrating, but we believe passionately that there is room for a family comedy that’s unlike any other show on TV.” Mike said he will now join the staff of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and return to “The Simpsons” as a consultant. Fans of The Simpsons wont be too quick to rejoice, after all, this is the man responsible for some of the family’s darkest moments. The Pitts proved to live up to it’s namesake, but in Scully’s mind, “We think the target audience for this show is pretty much ‘The Simpsons’ audience but we thought initially the fan base of the show would be formed by kids, and then the parents would follow pretty much the same way that ‘The Simpsons’ found its audience.” Read More >>>

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Fans of The Simpsons will know Mike Scully. Whether they think of him with high regard may be another issue, given he was responsible for the seasons of The Simpsons that many people consider the worst. Al Jean is in, and Scully is out, moving onto other projects. If you’d like to know what he’s up to these days, stay tuned to Fox this Sunday, because following Malcolm In The Middle at 9:30pm is a show titled “The Pitts”, created by the husband-and-wife team of Mike Scully and Julie Thacker — another Simpsons writer. Scully tells TV Guide “It’s a live action show, but cartoony in some aspects. It’s really designed for the Simpsons audience”. Thanks for thinking of us, but the show has already sparked the kind of press forseeing that it will live up to its namesake: MyInKy.com says “It’s odd that they’ve created a series The Simpsons would have a heyday mocking”. We’ll see what viewers think after the pilot, this Sunday on Fox.