Word: apatow
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...every potential pitfall, Carell and Director Judd Apatow have an answer. Cliché humor like a white man speaking ghetto? Carell’s delivery assures new amusement, fo’ sho. An over-the-top portrait of the graying virgin? The movie portrays an awkward individual you might actually see walking down the street. Creating a stream of jokes about sex that are only there for shock value? Carell and Apatow have co-written a continuously raunchy comedy that pushes more buttons than “Bad Santa” and is consistently side-splitting...
...commentary tracks by the producers, writers, studio executives, actors--and even the actors' parents. It is one of the most insanely complete TV artifacts ever and, at $120, one of the most expensive. (A more modest, six-disc set sells in stores for about $70.) Executive producer Judd Apatow says the doomed series' crew had planned its shooting schedule with a DVD in mind. "We shot the final five episodes way before production ended," he says, "because we didn't know if we'd be allowed to finish...
...reshaped mainstream TV before. The Real World wouldn't have made it on CBS, but it spawned Survivor. NBC may not have aired Jackass, but it eventually gave us Fear Factor. "I'm sure the networks will find a lame, copycat way to do it wrong," says producer Judd Apatow (Undeclared). "Most television is constructed by committee. And a show like this doesn't have a committee, so it can't be watered down." The networks are already considering new twists on reality series. ABC is positioning The Hamptons, a two-part documentary by Barbara Kopple about the Long Island...
...UNDECLARED (FOX) The characters are freshmen, but the comedy is far from sophomoric. Producer Judd Apatow (of the much mourned high-school drama Freaks and Geeks) got a well-deserved, and more commercial, second chance with this college sitcom. Undeclared, starring Jay Baruchel, above, takes the eccentric sensibility of Freaks and applies it to smart, sharply observed coming-of-age stories of self-discovery, romance and beer...
...piece that could be a more commercial descendent of past moody Fox dramas like "Profit." An additional encouraging sign: the creator turns out to be Mike White, the writer and creepy star of last summer's haunting "Chuck and Buck." (Also a former "Freaks and Geeks" writer, which with Apatow makes two "F&G" alums - always a good sign for a fall schedule.) Final encouraging sign: The cast includes Martin Donovan and Phillip Baker Hall, who are sure to up the series' charmingly skeevy and regally threatening components, respectively...