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...more than $240 million (on a $5 million budget), and is about to pass Raiders of the Lost Ark as the 26th biggest-grossing movie of all time. The DVD just came out. And on Monday at 9:30 p.m. E.T., My Big Fat Greek Life debuts as a CBS sitcom (which will thereafter run on Sundays at 8 p.m. E.T.). With the entire cast reunited except for John Corbett, who had already signed up to star in his own upcoming show on FX, this is the highest-recognition sitcom since Bette Midler's last attempt. But how long...
...studio to make and distribute the film, in part because Wilson refused to give the Vardalos role to another actress. Meanwhile, the day before 9/11, Vardalos, Wilson and executive producer Marsh McCall (Just Shoot Me and a head writer for Conan O'Brien) pitched the idea to CBS, which made a pilot and then shelved it. Wilson says she faxed CBS chief Les Moonves the film's box-office figures every week. Seeing those numbers go through the roof, Moonves proposed reshooting the pilot, this time with the film's cast. He ordered seven episodes...
...Vardalos, Moonves got a Hollywood player with a lot more control than she would have had if CBS had picked up the show before the movie came out. Vardalos, 40, after telling the immigrants-shocked-by-America joke for seven years, wants to do a smaller, more character-driven family show that picks up after the couple return from their honeymoon. The family will be a little less cartoonish, not as weapons-grade Greek as it was in the film. "They will be a little hipper, a little less Old World. The risk is, we won't capture the feeling...
...cutting, hate-tinged riffs so many sitcom characters display. "The challenge is being funny without being cheap," she says. "We all genuinely like each other and don't want to be funny at each other's expense." It's difficult not to rely on sitcom conventions when CBS pushed the premiere date forward a few weeks to get the show out in time for sweeps. As of Friday, Monday's episode still wasn't finished. But the scenes we saw were those of a show that had set its goal of one day becoming Everybody Loves Raymond. And Vardalos' plan...
...million is the number of U.S. viewers who tuned in to watch CBS's broadcast last Wednesday of Dan Rather's interview with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?the first with a Western reporter in 12 years...