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Carey Going "Green"
Drew Carey is 'tooning up.
The bespectacled funny guy and his goofball buddies have signed on to develop Green Screen, a project for the WB combining the spontaneous energy of his hit ABC comedy, Who's Line Is It Anyway, with the art of animation, the Frog network confirmed.
(Maybe they should call it Who's 'Toon Is It Anyway?)
Carey, who will serve as executive produce of the show, is also the brainchild behind the concept, which will feature actors performing various improv games in front of a green screen, after which animators in post-production will color in the background to create worlds related to the themes of each sketch.
The comic has partnered with Acme Filmworks to do the drawing. Based on the topic of each improv, effects artists will dream up all kinds of backdrops and props employing a wide variety of animation techniques including, stop-motion, claymation, 2-D, 3-D, and CG animation--an idea one might argue is apropos for the Michigan J. Frog-fronted network.
"The idea is to bring to life all of the things that come to mind in improv," the comic told Daily Variety. "I got the idea while performing at the Improv"--the famed L.A. comedy venue where Carey and many of his "Improv All-Stars," including Ryan Stiles Kathy Kinney, Sean Masterson, and Kaitlin Olson, often get together to crack wise.
Carey will also appear in Green Screen with many of those friends as well as other alums from Who's Line and The Drew Carey Show and special guest stars. The show will be co-produced by Acme head Ron Diamond.
Filming on the pilot got underway on Thursday and given the improvisational nature of the series, producers expect to turn out episodes relatively quickly, giving Carey the opportunity to moonlight on other projects, including launching an improv tour.
However, according to Variety, work on the animated sequences will take some time.
"We can do the improv part quick, easy and cheap," Carey added. "You can tape eight shows of improv over the weekend. But the animation gets expensive and time consuming. Turnaround on the show will take about 12 weeks."
Bugs would proud.
If it gets picked up, Green Screen could air as early as this summer.
Meanwhile, in other WB news, the network has given early pickup orders to a third season of Everwood and a fourth season of Smallville.
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