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Fox Gets Barenaked
They already have their million dollars. Now, the Barenaked Ladies may get their own TV show too.
The goofball Canuck rockers are working on a variety series pilot for Fox, a rep for the band confirmed Tuesday.
While the publicist wouldn't go into details on the show, the Hollywood trades report The Barenaked Ladies Variety Show will attempt to bring the band's trademark mix of lighthearted stage banter and catchy upbeat music to tube viewers.
The quintet will not only perform their own tunes, but will also play exaggerated versions of themselves in improvised sketches featuring guest actors. The bits will be woven into a story line that will run through each episode.
The bandmates--Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Kevin Hearn, Jim Creeggan and Tyler Stewart--plan to borrow comedy bits from their stage show as the foundation for the TV show's skits, not unlike how Bill Cosby modeled The Cosby Show after his comedy routines.
"This is a natural expansion to their live experience," executive producer John Ziffren told the Hollywood Reporter. "We are trying to capture that energy and make it into a TV show."
The Barenaked Ladies Variety Show is being produced by 20th Century Fox TV along with Ziffren, Ann Maney, John Pierre Tremblay, Kara Welker and Dave Rath. No word yet on a head writer.
Maney and Welker reportedly initiated the project after bumping into each other at a Barenaked Ladies gig earlier this year. The group took to the idea, especially working with Fox who gave a big boost to their career by having the Ladies appear on several of the networks' hit series, including episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210, King of the Hill and Two Guys and a Girl.
"They are a joy," Maney told the Reporter. "They have great instincts, and they are tremendously talented guys who have wonderful ideas."
The Barenaked Ladies series will be the latest prime-time variety show to hit the airwaves, part of a larger revival of the format that started with American Idol and continued with The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour and Jeff Foxworthy's Blue Collar TV.
The multiplatinum Toronto-based band got its start in the late '80s, shot to fame a decade later on the success of their fifth album, 1998's Stunt, which debuted on the Billboard charts at number three, spawned the hit "One Week," and helped them transition from clubs and theaters to stadiums.
In 2000, they snagged a Grammy nod for their single "Pinch Me" off Maroon. Other big, if quirky, hits include as "If I Had $1,000,000," "Be My Yoko Ono" and "The Old Apartment." They were also the subject of the 2000 documentary Barenaked in America, directed by fan and fellow Canadian Jason Priestley, which documented their first U.S. tour in the wake of Stunt's breakthrough success.
BNL's latest disc, Everything to Everyone, came out last year.
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