Blessed with good looks, a winning smile, hippie parents, and a sunny California upbringing, life has been relatively easy for Logan Wood so far. After nearly four decades of coasting along through countless women and random jobs, he now teaches yoga to the hot moms, trophy wives and aspiring celebrities of Santa Monica and Venice Beach.
But when Logan breaks up with his successful older girlfriend Amanda (Paget Brewster), who happens to be the owner of the yoga studio, things start to get complicated for the first time.
Down Dog is a satirical comedy pilot written by Robin Schiff (Are You There Chelsea?) that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Will Greenberg (Halt and Catch Fire), Andrea Savage (The Life and Times of Tim), Amir Talai (American Dad), Alysia Reiner (Orange is the New Black) – with Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star...
But when Logan breaks up with his successful older girlfriend Amanda (Paget Brewster), who happens to be the owner of the yoga studio, things start to get complicated for the first time.
Down Dog is a satirical comedy pilot written by Robin Schiff (Are You There Chelsea?) that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Will Greenberg (Halt and Catch Fire), Andrea Savage (The Life and Times of Tim), Amir Talai (American Dad), Alysia Reiner (Orange is the New Black) – with Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star...
- 2/11/2015
- Hollywonk
Josh Casaubon
Down Dog, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”
Written by Robin Schiff
Directed by Brad Silberling
Released January 15, 2015 by Amazon
Writer Robin Schiff, while perhaps best known for her work on Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, has also been a noticeable presence on television, writing for shows such as Party of Five, Are you there, Chelsea?, and Super Fun Night. Amazon’s latest round of pilots sees Schiff delve into creating her own show, as she writes the pilot for Down Dog, about a yoga instructor who finds his life suddenly thrown into turmoil. Unfortunately, the pilot stumbles out of the gate and never recovers, as a combination of conflicting messages about the lead character and unmemorable or reductive secondary characters make this potential show one with little to no promise.
The episode seems oddly confused about how to feel about the lead character and his actions, which...
Down Dog, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”
Written by Robin Schiff
Directed by Brad Silberling
Released January 15, 2015 by Amazon
Writer Robin Schiff, while perhaps best known for her work on Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, has also been a noticeable presence on television, writing for shows such as Party of Five, Are you there, Chelsea?, and Super Fun Night. Amazon’s latest round of pilots sees Schiff delve into creating her own show, as she writes the pilot for Down Dog, about a yoga instructor who finds his life suddenly thrown into turmoil. Unfortunately, the pilot stumbles out of the gate and never recovers, as a combination of conflicting messages about the lead character and unmemorable or reductive secondary characters make this potential show one with little to no promise.
The episode seems oddly confused about how to feel about the lead character and his actions, which...
- 1/24/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Get ready to watch, rate and review Amazon’s just-released pilots – a slate of 13 original comedy, drama, docuseries and kids offerings now available on Amazon Instant Video.
The pilots come from a talented creative roster that includes both newcomers discovered through Amazon Studios as well as highly-acclaimed veterans such as Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), Carlton Cuse (Lost), Randall Wallace (Braveheart), Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Brad Silberling (Jane the Virgin, Lemony Snickets…), Mark Waters (Mean Girls), Academy and Emmy Award winning director Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie), Angela Santomero (Blue’s Clues), and Carol Greenwald (Arthur).
Over the course of the next four weeks, viewer feedback will ultimately help to decide which of them get picked up to full series. So your opinions matter! You could help choose the next Golden Globe-winning series, after all.
Check out the synopsis of each of them below, and start watching them here today.
The pilots come from a talented creative roster that includes both newcomers discovered through Amazon Studios as well as highly-acclaimed veterans such as Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), Carlton Cuse (Lost), Randall Wallace (Braveheart), Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Brad Silberling (Jane the Virgin, Lemony Snickets…), Mark Waters (Mean Girls), Academy and Emmy Award winning director Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie), Angela Santomero (Blue’s Clues), and Carol Greenwald (Arthur).
Over the course of the next four weeks, viewer feedback will ultimately help to decide which of them get picked up to full series. So your opinions matter! You could help choose the next Golden Globe-winning series, after all.
Check out the synopsis of each of them below, and start watching them here today.
- 1/15/2015
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios announced Tuesday it will unveil a new slate of pilots starring performers such as Brian Dennehy, Paget Brewster and Steve Zahn on Jan. 15. The company has been aggressively shuffling its programming lineup early in the new year. The pilot announcement came only a day after the company revealed it kiboshed a series order for Chris Carter's "The After." Despite getting strong viewer feedback and a series greenlight, only the pilot of "The After" was produced. Still, Amazon is keeping faith with its viewer feedback model. “We look forward to seeing our customers’ response to these new projects," Roy Price, Amazon Studios vice president, told Variety. “We are working with great storytellers on some fascinating ideas for the year’s first pilot season." The seven new primetime pilots, which include a documentary series titled "The New Yorker Presents," and six new kids pilots will debut on Amazon Instant Video,...
- 1/6/2015
- backstage.com
Amazon Studios is ready to show audiences the new TV projects it has been working on. The production house announced it will debut its first pilot season of the year on January 15, 2015.
The Studios will release 13 different pilots covering the comedy, drama, documentary, and children’s genres. Seven of the pilots were announced in November 2014, including an alternate history piece called The Man in the High Castle from executive producer Ridley Scott and the yoga-themed comedy Down Dog starring How I Met Your Mother’s Lyndsy Fonseca. The remaining six pilots are all children’s programming selections.
Amazon Prime members in the U.S., UK, and Germany will be able to watch the pilots on Amazon Instant Video and submit feedback on which shows they’d like to see turned into full seasons. "We are working with great storytellers on some fascinating ideas for the year's first pilot season," said Roy Price,...
The Studios will release 13 different pilots covering the comedy, drama, documentary, and children’s genres. Seven of the pilots were announced in November 2014, including an alternate history piece called The Man in the High Castle from executive producer Ridley Scott and the yoga-themed comedy Down Dog starring How I Met Your Mother’s Lyndsy Fonseca. The remaining six pilots are all children’s programming selections.
Amazon Prime members in the U.S., UK, and Germany will be able to watch the pilots on Amazon Instant Video and submit feedback on which shows they’d like to see turned into full seasons. "We are working with great storytellers on some fascinating ideas for the year's first pilot season," said Roy Price,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Amazon Studios’ first pilot season of 2015 will debut Thursday, Jan. 15, unveiling seven drama and comedy projects as well as a half-dozen kid-centric pilots.
Already due to debut via Amazon Studios this year are the first full seasons of Bosch, Hand of God and Red Oaks, plus Season 2 of Transparent. (Chris Carter’s The After meanwhile just had its series order scrapped.)
The dramas and comedies are as follows (click photos to zoom):
Cocked | Created by Samuel Baum (Lie to Me) and Sam Shaw (Manhattan), this drama stars Sam Trammell (True Blood) as a man who 20 years ago left his...
Already due to debut via Amazon Studios this year are the first full seasons of Bosch, Hand of God and Red Oaks, plus Season 2 of Transparent. (Chris Carter’s The After meanwhile just had its series order scrapped.)
The dramas and comedies are as follows (click photos to zoom):
Cocked | Created by Samuel Baum (Lie to Me) and Sam Shaw (Manhattan), this drama stars Sam Trammell (True Blood) as a man who 20 years ago left his...
- 1/6/2015
- TVLine.com
Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, launching January 15th, when seven new primetime and six new kids pilots will debut on Amazon Instant Video. As with previous pilot seasons, viewers in the Us, UK and Germany will be invited to watch, rate and review them all over the course of four weeks, ultimately helping to decide which of them get picked up to full series.
The new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and a legion of talented actors, directors and producers signed on to bring the pilots to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:
Primetime Pilots
The Man in the High Castle – Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
The new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and a legion of talented actors, directors and producers signed on to bring the pilots to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:
Primetime Pilots
The Man in the High Castle – Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
- 1/5/2015
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios announced a slate of seven new pilots Wednesday, including one set in West L.A. and another being produced from a script selected through its open submissions process. Amazon has become known for shooting its pilots and series in Los Angeles, where TV production has been on the decline in recent years. For instance, author Michael Connelly insisted that every scene of “Bosch,” a series focused on a Los Angeles police detective, be shot locally. Now, “Down Dog” is set to join Amazon’s L.A.-centered scripted lineup. The pilot stars Josh Casaubon as a “dashing, happy-go-lucky L.A. yoga instructor [who] has breezed through life, women and jobs, but when he breaks up with the woman who runs his yoga studio, he’s finally forced to face obstacles, and has to learn how to transcend himself,” according to Hollywonk, the Amazon Studios blog. “Our first pilot season...
- 11/13/2014
- backstage.com
As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
A&E orders “Donnie Loves Jenny” starring Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy After appearing together on A&E’s “Wahlburgers,” the “Blue Bloods” star and the former “View” co-host will front their own 10-episode reality show that will focus on their life as newlyweds. “Donnie Loves Jenny” will consist of one hour-long episode, plus nine half-hour episodes. “The Newsroom” and “The Comeback” return down About 1.2 million watched the final season premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series, while just 300,000 tuned in for the heavily hyped return of Lisa Kudrow’s reality TV parody. About 1.5 million watched “The Comeback’s” Season 1 premiere and 920,000 stuck around for the season finale. Plus: John Oliver’s season finale watched by 796,000. Bob Dylan wanted to become an HBO sitcom star!? Larry Charles, the former “Seinfeld” writer and director of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Borat,” recalls taking a meeting with the music icon in the early ‘90s.
- 11/11/2014
- by Norman Weiss
- Hitfix
A close-up look at a family torn apart by the start of the Civil War. An adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s alternate history of the United States post-World War II. A satire of new age yoga culture in west Los Angeles. And a docu-series based on America’s most award-winning magazine.
Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, when seven new series will debut their first episodes in January on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and U.K.. As with previous pilot seasons, you’ll be invited to watch each of them and provide feedback on the ones you’d like to see become full series.
The seven new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and an impressive roster of talented actors have signed on to bring each pilot to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:
Cocked — A big city corporate lapdog...
Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, when seven new series will debut their first episodes in January on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and U.K.. As with previous pilot seasons, you’ll be invited to watch each of them and provide feedback on the ones you’d like to see become full series.
The seven new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and an impressive roster of talented actors have signed on to bring each pilot to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:
Cocked — A big city corporate lapdog...
- 11/11/2014
- Hollywonk
Amazon is entering pilot season strong with seven pilots for shows with big names attached. The pilots will include hour-long shows Cocked, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, and Point of Honor, half-hour shows Down Dog and Salem Rogers, and the half-hour docu-series The New Yorker Presents. Cocked is the hour-long dark comedy from Lie to Me's Sam Baum and Manhattan's Sam Shaw. It stars Sam Trammell as Richard Paxson, a man who returns to his rural Virginia family after leaving acrimoniously 20 years ago. Now, Paxson returns with his liberal family to the dysfunctional family he left behind,...
- 11/11/2014
- by Teresa Jue
- EW - Inside TV
Amazon's 2015 pilots will premiere early next year, the company announced today. The newest slate has seven shows — four hourlong scripted series, two half-hour scripted series, and a half-hour kinda-sorta-documentary series. Behold:Cocked: An hourlong dark comedy about a gun-loving family whose liberal prodigal son returns. True Blood's Sam Trammell plays the son who swore he'd never come back to Virginia; Jason Lee plays the son who never left. Down Dog: A hunky yoga instructor's life starts to crumble in this half-hour sitcom. Paget Brewster plays his boss/ex, and Kris Kristofferson also appears. Mad Dogs: In the slightly higher-profile department, this hourlong dark comedy stars Steve Zahn, Billy Zane, Romany Malco, Michael Imperioli, and Ben Chaplin as a group of high-school friends who reunite in Belize — and then things get a little out of control. The show's based on a U.K. series, and The Shield...
- 11/11/2014
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
Plucky Community‘s sixth season, which will stream on Yahoo! Screen, has added Criminal Minds alum Paget Brewster and onetime Enlisted man Keith David as series regulars.
As reported by TV Guide Magazine, Brewster — who last January guest-starred on Community as Greendale’s It department boss, Debra Chambers — is formally boarding the series as a different character, college consultant Francesca “Frankie” Dart. David meanwhile will play Elroy Patashnik, a retired scientist looking to “reinvent himself.”
Brewster’s other recent comedic credits include appearances on Key & Peele and Drunk History, and Modern Family. David’s other on-camera TV credits include Scorpion and The Cape,...
As reported by TV Guide Magazine, Brewster — who last January guest-starred on Community as Greendale’s It department boss, Debra Chambers — is formally boarding the series as a different character, college consultant Francesca “Frankie” Dart. David meanwhile will play Elroy Patashnik, a retired scientist looking to “reinvent himself.”
Brewster’s other recent comedic credits include appearances on Key & Peele and Drunk History, and Modern Family. David’s other on-camera TV credits include Scorpion and The Cape,...
- 11/10/2014
- TVLine.com
Jane the Virgin director Brad Silbering is staying put at CBS TV Studios. News of his overall deal comes just a day after the CW announced the critically-acclaimed dramedy, which he also executive produces, was granted a full season order. Silbering helmed the pilot for CW's sophomore entry Reign, too, also at CBS TV Studios. More recently, Silberling directed the half-hour Amazon pilot Down Dog, with Bob Cooper producing. The half-hour entry centers on a surfer (Bad Teacher's Josh Casaubon) devoid of ambition and described as a Peter Pan who has been sliding through life on his
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- 10/22/2014
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prolific film and television director and producer Brad Silberling has signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios. Under the two-year pact, Silberling will develop and produce projects for the studio. Silberling's credits include directing the film's “City of Angels,” “Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events,” 10 Items or Less” and “Moonlight Mile,” which he also wrote. See photos: Fall TV Preview: 85 New and Returning Shows On the television side, he directed CW's “Jane the Virgin” pilot, more than 20 episodes of “Reign” and “NYPD Blue,” among many others. He just directed the half-hour pilot “Down Dog” for Amazon with Bob.
- 10/22/2014
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
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