Over the holidays, Ned, an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird.
Over the holidays, Ned, an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird.
Megan Mullally is set to bring the funny in the upcoming Fox comedy, Why Him. The Will and Grace alum joins Bryan Cranston and James Franco for the movie directed and co-written by John Hamburg. Mullally will play Barb Fleming, wife to Cranston’s Ned.
Cranston will star as an overprotective father, whose daughter is dating an internet billionaire.
Logline: A Midwestern father who takes his family to visit his Standford-attending daughter at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with her boyfriend, a young Internet billionaire.
Logline: Story of a guy in his late 30s who discovers he’s able to date the broadest age group, women in their early 20s up to women in their fifties, finding the “sweet spot” of the dating world.
Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.
Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.
Logline: After losing his job and getting dumped by his girlfriend just before the holidays, a depressed man decides to spend Christmas alone, a plan that is quickly ruined by his dysfunctional neighbors.
Logline: A middle-aged “loser” searches for treasure underneath New York City tunnels.
Logline: Two estranged brothers who share the same father are forced to go on a road trip with one another.
FOX picks up a father/son dating comedy, HBO gets documental with the Tropic Thunder gang, NBC gets into drug trouble, girl trouble and aging trouble, while USA hands out pilot commitments to a trio of new shows, and Community gets a few more episodes thanks to that spectacular Halloween episode!
Logline: Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.
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