We mentioned this in passing yesterday, but Ashton Kutcher is producing a sitcom. Not any sitcom – a sitcom that couldn’t resemble his life any more closely if it was called Laugh At That Tall Idiot Out Of Punk’d.
The sitcom, called 30-Year-Old Grandpa, will follow the hilarious exploits of a young man married to a much older woman, with hilarious consequences. Demi must be thrilled.
30-Year-Old Grandpa is one of several comedy pilots that are being
developed for possible inclusion in future Fox schedules, although it
is the one getting the most publicity. The fact that it basically
sounds like it will be the life of Ashton Kutcher (DVDs) and Demi Moore (DVDs) with a
laugh track is coincidental. Probably.
20th Century Fox Television is denying that 30-Year-Old Grandpa will
just be Ashton and Demi: The Sitcom, though. After all, the lead
character is a club owner – not a movie actor of limited skill. And
he’s 30, not 27 like Ashton is. See? Completely different.
According to Reuters, the premise of the sitcom…
…centres
on a 30-year-old nightclub owner and a 40-something
businesswoman who get married and discover they’re expecting a child.
At the same time, the woman’s 22-year-old unwed daughter announces she
is and plans to move home to raise her baby — turning the
show’s leading man into a grandfather overnight. The woman’s
younger daughter, who had been living with her father, decides she,
too, wants to live with mom and the new stepdad.
We
haven’t seen the show, so we couldn’t possibly comment on it,
especially as it hasn’t been casted. But it’s being written by Holly
Hester who wrote The Drew Carey Show. And that was rubbish.
But if this takes off, maybe other actors will get in on the act of
making sitcoms out of their life. Like Lindsay Lohan making a comedy a
young starlet that can’t drive a car, with hilarious consequences. Or an Eddie Murphy sitcom about a man who keeps unknowingly
giving rides to transvestite prostitutes. With hilarious consequences.
Read more:
Kutcher, Moore Romance Inspires Sitcom – Reuters
[story by Stuart Heritage]