Steven Weber going back to sit-coms
That Steven Weber is one busy dude. The erstwhile Jack Rudolph on Studio 60 has a guest-starring role coming up on Brothers & Sisters. He’s got a Lifetime movie, More of Me, co-starring Molly Shannon as a woman who splits herself into three, coming up on November 17. He’s “a spewer of hyperbolic, liberal-leaning outrage” in a Huffington Post blog. And now, once again, he’s set to be a sit-com star.
According to TVGuide.com, Weber has been tapped to play the lead role in NBC’s Zip, about, to quote, “a Beverly Hills hanger-on who, with a colorful cast of accomplices, concocts one scheme after another to ‘make it big’ and provide for his three kids.” Wow. Is it just me, or does that sound terrifically unpromising? Sounds like something Jordan would make a joke about.
TV Squad reports that this is not the first time around for Zip, which was previously rejected by NBC as a pilot with a different cast. I think they made the right choice the first time around.
Weber has done the sit-com thing before, with Wings and Cursed. I don’t know that I’d say he should never do the sit-com thing again. But more recently, he’s been doing such a great job in more dramatic roles, with Studio 60 and Once and Again before that. I’m looking forward to see what he can do opposite Rachel Griffiths in Brothers & Sisters. A silly sit-com with a weak-sounding premise? Not so much. But maybe he’ll make it work.
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