Trailer: HBO’s ‘Family Tree’ - May
Comedy series from Christopher Guest, starring Chris O’Dowd, Tom Bennett and Nina Conti with appearances by Carrie Aizley, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Guest, Don Lake, Michael McKean, Lisa Palfrey, Jim Piddock, Kevin Pollak, Fred Willard and more.
(via Film Thrasher)
The beloved British comedy series starring Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade is on sale for the next four hours.
We’re told it’s an improvised genealogy comedy called Family Tree, and it follows the efforts of one man — in this case, Bridesmaids star Chris O’Dowd — as he attempts to track down his real family.
Our spies tell us that Piddock and Guest want to do their half-hour show both largely improvised and commercial-free, à la Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and so NBCUniversal International Television is shopping the project to various pay services like HBO, Showtime, and even Netflix.
Anyone who has seen the trailer for Friends With Kids knows that the March 9 comedy could easily be a bizarro-world spiritual sequel to Bridesmaids, what with a cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, and Chris O’Dowd. But the film boasts even more lovable cast members: Friends With Kids focuses on two friends, played by Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt, who decide to have a child together, platonically.
