13 September 2010,
Mike & Molly creator Chuck Lorre talks exclusively to USA Today about his Three shows, Mike & Molly, The Big Bang Theory and Two and A Half Men in the video below;
While the new sitcom "Mike & Molly" spins around two single people who hook up at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting, the stars and creative team insist the show isn't about being fat. Instead, they say, it's about people who happen to be fat.
"The questions feel a little bit like Hollywood is going, 'Are there fat people out there where you come from?'" joked actor Billy Gardell, who plays Mike.
"Mike & Molly" is the brainchild of Mark Roberts, working again with Chuck Lorre ("Two and Half Men"), who serves as an executive producer.
"I would hope that if this show does anything, it's not going to start a trend of 90 shows about fat people, because that's not what we're about," he said.
"But if it starts a trend of putting people with different kinds of flaws that are real on TV, I think everybody will breathe a sigh of relief."
"Mike & Molly" debuts Sept. 20 on CBS, 9:30 p.m. Labels: Billy Gardell, CBS, Chuck Lorre, Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly, Season 1
When “Mike & Molly” becomes this fall’s breakout comedy hit — you read it here first — producer Lorre will have struck gold with three entirely original concepts: a bawdy romp involving bachelors (“Two and a Half Men”), a “Friends”-ish apartment sitcom with polymaths (“The Big Bang Theory”) and now, a romantic comedy with overeaters. What’s more, he’ll have done this in an age when the traditional four-camera sitcom is widely viewed as, well, a thing of the past.
What's his secret?
“You learn as you go,” Lorre said this week when unveiling “Mike & Molly” for the nation’s television critics at their summer press tour. “It’s really gratifying and rewarding at times — but mostly, it’s terrifying."
Lorre thinks it’s a distraction even to think of it as a fat comedy. In fact, it was conceived as more like “Mike & Mark” — a bromance — before he thought of the O.A. angle. “This isn’t a show about weight,” Lorre says. “If we’re still talking about this issue come Episode 6, we’ve got a serious problem because it’ll get tired really quickly. It’s not enough to hang a series on, not by any stretch of the imagination. Mothers, sons, fathers, lovers, friends, money, health, work — those are the things you write about."
Read the full article HERE.
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10 August 2010,
Coming this fall to CBS is “Mike & Molly,” a love-story sitcom featuring a couple who bond at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Starring Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy, the show arrives from Chuck Lorre and Mark Roberts. Lorre admits that it is unusual.
“We had the courage and, I think, the wisdom to just cast people that are just people. ... They’re trying to make their lives better and find someone that they can love and be loved by,” he says. “It may be odd for television, but I hope it’s reflective of some kind of reality that people will experience.” - Kansascity.com
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