Ever since the name change, Freeform has been trying to make itself known to those who aren't in the 15 to 25 year old white girl demographic. They snatched up a late night show, are adding new comedy shows, and now they have a series from Veep's Jon H. Ryan -- Timothy Simons. He wrote the script with Blacklist writers Derek Elliott and Jack Donaldson. Deadline reports the show is titled Bad Dates and will feature reenactments of real life bad dates. From the description, it sounds like 1000 Ways to Die but for dating. Freeform can add as many new shows as it likes; it'll always be known as "the network that is stuck playing The 700 Club forever."
Matt Walsh, Timothy Simons to hit the field as 'Red Shirts' in football comedy
Between Veep and A Better You (not to mention the hit Hollywood film Into The Storm), Matt Walsh is super busy. Now, the comedian is teaming up with his Veep costar Timothy Simons in order to make a comedy film about football. The movie is titled Red Shirts and it's being produced by Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films. That's all we know as of now as Variety reports the log line is being kept under lock and key. For now though, we can speculate as to what the plot will be about. Red shirting is an age old college football move for teams to maintain a certain player's eligibility. Perhaps the idea will follow Simons as he repeatedly gets red shirted by his coach, played by Walsh, and they have it out. Whatever the story is, I'm sure it'll be funny. That's how comedies work after all.