A year ago, Charter Communications’ new original content division headed by Katherine Pope made its first major programming move, picking up L.A.’s Finest as the maiden series for Charter's platform Spectrum Originals. The Sony Pictures TV/Bruckheimer TV-produced drama starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, an…

The long-in-the-works Mad About You revival with original stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt has found a home. Charter Communications' premium content platform, Spectrum Originals, has picked up the new Mad About You to air as a limited series. The half-hour comedy, from showrunner Peter Tolan and Sony Pictures…

Helen Hunt is confident that a reboot of classic 1990s comedy Mad About You will happen but told Deadline she's "resigned from handicapping when.” This comes six months after her co-star Paul Reiser, who created the NBC comedy with Danny Jacobson, claimed he was not optimistic about the revival's chances. Hunt said…

Not good news for fans who have been hoping for a revival of hit ’90s sitcom Mad About You. Original series co-creator and star Paul Reiser says he’s not optimistic it will happen. “It's kind of stuck in the business end of it now,” Reiser told the Tampa Bay Times. “Sony is trying to figure out from their end; that's…

Sony Pictures TV has tapped one of the top comedy showrunners on its roster, Peter Tolan, to write and showrun the revival of Mad About You, which reunites original stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. The project is currently being shopped to networks. With the hire of Tolan, whose deal for Mad About You is currently…

Looks like we’re closer to a Mad About You revival. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser have closed their deals with Sony Pictures TV to reprise their roles as married New York couple Paul and Jamie Buchman, sources have confirmed. Talks had been ongoing for several months. Mad About You, co-created by Reiser and Danny…

UPDATE with more information. Louis Zorich, whose stage career reached back more than half a century and included a 1969 Tony nomination for Hadrian VII, died Tuesday in New York. The veteran Chicago actor, best known to TV audiences as Paul Reiser’s father on NBC’s Mad About You, was 93. Known for his gravelly voice…

It looks like another popular show from NBC’s “Must See TV” slate is on the road back to prime time. Sony Pictures Television Studios is working on a revival of Mad About You with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt in talks to reprise their roles as married New York couple Paul and Jamie Buchman. It is reported that the…

Tino Insana, the improv actor, writer and the voice of Uncle Ted in the Fox series Bobby’s World, died June 1 of cancer. He was 69. His role in Bobby’s World launched a 25-year career as voice actor, with Insana lending his pipes to such animated kids programs as Spaceballs, Darkwing Duck, Bubble Guppies, Pepper Ann, T…

Sony Pictures Television’s hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You is heading to the Middle Kingdom for the first local adaptation of an US comedy series. Huaso Film/TV Digital Production, the joint-venture prodco of SPT and CCTV6's HuaCheng Pictures, and Croton Media, say they’ve secured two deals to bring the local…

Huaso Film/TV Digital Production, Sony Pictures' Chinese joint venture with CCTV6's HuaCheng Pictures, has sealed a deal with Croton Media to co-produce a China version of 1990s NBC sitcom Mad About You. This is the first adaptation of series in Asia by SPT. The original Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning comedy ran for…