Hello. I don't know how to post an article on here with all the pictures and everything. So All I can do is give you this link...
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007486.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
To this article, which basically says that FX has picked up my new series, which is called "Louie", for 12 episodes, which will begin airing in the first part of 2010. This is, needless to say, extremely huge news. This show is insanely fun. I'm starring in it, writing, directing and editing it. The show will be shot in New York City, my home.
I'm very, very excited. Here's what the article says...
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Posted: Wed., Aug. 19, 2009, 8:00pm PTPrintTalk BackEmail or Share
More laffs in FX lineup
Net gives series orders to two half-hours
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
FX is getting serious about its comedy slate, giving series orders to two half-hour laffers.
"The League" revolves around a group of longtime guy friends who participate in a fantasy football league. "Louie" stars comic Louis CK as a standup comic and newly single dad raising two daughters in New York City.
Both skeins hail from FX's inhouse FX Prods. banner. "League" has been picked up for six episodes; "Louie" has a 13-seg order. These pickups come on the heels of a series order last month for animated workplace comedy "Archer" (Daily Variety, July 14).
FX Networks prexy John Landgraf noted that with the "League" and "Louie" orders, FX is poised to have the largest slate of original scripted comedy and drama series of any basic cabler. It's been a priority for FX to expand its comedy slate and establish an FX "brand" of laffer the way it has with its signature edgy dramas.
"Our brand is about audaciousness and innovation, and those adjectives are equally applicable to drama and comedy series," Landgraf told Daily Variety.
FX established a toehold in comedy a few years ago with "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," but it's had a tough time finding companion pieces with the creative goods to survive more than one season. And it took patience to grow "Sunny" into a hit; the outre laffer didn't blossom into a ratings success for the cabler until its third season.
"Once we got 'Sunny' squared away, we started to experiment with producing comedies at a fairly low-cost," Landgraf said, citing last year's "Testees" as an example. "We came back this year with an enormous amount of force and effort."
Landgraf described "League" as a kind of suburban-set "Sex and the City" for men. The semi-improv show revolves around the lives of a group of college friends as they're forced to take on more responsibilities as husbands and fathers.
Skein was created by the husband-and-wife duo of Jeff Schaffer ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") and Jackie Marcus Schaffer, who also exec produce. Ensemble cast includes Mark Duplass, Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer and Jon Lajoie.
"Louie" is based on the star's life and will blend standup material with what Landgraf described as "extended vignettes" depicting moments from his offstage experiences. Louis CK is exec producer, writer and helmer of the series. Dave Becky also exec produces.
"League" is skedded to bow during football season this fall and will probably be paired with segs of "Sunny," which returns for its fifth season Sept. 17. "Louie" will most likely preem early next year.
"Archer" is also expected to debut later this year, probably with episodes airing in tandem with "Sunny."
FX's latest comedy orders come on the heels of its pickup of drama "Lawman," starring Timothy Olyphant as a U.S. marshal in Kentucky (Daily Variety, July 29).
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Congrats...can't wait! Is it going to be similar to Lucky Louie?
That's great, Louis! Will be looking forward to this.
This is freaking great news!!!
Congrats, Louis, seriously. You're one awesome possum. I'm looking forward to seeing you make the late-night rounds now. :-P I think you should get on Craig Ferguson and also on the Adam Carolla Podcast.
I hope the cast includes a chinless, drug dealing friend wearing his grandmothers sweater.
nice! congrats .. cant wait for the new show
Congrats! you should indeed do the Adam Corolla podcast!Also the picture of you in the article is hilarious, you look all pissed.
http://a330.g.akamai.net/7/330/2540/20080720212118/www.variety.com/graphics/photos/_mugc/ck_louis.jpg
So glad I came by the website. This is indeed great news. Please have the gang from LuckyLouie back. Seriously that show saved my relationship, unfortunately I fucked it up eventually but for 2006 things weren't so bad. That said, myy LuckyLouie DVD is lonely. The other DVDs won't hang out with it. Those flight of the conchords guys can go suck a bag of dicks...
Mr. C.K.,
I cannot wait to see your show--I hope they give you the creative freedom to do what you want to do.
I have found that, by hiring a web master, I can issue orders and have what I want posted on the Internet in short order. When you run into situations like this, where you don't know HTML, where you can't find a link, where the wording escapes you, simply write an E-mail to your web master and have them do it. Mine works for $25 a month and I have somewhere around 19 blogs; and yet, I only spend about twenty minutes a day "blogging."
Keep doing what you do the way you do it and ignore the haters, sir. They know nothing.
Norman
Yes! My husband came to see your show at the Hard Rock Orlando in March and left talking about how we wished Lucky Louie was still on so we could laugh at our asses off at your humor more often.
Can't wait for the new show to air!