{"id":5862,"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2014\/07\/30\/tv-land-greenlights-jim-gaffigan-sitcom\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","slug":"tv-land-greenlights-jim-gaffigan-sitcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/tv-land-greenlights-jim-gaffigan-sitcom\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Land Greenlights Jim Gaffigan Sitcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tNEW YORK: TV Land has ordered ten episodes of <em>The Gaffigan Show<\/em>, a single-camera sitcom from Peter Tolan and Jim Gaffigan.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGaffigan also stars in the comedy, which is inspired by his real life. The series explores one man&#039;s struggle to find balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite while living in New York City. The show is slated for a 2015 premiere on TV Land. It will also air on sister Viacom network Comedy Central within one week of its TV Land premiere.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAshley Williams (<em><span class=\"wpkeywordlink\">How I Met Your Mother<\/span><\/em>) will co-star as Jim&rsquo;s wife, while Adam Goldberg (<em>Fargo<\/em>) and Michael Ian Black (<em>Ed<\/em>) also star as Jim&rsquo;s best friend and his wife&rsquo;s confidante, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTolan (<em>Rescue Me<\/em>, <em>The Larry Sanders Show<\/em>) will serve as executive producer alongside Jim Gaffigan and Jeannie Gaffigan. Brillstein Entertainment partners&rsquo; Alex Murray and Sandy Wernick will also executive produce along with Michael Wimer of Fedora Entertainment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I am thrilled that TV Land is giving us this opportunity to do this show that Peter, Jeannie and I have been fine-tuning for three years,&rdquo; said Jim Gaffigan. &ldquo;I&#039;m probably most excited about the craft service. I gained 20 pounds for this role.&nbsp;Ok, fine. It was 40 pounds.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We love Jim Gaffigan&rsquo;s brand of humor. The second we saw this show we knew we wanted it on TV Land,&rdquo; said Larry W. Jones, the president of TV Land. &ldquo;The audience that TV Land is targeting is Gen Xers who are raising families so we love that this show reflects their world. Only funnier.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: TV Land has ordered ten episodes of The Gaffigan Show, a single-camera sitcom from Peter Tolan and Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan also stars in the comedy, which is inspired by his real life. 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