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UPN is going to start a CGI family comedy based on Video games on prime time. The comedy GAME OVER from Carsey-Werner-Mandabach will be the first series based on Games, and the first CGI series on prime time. It follows the exploits of a family, the Smashenburns, that lives in an alternate videogame universe. Marisa Tomei (hot meter turning on) will voice the mom.
Thought the series sounds promising, and includes a lot of cool things including kung fu-fighting Shaolin monk neighbors, I have to say I’m a little cynical about the qualtiy of the show. I mean, its being done by Carsey-Werner. The people who did That 70s show, and Grounded for Life. I’m not saying they were bad comedies, though I did get tired of them a few seasons later, but the common thread of non adaptive families in forced situations runs deep here.
I am interested in this because it concerns Games. Though I denounce television vocally, I would like to see how this turns out.
