The project to be announced “soon” will be the first half-hour sitcom developed
by Starz since CEO Chris Albrecht took charge in 2010, he told analysts today.
(Earlier Starz had comedies including Head Case, Party Down ,
and Gravity .) But it doesn’t represent a shift from his focus
on dramas. Albrecht says he plans to “tread cautiously” and
won’t “open the floodgates” to hear pitches for comedies that
were rejected elsewhere.
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I love comedies, so would be very interesting to see what Starz can come up with. I have never really watched a show on Starz, so I don't know if the original content they air is generally very likeable, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.
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By Sidney Goldberg
Pilot for a Sitcom
What's brings Ezekiel Goldstein, Zeke, who was raised by
Goldie, a typical, overbearing Jewish mother, and Abdul the Sheik, who was
raised by 13 overbearing Arab mothers, who claim to be his real mother, all,
his deceased father's wives, together?
Do I hear something about a mother complex and will Abdul ever discover
his real mother?
What's so funny about a Jewish lawyer and an oil rich Sheik
becoming best friends in college?
ZEKE speaks Yiddish
and ABDUL speaks Arabic. ZEKE
teaches ABDUL to speak Yiddish and
ABDUL teaches ZEKE to speak Arabic; thus they speak each others language.
Why doesn’t Uncle Kamal tell his nephew, Abdul, that, his
father got a heart attack while sleeping with a Peace Corp worker? Is that the only reason why Uncle Kamal hates
him?
Will Zeke's mother, Goldie ever stop feeling guilty
about the death of her husband, who was killed by a garbage truck? She swears, “It was the only time he took
out the garbage.”
Will Goldie and her best friend Edna ever stop
complaining to each other?
Zeke and Abdul were best friends in college, where they
were called the odd couple, because how can a Jew and an Arab be such good friends? They graduate and Zeke becomes a struggling
attorney and the Sheik, at the urging of his father, the Sheik du Sheik,
returns to Barabia and is ordered to run the huge oil empire, which he doesn’t
like, for he misses Zeke and loves New York City. Some time elapses and the Sheik’s father dies
and he becomes in charge of the country and the oil empire, much to the
consternation of his deceased father’s brother, Uncle Kamal who feels he should
be in charge and thus hates his nephew, Abdul.
Overwhelmed and lonely, Abdul calls Zeke, the only person he ever
trusted. The Sheik flies back to New York City and begs
Zeke to run his oil empire. After some
hemming and hawing, Zeke agrees, for he can’t resist the five million per year
he is offered. Throughout the world,
Jews and Arabs are in an uproar.
This show will attempt through humor and poignancy to end
the age-old prejudice between Arab and Jew.
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