{"id":45970,"date":"2019-03-18T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=45970"},"modified":"2019-03-18T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:59:11","slug":"veteran-actor-stephen-rollins-heads-cast-in-new-sitcom-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/veteran-actor-stephen-rollins-heads-cast-in-new-sitcom-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Actor Stephen Rollins Heads Cast in New Sitcom Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 18, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Actor Stephen Rollins has been cast as the series lead in \u201cBob,\u201d a half-hour sitcom about a single dad loving the single life alone. That is, until one day, suddenly his daughter and her little girl show up unannounced at his door, homeless. Things go downhill for Bob from there, in a series of hilarious, life-altering events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0318-Stephen-Rollins-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Stephen Rollins\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0318-Stephen-Rollins-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0318-Stephen-Rollins-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\nFor Rollins, this is a return to a sitcom lead. Rollins has appeared alongside Matt Damon and Sandra Bullock to name a few, acting in over 30 film and television productions. In the 90\u2019s, Rollins was cast in a half hour sitcom that had just began production when their potential broadcast network, UPN, ended operations.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins is excited for the opportunity. \u201cThis is such a clever and well written show. I couldn\u2019t stop laughing when I read the script and knew immediately, I had to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s producers are excited about Stephen\u2019s work and feel confident that the network will want to pick up the series after seeing his performance.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s creator Chris Taylor states: \u201cStephen was born to play Bob! I hope audiences get to experience his creative magic. So funny!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 18, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Actor Stephen Rollins has been cast as the series lead in &#8220;Bob,&#8221; a half-hour sitcom about a single dad loving the single life alone. That is, until one day, suddenly his daughter and her little girl show up unannounced at his door, homeless. Things go downhill for Bob from there, in a series of hilarious, life-altering events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7471,"featured_media":45964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,590,1,10,37,187],"tags":[10991,10990],"class_list":["post-45970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television-news","category-acting-modeling-news","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-entertainment-news","category-los-angeles-news","tag-producer-chris-taylor","tag-sitcom","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":5409,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}