EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 17,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* AUDIENCE Network's new
half-hour scripted original comedy series, "Loudermilk," is
premiering Oct. 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Viewers can watch it exclusively
on AUDIENCE Network through DIRECTV, AT&T U-verse and DIRECTV
NOW.
Primary Wave Entertainment will co-finance and co-produce the
scripted series. Peter Farrelly
("Dumb and Dumber," "Hall Pass," "There's Something
About Mary") and Emmy® Award-winning writer
Bobby Mort ("The Colbert Report")
serve as writer-creators and executive producers. Farrelly, Mort,
AUDIENCE Network's Christopher Long,
Bart Peters and Primary Wave's
Mark Burg and David Guillod will serve as executive producers.
Jonathan Schwartz will serve as
producer. Farrelly also directed all 10 episodes.
"Loudermilk" stars Golden Globe® Nominee Ron Livingston ("Office
Space") as Sam Loudermilk,
Will Sasso ("Happy Gilmore") as Ben,
Laura Mennel ("Watchmen") as
Allison, Anja Savcic ("I Love You,
Beth Cooper") as Claire,
Toby Levins ("Fear the Walking
Dead") as Carl, Mark Brandon
("Supernatural") as Reardon and Timothy
Webber ("Cypher") as Ed.
The series centers on Sam
Loudermilk, a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse
counselor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything.
He is unapologetically uncensored, and manages to piss off everyone
in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk
discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is
the easy part.
The new AUDIENCE Network comedy series joins the roster of
critically acclaimed original series:
- MMA drama "KINGDOM," starring Frank
Grillo and Nick Jonas.
- Suspense-drama "ROGUE," starring Cole
Hauser, Meaghan Rath and
Ashley Greene.
- "Poly-romantic" comedy "YOU ME HER" starring Greg Poehler, Rachel
Blanchard and Priscilla
Faia.
AT&T AUDIENCE Network is available on DIRECTV Ch. 239
or U-verse TV Ch. 1114 and via live streaming on the DIRECTV and
U-verse apps and DIRECTV NOW.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by
subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T
brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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About Primary Wave Entertainment
Primary Wave Entertainment is one of the largest independent global
talent management, production, music publishing, licensing and
brand marketing companies based in the U.S. They represent a
diverse roster of professionals working in film, television, music
and digital entertainment and work closely with them to guide their
careers and achieve their goals across the entertainment landscape
while providing a broad range of strategic brand services and
digital marketing. Music clients include: CeeLo Green, Melissa Etheridge, Fantasia, Cypress Hill,
Eric Benet, Alanis Morisette, Audien and Plain White T's,
among others. Talent and literary clients include Mayim Bialik, Cat
Cora, Mike Epps, William Fichtner, Paula
Patton, Golden Globe winner Gina
Rodriguez, Gabrielle Union,
Clay Kaytis, ("Angry Birds") Oscar
winning screenwriters/directors Bobby
Moresco ("Crash"), Jim Rash
("Descendants") and Mike Radford
("Il Postino"), among others. Primary Wave Music Publishing
specializes in the acquisition and unique marketing of iconic and
legendary artist and songs. Over the years, the company has
acquired the copyrights of over 15,000 songs from the catalogs of
legendary artists such as Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, John Lennon,
Def Leppard, Hall & Oates, Chicago, Maurice White, Graham
Parker, Daniel Johnston, Steven Curtis Chapman, Lamont Dozier,
Steve Cropper, Smokey Robinson and many others. Primary Wave has
produced multiple film and television projects such as CeeLo
Green's "The Good Life," "Being Mary Jane" starring Gabrielle Union
and the "Coldest City," starring Charlize Theron and "Young
Women's Honors" (The CW). Primary Wave Entertainment has
offices in Los Angeles and New York. www.PrimaryWave.com
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