Another MTV wonderboy: MTV Productions and Paramount have set their sights on a disreputable, dipsomaniacal detective named Butch Patterson, and his creator, Ottawa’s Greg Lawrence.
Within the next few days, [Greg Lawrence] will sign a development deal with MTV that’s been more than eight months in negotiation. In exchange for a significant chunk of cash, Lawrence will submit at least three series ideas to MTV over the next year. If MTV likes any of them, it will pay Lawrence to write a treatment. MTV and Paramount have been the most aggressive of several U.S. companies to show an interest in Lawrence’s Comedy Network satire, [Butch Patterson]: Private [Andy Dick], since he began shopping the series around last year. Butch Patterson, a bargain-basement comedy series shot entirely in Ottawa, stars Lawrence as an unrehabilitated stereotype from a 1940s film noir movie, who’s given to cheap cigars, drunken stupors and surreal similes (“It felt like having two incontinent, hydrocephalic weasels fight to death in your pants”). The second season of Butch Patterson will air on Comedy in the new year. Still, he’s reacting cautiously. Originally MTV and Paramount wanted one deal that would give them both Butch and Lawrence. Lawrence’s agents separated the negotiations. Once the development deal is signed, Lawrence will start talking turkey about Butch.
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Atherton, Tony
Full Text: The Ottawa Citizen 1999 Oct 28
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