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CW Revisits Todd Graff's 'Acting Out' Dramedy

By: Aug. 10, 2011
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The CW has made its first half-hour comedy purchase with Todd Graff's summer camp comedy ‘Acting Out,' executive produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, according to Deadline.

This will be a multi-camera half-hour version of the project that CW originally developed last seas as an hour-long musical dramedy.

‘Acting Out' is now being revised as a workplace comedy with performance pieces. It will explore the relationships between counselors and staff of a down-on-its-luck summer camp. According to Deadline the "new owner, a young curmudgeon in the vein of Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa, runs afoul of the camp's general manager, a sexy but wound-too-tight former actress."

‘Bandslam' writer-director Graff will adapt his original script and executive produce with Goldsmith-Thomas for CBS TV Studios.

Graff, who also wrote and directed the 2003 film ‘Camp,' which told the story of a burnt-out Broadway songwriter who goes to work at a musical camp for young performers.


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