Here’s your odd and unexpected news of the day. “Where The Wild Things Are” director Spike Jonze and comedian/actor David Cross have evidently teamed-up to create a comedy for British television. Here’s the other weird part. Jonze, who hasn’t starred in a acting role since his excellent turn in “Three Kings,” will actually star in this as well alongside Cross.
The upcoming series is apparent a culture-clash sitcom which is titled, “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret,” and Jonze will play a U.S executive who’s mistakenly sent to Britain to run the company’s UK division and finds himself in over his head.
The show was written by David Cross and Shaun Pye, an English actor, comedian, writer, critic, who’s known for a reoccurring role on Ricky Gervais’ “Extras.” Cross’ “Arrested Development” buddy Will Arnett will co-star as well.
Wait, is this partial b.s or total b.s.? Neither, it’s golden truth. The report has been making the rounds in the U.K. and Cross himself confirmed it to the L.A. Times a week ago.
“I shot a pilot for Channel 4. And it’ll air, I believe, in December. When we picture-lock on Friday, it will be almost two years to the day that I was first approached by those guys. The cast is a crazy dream team. [“The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” costars Will Arnett and Spike Jonze.]”
Man, we need to see this. When it airs in the U.K. at Xmas, someone put that shit online. Will there be more episodes? Intel is not available at the moment, but let’s hope so.
Really looking forward to this. I love David Cross. Hopefully this will get him recognised over here and he can tour his stand-up over here!
Just saw David Cross' stand up last night & he ended the show by previewing the first 6 or so minutes.
I saw Cross' stand up show last night, it was great and they showed a clip of "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret".
Cross actually plays the role of Todd Margaret, he is mistakenly sent to the UK as a Senior Sales Rep by Will Arnett. I think Spike Jonze plays Cross' boss, not sure if he is in the rest of the show or not.