January 2014 - CBS Studio Center

JANUARY 2014
It’s Good To Be “Bad”
Behind The Scenes Of CBS’s Bad Teacher
By Rebecca Phillips Epstein
When you come through the doors
of Stage 3, you enter a world that feels
at once eerily familiar, and very far
away: the halls of Richard Nixon Middle
School.
for way more than a boob job. When her
rich husband leaves her for a younger
woman, Meredith is devastated—and
totally broke, thanks to an iron-clad
prenup.
For many of us who work on CBS’s
new mid-season comedy Bad Teacher,
the sight of scuffed linoleum floors,
the sound of crummy metal lockers
clanging, and the sickly glow of our
skin under fluorescent classroom
lighting can trigger flashbacks to our
own middle school years, in all their
awkward, painful glory. And over in
Building 1, fourteen writers—a few of
whom have been teachers themselves—
swap hilarious, often humiliating war
stories that will all serve as fodder for
future episodes.
Meredith needs to get her old
life back, and fast. In a moment of
inspiration, she devises a plan to snag
a rich, divorced dad, like the ones she
sees all lined up in shiny sports cars one
Friday when she picks up her friend
Brie’s (Kat Foster) 12-year-old stepdaughter Lily (Sara Rodier) from Nixon
Middle. It turns out that Nixon’s tough
but fair Principal Carl (David Alan
Grier) is going through a rough divorce
himself. Because he feels sympathetic
to Meredith’s situation, he bonds with
her immediately, and she’s able to con
him into hiring her on the spot as the
school’s new Social Studies teacher.
Of course, had we gone to Nixon,
and had Meredith Davis been our
teacher, middle school would probably
have been a whole lot more fun.
Developed
for
television
by
showrunner and Executive Producer
Hilary Winston (whose previous
writing credits include Happy Endings,
Community, and My Name is Earl), this
Bad Teacher is inspired by the hit 2011
feature film of the same name by Lee
Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. But
unlike the titular educator of the movie,
our Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor) is in it
In spite of her lack of credentials—
and the fact that her “lesson plans”
mostly consist of letting her students
watch movies while she naps—Meredith
finds she has a knack for connecting
with these kids. But fitting in with the
other adults at Nixon proves tough
for Meredith, whose straight talk
and sexy outfits rub some of her new
colleagues the wrong way, especially the
tightly-wound history teacher Ginny
Taylor-Clapp (Kristin Davis). Meredith
does find an unlikely friend in Irene
Dudek (Sara Gilbert), a geeky, sociallychallenged science teacher, and some
sparks begin to fly between Meredith
and her old high school classmate Joel
Kotsky (Ryan Hansen), the cute gym
coach she swears she’d never consider.
Each week, Meredith hatches a
different scheme to meet a rich guy,
make a quick buck, or flip the system
to get what she wants. Unfortunately for
her, she is not quite as shallow as she
pretends, and her unexpected affection
for her students often gets in the way
of her escape plan. Meredith may have
landed at Nixon with a thud, but this new
start has given her a second chance—to
evolve, to right some wrongs, and to
make the best of a bad situation.
Of course, at the end of the day,
Meredith Davis is in it to win it, and she
knows from experience that the only
way to win is to look out for number one.
And yet somehow, in spite of herself, she
keeps on doing the right thing (even if
it is for the wrong reasons). She might
be “bad,” but she makes it look so good.
So keep an eye out for Bad Teacher,
coming to CBS in 2014!
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Favorite New TV Comedy
The Millers
Favorite Actor in a New TV Series
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Hot in Cleveland
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People’s Choice Awards aired
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The Talk
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BEST TELEVISION SERIES
—COMEDY OR MUSICAL
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Parks and Recreation
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A
TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A
TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine Nine - Winner
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Contributing Editor Marsha Gorodkin
Design Elizabeth Gulick
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JANUARY 2014
ET, The Talk, Last Man Standing and Baby Daddy
honor our Military with celebrations and tours
www.projecthollywoodcares.org
Thanksgiving Dinner with Entertainment Tonight and meeting Sharon Osbourne of The Talk.
Project: Hollywood Cares kicked off the
Holiday Season with a support event for
our returning troops here on the CBS lot.
The centerpiece of the day again was the
Entertainment Tonight Thanksgiving Pot Luck
dinner and show party.
Fifty-two active duty servicemen and
women with spouses from southern
California were Entertainment Tonight’s
guests of honor.
The Thanksgiving night airing also
marked the start of Project: Hollywood
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Josefina Sarkisyan, Finance
and Big Sister Isabelle
On the birth of your daughter
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July 23, 2013
Cares’ holiday support program of sending
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In addition to the ET party, our military
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greet with Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl
Underwood of The Talk; show tours of ABC’s
Last Man Standing with Tim Allen and ABC
Family’s Baby Daddy; and a reception which
provided entertainment gift baskets at the
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November 21, 2013
Born to proud parents Jen
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women in uniform.
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