Jay Baruchel To Star In Fox’s ‘A Moody Christmas’ Holiday Event Comedy Series

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EXCLUSIVE: Former Man Seeking Woman star Jay Baruchel is set as a lead opposite Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins in A Moody Christmas, Fox’s half-hour holiday event series adaptation of the Austra…

’s half-hour holiday event series adaptation of the Australian series. Slated to air in December, the single-camera comedy series hails from CBS TV Studios, which will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

Written by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg and Tad Quill, the six-episode A Moody Christmas centers on the Moodys, including Sean Sr. , his wife Ann , their three grown children and an assorted mix of extended family members who gather for the holidays, with each packing his/her own eccentricities and complications.

Baruchel will play Sean Jr, the oldest Moody child, still living at home, sleeping in his old room, he is the dreamer, the screw-up. A maintenance worker at a hockey rink, he’s immature and impulsive, with a crazy grandiose get-rich-quick plan.Chelsea Frei was recently cast as his sister Bridget, the overachiever.

Fox is envisioning this as an ongoing event series franchise with multiple installments featuring the same core cast at important events throughout the Moodys’ lifecycle that could include a family wedding, a family vacation, a funeral and a graduation.with Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum of The Tannenbaum Co.

which he co-wrote, produced, and stars in opposite Jesse Williams and Jordana Brewster. He is repped by CAA, Thruline Entertainment and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.

 

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