SONY GOING FOR THE JOKES

SONY GOING FOR THE JOKES --according to Broadcast & Cable trade pub:

Sony Pictures Television is developing eight comedy pilots for cable, the most the studio has ever taken on. And while Sony has long done business with cable, the abundance of comedies in development represents a departure for the last major independent studio.“[The shows] need to have a strong point of view and feel fresh and different and irreverent,” says Sony Pictures TV Co-President, Programming and Production, Zack Van Amburg Adam Sandler's GAY ROBOT ON SKED FOR SONY @TBS & COMEDY CENTRAL With four comedy pilots apiece for TBS and Comedy Central, Sony's programs range from Public Nuisance, which will see Morgan Spurlock examine various social issues; to Gay Robot, a live- action scripted adaptation of a character from an Adam Sandler comedy album (both for Comedy); to Todd's Coma, starring comedian Todd Glass as a man in a coma who has flashbacks induced by visitors (for TBS). The last two are from Sandler's production shingle Happy Madison. (Sony has produced many of Sandler's feature films.)