Trending Topics: Solar flare bill Chris Christie's Speedo Free Ride Feds Immigration vote

June 18, 2013

Michael Richards signed to TV Land sitcom pilot

BY: AP Staff Writer DECEMBER 4, 2012 | MODIFIED: DECEMBER 4, 2012 AT 5:00 PM
Leave a comment
Photo - FILE - This Nov. 17, 2004 file photo shows actor-comedian Michael Richards at the release of the first three seasons of the "Seinfeld" on DVD in New York. TV Land says it has cast Richards in a pilot for a prospective new sitcom. The series, "Giant Baby," would also feature fellow "Cheers" alums Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman. The pilot will be taped next week, the network said Tuesday, dec. 4, 2012. "Giant Baby" focuses on Maddie Banks, a Broadway star played by Alley. Richards plays her limo driver while Perlman plays her assistant. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
FILE - This Nov. 17, 2004 file photo shows actor-comedian Michael Richards at the release of the first three seasons of the "Seinfeld" on DVD in New York. TV Land says it has cast Richards in a pilot for a prospective new sitcom. The series, "Giant Baby," would also feature fellow "Cheers" alums Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman. The pilot will be taped next week, the network said Tuesday, dec. 4, 2012. "Giant Baby" focuses on Maddie Banks, a Broadway star played by Alley. Richards plays her limo driver while Perlman plays her assistant. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
Topics: TV

NEW YORK (AP) — TV Land says it has cast "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards in a pilot for a prospective new sitcom.

The series, "Giant Baby," also would feature fellow "Cheers" alums Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman.

TV Land said Tuesday the pilot will be taped next week.

"Giant Baby" focuses on Broadway star Maddie Banks, played by Alley. Richards plays her limo driver while Perlman plays her assistant.

This would be Richards' first regular series role since his short-lived NBC sitcom aired in 2000. Before that, he played Jerry Seinfeld's kookie neighbor Cosmo Kramer on the wildly popular "Seinfeld" series.

In the meantime, Richards performed as a standup comedian. He lost his temper while being heckled at a club in 2006 and was caught on tape shouting the N-word. He later apologized.

View article comments Leave a comment

More from washingtonexaminer.com

Top 5 Most Read Stories

From the Weekly Standard

  • Frack to the Future

    By: Michael Warren

    Williston, N.D.

    Read More...

  • Downsize Ike

    By: Andrew Ferguson

    The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...

    Read More...

  • The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell

    By: John McCormack

    What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.

    Read More...