Sometimes good things happen to good people. Or, at least really, really funny ones. The boys behind FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton — have sold a pilot to Fox. The show, based on an idea from their Sunny writers’ assistant Adam Stein, is called Boldly Going Nowhere. McElhenney tells Variety it will follow a spaceship captain’s mundane life as he kills time between missions. "We grew up watching shows like Star Trek, anything having to do with the future, and it was always about the adventures they’d go on," he says. "We thought it would be funny to watch what goes on in between those adventures, when they’re waiting for the next big thing to happen. How do they keep themselves busy?" They’ll shoot the pilot this fall, after they wrap the 13-episode fourth season of Sunny, about which McElhenney dropped details to EW.com last week.
If you’re a fan of Philadelphia (pictured), you know the trio specializes in characters who have a lot of time on their hands. So despite the fact that the guys won’t star in Boldly Going Nowhere (their decision or Fox’s I wonder?), I’m stoked. Almost as much as my colleague Aubry D’Arminio, who responded to my email sharing news of the deal with one sentence: "I just had a baby in my chair." Do you share our, um, enthusiasm? And what other underrated writer-actor-showrunners would you love to see catch a break?
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I’ve been catching up on ‘Always Sunny’ and it is just hilarious. These are really funny guys. Looking forward to this, but knowing Fox it’ll be canceled after one airing.
I would have a baby in my chair if Danny DeVito could be excised from It’s Always Sunny. I’ve never seen someone single-handedly ruin a great show and great chemistry.
you should never be allowed to have an opinion, if you think danny devito ruined that show then you just shouldnt watch it. you are a moron. Go watch the cleveland show or something
I hope it’s better than The Return of Jezebel James which I watched last night (well, until halfway through the second episode) and found dreadful. Horrible concept, idiotic plot exposition and character introduction, Parker Posey boo-hooing like Lucy
Ricardo, and that horrendous laugh track.
This sounds like one of those pilots that never make it to air. I have a rule about space travel meets comedy tv shows, don’t watch them, I don’t care how good they are.
I would bet at this point that anything the Always Sunnys crew touches would be gold. Always Sunny is by far one of my favorite shows on tv, great stuff. They’re finally showing reruns on F/X on Saturday nights now.
How is it that a show that is as brilliant and funny as “Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia” can go completely unnoticed? It is the only comedy EVER to survive on F/X.
I am betting that these guys will give FOX a not animated comedy worth keeping around. (As long as they don’t get a laugh track. I’m looking at you Amy and Dan Palladino!)
I loved Quark, Red Dwarf and there’s a funny unsold pilot on You Tube called Galaxy Beat that’s probably funnier than this. They should bring back Sledge Hammer and its creator.
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