No. Not the one from Office Space. The real Michael Bolton. The terrible (Grammy-winning) pop singer who a new generation of young people now only know from his Saturday Night Live Digital Short: Captain Jack Sparrow. The damn sitcom even has Bolton’s name in the title: Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life.
The show comes from the mind of Alison Miller, who plays Matthew Perry’s super-cute assistant on Go On. It is loosely based on her own real-life celebrity encounters, according to Deadline.
Before the project came together, she had not met Bolton, who will play a fictional version of himself. Tami Sagher (30 Rock) will write Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life, which tells the story of a naïve young writer who moves to the big city and ends up taking a job heading “social media” for singer-songwriter Michael Bolton. The writer quickly learns she has her hands full with Bolton and the wild-child daughter he has recently taken in.
If James Van Der Beek can revise his career by playing a fictional (yeah, right) version of himself on Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23, there’s no reason Michael Bolton can’t also pull it off, as long as he’s able to maintain a sense of humor about himself. Maybe he can have his friend, Kenny G, over, and they can “shred.” I just hope this doesn’t start a huge new trend where everyone from the 90s returns as themselves in new sitcoms. No one wants to see NBC’s new show, Kevin Sorbo: Living Off Government Cheese.
(Source: Deadline)
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The producers realize that a sitcom has to be longer than three minutes and the main star has to do more than sing, right?
Seriously, this sounds like an idea that NBC would have.
I say we petition ABC to change the name to 8 Simple Ways to Deal With Michael Bolton’s Teenage Daughter, then cross our fingers and wait.
The only way I would watch this is if his daughter was in charge of acquiring music rights for his albums and they got Gabourey Sidibe to play the grand-daughter of Percy Sledge.
ABC is already the network with Don’t Trust the B with James Van Der Beek playing himself, as the article notes, and I’m pretty sure they were the network that had It’s Like You Know where Jennifer Grey played herself. It’s their thing like CBS with procedurals.
It’s Like You Know was such an awesome show. That and The Bonnie Hunt Show. Pure Comedy Gold I tell ya!
To be fair, Bolton was decent in his turn on Larry Sanders (except for when he sang). But yeah, that wasn’t a lead role in a series
I thank this no-talent ass-clown* for driving me to do all my shopping online beginning in 1998. His albums are the soundtrack for retail hell.
*As described by the real Michael Bolton
Wait. Why wouldn’t we want Kevin Sorbo: Living Off Government Cheese?
I celebrate the man’s entire catalog!