3 Mar 2016
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The duo-writing team of Melissa Rauch and Winston Rauch who will be premiering their film, The Bronze, in West Hollywood on March 7 and opening domestically on March 18 are now finding another project in the works that has been picked up by CBS and Warner Bros. Television.
The Big Bang Theory star and her husband, are co-writing a new multi-camera comedy, If We’re Not Married by 30, about a guy who comes to collect on a pre-teen promise made by his childhood best friend — whom he hasn’t seen in more than a decade. CBS ordered a script commitment, which will be produced with Warner Bros. Television.
The Bronze, created, written and executive produced with the Duplass brothers (Mark and Jay Duplass) will be opening in theaters around the nation March 18 stars The Big Bang Theory actress who plays a foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist who must fight for her local celebrity status when a young athlete’s star rises in town.
See Melissa’s Interview on WGN about The Bronze
The Rauch’s won outstanding solo show at the New York International Fringe Festival with their 2005 comedy stage show The Miss Education of Jenna Bush. The comedy also had an extended run via HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and at the Coronet Theater.
Rauch isn’t the only Big Bang star to have projects being developed for CBS. Fellow cast-mate Kevin Sussman, who plays Stuart Bloom on the comedy hit, teaming with CBS for Sony Pictures Television’s multi-camera comedy Wife of Crime, about a straight-laced guy from Staten Island who marries into an Italian family with ties to the mob and finds himself drawn to the warmth of his new crime family. Jim Parsons is another cast mate that has a project that has a script order out on it from CBS. Parsons, through his shingle That’s Wonderful Productions at Warner Bros., Untitled Alyssa Shelasky Project centers on an optimistic and independent woman nearing 40 with an eccentric and supportive family (all of whom live in her building), based on Alyssa Shelasky’s book .
First reported by Hollywood Reporter