Local Man Gets Netflix Sitcom

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

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Netflix has greenlighted The Big Show Show, a half-hour multi-camera family comedy series starring WWE superstar Big Show (real name Paul Wight). Also starring on the 10-episode series are Allison Munn (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn) and young actresses Reylynn Caster (American Housewife), Juliet Donenfeld (Pete the Cat) and Lily Brooks O’Briant (The Tick).

The live-action comedy comes from WWE Studios and writers Josh Bycel (Happy Endings) and Jason Berger (LA to Vegas). Filming is slated to begin Aug 9.

In The Big Show Show, when the teenage daughter of Big Show (Wight), a retired world-famous WWE Superstar, comes to live with him, his wife and two other daughters, he quickly becomes outnumbered and outsmarted. Despite being 7 feet tall and weighing 400 pounds, he is no longer the center of attention.

Bycel and Berger executive produce and will serve as showrunners. Susan Levison and Richard Lowell executive produce for WWE Studios.

Wight is an American professional wrestler and actor who performs on the WWE SmackDown brand under the ring name Big Show. He began his career in World Championship Wrestling, where he was known by the ring name The Giant, initially introduced as The son of André the Giant. He is one of 9 wrestlers to win both the WWF/WWE and the WCW world heavyweight titles.

This marks Wight’s biggest TV role to date. His previous TV acting credits include mostly guest-starring/recurring stints on series airing on NBCU’s USA and Syfy tied to his WWE star power as USA is home of WWE Raw and SyFy and USA had been carrying SmackDown. Wight has done major arcs on Syfy’s Happy! and Van Helsing.

In features, he is known for his role in Fighting With My Family co-starring a former WWE star who has successfully crossed over to acting, Dwayne Johnson. It was produced by WWE Studios in association with MGM and Johnson’s Seven Bucks Production.

The Big Show Show is Netflix’s latest project with WWE Studios, following the recent announcement of the family film The Main Event. The comedy joins a growing slate of live-action family series featuring kids and teens, including Family Reunion, Malibu Rescue, No Good Nick, Alexa & Katie and the upcoming series The Letter for the King and The Baby-Sitters Club.

WWE Studios’ recent projects include Andre the Giant, an Emmy-nominated documentary in partnership with HBO, as well as hit reality shows Total Divas and Total Bellas on E! and Miz & Mrs. on USA. WWE Studios is currently in production on The Main Event, a feature film for Netflix, and Fight Like a Girl, an unscripted series for Quibi.

[Final Countdown Jones]

For reasons utterly detached from Big Show and way more to do with the premise and general expectation of how shows with that premise tend to go this sounds absolutely f***ing atrocious.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Jul 30, 2019 7:46:42 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

For reasons utterly detached from Big Show and way more to do with the premise and general expectation of how shows with that premise tend to go this sounds absolutely f***ing atrocious.

“Local Man Does OK, Everything Ruined By Others”

[Feargus McReddit]

"Big Show, stop having daughters your wife isn't aware of! It doesn't make you look loyal!"

"I'M HAVING FUN!"

[Deleted]

"He is one of 9 wrestlers to win both the WWF/WWE and the WCW world heavyweight titles."

That's not as impressive sounding as the writer intended.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

(“In a very special episode of The Big Show Show, Paul reveals his battle with bipolar disorder...”)

“Honey, you just broke a chair over little Crystal Lyn!”
“YOU PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HOLDING ME BACK, AND THE LOCAL SPORTS TEAM SUCKS!”

[BlackoutCreature]

The premise of this sounds like a sitcom that would've aired for a single season in syndication in the late-80's/early 90's alongside such gems as Out of this World, My Secret Identity, What a Dummy and, of course, Learning the Ropes. And, as someone who watched every episode of those, I would've watched every episode of this.

[Push R Truth]

I'll bet my soul and forum name on there being a "Big Guy vs Small Toilet" gag

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I mean, I'll definitely give it a shot. For all the stupid things they've done with him, I've always enjoyed Show's character work and he comes across like a good guy.

[Hurbster]

Also he's a ninja.

[Deleted]

This sounds absolutely awful. And it's the kind of premise that's basically worn out all of the organic story potential after about the second episode.

[Rican]

Good for him. Always cool to see people succeeding post-WWE. The show doesn't sound great but I'll probably check it out.

[PKO]

This sounds terrible, I’ll be watching!

[BJ Sturgeon]

Jul 30, 2019 7:57:29 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

I'll bet my soul and forum name on there being a "Big Guy vs Small Toilet" gag

"Guess I'll just use the bath tub, like daddy did."

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Now, if every episode he randomly turns heel on one of the daughters, THEN you have a show!

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Yo dawg.

We heard you love big shows and you love Big Show.

So we took Big Show and put him in a big show.

Check out The Big Big Show Show, coming to ABC Family.

[111111]

netflix will literally commission anything at the moment due to all the shows being taken off it.

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Val Venus will make a cameo just to re-enact his bathroom stall scene where he makes fun of Shows dick size.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

I think the chances are high he turns heel on his family in the second episode, and third episode he turns face again

[Rolent Tex]

So WWE isn’t producing things like this for their own streaming service because?