It's a Laugh Productions has
been given a series pilot order from Disney XD for a new sketch variety show
starring Zach Fox. The YouTube sensation, who has a couple hundred thousand
views on his official page, is known for his zany and outrageous video street
interviews. In the series, Zach plays a wacky and neurotic host of a weekly
student television broadcast at his K-12 school. Roles for kids of elementary
school age through high school age are being cast for series regulars.
Additional casting for supporting and day player roles will also be cast soon.
The show's extras will be cast throughout the shoot starting in early October,
2012.
Disney Channel approached
Zach Fox after seeing his comical YouTube video inteviews, as well as several
of his web-series such as "Stoga Gone Wild," "Limelight,"
and "The CHeeSe". Disney signed Fox on to host the hidden camera
prank series "Just Kidding" which will also air on Disney XD.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the show will feature "everyday kids who
pull off humorous pranks on unsuspecting adults. In addition to hosting, in
each episode of the Canadian series, slated for fall, Fox himself will do his
own prank".
Producing this new Zach Fox
series is the Disney Channel production company It's a Laugh Productions, which
has been behind some of the greatest Disney Channel hit series and movies
including "Lizzie McGuire," "High School Musical," "Camp
Rock," "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," "Hannah
Montana," "Wizards of Waverly Place," and countless others. Don
Mink and Amy Rabins founded It's a Laugh Productions in 2004. The duo have been
partners in another company called Prep Shoot Post since 1988, a
post-production accounting firm.
Submit
photos and resumes by mail only.
No phone
calls or personal drop-offs.
Contact Information:
Los
Angeles:
Sheryl
Levine
1040 N. Las
Palmas Avenue
Building
26, Suite 109
Los
Angeles, CA 90038
Extras
Casting
Los
Angeles:
Central Casting
220 S.
Flower Street
Burbank, CA
91502
Registration
Info: (818) 562-2755
Do not send
photos to Central Casting, you must register in person
Story:
High-school sophomore Zach Fox is an amiable, madcap student
who hosts a show on the student run TV station. Zach and his best friend Sal,
who is also his cameraman, are tolerated by the school’s principal due to the
face that his son gets to be on their show. Always striving for the attention
of the school’s most beautiful and popular girl, Zach doesn’t hide his
affection for her even though she is the girlfriend of the football team quarterback.
And having a sassy little sister with a group of overly conceited friends who
harass Zach, surely adds to his already hilarious lifestyle!
