Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is an upcoming American comedy television series created by and starring Denis Leary. A 10-episode first season has been ordered by FX, which will premiere on July 16, 2015.

The comedy, created by “Rescue Me’s” Leary, will premiere on FX in 2015. It also stars John Corbett, Elizabeth Gillies, Elaine Hendrix and Bobby Kelly.
“It’s great to be back in business with Denis Leary, Jim Serpico and Tom Sellitti, and we’re thrilled to start on a new project that is both unique and hilarious,” said Eric Schrier, co-president of original programming for FX Networks and FX Productions. “Johnny Rock is the role that Denis Leary was born to play.”

“I am extremely elated at the opportunity to once again be working with John Landgraf and the fine executive talent over at FX,” said Leary. “They have a great platform for comedy, an award-winning marketing team and an amazing new Nespresso machine in the conference room. The Gran Maestria C520 Platinum? Get this: it heats the cup! Also, doing this show with FX will allow me to live one of my last show-business dreams: Emmy-winner Peter Tolan will be playing my gay stepdad. I know what you’re thinking – isn’t Peter just a few years older than Denis? In fact, we are the same exact age. I’m just prettier.”

Said Fox Television Studios President David Madden, “We have been honored by long-standing collaborations with both FX and Apostle, so it’s gratifying for us to be able to break new ground with them both. Our partnership with Denis and Apostle has been one of our most fruitful ventures, and this time out fans will definitely see a different Denis. As both actor and writer, Denis plunges into dazzlingly original arenas of dark comedy and, along with a stellar veteran cast, the results are just really funny.”
Per FX, “SDRR” is centered on Johnny Rock (Leary), a middle-aged rock ‘n roller who desperately wanted to be rich and famous. So far, he’s 0 for 2. As the magnificently talented lead singer of New York’s legendary early 90’s band The Heathens, Johnny was on his way to the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. His best friend Flash (Corbett) was being called the next number one lead guitar player on planet earth. The critics loved them. Their live shows were selling out.

But Johnny had a problem with booze. And coke. And weed. And pills. And cough medicine. And oh yeah — he slept with Flash’s wife. And his bass player’s fiancé. The band broke up the same day their first and only record was released. 25 years later Johnny is trying to get the band back together. Why? Because as his soon-to-be-ex manager Ira Feinbaum tells him: “Johnny, you’re 50, broke and completely anonymous. In rock ‘n roll you know what that makes you? A bartender.” 25 years later the sex might be harder to find, the drugs might be Luvox and Crestor and Cialis — but rock ‘n roll will never die. It just has a bigger prostate.

The “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” pilot was written by Leary and directed by Michael Blieden. Leary, his production company Apostle and partner Jim Serpico are executive producers. FX Productions and Fox Television Studios will produce the series.


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that last one about his daughter's chest area

I am SO looking forward to this Leary is awesome in every show he does (I even liked his short lived The Job).

 

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For Gigi, it’s stardom or bust. Meet the band’s new lead singer.

 

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In Denis Leary's new FX series, the star-creator plays an aging rocker who finds out he's got a very talented daughter.

Sometimes a TV series comes along with a premise that seems perfect for the times.

FX’s superb, funny and wonderfully spot-on Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, created by and starring Denis Leary, is that kind of series: a show that channels Leary’s searing sense of humor and cultural awareness into a package that’s more entertaining and less of a heavy lift than FX's excellent but challenging Rescue Me.
Maybe it’s thanks to Leary’s clear lifelong love of rock (he writes all the music here) or that, turning 58 in August, he has cast himself perfectly as the aging rock-star-who-wasn’t-quite-a-star Johnny Rock.
Whatever the cause, there’s gold in Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll — at least in all five episodes that FX sent along. At face value, the show's a weather-beaten valentine to rock 'n' roll, to the love of music that makes everybody want to be a star up onstage and an examination of how success is so fleeting and prone to being sabotaged by ego and excess. But deeper down, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is also about friendship, love and even parenting. And at its best, the show is a rare and vibrantly realistic look at aging and questions of whether you lived the life you meant, whether you found happiness or not, how you deal with the indignities of a youth-obsessed culture and your own frustrations with (or acceptance of) the ravages of fading beauty, health and relevance.
Of course, it’s also a comedy — and Leary has all kinds of targets to rip through in Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.
His Johnny Rock was the lead singer and songwriter for the “legendary” (and almost famous) early ‘90s New York rock band The Heathens, who broke up on the day their album came out (reviews of the leaked album were great) because of band infighting. Johnny was the cause (the show hilariously but briefly details how each successive band he started imploded): He slept with the wife of Flash (John Corbett), the band’s lead guitarist (Johnny also slept with everybody else’s significant other). Flash has resurrected his career by becoming Lady Gaga's guitarist — a job that Johnny mocks. The rest of the band, including backup singer and Johnny’s longtime (if not always loyal) lover, Ava (Elaine Hendrix), and drummer Bam Bam (Robert Kelly), still hang out together. In a bar one night, Johnny thinks a hot, younger woman is coming on to him — only to find out with a knee to the nethers that she’s the daughter he never knew he had.
Bent on being famous, Gigi (the lovely and talented Elizabeth Gillies) has money that the band desperately needs and a master plan: that the band get together, with her as the lead singer and Johnny and Flash writing new songs for her. Johnny, of course, thinks that, at worst, they’ll get some easy money until it runs out, but he has to recruit Flash and bassist Rehab (John Ales), who also hates Johnny, to return.
It’s probably not much of a surprise to learn that Gigi really can sing (and Gillies really can) and that some magic might be bubbling up in the unexpected reunion/collaboration — but not without lots and lots of hurdles that Leary both understands perfectly and can rip through hilariously with his writing.
In typical Leary fashion, no one is safe, including John Lennon, who Johnny notes was writing songs about baking bread when he was sober (Johnny refuses to become like this): “He’d gotten so boring that if Mark David Chapman hadn’t shot him, Yoko probably would have.”
As Johnny still lives the rock 'n' roll dream — drugs, drinking, ego — he refuses to get help. “Name one great band or rock star that doesn’t get high,” he asks the band in a mini-intervention. They respond: “Coldplay, Morrissey, Radiohead ...” Johnny: “I rest my case.”
The half-hour episodes fly by as Leary and the cast dive into and reimagine all kinds of rock 'n' roll cliches, giving the show ample fodder to name-check and either mock or celebrate both older bands or artists and current ones. The pop culture element is just one of the mother lodes in Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.
Bam Bam, who has dropped the reckless lifestyle, tries to convert Johnny. “Have you heard of the Art of Now?” he asks. “Is that an Art Tatum record?” replies Johnny. “No, it’s a life movement,” says Bam Bam, “Breathe. Flow. Engage.”
Johnny: “So, it’s a Sting record.”
For every music-industry mention — “Suck on that, Oasis” — there’s a deeper story that Leary and cast wonderfully mine. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is also an ongoing narrative, so we see the evolution of Gigi, with Johnny having to take a backseat, and how the new band’s new fame is changing them all over again.
A mixture of comedy and savvy understanding of the music — and people — gives Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll numerous storytelling avenues. In the first five episodes, the series races down those streets with aplomb, garnering laughs, developing characters and even coming up with some dramatic insights in the process. It’s a wonder a show like this hasn’t come along before.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sex-drugs-rock-roll-tv-808584

 

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I was checking the On Demand menu, and there are 2 HD versions of the first episode, a regular version and an explicit language version.

 

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I was checking the On Demand menu, and there are 2 HD versions of the first episode, a regular version and an explicit language version.

The FX website is also showing the uncensored version.

 

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I was checking the On Demand menu, and there are 2 HD versions of the first episode, a regular version and an explicit language version.

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Elaine Hendrix On Denis Leary Crush & ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 Hopes

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/08/21...ary-sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-season-2/


Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2

http://deadline.com/2015/07/denis-l...steven-tyler-elizabeth-gillies-fx-1201474744/

 

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Ratings: “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” Soars to Series High in Demo; Up 84% in Viewership


http://headlineplanet.com/home/2015/08/28/ratings-sex-up-84-in-viewership/

 

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Don't miss the season finale of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

 

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'Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll' Renewed by FX for Second Season

LOS ANGELES, September 23, 2015 – Long live Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll! FX Networks has ordered a second season of the FX comedy Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll created by and starring Denis Leary, it was announced today by Eric Schrier and Nick Grad, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. The 10-episode second season of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll will return in 2016 with stars Leary, Elizabeth Gillies, John Corbett, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Kelly and John Ales. In addition to creating Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Leary also serves as a writer, composer and a director, as well as an Executive Producer along with Jim Serpico. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is produced by FX Productions and Fox 21 Television Studios.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/09/23/sexdrugsrockroll-renewed-by-fx-for-second-season/470966/

 

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The ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Cast Sit Down For First Table Read Of Season 2

http://glambergirlblog.com/2016/02/...st-sit-down-for-first-table-read-of-season-2/

 

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I hope I'm able to access the R-rated episodes again this year. Last year I had Mediacom cable, this year I have DirecTV, and the On Demand's been pretty hit and miss, though FX has been pretty consistent with including all the episodes. I don't want to have to watch the shows on the website, because that's always hell.