"Think your dad telling you to put the cell phone away at dinner in order to have an actual face-to-face conversation," Netflix says. In a press release, James' character is described as an old-school guy caught up in a sport and environment that's significantly different from what he grew up with. In "The Crew," James will play Kevin the crew chief and will serve as an executive producer on the show. Netflix announced this week that it is working on a new comedy series that is set in a NASCAR garage. But to Netflix, there's still a void: No Kevin James, and no NASCAR. Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and Charlize Theron's "Hyperdrive" stunt show lead the way, there's a new season of " Fastest Car" coming soon, " Formula 1: Drive to Survive"came out this year, and " Car Masters" and " Rust Valley Restorers" help scratch the wrenching itch. It’s like, ‘Whatever you guys say.’ I feel like they’re really partners, and I never felt like that with a network series before.There are a ton of car shows to watch on Netflix right now. “It’s one entity and they let you do your own thing. I’ll never say never - because you don’t know how it will work out, but … at a network, there are so many cooks in the kitchen, from the studio to everybody’s got their underling and everybody has their own ideas of what’s going on and it could be their own interests, which changes the feel of the show. James said that he’s done with networks sitcoms, at least for now. ![]() “We had use a green screen next season, provided we get one, we’re going to go to the races live and do all of that.” “At the end of the season we were planning to go to a lot of major races and shoot live stuff with the massive crowds but that couldn’t be done,” James said. “The Crew” is available to stream on Netflix. “The Crew” filmed its first seven episodes in front of a studio audience before the industrywide shutdown last March the last three were completed, once production restarted, sans studio audience and with COVID restrictions in place. ![]() Some of them have never done a sitcom before but they’re pros - they know the timing and how to work with it.” Jillian and Sarah come from Broadway, Gary Anthony Williams comes from improv and Dan Ahdoot is a standup who’s also on ‘Cobra Kai.’ We went to eclectic places and got great actors. I gotta tell you, man, it was so there on ‘The Crew.’ Shooting that first episode I felt like we were in Season 3 already. “You can have all the elements of the show come together, from script to production to NASCAR to Netflix, but if there’s no chemistry it doesn’t matter,” James said. “It’s basically a workplace comedy,” Kevin James said about the new series, set in the world of NASCAR racing. James is working for the first time with his co-stars on “The Crew,” which, in addition to Mueller, include British actor Freddie Stroma as Jake, the team’s dimwitted star driver Gary Anthony Williams as Chuck, its sarcastic chief mechanic Sarah Stiles as tart-tongued officer manager Beth and Dan Ahdoot as Amir, its sad-sack chief engineer. They were excited about doing it with us because they’d never done a sitcom before. It made me laugh…and NASCAR was just the backdrop. I read the first script from Jeff Lowell and it was fantastic. “At first I was reluctant because I wasn’t too familiar with the world it’s an exciting world but I didn’t know where the laughs would come from,” James said. Kevin James said he was intrigued when approached by EP Todd Garner about starring in “The Crew” on Netflix. ![]() He plays Kevin Gibson, the good-natured crew chief of a struggling NASCAR racing team that’s thrown into a tizzy when its owner, Bobby Spencer (Bruce McGill), retires - and brings in his Stanford-educated daughter, Catherine (Jillian Mueller), to run the operation. “It’s basically a workplace comedy,” he said about the new series, set in the world of NASCAR racing. It gives that ‘classic comfort feel’ to me - but I’d done domestic comedy and I feel like people had seen me in the exact same thing,” he said, referring to “Kevin Can Wait” and his earlier CBS sitcom, “The King of Queens,” which ran for nine seasons (1998-2007).īut James was intrigued when approached by executive producer Todd Garner about starring in “The Crew” on Netflix - and realized that, while it’s a sitcom, there’s a big difference from his previous forays into the genre. “I was kind of done for a little bit,” said James, 55. Kevin James said he wasn’t expecting to jump back into the sitcom waters after “Kevin Can Wait” finished its two-season run on CBS. Thousands want Kevin James to replace Kevin Spacey on ‘House of Cards’ Get ready to say goodbye to these TV shows Kevin James buys $14M Florida beachfront mansion ‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’ is a biting take on the classic family sitcom
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