Christian Slater Comedy: Is Third Time a Charm?
With the count at 0-2, Christian Slater steps to the TV plate again. This time, he stars in the Fox sitcom Breaking_In, which premieres in April, as a master techie who leads a youthful band of experts as they try to find the soft spots in security systems.
Christian Slater Comedy: Is Third Time a Charm?
Jonathan Storm, Inquirer Television Critic
With the count at 0-2, Christian Slater steps to the TV plate again. This time, he stars in the Fox sitcom Breaking_In, which premieres in April, as a master techie who leads a youthful band of experts as they try to find the soft spots in security systems.
The Forgotten? Forgotten. My Own Worst Enemy? He wasn't. The writers were. Now, he's going to try to be funny.
"I love half-hour comedies," Slater told the critics, and he especially appreciated that self-described geek producers Adam F. Goldberg and Seth Gordon were "open to allowing actors to include their quirkiness and flesh out the parts."
It's not as if Slater knows exactly what's happening on the show, which has been hanging around the development warehouse for nearly a year. They made a pilot last March, and they'll go back into production on Episode 2 next month.
It's the opposite of what happened with NBC's Enemy, which never really got off the ground. Slater said the network trotted him out to hype the project to critics about two minutes after former NBC boss Ben Silverman decided to make it. "We had shot nothing. All they had were my TV appearances in Alias and Broken Arrow. Those were the clips of the show they showed the critics."
I thought they looked familiar. Breaking_In looks a little less so. Maybe Slater has finally found his niche.
Here's a sneak peek:
