One of the stars of the CBS sitcom never saw himself on a network comedy – but with Dianne Wiest and James Brolin as parents,show aims for more than laughsThomas Sadoski is the kind of guy you expect to see in smart television fare. As a veteran of HBO’s Emmy winner The Newsroom and NBC’s all-star prestige remake of The Slap (co-starring Uma Thurman, Thandie Newton, and Peter Sarsgaard),Sadoski is not the type of guy you think would be delivering “Bazinga”! punchlines on a CBS sitcom. But with the debut of Life in Pieces on Monday, thats precisely where he is.“I never in my wildest imagination thought I would be doing a 30-minute comedy for CBS, or ” Sadoski says. “They called my agent and offered me the fraction. I kind of groused approximately it,and my agent said: ‘They would like you to read it.’ So I sat down and read and I thought, ‘this is really fun and really funny and well written and sweet and different. I’m interested to hear more.’ Then they said Dianne Wiest is playing the mother. I said ‘I’m in.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com