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October 18, 2006 - FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - A Florida television production company is producing a situation comedy for network television entitled, Rehab, with fictionalized characters based on real life celebrities and politicians such as Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, U.S. Congressman Foley and Robert Downey Jr. who enter the rehab program at a fictional Oregon treatment facility.
Producers at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based production have high hopes that its ever-topical show about celebrities, politicians and pop culture icons gone awry will win viewers over.
“This stuff writes itself… literally,” said Rehab executive producer, Eric Blake. “Rehab programs have become the new spin control vehicles for alleged celebrity and political substance abusers, pedophiles and miscreants. If you’re going to act like a sit-com character, you deserve to have your own show.”
And so Blake created Rehab, an uproarious comedy which takes its lead from the real life trials and tribulations of pop culture icons and celebrities who’ve taken a walk on the wild side one too many times. Blake is hoping to secure cameo appearances from at least some of the celebrities who helped inspire the premise.
“Most of these celebrities, besides having some problems, also have senses of humor,” says Blake. “I think they’ll jump at the opportunity to laugh at themselves. It’s a great public relations Rehab opportunity.”
For more information on Rehab, contact Eric Blake at 954-537-3180.
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