For most people, imaginary friends tend to disappear when the person makes real friends as a child, but for Alice, the central character of ABC’s new sitcom “Imaginary Mary,” her best imaginary friend makes a comeback during a relationship crisis in her mid-30s.
At the show’s premiere event, which took place in a private, VIP box at the Staples Center before Sunday night’s Los Angeles Lakers game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jenna Elfman, who plays Alice, and executive producer Patrick Osborne explained where the idea behind the grey, almost troll-like Mary came from.
“We wanted to make a show with a little whimsy and an animated character,” Osborne said, as the stadium’s blaring warm-up music threatened to drown him out. “Mary went through many iterations and napkin sketches until we landed here, and honestly, we didn’t even land here until after the pilot. We hadn’t written a full pilot or...
At the show’s premiere event, which took place in a private, VIP box at the Staples Center before Sunday night’s Los Angeles Lakers game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jenna Elfman, who plays Alice, and executive producer Patrick Osborne explained where the idea behind the grey, almost troll-like Mary came from.
“We wanted to make a show with a little whimsy and an animated character,” Osborne said, as the stadium’s blaring warm-up music threatened to drown him out. “Mary went through many iterations and napkin sketches until we landed here, and honestly, we didn’t even land here until after the pilot. We hadn’t written a full pilot or...
- 3/20/2017
- by Will Thorne
- Variety - TV News
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