Guy Up!

Credits: Shot in La by Bicycle Path Prods. and Tagline Television in colaboration with ABC Art galleries. Executive producers, Christopher Moynihan, Victor Fresco, Ron West, Kelly Kulchak producer, Marc Solakian director, Jesse McCarthy Burns author, Moynihan.With: Mather Zickel, Serta Fogler, Christopher Moynihan, Teri Polo, Amanda Detmer, Henry Simmons, Mike Manley, Charlotte now now Labadie.Remember "Traffic Light," which was on Fox, like, last season? It absolutely was just the latest kinda-funny casualty inside the male-stress genre, through which suburban trios of males expose their inner Peter Pans, mostly by playing videogames and whining. Because regard consider ABC's "Guy Up!" -- coupled with "Last Guy Standing" in the thematically compatible otherwise particularly appealing block -- as "The Hangover: Part TV," studying the tired question of whether modern occasions have produced an over-developed generation of girly males. Alas, it'll take greater than sociology to work up this stale sitcom. Producer-author Christopher Moynihan also co-stars as Craig, an connect in the central group, who avoid their daily duties by playing a preliminary-person shooter game simply because they talk to each other wearing earphones. The anchor is clearly Will (Mather Zickel), whose brother-in-law Kenny (Serta Fogler) is divorced and chafing within the fact his ex (Amanda Detmer) is dating the man of anybody's dreams ("NYPD Blue's" Henry Simmons). Obviously, Fogler plays a tightly wound ball of rage, potentially dragging Will into his madcap capers. However, Will stays plenty of his time interested in whether they can measure for the manliness of his father's generation. Consequently, Kenny's antics -- or possibly within the premiere's situation, Craig potentially triggering an ass-kicking by pissed-off groomsman after crashes his ex-girlfriend's wedding -- has only an opportunity to check what he's truly produced from. Finally, there's Will's beautiful/patient/much-smarter-than-he-is wife Theresa (Teri Polo), who may (at the risk of over-thinking things) bear a smaller resemblance to her onscreen brother, Fogler, than any sister pairing in modern TV history. Although a couple of from the everything is relatable -- Will's nervous about finding his 13-year-old boy a appropriate gift, for starters -- while others goofily arbitrary (Kenny's reliance on Tobey Maguire), it's presented within this familiar single-camera manner it may be easy to improperly assume "Guy Up!" can be a rerun of recent sitcoms past. If there's an unexpected here, it's Simmons' comic chops since the perfect physical specimen which has transformed Kenny, though making the regular element -- rather than a gag for your pilot -- offers a sense of how broad "Guy Up!" will most likely be. For that show's future, that almost entirely would depend on Tim Allen's performance becasue it is lead-in -- once again departing these males, oddly, subject a great on generation. However, even if Allen's show works, this companion half-hour is actually thin there's still an chance ABC will discover yourself tossing "Guy" overboard.Camera, Michael Trim production designer, Ian Phillips editor, Richard Candib music, John Kimbrough casting, Debby Romano, Brett Benner. 30 MIN. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com