ABC's new comedy series,
Carpoolers, is set to premiere next week. The series follows four male suburbanites as they share life stories with one another while carpooling to work.
The cast is led by
Jerry O'Connell (
Crossing Jordan),
Fred Goss (
Sons & Daughters),
Tim Peper (
Guiding Light) and
Jerry Minor (
Arrested Development). O'Connell plays Laird, the recently divorced playboy, Goss portrays Gracen, the man who started the carpool, Peper plays Dougie, the eager newlywed and Minor plays Aubrey, the breadwinner of his family.
Other cast members include
Allison Munn (
What I Like About You),
Faith Ford (
Murphy Brown, Hope and Faith) and
TJ Miller.
On the pilot episode of
Carpoolers, Gracen tells the guys how upset he is with his wife, Leila (Ford), for buying a toaster worth $200. The boys jump in with their own stories, with Laird making a joke about his divorce, Aubrey admitting he doesn't know how much he earns since his wife handles his paychecks, and Dougie telling the guys that marriage is “a game you shouldn't keep score in.”
In an interview with abc.com, Fred Goss said that having four characters with different backgrounds engage in a discourse regularly is what makes
Carpoolers interesting.
“It's not like these four buddies [know each other] from college. I think that's the interesting thing about it… [The men are from] four completely different age groups, and [they have] four completely different family dynamics because of the age differences,” Fred Goss told abc.com. “These guys wouldn't normally be hanging out together, but because of this hour-long drive they do to and from work everyday they form a bond. It allows the show to go into four different directions… [it's] multi-generational."
O'Connell also shared his views on
Carpoolers, saying, “It is a comedy, I don't want to say it's just based on reality, but its very realistic in the sense that the people you have to spend a lot of time with you normally don't… We're sort of forced into this situation with everybody… and I think that's what makes it so much fun to act in.”
The series premiere of
Carpoolers will air on Tuesday, October 2, at 8:30pm on ABC.
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: ABC
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