Me & Lee?

Status:Me & Lee? wasn't picked up by Fox for the their 2007 fall schedule. But it might be picked up as a mid-season replacement. Any further word will be posted.

Me & Lee?
Executive Producers: Matthew Salsberg, Jenji Kohan, Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl
Writer: Matthew Salsberg
Director: Paul Dinello
Cast: Lee Majors (himself); Fellow cast members, according to trade journals: Jamie Kennedy (Joel Salsberg), Jason Antoon (Blitt), Bill Smitrovich
Synopsis: Joel Salsberg, whose chronic back pain has left him “jobless, penniless and sexless,” is losing the support of his parents and in danger of losing his girlfriend Jessica. Luckily, he encounters Lee Majors, who, since the end of “The Six Million Dollar Man,” has been experimenting with bionics in his basement. He and research genius Blitt decide to use Joel as their test case; when Joel wakes up from the operation, he learns that his body has been replaced with state-of-the-art bionics technology.

But, as payment for the physical benefits (Joel can bench 300 pounds and run sixty miles an hour), Lee and Blitt installed cameras in Joel’s body to monitor his behavior. They also installed intercranial speakers, which allow Lee to communicate with Joel at will. This obviously creates an annoyance for Joel, who now has to listen to Lee at all times.

“Joel’s back pain is gone, but his headaches have just begun.”

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The Pilot Episode:
Jame Kennedy shared the pilot episode on his Myspace page.

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March 29th, 2007
Blogger Mark McCowen saw the taping of the pilot for "Me & Lee?" in his apartment building and posted a write up and some pictures. Check out the full blog entry! Click the photos for larger images. Thanks to Mark for sharing his story!

I spent the day on the set of "Me & Lee," a pilot show for fox starring Jamie Kennedy and Lee Majors and directed by Paul Dinello. They were shooting at my apartment building in the street and apartment above me. There were four semi-trucks and a crane.

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March 26th, 2007
Yet more information about Paul's Fox Pilot, including the actors who have been signed on for the pilot.

ME & LEE? (FOX Committed to pilot) - Bill Smitrovich ("Without a Trace") and Jason Antoon ("The Lost Room") have both been cast in the comedy pilot, about a chronic back pain victim (Jamie Kennedy) who gets more than he bargained for when he undergoes "bionic" surgery in a secret lab run by actor Lee Majors in the basement of his Beverly Hills mansion. The former is set as the man's obnoxious and opinionated father while Antoon will play Blitt, the lab's technician. [source]

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March 22nd, 2007
Some more information about "Me and Lee?", the Fox pilot Paul is directing, has been released.

JOEL SALSBERG, D.D.S., is at the end of his rope. Chronic, debilitating back pain has left him jobless, penniless and worst of all, sexless. His parents are tired of lending him money and his girlfriend JESSICA is ready to bail. A despondent Salsberg is given a new lease on life when he meets the one man who has the technology to
rebuild him: actor LEE MAJORS (playing himself).

Turns out that since "The Six Million Dollar Man" went off the air, Lee has been so obsessed with bionics that he constructed a fully functional, state-of-the-art laboratory in the basement of his Beverly Hills mansion. He hired genius surgeon/scientist/Cordon Bleu chef BLITT to bring his idea to fruition not "bionics," technically, but
Prosthetic Replacement & Integrated Cyberkinetics. Now Lee and Blitt need a human to experiment on, and Salsberg becomes the unwitting guinea pig in their grand scheme. He is tricked into undergoing
surgery far more radical than they've discussed, and when he awakens from the operation, he is shocked to discover that his inner body has been replaced with state-of-the-art bionics technology.

Now Salsberg can bench-press 300 pounds and run 60 miles per hour. Nothing hurts anymore. But his new life of physical enhancement and freedom from pain comes at an unforeseen cost: his privacy. Along with electrically charged prosthetic limbs, Lee also installed eyeball cameras and intercranial speakers so that he sees everything Salsberg sees and can talk to him at will. To Salsberg's annoyance, this often- inebriated, old and possibly evil 1970s TV icon is now an everpresent voice in his head that won't seem to shut up about how Salsberg should
live his life.

From the writers of "Weeds" and directed by Paul Dinello ("Strangers with Candy"), ME & LEE? is a buddy comedy about one man's relationship with his unlikely creator. It's an offbeat exploration of the highs and the many drawbacks that come with being half-man, half-machine. Joel's back pain is gone, but his headaches have just begun. [source]

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