{"id":770119,"date":"2026-06-30T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:09:14","slug":"the-cable-guy-series-to-be-shot-in-vancouver-misses-key-element-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770119\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Cable Guy’ series to be shot in Vancouver misses key element | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cable Guy, an American comedy film from the mid-90s directed by Ben Stiller, is getting a reboot in TV form, but it\u2019s missing something that made the original so memorable: Jim Carrey!<\/p>\n

Writers include Rob Rosell, who is known for It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Joe Piarulli and Luan Thomas, who are known for\u00a0Cobra Kai.<\/p>\n

UBCP\/ACTRA\u2019s active production list<\/a> states that North Vancouver is the home base for the pilot, and shooting begins in late July this year.<\/p>\n

Upon release in 1996,\u00a0The Cable Guy was panned by critics.<\/p>\n

It was released right in the middle of a flurry of incredible releases starring Carrey, including The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Liar Liar, and The Truman Show.<\/p>\n

Compared to those other flicks, The Cable Guy didn\u2019t land the same way for critics. It also wasn\u2019t as big a box-office success as some of those other classic Carrey titles. In later years, sentiments surrounding the absurd dark comedy have changed, and it is considered a cult classic.<\/p>\n

Bee Movie star Matthew Broderick also had a co-starring role in the film, but Carrey\u2019s unhinged performance was largely what made the movie shine.<\/p>\n

Aside from Carrey, the film also featured comedy icons like Jack Black, Owen Wilson, David Cross and Leslie Mann. Even Bob Odenkirk made a small appearance.<\/p>\n

The film was also ahead of its time in some of its themes, and even prophetic. Carrey\u2019s character Chip once claims, \u201cSoon every American home will integrate their television, phone, and computer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Vancouver TV production of\u00a0The Cable Guy is without the talents of Carrey or Broderick, but according to Deadline<\/a>, stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.<\/p>\n

Deadline points out that the pilot serves as a reunion for Johnson and Wayans Jr., who were both part of the original New Girl cast.<\/p>\n

UBCP\/ACTRA states that the Vancouver pilot shoot is scheduled to last just under two weeks, wrapping up in early August.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of other notable productions that have either recently gotten underway or will soon, including two from Goosebumps\u00a0creator R.L. Stine. R.L Stine\u2019s Afraid of Clowns and R.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead 2, both classified as \u201cNew Media,\u201d are scheduled to shoot in Vancouver in June and July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cable Guy, an American comedy film from the mid-90s directed by Ben Stiller, is getting a reboot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-770119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}