Dads Information

Dads is an upcoming American sitcom scheduled to be broadcast on Tuesdays at 8:00/7:00c on Fox beginning September 17, 2013. The series was created by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, and follows Warner and Eli, two successful video game developers whose lives are unexpectedly changed when their fathers move in with them. Sulkin and Wild are also executive producers along with Seth MacFarlane.

Cast

• Giovanni Ribisi as Warner, Eli's business partner
• Seth Green as Eli, Warner's business partner
• Martin Mull as Crawford, Warner's dad
• Peter Riegert as David, Eli's dad
• Brenda Song as Veronica, Eli and Warner's assistant
• Tonita Castro as Edna, Eli's maid
• Vanessa Lachey as Camilla, Warner's wife

Development and production

The series first appeared as part of Fox development slate in September 2012. In January 2013, Fox bypassed the pilot order and green-lighted Dads with a six-episode, straight-to-series order. The pilot was directed by Mark Cendrowski and written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, who also serve as executive producers alongside Seth MacFarlane. In May 2013, Fox extended the episode order from six to thirteen episodes.

Casting

Casting announcements began in January 2013, with Brenda Song first to be cast in the role of Veronica, Warner and Eli's odd assistant. Tommy Dewey was the next actor cast in the series as Warner, Eli's work partner and married father of two, whose father Crawford moves in with him. Peter Riegert was then added to the cast in the role of David, Eli's father, who abandoned Eli and his mother when he was five, and is now trying to rebuild their relationship. In mid-March, Martin Mull joined the series as Crawford, Warner's father, a man who's always been the bane of Warner's existence. Tonita Castro followed in the role of Edna, Eli's hard-drinking, outspoken maid. Seth Green and Erin Pineda were the last actors cast in the series. Green signed on to play the remaining lead role of Eli, a man who hasn't grown up but who built a successful video game business with Warner. Pineda joined the series as Camilla, Warner's wife with whom he has a four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter. In late March, it was announced that Vanessa Lachey would replace Erin Pineda in the role of Warner's wife, Camilla. In April, Giovanni Ribisi replaced Tommy Dewey as Warner after the taping of the pilot.

See also

• 2013"14 United States network television schedule