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or bookie s straight to series order and sees it as a vote of confidence for himself and sebastian maniscalco writing for a streaming series allows more freedom and the ability to build on previous episodes unlike network television lorre discusses how the idea for bookie came about and the chemistry between sebastian maniscalco and omar j dorsey which was crucial for the success of the buddy comedy dynamic remove ads from creators chuck lorre and nick bakay the eight episode comedy series bookie available to stream at max follows longtime l a bookie danny sebastian maniscalco and his best friend ray omar j dorsey as they start to face the fact that the potential legalization of sports gambling in california could throw their world into upheaval until then they ll continue to try to persuade clients to settle their debts while figuring out if they can adapt to inevitable change during this 1 on 1 interview with collider writer executive producer lorre talked about how grateful he is for the straight to series order they got for bookie how that changed their approach to the storytelling the way this evolved out of a desire to do a project that exists in the gray area of criminality why he wants to avoid any hardcore violence what they learned from speaking to real life bookies the unexpected dynamic between danny and ray what it was like to reunite with charlie sheen and how he d tease the arc of the season he also talks about two of the projects he d hoped to get made but that never happened for him the two shows from his previous projects that he d love to do another season of and how the reason to make comedy is simply to provoke laughter remove ads bookie follows a veteran bookie struggling to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling increasingly unstable clients family and co workers release date november 30 2023 cast andrea anders vanessa ferlito sebastian maniscalco jorge garcia main genre comedy seasons 1 creator chuck lorre nick bakay collider no matter how long you ve been in this industry and you ve made successful tv shows does it still feel nice to get a straight to series order like you did with the series and know that you re actually making the series chuck lorre oh yeah i always like to say that if you re not grateful for those kinds of opportunities you re simply not paying attention the straight to series was a vote of confidence both for myself and very much for sebastian maniscalco the folks at max and warner bros are huge fans of sebastian maniscalco remove ads image via max wanting to tell a story in that gray area of criminality without the excessive violence does it change the approach to writing something when you know that you ll be making an eight episode season and you don t have to do a pilot and wait to find out if you ll get to have a show lorre oh absolutely it changes the approach you get to make these episodes as if there are chapters in a book nick bakay and i had enough time before production started to pretty much write all eight episodes and then we were able once we had all eight episodes in a rough draft form we were able to move some puzzle pieces around so that something in episode one could be referred to in episode four in the streaming universe i think you can safely presume that if somebody s watching episode four they ve seen one two and three and so because they have done that you have all that to build on in episode four there s a lot of freedom you have writing wise i never necessarily felt we had that kind of luxury in network television where there was no telling if the audience had seen the last week s show remove ads how did this series and the idea for this series come about you ve worked with nick bakay on some other shows but what led you to team up with him on this and tell this story lorre i d always wanted to do something in that gray area of criminality where people are off the grid and not playing by the rules and there might even be implications of violence although i wasn t comfortable with working in real hardcore violence i simply don t know how to make that funny because it s in fact not when i first met sebastian and i was looking at his standup concerts he s a master of that craft the obvious way to go would have been to build a show around that standup persona and then i saw him in the irishman where he s playing crazy joe gallo a psychotic gangster in a scene with robert de niro and joe pesci i watched that scene over and over and i realized that sebastian s got serious acting chops he s not trying to be an actor he s an actor it was a really beautiful performance and a performance with two of the great actors of our time and he was right there with them i thought well we should take a left turn and go away from the standup act and find something in that underworld of criminality remove ads i talked to nick bakay about it and fortuitously nick s background is sports gambling he was a commentator on espn for several years about the spread and the parlay and the over and the under and the dog and the favorites he was a talking head on espn for several years about sports gambling he knew all about it and the language of it and it is its own language which i truly love i fell in love with working with a language that i myself didn t understand on the big bang theory very often they d have speeches which we as comedy writers couldn t have possibly written without having a physics consultant on the show who had explained to us how a speech about string theory would be entirely obtuse and hard to fathom from the audience you knew why the character was making a speech even if you may not have understood it and there s this wonderful language in sports gambling that is equally hard to penetrate but you understand the general idea of it when i talked to nick about this whole world he suggested what about a bookie and i went perfect remove ads we figured out early on by speaking to a lot of bookies who i can t name that the violence is something that plays in movies and television shows but these men are too smart to really go down that road when somebody doesn t pay they simply drop them as a client and they let it be known to other bookies that this person is not a viable client to take a bet with because they may not pay when they lose there s no breaking of the knees that s actually bad business violence attracts the police and what these guys don t want more than anything is any visibility from the police and so this worked perfectly working with nick gave me an opportunity to dig into that language and that mentality because he understands it viscerally so we started writing and we presented it to sebastian and he said yes let s do this remove ads image via max making this buddy comedy work was all about the chemistry i love when a tv series drops us into a dynamic that we re told has been long established but also really feels like it has what was it about omar dorsey and omar paired with sebastian that felt like the perfect odd couple duo lorre from the very beginning nick and i were determined to make this a buddy comedy and for a buddy comedy to work the two leads have to have chemistry otherwise you re doa you ve just committed lots of money and time to a failed enterprise and from the first time that omar came in and read with sebastian they were like an old married couple they were finishing each other s sentences they weren t doing the same thing but what they were doing worked together there s this ineffable weird thing that happens when two actors who just have chemistry together do a scene together we were just sitting there going oh boy now we have a show if omar doesn t walk in and audition and then absolutely own that part i don t know how we go forward because the show at its heart is a buddy comedy those two guys are the heart of the series remove ads i also love that omar s character is the one who s meant to be the muscle of this duo but he s really the more sensitive one in touch with wanting to respect people s pronouns and not wanting to cause anyone harm it s very unexpected lorre he s much more the woke part of the duo i hope we make it clear that he s a visual deterrent he s not gonna knock anybody around he s just there to put the idea in their head not to do anything one of the things that we ve done in the series on several occasions is that when somebody is a bad client and is not gonna pay the money they ve lost they just cut them loose and walk away in the first episode sebastian s character calls it shrinkage all businesses have it with stolen merchandise and damaged merchandise you just write it off as shrinkage it s not about breaking legs and stuff like that that s bad business remove ads image via max which of his previous tv shows would he want to make another season of it seems like you have an incredible ability to get things made is there a tv series or a movie that you ve always wanted to get made but so far no one has said yes to lorre this is going back a ways going back a long time like almost 30 years and it got made by other people but i was an enormous fan of douglas adams and dirk gentley s holistic detective agency i thought that was a mind bogglingly wonderful book and i tried several years ago to launch a series or at least a feature based on the bonfire of the vanities which is one of my favorite books of all time but i slammed into a wall on that one i couldn t get that one going remove ads out of all the things that you ve worked on if you could somehow have the ability to make one more season of something that you ve done what would it be and why lorre i was about to say i feel like i gotten closure on everything but you know what mike molly should have gone further and so should have mom those are series that i loved i got to work with allison janney and melissa mccarthy what a gift that was i wish that had gone for longer i m up for it if anybody wants to reach out and do that again the whole cast on both shows was so deep are you surprised at the success of young sheldon and how long that s been on the air remove ads lorre i don t think i would say surprised because we got hit by lightning when we found iain armitage co creator steve molaro and i wrote a very purposefully difficult scene for the young kids to audition with it was a dense difficult audition scene and iain in a home audition on his mom s iphone killed it it was shocking he was amazing he was a gift from god had that not happened that series doesn t go forward unless you re lucky enough to cast a brilliant little boy who s also a world class actor why was now the right time to reunite with charlie sheen if someone has never watched anything that you have worked on what is the first thing they should watch and why is there a gateway drug to your projects remove ads lorre i don t know how to answer that question i never thought of it as a throughline i can tell you that i have had the most simple minded goal all the time which is that comedy is supposed to make you laugh that s it the reason to make a comedy is to provoke laughter laughter is a wonderful thing and pursuing laughter is a wonderful thing when it works and it s truly funny and you re truly laughing out loud that s worth the work it s worth the time it s worth the money it s a good goal and when you achieve it it s really gratifying when you hear people laughing out loud it s incredibly gratifying if you were going to have charlie sheen in bookie i can t imagine any more perfect way for him to be in it than with the version of himself that he s playing how did it feel to go from the place of animosity that you guys were in to the place that you got to for this show do you think that you would have eventually gotten to the place you are in now even if you hadn t wanted him to do the show remove ads lorre when i realized that the perfect person to play the famous actor degenerate gambler was charlie the conversations i had with nick bakay were how and why can i do that given everything that went on it was traumatizing it was a really difficult time for me but gratefully it was ancient history when we discussed it i felt like if charlie is in a good place i m in a good place and we can have closure i know it sounds a little bit treacly but it was really healing it was great we had been friends before that whole mess and this allowed us to be friends again which i cherish that friendship it was also really cool to see him knock it out of the park he was totally on his chops were undiminished by time he was great will we see him appear again this season remove ads lorre yeah he is in another episode i won t give the episode away but sebastian s character is going through marital difficulties and charlie is giving him advice marital advice from charlie sheen is just a wonderful starting point for another great cameo image via max what would you say about the journey the characters take this season how would you tease the arc of these eight episodes lorre oh boy that s a deep question the arc one of the things i found really wonderful to write about that nick and i discovered as we were writing the series was that even in success it s an incredibly stressful thing to color outside the lines operating off the grid means you operate without any of society s protections you re on your own you can t call the police when things go bad you re entirely isolated from whatever society offers the taxpaying citizens as protection and that was interesting being off the grid and being in a criminal enterprise because it s fundamentally a criminal enterprise we make it really clear that police don t particularly care too much about it for the cops bookmaking is to the police what a cat up a tree is to the fire department they don t care but it is an illegal activity remove ads one of the other things i found really attractive about bookmaking was the legalization of gambling that s going across the country with draft kings and fanduel and caesars and mgm and it s been sanctioned by the nfl and the nba and major league baseball that sweeping change in the culture of legalized gambling these little guys are threatened like the neighborhood pot dealer who s driven out of business by legal pot which we also have in the first episode there s a quality to these characters where they re dinosaurs they can see the asteroid coming and there s nothing they can do about it we make a point of telling the audience that california is one of the few states where it s still illegal to gamble on the internet but that s for now they re in a very tenuous position their jobs could disappear because of the changes in the law i thought that was a terrific part of this i m not unaware that what i do for a living might also be a dinosaur function and that this might go away with cultural changes ai and whatever remove ads bookie is available to stream at max stream at 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