NBC Celebrates Halloween with Mockingbird Lane Pilot

NBC’s Mockingbird Lane is either A) dead in the water, B) struggling to survive, or C) doing fine but needs some tweaking – depending on what day it is and who you choose to believe. Whatever its status, NBC has decided the best thing to do is send the pilot out into the world on Friday, October 26 at 8-9pm ET/PT. The network will follow the Mockingbird Lane pilot with a “La Llorona” Halloween episode of Grimm at 9pm.
 
Bryan Fuller (Heroes) executive produces Mockingbird Lane which is a reimagined version of The Munsters, the classic TV series from the 1960s. Executive producer Bryan Singer (X-Men, House) directed the first episode of the new series that promises to be darker in tone than the original goofy comedy series that inspired it.
 
The Mockingbird Lane cast includes Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, Mason Cook as Eddie and Charity Wakefield as Marilyn.
 
Announcing the pilot screening date, Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment said, “This exciting new take on a memorable series will definitely blow out conventional wisdom and create its own legacy. Teaming this new show with a terrifying episode of Grimm makes the perfect pre-Halloween fright-fest.”
 
The Plot:
 
In Mockingbird Lane, sweet little Eddie Munster (Cook) is a normal kid about to enter the horrors of puberty. Truth is, he’s about to discover that for him becoming a teenager means growing hair in truly unexpected places — as in all over his body — every time the moon is full! Eddie’s got it pretty good though. His loving, supportive, run-of-the-mill family includes his mom Lily (de Rossi), the daughter of Dracula; his dad Herman (O’Connell), who brings new meaning to “Frankenstein”; and Grandpa (Izzard), who would give Dracula a run for his money if he weren’t actually Dracula! Of course then there’s creepy cousin Marilyn (Wakefield), who’s really the odd one because she’s so completely normal.
 
Buying a house these days is a nightmare, so Herman and Lily are shocked that no one scooped up the rambling Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane that was the site of a series of grisly hobo murders. Settling into their new place, they’re quickly onto the mission at hand: to gently ease Eddie into the reality of his werewolf adolescence. But it’s not always so easy to accept that your child is a little “different” from the rest of the kids. Meanwhile, Herman, who works as a funeral director, is suffering from a heart condition. Since he’s made up mostly of spare parts, he knew his makeshift heart would eventually give out. No worries though, because Grandpa, who is pretty good at procuring body parts, is on the case. All Herman cares about is finding a new heart with the same capacity to love Lily as much as he has for so many decades.
 
Source: NBC
 
—Posted by Rebecca Murray