Peter Tolan
  • 'Baywatch' movie has nothing to do with the show

    "Rescue Me's" Peter Tolan is avoiding the source material for his big screen adaptation of the popular TV show....

  • Sean Hayes' NBC pilot gets a premise, adds 'Rescue Me' co-creator Peter Tolan

    Details have started to emerge about Sean Hayes' new starring vehicle at NBC....

  • Pilot season: 'Wonder Woman' eyes McG as director, ABC gets busy in development

    Plus: NBC orders a drama from the writer of "Traffic" and "Rescue Me" co-creator Peter Tolan sets up a comedy at FOX....

  • Pilots: Five Join Matthew Perry Dark Comedy

    ...centered local talk show host who is seeking a bigger market and is half-heartedly on the way to redemption. Perry and Peter Tolan are writers and executive producers on the project, which promises to show a darker side to Perry. The cast additions......

  • Matthew Perry Will 'End' Up on Showtime

    ...Perry . According to the industry trade papers, Perry will be co-writing and executive producing the pilot with Peter Tolan, whose credits include "Rescue Me" and "The Larry Sanders Show." Set up through Sony Pictures TV......

  • Pilots: NBC Casts a 'King'

    ...comedy and drama in telling the story of a New York police precinct. Hawley will also executive produce with Peter Tolan ("Rescue Me," "The Job"). "Finnegan" focuses on the female head of a vice and organized crime unit in Los......

  • 'Rescue Me' Answers Bell for FX

    ...Rescue Me' has always been the product of the unique vision and talents of Denis Leary [and executive producers] Peter Tolan and Jim Serpico, along with one of the best acting ensembles on television," FX chief John Landgraf says. "The......

  • DVD Review: 'Rescue Me, Season Three'

    ...Their answers may not satisfy anyone who saw the scene and thought "He just raped her," but Roth and co-creator Peter Tolan at least lay out their case for why it exists: "It sort of re-establishes that underneath these two dysfunctional......

  • 'Battlestar' Writer Rebuilds 'Bionic Woman'

    ...Order" veteran Michael Chernuchin wrote the original draft of the script, and "Rescue Me" co-creator Peter Tolan took a shot at it as well. Both will serve as exec producers along with Tolan's "Rescue Me" partner Denis Leary......

  • 'Rescue Me' Flames Out

    ...monogamous, everybody was having a great time at the firehouse and what would that be like." His co-creator, Peter Tolan, confirms it's an idea they've batted around, but that "only means that it's going to fall apart spectacularly......

  • A Gavin Goes Down on FX's 'Rescue Me'

    ...back," Winters says. "I'm open to it. At the end of the day, it's up to Denis and Peter [executive producer Peter Tolan] if they want me back. You never know." As for the fate of Chief Reilly, Winters says, "You know what, I......

  • TV Gal Forages for Fall

    ...that's happening on "Rescue Me" this season. "I spent my TV adolescence under Leary and [executive producer Peter] Tolan's tutelage. They raised me and I can't kick them when they're down. They're getting their butt kicked on......

  • 'Rescue Me' Answers Bell for Fourth Season

    ...its season two performance. Ratings among FX's target audience of adults 18-49 are up by 8 percent. Leary and Peter Tolan, who co-created the series about New York firefighters, and Jim Serpico will remain as executive producers......

  • Controversy Over 'Rescue Me' Rages On

    ...latter camp on Television Without Pity, whose forums host a lively debate on the episode. "Rescue Me" co-creator Peter Tolan has been a part of that back-and-forth, posting a number of times about the episode, which he co-wrote with......

  • Smoking and Joking With 'Rescue Me'

    ...bike. Months later, that episode haunts. "People flipped out over it," Leary says. Leary and writing partner Peter Tolan delve into fantasy on the show, but "Rescue Me" works because it is unflinchingly honest. Leary, whose firefighter......