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A New Sitcom: Family Owned

  • Marlon Mata
  • December 7, 2010

Well, I guess it can’t be helped. With the all the craze over the food truck phenomenon, it seems like things are just going to get wilder. From Korilla, Le Truc, and a reality TV show on food trucks, we’re about to witness the next addition to the topic’s stable: a family sitcom about a food truck.

Now, don’t you think we’re getting owned by this?

Well, I’d rather hold my horses until I see the real thing. We all know that ABC will be producing this show, but we’re still waiting for the show to come out. Most probably, it’s going to be next month (or next year for purists).

Tentatively entitled “Family Owned,”this show will feature a multiethnic and multigenerational cast. The star of this show is comedian Al Madrigal, who has signing-up for the show has confirmed talks about the new cast. The story centers on Madrigal, the son who had to take up his family’s food truck business.

This show is brought to you by the people who created “King of the Hill,”Tony Gama-Lobo and Rebecca May. These two have been confirmed to executive produce the show, in addition to Warren Littlefield. The entire set of the show will be filmed in ABC Studios.

Madrigal is best remembered for his appearance in Comedy Central’s “Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time.” Also, the comedian was regular cast on “Gary Unmarried” and “Welcome to the Captain,” both shown in CBS. He was also the star of Fox’s “The Ortegas,”only that the show wasn’t aired.

The new sitcom sure chose its timing well. The gourmet food truck business is booming all over Los Angeles. You could say that this craze over food trucks could be traced to the Kogi truck, with its fusion of Korean/Mexican dishes like kimchi quesadillas, among others. People simply loved what they have to offer.

Today, food trucks are now the norm in cities like L.A. and New York. It won’t come as a surprise if they have already reached the hundreds. That’s how popular these food establishments are. And the cuisines there are as varied as the trucks themselves. You could find Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches, Filipino adobo sliders, Armenian cheese bureks, and even Hawaiian SPAM musubi as part of the ordinary fare.

How this fascination for the food trucks will affect the show’s success remains to be seen. In any case. I’ll just wait until I watch the pilot. By then, I could pretty much tell where Madrigal and crew is heading.

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