Worldwide Pants Incorporated
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Worldwide Pants Incorporated is a television production and film production company owned by comedian and talk show host David Letterman. Current television productions include:
- The Late Show with David Letterman (1993-present)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2004-present)
Worldwide Pants was formed when Letterman made his switch from NBC to CBS. The company headquarters are in the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. The president and CEO is Rob Burnett; Peter Lassally is a senior vice president.
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Past television productions
Past productions for CBS include:
- The Building (1993)
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (1995-1999)
- The Bonnie Hunt Show (1995-1996)
- Welcome to New York (2000-2001)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (1999-2004)
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)
The company also produced The High Life (1996) for HBO and Ed (2000-2004) for NBC.
In April 2005 the Sci Fi Channel announced Barbarian Chronicles, a half-hour animated ensemble comedy from Brendon Small, which will be produced by Worldwide Pants.
Film production
The company has produced its first film, a movie prequel to Strangers with Candy, also called Strangers with Candy. The film had its world premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, within the "Park City at Midnight" category. Warner Independent Pictures subsequently signed up as North American distributor of the film, scheduling a limited release of the film in October 2005.
Trivia
The Worldwide Pants logo following "The Late Show With David Letterman" is always accompanied with a voiceover, a random one-liner usually about pants. Examples: "Nice Pants, Pepe", "Time for pants!", "No dice, Penny".
External links and sources
- Summary of the company (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/107/107309.html), from Hoover's via Yahoo!
- Productions from Worldwide Pants (http://imdb.com/List?production-companies=Worldwide+Pants+Inc.), from Internet Movie Database
- Who Ever Said Comedy Had To Be Fun? (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/70/burnett.html), from a May 2003 Fast Company article
- SCI FI Reveals New Series (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30824), including Barbarian Chronicles
- What’s Edd Hall doing these days after leaving The Tonight Show? (http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20050417/20050417_4554.asp), citing Hall's graphic design work, from American Profile magazine
- Sound clips of some Worldwide Pants logo voiceovers (http://www.utvs.com/knagl/sound/wwp/wwpsound.htm), from a fan's website