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Nick Holly, the co-creator of the short-lived ABC improvisational comedy Sons & Daughters, died Nov. 21 at his home in Santa Monica after a “long journey” with lung cancer, his family announced. He was 51.
Survivors include his sister, actress Lauren Holly (All My Children, Picket Fences, Dumb and Dumber).
Holly also founded the management company Epiphany Alliance Inc., and he repped writers including Nell Benjamin, Laurence O’Keefe, Matthew Flanagan and David McHugh.
He and writer-director Fred Goss, a former client, created Sons & Daughters. Produced with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, the single-camera comedy about a blended family ran for 11 episodes in March and April 2006.
The show featured Goss as a beleaguered Ohio man who lives with his wife and kids, his child by his previous wife, his remarried mom, his great-aunt, his stepfather, a sister, a half-sister, a nephew, a niece and his brother-in-law.
In an...
Nick Holly, the co-creator of the short-lived ABC improvisational comedy Sons & Daughters, died Nov. 21 at his home in Santa Monica after a “long journey” with lung cancer, his family announced. He was 51.
Survivors include his sister, actress Lauren Holly (All My Children, Picket Fences, Dumb and Dumber).
Holly also founded the management company Epiphany Alliance Inc., and he repped writers including Nell Benjamin, Laurence O’Keefe, Matthew Flanagan and David McHugh.
He and writer-director Fred Goss, a former client, created Sons & Daughters. Produced with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, the single-camera comedy about a blended family ran for 11 episodes in March and April 2006.
The show featured Goss as a beleaguered Ohio man who lives with his wife and kids, his child by his previous wife, his remarried mom, his great-aunt, his stepfather, a sister, a half-sister, a nephew, a niece and his brother-in-law.
In an...
- 11/29/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nick Holly, a manager, writer and producer who co-created the ABC comedy series “Sons & Daughters,” died Nov. 21 of cancer in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 51.
Originally from Geneva, N.Y., Holly played lacrosse at Rutgers U., then moved to Hollywood where he got his start in the business in the CAA mailroom. He later became an agent at Buchwald and went on to form the management company Epiphany Alliance. In 2006, he teamed with his client Fred Goss to create the half-hour comedy “Sons & Daughters,” produced with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. He also managed a slate of writers for film, television, and Broadway, including Nell Benjamin, Matthew Flanagan, David McHugh, and Larry O’Keefe.
He also wrote for “The LeBrons” animated series.
His family wrote in a statement that he “loved the ocean, the wilderness, and traveling the world, climbing mountains from Baldy to Kilimanjaro. A larger than life character and hilarious story teller,...
Originally from Geneva, N.Y., Holly played lacrosse at Rutgers U., then moved to Hollywood where he got his start in the business in the CAA mailroom. He later became an agent at Buchwald and went on to form the management company Epiphany Alliance. In 2006, he teamed with his client Fred Goss to create the half-hour comedy “Sons & Daughters,” produced with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. He also managed a slate of writers for film, television, and Broadway, including Nell Benjamin, Matthew Flanagan, David McHugh, and Larry O’Keefe.
He also wrote for “The LeBrons” animated series.
His family wrote in a statement that he “loved the ocean, the wilderness, and traveling the world, climbing mountains from Baldy to Kilimanjaro. A larger than life character and hilarious story teller,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
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