Christian Slater is ‘Breaking In’ to Comedy For Fox; Replacing ‘Running Wilde’

Christian Slater is returning to television with Breaking In… Only this time, he’s going to be funny – we hope.

Shortly after the news that Fox would not be ordering any more episodes of Will Arnett’s failed series Running Wilde, it was announced that the network would be picking up the Sony TV/Happy Madison produced comedy series.

If you’re unfamiliar with Breaking In, here’s the official synopsis from Fox:

Breaking In is an offbeat half-hour workplace comedy about a high-tech security firm that takes extreme – and often questionable – measures to sell their protection services. Created by Adam F. Goldberg (“Fanboys”) and Seth Gordon (“Four Christmases” and the upcoming “Horrible Bosses”), the series centers on a team of uniquely skilled oddball geniuses hand-picked to work for a manipulative mastermind. Starring Christian Slater (“The Forgotten”), Bret Harrison (“Reaper”) and Odette Yustman (“You Again”).

While Running Wilde has not yet been officially canceled, the signs certainly point in that direction. With Fox picking up the new comedy series Breaking In, the network will most likely use it to replace the failed series – and pair it with the hit freshman comedy Raising Hope.

Breaking In will team-up with Fox's comedy Raising Hope

Originally developed as a series for last season, Breaking In actually tested well with focus groups and received a lot of buzz. Unfortunately, the series didn’t make the cut.  Thankfully, instead of completely giving up on it, Fox came back a month later and order two additional scripts.

Each year, Christian Slater has been returning in a new series and each new series has subsequently been canceled. While The Forgotten certainly deserved it, his failed NBC drama My Worst Enemy was actually quite good. Unfortunately, it couldn’t pull in the ratings that it needed to succeed.

While it’s hard to tell if Breaking In will be any different, it does have Slater’s unflattering television history to overcome. Hopefully, this time, Slater has found a series that will solidify his return to television for longer than three months.

Let’s hope what they say is true… Third time’s a charm.

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Breaking In premieres April 6, @9pm, on Fox

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CDE – An Innovative Way Of Running Programs On Diverse Linux Machines

CDE (not to be mistaken for the Common Desktop Environment in UNIX) is a packaging tool which allows you to identically replicate the execution of a program running on one Linux machine, on to another.

It does this by packaging up the Code, Data, and Environment (including all the dependencies – libraries, auxiliary programs etc) together, which can then be transferred and executed flawlessly on a different Linux machine.

CDE is the brain child of Philip Guo – a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at Stanford University.

You can use CDE to -

Try out someone else’s software on your machine without running into dependency hell.Testing multiple versions of your program on your machine without conflict.Easily deploying your computer program into a compute cluster or Linux cloud VM without any errors.Future proofing your software – in effect guaranteeing it to run on any Linux machine even 10 years down the line.Enabling people on older computers to run your programs without recompiling.

Using CDE to create a universal package of your computer program or software is quite simple. It involves running your computer program with cde before it.

Here is an interesting video created by the author of the program where he demonstrates the use of CDE.

You can learn more about CDE and download it from the author’s website.

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