Interview: Jim Piddock, Executive Producer of HBO's Newest ...

?Jim Piddock (The Prestige, Best in Show) is executive producer, writer and actor (he plays Mr. Pfister) on HBO?s new comedy series Family Tree. Created with Christopher Guest (A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap), Family Tree is a half hour, mostly improvised, situation comedy starring Chris O?Dowd as Tom Chadwick.

Tom is at the end of his rope. A young man with no job, a broken relationship and very few family ties, he is bequeathed a wooden box by his recently deceased Great Aunt Victoria. As Tom explores the contents of the box, he learns more about his family history and himself.

The series also stars Nina Conti, Michael McKean, and a whole host of actors familiar to fans of Christopher Guest?s films, as well as some new faces. I had the chance to speak by phone to Jim to talk about about his new series.

How did you come to be involved in this way with Family Tree?
[Christopher Guest] and I had lunch a couple of years ago [at a time] when he had been looking a little bit into his own family tree. There was some stuff that his father had left him and he was interested in the whole [topic]. So we talked about it, and I was also interested in it, and thought it was a very universal and accessible idea. But I didn't think it was a film. I thought it was more of a TV show.

I think the nature of it is, there's no beginning, middle, and end. Even when you think about the physical nature of a tree ? it has got all these branches and different avenues you can go on. So we very quickly decided that if we would do anything with this it would be television show. Then about a month or two later or a couple of lunches later, we decided to try and just put our heads together and try writing and see what we came up with. And we actually spent a long time just hanging out in each other's dining rooms making each other laugh. And slowly evolved. We really probably didn?t even know for a couple of months whether we had anything for sure. And then it was very apparent that we did.

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