Excuse me for a minute while I pimp a friends new TV show.
Watch and set your DVR for Trust Me premiering tomorrow night on TNT at 10. It stars Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) and is billed as "a witty dramaody centering on two best friends working as creative partners at a top-ranked Chicago ad agency."
Unlike Mad Men this show takes place in present day and is more humorous. The guys behind it are from Nip/Tuck & The Closer. Then there's my friend Whit who's involved in the production and writing, so I'm hoping for a success.
Tune in to watch, here's a promo of the show and I put a synopsis on the jump.
Joining McCormack and Cavanagh in TRUST ME are Monica Potter ( Boston Legal ), Griffin Dunne ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ), Sarah Clarke (Nina from 24 ), Mike Damus ( Lost in Yonkers ) and Geoffrey Arend ( Garden State ).
Set against the backdrop of the high-pressure world of advertising, TRUST ME focuses on Mason (McCormack) and Conner (Cavanagh), a pair of ad men whose strong creative partnership has served the firm of Rothman Greene & Mohr extremely well over the years. Mason, an art director, is a responsible, workaholic family man with a beautiful wife, Erin (Clarke), two children and an undying loyalty to the brands he helps sell. By contrast, his writing partner, Conner (Cavanagh), is a single, impulsive copywriter with the attention span of a teenager. Their yin-yang relationship is put to the test when Mason is named a creative director of the agency, making him Conner's boss. The series follows the changing dynamics between the two friends, who are better together than they are apart.
Also working in the same creative group is new hire Sarah Krajicek-Hunter (Potter), an award-winning copywriter whose forceful personality has a tendency to rub people the wrong way. Hector (Arend) and Tom (Damus) are a junior creative team with untraditional ideas that don't always sit well with their new boss. The entire team is supervised by Tony Mink (Dunne), a man who lives and dies by the advertising business but has a growing sense his days in this young person's business may be numbered.
TRUST ME follows these memorable characters as they try to navigate the waters of inter-office politics, personality conflicts, easily bruised egos, professional jealousies and unreasonable client demands.
TRUST ME was created by Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, who have a combined total of over 20 years of experience in the advertising world having worked for J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago .

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I'll be pleasantly shocked if this show comes at all close to what working as a creative in advertising is like.
I suppose if I can't get a job in a top-ranked Chicago ad agency, I'll at least get to watch it on TV.
Is it as good as Joey?
LOVE that show!!!!!!!!!!!!!