Ish slate filled with big names

July 30, 2009 Several top film names are taking a leap into television courtesy of hungry startup Ish Entertainment. Hot screenwriters Edward Cannistraci and Frederick Seton, the writers behind Fox's Jim Carrey feature "Pierre Pierre," have set up the male-comedy script "Gnarly" at Comedy Central. Meanwhile, Ed Burns will write, direct and star in "Bayside Boys," a kind of East Coast "Entourage" about a group of twentysomething male friends from the middle-class neighborhood of Bayside, Queens, that's being peddled to top cable nets.

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