Fox keen on 'Sit Down' with Hurwitz

March 12, 2008 It's another foreign format adaptation for Fox as the network has ordered a table read of "Sit Down, Shut Up," an animated comedy from Emmy winner Mitch Hurwitz based on the live-action Australian series of the same name. If the table read goes well, the project will be ordered straight to series, bypassing the monthslong, expensive process of producing a presentation. "Sit Down" focuses on the lives of seven staff members at a high school in a small northeastern fishing town who are preoccupied with their own needs and agendas, which means the students always come second.

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