Eric Schaeffer – MRQE

“Gravity”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.

Fall

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can’t seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.

“Starved”

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a “shame-based” support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own.

Starved was the lead-in of FX’s hour-long “Other Side of Comedy” block with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network’s demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.

Mind the Gap

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.

After Fall, Winter

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love.

They’re Out of the Business

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A decade and a half after their seminal indie film launched meteoric filmmaking careers, Splick and Jason find themselves staring at their own individual, pre-midlife crises. Having not spoken to one another since a late-nineties falling out, they’re each grappling with the challenges of stalled careers and relationships, as the hands of time creep ominously past forty-o’clock. Splick’s most recent TV show, centered around his character’s perverse relationship with dessert foods, is unceremoniously cancelled by the network, forcing a return to his childhood bedroom at his mother’s apartment in New York. Frustrated by a barrage of comments about the “good,” “funny,” movies he used to make with his old partner, Jason, Splick determines to seek him out and attempt a reunion.

Wirey Spindell

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality.

If Lucy Fell

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he’s never met, that if they don’t have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

My Life’s in Turnaround

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.