From the ArcaMax Publishing, Entertainment News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/entertainmenttoday/s-370527-892895
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) -- Two Massachusetts brothers who go by the
monikers "Click and Clack" on their car-fixing advice program on
public radio now have a TV series, a producer says.
Howard K. Grossman, who will serve as executive producer for the new
animated series, said garage owners Tom and Ray Magliozzi are ready to
have their freewheeling series on National Public Radio taken to the
visual level on PBS, The New York Times reported Sunday.
"The ongoing theme to the show is the guys are always trying to find
ways to do less work and make more money," Grossman said of "Click &
Clack's As the Wrench Turns."
The PBS series based on the so-called Tappet Brothers' show, which
regularly draws 4.3 million listeners, will premiere July 9 and two
episodes will air each week for six weeks.
Grossman told the Times that finding the right network for the new
series was difficult given the level of apprehension by executives at
HBO, ABC and the Cartoon Network.
"People were a little scared of it," he told the newspaper, adding one
network "couldn't figure out a way to market a radio show adapted to
television."