Wilmer Valderrama lands Fox pilot

Jun 18, 2008

Wilmer Valderrama is back at Fox in a new comedy. Fox has ordered a pilot for "The Emancipation of Ernesto," a one-hour project starring Valderrama as guileless innocent embarking on an epic quest to find his father amid a Los Angeles landscape polluted with excess. The story is said to be in the spirit of the classic Steve Martin comedy "The Jerk." The single-camera show is from 20th Century Fox Television and was sold to the network as a spec script with the former "That '70s Show"...More