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Mick Jagger: Sitcom Star

Mick lights up TV, shoots scenes in New Zealand for new sitcom

May 18, 2006
Rolling Stones Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan on February 2, 2006.
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M ick Jagger found time to launch a second career as a sitcom star, shooting scenes in Auckland, New Zealand, while on tour with the Stones for the pilot of a show tentatively titled Let's Rob Mick Jagger. If ABC picks up the project, it will become part of the network's fall schedule. The show will be a serialized comedy about a janitor (Donal Logue) who comes up with an elaborate scheme to burglarize Jagger, who will make regular appearances on the show.

This story is from the May 18th, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone.

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