“The Assistants” is a half-hour comedy about the misadventures of four Hollywood assistants as they struggle to survive one another and the unpredictable whims of their boss, an eccentric movie producer.
The star of the series is GILLIAN HUGHES, 21. Along with fellow assistants DANNY NEWELL, RIGBY HASTINGS and NATE WARREN, Gillian dreams of one day being a filmmaker. An assistant for the producer ZAK DEL TORO seems like the ideal stepping-stone. The series follows their exploits as they answer phones, sort files, make coffee, clean dental retainers, dig through dumpsters in the dead of night, sabotage celebrity rehabs, break and enter the offices of competing producers, and in general, do anything, at any time, in hopes of winning over their irrepressible boss.
In their down time, the assistants stab one another in the back, fall in and out of love and discover exactly who they are and how far they’ll go to fulfill their dreams.
Episode 101
It’s Gillian Young’s first day as an assistant to Zak Del Toro, a high profile, high pressure producer in Hollywood, and her first task seems relatively easy: sell one of Zak’s old cars by the end of the day. Problem is, the car isn’t just old, it’s a beater. While Gillian struggles to find an effective selling tactic, the other assistants continue scrapping their way to the top, whether it means impersonating a young director (Rigby), or recording a new outgoing message for Zak’s cell phone (Nate). In the end, Rigby’s deceit gets discovered, Nate think he’s going to get fired for the angry message he leaves (but Zak ends up loving it), and Gillian accomplishes her first task as Zak’s assistant, proving that she can sell anything.
