NBC's "About A Boy" Isn't Your Average Silly Sitcom, Say Stars

NBC’s About a Boy is yet to get its official verdict from critics and viewers, but so far, the outlook is good for the new NBC comedy. About a Boy stars David Walton as Will, an irritating 30-something manchild and Benjamin Stockham as Marcus, his 11-year-old new neighbour. When fate (and housing prices) pushes the two together, along with Marcus’ neurotic, controlling mother.

"Marcus really needs a dad and a man in his life and, through this sort of twist of fate, it's this ill-equipped 'child,'" Walton said in an on-set interview with USA Today recently.

"All Will really wants to do is watch TV, play video games, eat meat, go through his hedonistic routine. But there's an emptiness in that kind of life that is based in a lack of meaning," he explains." When this little boy comes along, it's annoying … but ultimately it's like carbonating these feelings of what's really important in life. And loving someone and family are way up there. In a way, this weird family is forming and Will doesn't even know it."