Hello, everyone. I’m Bill Treise from Longwood, Florida.
After retiring from a career as a tennis professional and teacher, I took up writing as a hobby. Twelve years and two stories later, GRUMPA hit me. Since then, I’ve written 88 episodes.
His granddaddy was a Grumpa. His daddy was a Grumpa. Now that John Pillnerd III is turning forty, everyone thinks it’s his turn—and John knows it.
As his last prank of youth, John throws his own surprise birthday party and arrives disguised as a stranger. Then he tears off the mask and shouts, “Surprise—it’s my birthday!”
His wife divorces him.
Goodbye, youth. Hello, Grumpa.
Then his brother dies, leaving him four children, a talking parrot and a Great Dane. Add G2, Grumpa’s Rat Pack-generation father, and Reef, the children’s governess, and his carefully controlled life becomes a three-generation madhouse.
The series is growing toward a slow-burn love story between Grumpa and Reef, giving it the family heart and romantic shape of a modern “Sound of Music”—surrounded by sarcastic chaos.
GRUMPA is a half-hour, single-camera family sitcom aimed at viewers nine and up, with humor adults can enjoy that remains appropriate for younger ears. Every generation has someone to root for.
I joined Stage 32 to meet other writers, learn more about the business, and hopefully find the right producer to help bring GRUMPA to television. I look forward to getting to know everyone.
