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The Tony Rock Project | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Tony Rock John Langley Morgan Langley Claude Brooks |
Starring | Tony Rock Whitney Cummings John Heffron |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Tony Rock and John Langley and Gelila Asres |
Production locations | Los Angeles, California |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | MyNetworkTV |
Release | October 2008 – 2009 |
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