Us & Them, the FOX sitcom that adapted James Corden and Ruth Jones’s British hit Gavin & Stacey, only to never air as part of its planned 2013-2014 season, will finally see the light of viewers screens thanks to Crackle. Sony owns Crackle, and Sony Pictures TV made seven episodes of Us & Them in […]
Continue ReadingLindy West’s 2016 memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman might turn into a comedy series at Hulu starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bryant and Lorne Michaels are developing a single-cam comedy based on the memoir, which Bryant would also star in. The adaptation is described as “the story of a fat young woman who wants to […]
Continue ReadingJerrod Carmichael just signed on to write and produce a movie about the life of Harlem-based hip-hop fashion icon Dapper Dan, who has styled everyone from Salt-N-Pepa to Jay-Z to, more recently, Conan O’Brien. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carmichael will adapt Dapper Dan’s upcoming memoir, which is slated to be released next year, for a biopic […]
Continue ReadingSeth Rogen has another TV project in the works. According to Deadline, Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s production company is in the early stages of developing a US adaptation of the British comedy series Plebs, which debuted on ITV2 back in 2013 and returns next month for its fourth season. Created by Sam Leifer and Tom Basden, […]
Continue ReadingAmy Poehler is producing a single-cam pilot in the works at NBC. According to Deadline, the network has given a pilot order to an untitled comedy written by Batra (Scrubs, The Cleveland Show, Marlon) and produced by Poehler and Julie Anne Robinson that follows “one woman’s hilarious unfiltered take on the side effects of trying […]
Continue ReadingCarrie Brownstein has a new comedy series in development. According to Deadline, Hulu has given a pilot order to a half-hour comedy written and directed by Brownstein called Search and Destroy. Loosely based on Brownstein’s life and her bestselling 2015 memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the pilot would center on “a young woman, […]
Continue ReadingAnother day, another TV reboot. According to Variety, CBS has put into development a single-cam series adaptation of the 1981 film Stripes, which originally starred Bill Murray and was directed by Ivan Reitman. Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, and Zach Cregger of The Whitest Kids U’ Know are attached to write and executive produce the series, and Reitman […]
Continue ReadingWill Ferrell just lined up another movie role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrell has signed on to produce and star in an adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling 2012 novel The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Adam McKay is also attached as a producer, and Jason George will write […]
Continue ReadingDan Harmon is working on a new TV project. According to Variety, Harmon has teamed up with Evan Katz (Small Crimes) to develop a TV adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan. Here’s the logline for the project: UCP is also working on Sirens of Titan, with Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty) […]
Continue ReadingBryan Cranston has a new comedy headed to Amazon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has given a six-episode series order to a comedy created by Cranston and Greg Mottola called The Dangerous Book for Boys. The half-hour comedy was originally in development at NBC back in 2014 and is based on the […]
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