Exclusive: Peacock is developing The Wolves of 125th Street, a half-hour comedy from writer-producer Grace Edwards, Tina Fey’s Little Stranger and Universal Television.
Created and executive produced by Edwards, The Wolves of 125th Street follows three Black best friends who unite to open a cannabis dispensary in gentrifying Harlem and hire formerly incarcerated neighbors in need of second chances.
Fey and Eric Gurian executive produce for Little Stranger, along with David Miner and Olivia Gerke for 3 Arts. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Little Stranger is based, is the studio.
This marks Edwards’ third collaboration with Fey after working on two series co-created and executive produced by the Emmy winner, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Mr. Mayor.
Edwards is the creator/executive producer of Jodie, a spinoff of MTV’s signature animated series Daria. She is also currently a writer/co-ep for the...
Created and executive produced by Edwards, The Wolves of 125th Street follows three Black best friends who unite to open a cannabis dispensary in gentrifying Harlem and hire formerly incarcerated neighbors in need of second chances.
Fey and Eric Gurian executive produce for Little Stranger, along with David Miner and Olivia Gerke for 3 Arts. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Little Stranger is based, is the studio.
This marks Edwards’ third collaboration with Fey after working on two series co-created and executive produced by the Emmy winner, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Mr. Mayor.
Edwards is the creator/executive producer of Jodie, a spinoff of MTV’s signature animated series Daria. She is also currently a writer/co-ep for the...
- 4/28/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Katie Aselton directed romantic comedy Mack & Rita has rounded out the cast which has already set Diane Keaton, Taylour Paige and Elizabeth Lail.
As we already told you Keaton is playing Rita, Lail is playing Mack, and Paige is playing Rita’s best friend Carla from when the protagonist was young. The movie, scripted by Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh, is now shooting in Los Angeles. Endeavor and Fortitude are repping worldwide rights.
Mack and Rita follows Mackenzie Martin is tired of doing all the things she has to do to keep up and get ahead in her 30’s. Since she was a little girl, raised by her Grammie Martin, her deepest wish has been to be just like her Grammie, comfortable in her own skin, great at saying “no” and largely unburdened by what other people think of her. Not to mention Mack has always loved a...
As we already told you Keaton is playing Rita, Lail is playing Mack, and Paige is playing Rita’s best friend Carla from when the protagonist was young. The movie, scripted by Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh, is now shooting in Los Angeles. Endeavor and Fortitude are repping worldwide rights.
Mack and Rita follows Mackenzie Martin is tired of doing all the things she has to do to keep up and get ahead in her 30’s. Since she was a little girl, raised by her Grammie Martin, her deepest wish has been to be just like her Grammie, comfortable in her own skin, great at saying “no” and largely unburdened by what other people think of her. Not to mention Mack has always loved a...
- 3/26/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Byer (Nailed It!) and Pure Genius alum Aaron Jennings are set as series regulars in NBC’s untitled ensemble comedy from the Brooklyn Nine-Nine duo of writer-producer Phil Augusta Jackson and co-creator/executive producer Dan Goor, and Universal TV.
The Untitled Phil Augusta Jackson & Dan Goor Project revolves around a group of black friends, their dating lives and wine.
Byer will play Nicky. Jennings will play Anthony Holmes, who’s happy with his career and has a strong work commitment.
They join previously announced series regulars Carl Tart, Echo Kellum and Justin Cunningham.
Jackson is writing with Goor supervising, and both executive produce.
Byer, the former star and creator of Loosely Exactly Nicole, is currently the host of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated reality series Nailed It!,t which drops its next season on April 1. She has recurred on The Unicorn for CBS and Netflix’s Tuca & Bertie and hosts...
The Untitled Phil Augusta Jackson & Dan Goor Project revolves around a group of black friends, their dating lives and wine.
Byer will play Nicky. Jennings will play Anthony Holmes, who’s happy with his career and has a strong work commitment.
They join previously announced series regulars Carl Tart, Echo Kellum and Justin Cunningham.
Jackson is writing with Goor supervising, and both executive produce.
Byer, the former star and creator of Loosely Exactly Nicole, is currently the host of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated reality series Nailed It!,t which drops its next season on April 1. She has recurred on The Unicorn for CBS and Netflix’s Tuca & Bertie and hosts...
- 3/9/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Comedy Dynamics Acquires Worldwide Rights to the First Gay Male Stand Up Comedy Anthology Feature Special‘Brash Boys Club’ from Brash Girls Club’s and Comedy InvAsian’s Creator Quentin LeeLos Angeles — Ahead of the show’s world premiere and taping, Comedy Dynamics has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Brash Boys Club, the first gay male stand up comedy anthology feature special staring Owen Alabado, Dash Kwiatkowski and Brad Loekle to be directed and produced by the creator of Comedy InvAsian and Brash Girls Club’s producer Quentin Lee through his shingle Margin Films.Scheduled to be taped on January 30, 2020, Brash Boys Club is a one-night stand of gay comedy, daring to be the first gay male stand up comedy special and addressing the dearth of gay male comics in the stand up world. Come watch Brad Loekle, Owen Alabado and Dash Kwiatkowski record a 90 min. comedy special on Thursday,...
- 1/23/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Three episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
The last thing TV needs right now is another group of mid-twentysomethings navigating the hellish underworld of Tinder hookups and crappy jobs in a big, scary, unforgiving metropolis that’s sooner to chew them up and spit them out than allow for such feeble grabs at humor as calling Channing Tatum “Channing Potatum, because he looks like a sexy potato.” And yet, MTV is giving us just that with Loosely Exactly Nicole, a new half-hour semi-autobiographical series based on comedian Nicole Byer’s experiences of attempting to break into the industry as a plus-sized black woman.
Her new show has moments of insight in that regard, but it treats them with kid gloves on the run to the next vagina joke or exuberant monologue about the importance of wigs. There’s glimpses of wit and fleeting moments of clever joke set-ups, but they...
The last thing TV needs right now is another group of mid-twentysomethings navigating the hellish underworld of Tinder hookups and crappy jobs in a big, scary, unforgiving metropolis that’s sooner to chew them up and spit them out than allow for such feeble grabs at humor as calling Channing Tatum “Channing Potatum, because he looks like a sexy potato.” And yet, MTV is giving us just that with Loosely Exactly Nicole, a new half-hour semi-autobiographical series based on comedian Nicole Byer’s experiences of attempting to break into the industry as a plus-sized black woman.
Her new show has moments of insight in that regard, but it treats them with kid gloves on the run to the next vagina joke or exuberant monologue about the importance of wigs. There’s glimpses of wit and fleeting moments of clever joke set-ups, but they...
- 9/1/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
From 3 Arts Entertainment comes a new scripted series titled “Loosely Exactly Nicole” which stars Nicole Byer, and is set to premiere on MTV this fall – September 5th. Ordered to series in the spring, the series synopsis, in which the… Continue Reading →...
- 7/31/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Rectify‘s fourth and final season will bow on Wednesday, October 26 at 10/9c, SundanceTV announced Sunday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
Per the cable net, the eight-episode farewell season picks up a few months after the events of the Season 3 finale “and continues the series’ documentation of the lives of Daniel, his family and the citizens of Paulie.” (The first three seasons will be available on Netflix beginning Aug. 1.)
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Per the cable net, the eight-episode farewell season picks up a few months after the events of the Season 3 finale “and continues the series’ documentation of the lives of Daniel, his family and the citizens of Paulie.” (The first three seasons will be available on Netflix beginning Aug. 1.)
Check out the official trailer below:
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre will headline The Joey Mac Project,...
- 7/31/2016
- TVLine.com
Casting directors wanted her to be one thing as she was trying to break into the industry – “sassy” – Nicole Byer, star of MTV’s new single-camera comedy Loosely Exactly Nicole told TV critics kicking off Sunday at TCA. Loosely Exactly Nicole debuts Monday, September 5 at 10:30 p.m. Code words like “Can you be more urban,” “Can you have more edge?” and, she said quoting one casting director, “I need you to be as black as possible and if you go too black I’ll bring you…...
- 7/31/2016
- Deadline TV
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