Exclusive: 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings has teamed with Empire co-creator Lee Daniels for a timely half-hour comedy, which is in development at Amazon. The untitled project, co-created and co-written by Cummings and Daniels and starring Cummings, hails from Fox 21 TV Studios and Amazon Studios.
The comedy revolves around the staff of the ombudsman’s office at a college that navigates PC culture and the #metoo climate. The lead character, played by Cummings, must reconcile the dissonance between different generations of feminism, and the struggle to reconcile our primal desires, and socially constructed identities with current ethical obligations regarding race, class and gender.
Cummings and Daniels set up the project at Fox 21 a couple of months ago via Daniels’ overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV. After a bidding war, the comedy landed at Amazon for development. Daniels is set to direct the potential pilot.
As it marks its one-year anniversary,...
The comedy revolves around the staff of the ombudsman’s office at a college that navigates PC culture and the #metoo climate. The lead character, played by Cummings, must reconcile the dissonance between different generations of feminism, and the struggle to reconcile our primal desires, and socially constructed identities with current ethical obligations regarding race, class and gender.
Cummings and Daniels set up the project at Fox 21 a couple of months ago via Daniels’ overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV. After a bidding war, the comedy landed at Amazon for development. Daniels is set to direct the potential pilot.
As it marks its one-year anniversary,...
- 10/2/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Wme has brought on filmmaker Matt Palmer, who directed and wrote his first feature, Calibre, which recently premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and picked the Michael Powell Award. The pic, which is available to stream on Netflix, is described as a brutal thriller set in the rural Scottish Highland. Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) and Martin McCann (The Survivalist) star. Prior to this feature Palmer directed and wrote the shorts The Gas Man and Island. He continues to be managed by Josh Varney at 42.
Comedic writer/actor Biniam Bizuneh has joined Paradigm Talent Agency for representation. The former Jimmy Kimmel Live staff writer recently starred as the lead opposite Beth Behrs in Lee Daniels’ single-camera comedy pilot Culture Clash (fka Our People) for Fox. Bizuneh wrote and starred in his originals for Comedy Central Digital, including How To Be Broke, which recently wrapped its second season. In addition, he performs...
Comedic writer/actor Biniam Bizuneh has joined Paradigm Talent Agency for representation. The former Jimmy Kimmel Live staff writer recently starred as the lead opposite Beth Behrs in Lee Daniels’ single-camera comedy pilot Culture Clash (fka Our People) for Fox. Bizuneh wrote and starred in his originals for Comedy Central Digital, including How To Be Broke, which recently wrapped its second season. In addition, he performs...
- 6/29/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Beth Behrs has joined the upcoming CBS comedy series “The Neighborhood,” Variety has confirmed.
Behrs will take over the role originally played by Dreama Walker. She will play Gemma, the wife to Max Greenfield’s Dave. Greenfield himself joined the series in a recasting, taking over the role played in the pilot by Josh Lawson.
“The Neighborhood” is a multi-cam that follows Dave (Greenfield), the nicest guy in the Midwest, who moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness. Cedric the Entertainer stars as Calvin, Dave’s new, opinionated neighbor.
The series also stars Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Marcel Spears, and Hank Greenspan.
Behrs is perhaps best known for playing the co-lead on the CBS comedy “2 Broke Girls” opposite Kat Dennings. She also starred in one of Fox’s comedy pilots this year–“Culture Clash” from writer Vali Chandrasekaran and...
Behrs will take over the role originally played by Dreama Walker. She will play Gemma, the wife to Max Greenfield’s Dave. Greenfield himself joined the series in a recasting, taking over the role played in the pilot by Josh Lawson.
“The Neighborhood” is a multi-cam that follows Dave (Greenfield), the nicest guy in the Midwest, who moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness. Cedric the Entertainer stars as Calvin, Dave’s new, opinionated neighbor.
The series also stars Sheaun McKinney, Tichina Arnold, Marcel Spears, and Hank Greenspan.
Behrs is perhaps best known for playing the co-lead on the CBS comedy “2 Broke Girls” opposite Kat Dennings. She also starred in one of Fox’s comedy pilots this year–“Culture Clash” from writer Vali Chandrasekaran and...
- 6/11/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Biniam Bizuneh has been cast in a lead role in the Fox pilot “Culture Clash,” formerly known as “Our People.”
Bizuneh will take over the role of Abel from “The Mayor” alum Bernard David Jones, who was recast following a table read for the pilot.
Based on the Endemol Shine Israeli format “Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple,” the single-camera project follows Abel, a man from a bombastic African family who doesn’t have a word in their native language for “privacy,” and his fiancee Jenny (Beth Behrs), who hails from a mid-western family, as they try to build a normal life together.
Bizuneh and Behrs will star alongside Lea Thompson, Charles Parnell, Saidah Arrika, Matthew Glave, and Skai Jackson. Bizuneh previously served as a writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and starred in projects like “LieGuys” and “How to Be Broke.” He is repped by Primary Wave Entertainment.
“Culture Clash” received...
Bizuneh will take over the role of Abel from “The Mayor” alum Bernard David Jones, who was recast following a table read for the pilot.
Based on the Endemol Shine Israeli format “Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple,” the single-camera project follows Abel, a man from a bombastic African family who doesn’t have a word in their native language for “privacy,” and his fiancee Jenny (Beth Behrs), who hails from a mid-western family, as they try to build a normal life together.
Bizuneh and Behrs will star alongside Lea Thompson, Charles Parnell, Saidah Arrika, Matthew Glave, and Skai Jackson. Bizuneh previously served as a writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and starred in projects like “LieGuys” and “How to Be Broke.” He is repped by Primary Wave Entertainment.
“Culture Clash” received...
- 4/2/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Fox is making some significant tweaks to its Lee Daniels-produced comedy pilot Our People. For starters, it has a new title — Culture Clash. It also has a new co-lead in Biniam Bizuneh.
The actor-writer-comedian has been tapped to replace Bernard David Jones (The Mayor) as the male lead opposite 2 Broke Girls‘ Beth Behrs, TVLine has learned. The recast was made following the pilot’s first table read.
Based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple, the potential single-camera series centers on a married couple (played by Bizuneh and Behrs) with deeply divergent backgrounds: he’s from a...
The actor-writer-comedian has been tapped to replace Bernard David Jones (The Mayor) as the male lead opposite 2 Broke Girls‘ Beth Behrs, TVLine has learned. The recast was made following the pilot’s first table read.
Based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple, the potential single-camera series centers on a married couple (played by Bizuneh and Behrs) with deeply divergent backgrounds: he’s from a...
- 4/2/2018
- TVLine.com
Julie Klausner didn’t have a Difficult time lining up her next TV gig: The Difficult People star has joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot So Close, our sister site Deadline reports.
The series stars SNL alum Sasheer Zamata and Odd Mom Out‘s Sean Kleier as Riley and Kyle, two hopeless romantics who are both on the verge of settling for the wrong partner and unaware they might be soulmates. Klausner will play Amy, a friend of Riley’s who works with her at a law firm.
In other pilot casting news, per Deadline:
* Sinbad (A Different World,...
The series stars SNL alum Sasheer Zamata and Odd Mom Out‘s Sean Kleier as Riley and Kyle, two hopeless romantics who are both on the verge of settling for the wrong partner and unaware they might be soulmates. Klausner will play Amy, a friend of Riley’s who works with her at a law firm.
In other pilot casting news, per Deadline:
* Sinbad (A Different World,...
- 3/20/2018
- TVLine.com
Former The Mayor star Bernard David Jones has been tapped as the male lead opposite Beth Behrs in Our People, Fox's culture-clash single-camera comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran. The project from Lee Daniels Entertainment, Endemol Shine and 20th Century Fox TV is based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multicultural Couple. Written by Chandrasekaran and directed by Trent O'Donnell, Our People revolves around Abel…...
- 3/20/2018
- Deadline TV
Charles Parnell (The Last Ship) and Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Kevin Can Wait) are set as series regulars in Our People, Fox's culture-clash single-camera comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran. The project from Lee Daniels Entertainment, Endemol Shine and 20th Century Fox TV is based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multicultural Couple. Written by Chandrasekaran and directed by Trent O'Donnell, Our People revolves around…...
- 3/15/2018
- Deadline TV
“2 Broke Girls” alum Beth Behrs will star in the Fox comedy pilot “Our People” from executive producer Lee Daniels. “Our People,” a single-camera comedy executive produced Daniels, is an adaptation of the Israeli format “Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple” written by “30 Rock” and “Modern Family” alum Vali Chandrasekaran. The pilot centers on a man from a bombastic African family who doesn’t have a word in their native language for “privacy” and his fiancée (Behrs) from a mid-western family as they try to build a normal life together. Also Read: '9-1-1' Showrunner Tim Minear Re-Ups Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox...
- 3/5/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
2 Broke Girls‘ Beth Behrs is headed for another culture clash, signing on to star in Lee Daniels’ Fox comedy pilot Our People, TVLine has learned. Based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple, the potential single-camera series centers on a married couple with deeply divergent backgrounds: he’s from a bombastic African family; she’s from a mid-western family. Together, they try to build a normal life together — though nobody can agree what “normal” means.
Behrs will play the “mid-western firecracker” half of the couple, Jenny. Casting for her onscreen husband-to-be, Abel, continues. Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth...
Behrs will play the “mid-western firecracker” half of the couple, Jenny. Casting for her onscreen husband-to-be, Abel, continues. Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth...
- 3/5/2018
- TVLine.com
Sense8 alum Brian J. Smith is following in Guy Pearce’s footsteps.
Smith will star opposite Justified vet Walton Goggins in CBS’ L.A. Confidential adaptation, our sister site Deadline reports.
The potential series, which is based on James Ellroy’s classic noir novel, follows three homicide detectives, a female reporter and a Hollywood actress whose paths intersect during the pursuit of a sadistic serial killer in 1950s Los Angeles. Smith will play Ed Exley — Pearce’s role in the 1997 movie of the same name — who is described as an ambitious cop determined to make detective.
In other pilot casting...
Smith will star opposite Justified vet Walton Goggins in CBS’ L.A. Confidential adaptation, our sister site Deadline reports.
The potential series, which is based on James Ellroy’s classic noir novel, follows three homicide detectives, a female reporter and a Hollywood actress whose paths intersect during the pursuit of a sadistic serial killer in 1950s Los Angeles. Smith will play Ed Exley — Pearce’s role in the 1997 movie of the same name — who is described as an ambitious cop determined to make detective.
In other pilot casting...
- 2/23/2018
- TVLine.com
In her return to comedy series two decades after her starring turn on NBC’s Caroline In the City, Lea Thompson has been tapped for a meaty series regular role in Our People, Fox’s culture clash single-camera comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran. The project, from Lee Daniels Entertainment, Endemol Shine and 20th Century Fox TV, is based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multicultural Couple. Written by Chandrasekaran…...
- 2/23/2018
- Deadline TV
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