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14.02.2023 - 04:41 / deadline.com
NBC has handed out its latest comedy pilot to Non-Evil Twin, starring and written by Amber Ruffin.
The multi-camera pilot stars Ruffin as a woman, who is forced to step in to her sister’s role as the leader of a Fortune 500 company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister has been running the corporation.
It marks the first pilot for Ruffin, who wrote a book – You’ll Never Believe What Happens to Lacey – with her older sister Lacey Lamar, after she and her writing partner Jenny Hagel signed an overall deal with Universal Television, which will produce, via their new production company Straight to Cards.
However, the move comes as Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Ruffin continues to scale back the amount of episodes of her own late-night show – The Amber Ruffin Show.
While the first two seasons of the Peacock series were weekly, season three consisted of only five specials and, going forward, the streamer will continue to develop specials of the show rather than weekly episodes.
Ruffin will write the pilot with Kenny Smith, who has served as co-showrunner on shows such as Black–ish and Kenan and signed his own overall deal with Universal Television in 2021.
The pair will exec produce alongside Hagel with Straight to Cards’ Olivia Morris serving as co-exec producer.
It marks the latest comedy pilot order for NBC, which recently handed a pilot order to St. Denis Medical, a mockumentary-style workplace comedy from the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin.
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Selome Hailu “Non-Evil Twin,” a comedy written by and starring Amber Ruffin, has received a pilot order at NBC. The multi-cam follows a woman who is forced to step in to her sister’s role as the leader of a Fortune 500 company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister has been running the corporation. Ruffin is best known for hosting “The Amber Ruffin Show,” a late-night talk show on Peacock that she created after years of writing and occasionally appearing on NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” Her other writing credits include “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” the 75th Tony Awards, the 76th Golden Globe Awards, the 66th Emmys and “Detroiters,” which she also acted in.
NBC has given a comedy pilot order to Amber Ruffin’s “Non-Evil Twin,” which the late-night host will star in, write and executive produce. The multi-cam series is part of NBCU’s ever-expanding relationship with Ruffin and producing partner Jenny Hagel’s banner, Straight to Cards.The logline for “Non-Evil Twin” is as follows: “A woman is forced to step into her sister’s role as the leader of a Fortune 500 company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister has been running the corporation.”Hagel serves as EP along with Kenny Smith.