‘Invisible Women’ Comedy Series Adaptation In Works At Sony TV; Randi Mayem Singer To Write Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen, Doug Mand and Kourtney Kang has rounded out its lead cast with the addition of Olivia Macklin (Filthy Rich, LA to Vegas), Michael Hsu Rosen (Tiny Pretty Things, Monsterland) and Cinthya Carmona (The Tax Collector, Deputy). They will star opposite Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin in the project, created and written by Dolgen and Mand and directed by Pamela Fryman.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in the early stages of creating a show with Katherine Ryan, the multi-hyphenated Canadian comedian behind Netflix’s scripted series The Duchess.

Brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson are bringing the laughs to Amazon Prime Video with the new comedy series “Frank Of Ireland”.

If you’re a film fan and know your Irish actors, you’re probably very familiar with the last name Gleeson. There’s Brendan Gleeson, a damn fine veteran actor.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeading South Korean TV production studio Monster Union has commissioned a local adaptation of British comedy series “Uncle.” The Korean series will be the first localization of the scripted format, which is represented by BBC Studios.The darkly comic series follows the misadventures of a dissolute, out-of-work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister, on the

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax TV has teamed with Dominic Treadwell-Collins’s Happy Prince on a series adaptation of Jim Cartwright’s award-winning play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which inspired the 1998 Miramax film Little Voice.

EXCLUSIVE: Californication star/executive producer David Duchovny is returning to Showtime for a potential new series based on his recently published novel Truly Like Lightning. Duchovny is attached to star in the project, which is in development at the premium cable network with a script order.

A Black Lady Sketch Show, Robin Thede’s sketch comedy series, will return to HBO for season 2.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has ordered the animated comedy “Koala Man” to series.The series hails creator and executive producer Michael Cusack, with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez onboard as executive producers and showrunners. “Rick and Morty” and “Solar Opposites” co-creator Justin Roiland will also executive produce along with Princess Pictures and Bento Box.

Teen hip-hop star Alaya High, otherwise known as Lay Lay, is to front a live-action comedy series for Nickelodeon – a series that leads the kids’ networks latest original programming slate.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a half-hour comedy series starring Maya Rudolph that hails from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.The series is about Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.Yang and Hubbard created the series and will serve as executive producers. Rudolph will executive produce in addition to starring under her Animal Picture banner.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has given a straight-to-series order to a half-hour comedy series starring Emmy Award-winner Maya Rudolph and created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.

EXCLUSIVE: Venerable sitcom director James Burrows has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot episode of ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer and Alec Mapa, from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television.

OWN is developing the network’s first animated comedy series The Mound from Munirah Safiyah Jones — who is no stranger to the animation space. Jones is the creator of OWN’s NAACP Image Award-nominated animated short form series Sincerely, Camille and the viral hit Junt Land.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterA series adaptation of the Victoria Schwab novel “City of Ghosts” is in the works at ABC Signature and Searchlight Television, Variety has learned exclusively.David Lowery and Sehaj Sethi are attached to write the adaptation, with Lowery also onboard to direct. Schwab will executive produce along with with Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrooks and James M.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has put in development The Wives, a series adaptation of Tarryn Fisher’s bestselling novel, from writer-producer Kayla Alpert (Netflix’s Wednesday) and producer Patrick Moran.

It was just revealed that Kim’s Convenience, a comedy series that aired on CBC, will be ending after five seasons.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a 10-episode order to a multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Diary of a Future President), Doug Mand (How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and Doogie Kamealoha, MD creator Kourtney Kang.