Peacock Renews Comedy Series ‘We Are Lady Parts’ for Season 2

EXCLUSIVE: Search Party writer Sabrina Jalees has landed a single-camera comedy, set in New York City, at Peacock.

Netflix has signed “The Upshaws” creator Regina Hicks to a multiyear overall deal that will include a new comedy series that Hicks will develop with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions. The untitled comedy series in development will focus on the lives of four middle-aged Black women from Houston, Texas and explore how they navigate a world of affluence while also balancing the everyday scenarios of women of a certain age.Hicks will create, write and showrun the series.

The Upshaws co-creator Regina Hicks is expanding her relationship with Netflix with a multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Hicks will create, write and produce new series and other projects for the streamer. For her first project, Hicks is developing an untitled comedy series with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina Hicks has signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix, Variety has learned.Hicks is the co-creator and co-showrunner of the Netflix multi-cam comedy “The Upshaws” starring Wanda Sykes and Mike Epps. The show debuted in May and was renewed for a second season in June.Under her deal, Hicks will create, write and produce new series and projects for Netflix.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterChris O’Dowd is set to star in the upcoming Apple comedy series “The Big Door Prize,” Variety has learned exclusively.The series 10-episode series is based on the M.O. Walsh novel of the same name.

Quinta Brunson brings the mockumentary back to school with her upcoming ABC comedy Abbott Elementary. During the show’s panel at ABC’s Winter TCA press conference on Thursday, Brunson opened up on how she thinks comedy will help audiences earn a better understanding of the public school system and the devoted instructors who work to keep it together.

Cara Delevingne has joined the cast of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building for Season 2 in a series regular role.

Bridget Everett is a stand-up comedian who really broke out and proved her acting chops in the 2017 indie hit, “Patti Cake$.” Since then, she’s had a steady stream of roles in features and TV series, including the HBO comedy series, “Camping.” Now, she returns to HBO in the upcoming series, “Somebody Somewhere.” READ MORE: ‘Cinema Toast’ Is An Odd, Absurd Pandemic-Era Diversion [Review] Like any good teaser, the new clip from “Somebody Somewhere” is less of a trailer for the series and more of a

Lulu Wang is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today. Riz Ahmed is one of the most versatile and interesting actors and producers around.

K.J. Yossman “Belfast” actor Máiréad Tyers has been cast as the lead in a new original Disney Plus comedy series, “Extraordinary.”The U.K.-based series, which is in production in London, follows Jen (Tyers) as she struggles to find her feet in a world where everyone has a superpower – except her.“‘Extraordinary’ follows Jen, a young, painfully self-aware woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower… except her,” reads the synopsis.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRiz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films and Lulu Wang’s Local Time are partnering to develop the comedy series “The Son of Good Fortune” at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.Based on the novel of the same name by Lysley Tenorio, the series is about an undocumented Filipino teenager in the Bay area navigating a tumultuous relationship with his former B-movie action star mother, falling in love for the first time, and working out how to pay back a massive debt before his whole

Ricky Gervais will star in new TV comedy series Greenlight – German Genius, WarnerMedia Germany has announced.The eight-part satire series is based on an actual Twitter exchange between Gervais and Kida Khodr Ramadan in 2018, where the comedian praised the actor’s performance in 4 Blocks.In the show, Ramadan and Gervais will play fictionalised versions of themselves.

K.J. Yossman Ricky Gervais has boarded “Greenlight – German Genius” a new series from WarnerMedia Germany inspired by one of his tweets from 2019.The 8-episode series, which has started shooting in Berlin, satirises the German television industry.Two years ago the “After Life” writer and actor sent a public message via Twitter to German actor Kida Ramadan praising his portrayal of character Toni Hamady in series “4 Blocks.”“Congratulations,” wrote Gervais.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sopranos alum Michael Imperioli and Fabian Alomar (Mayans M.C.) have been tapped for heavily recurring roles opposite Chris Estrada in Hulu comedy series This Fool, from ABC Signature.

Peacock and UK’s Channel 4 have renewed the critically acclaimed musical comedy We Are Lady Parts from Nidia Manzoor.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video has ordered a dark comedy workplace thriller series starring Christoph Waltz.

Selome Hailu editorAmazon has ordered the dark comedy “The Consultant” to series and cast Christoph Waltz to star. The series is based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same name.“The Consultant” follows a sinister relationship between boss and employee and looking at how far workers will go to get ahead and survive.Tony Basgallop serves as creator and showrunner, and executive produces alongside Waltz, director Matt Shakman, Steve Stark and Andrew Mittman.

John Davis and John Fox from Davis Entertainment.“To say getting to make a show about a place I love, with my friends Jackie and David, and Randall Park as our star is a dream come true, somehow feels like an understatement,” Ramos said in a statement.

It’s a blast from the past as Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to Blockbuster, a single-camera workplace comedy starring Randall Park, which is set in the last remaining Blockbuster video store.