And last but not least: Jalen Vs. Everybody. ABC wrapped its comedy pilot pickups late Friday with an official nod to a single-camera comedy starring former NBA player and current ESPN personality Jalen Rose. It comes from Nahnatchka Khan, creator/executive producer of ABC’s family comedy Fresh Off the Boat, and the series’ executive producer Jake Kasdan.
Jalen is produced by Khan’s Fierce Baby; 20th Century Fox Television, where Khan is under an overall deal; and ABC Studios, which has come on board to co-produce. The agreement between the studio and the network took awhile to be finalized. While it was being hammered out, the pilot already had been actively casting for the past two weeks.
Written by Khan, the comedy follows Rose as he juggles his career responsibilities with the challenges of being a single dad. Khan executive produces with Kasdan, Melvin Mar and Fierce Baby’s Mandy Summers. Rose is a producer.
Jalen is produced by Khan’s Fierce Baby; 20th Century Fox Television, where Khan is under an overall deal; and ABC Studios, which has come on board to co-produce. The agreement between the studio and the network took awhile to be finalized. While it was being hammered out, the pilot already had been actively casting for the past two weeks.
Written by Khan, the comedy follows Rose as he juggles his career responsibilities with the challenges of being a single dad. Khan executive produces with Kasdan, Melvin Mar and Fierce Baby’s Mandy Summers. Rose is a producer.
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ABC has given a pilot order to Losing It, a family comedy from Growing Up Fisher and Truth Be Told creator DJ Nash and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. This marks Kaplan’s sixth broadcast comedy pilot this season. Additionally, the network has greenlighted a single dad comedy written by Dannah Phirman & Danielle Schneider and executive produced by Trophy Wife creators Sarah Haskins & Emily Halpern. Both single-camera comedies hail from ABC Studios.
Written by Nash, Losing It is about three misfit adult siblings and their parents who — between divorce, new parenthood, early-onset dementia and let’s just say life — are all losing it in different ways. And family is the only way they’re going to find it.
Written by Phirman and Schneider, the untitled single dad comedy centers on an intellectual but emotionally challenged single dad who moves to Queens with his two young daughters and forms an unlikely family with the other residents in their apartment building. Phirman and Schneider executive produce alongside Haskins & Halpern who are under an overall deal at ABC Studios.
Written by Nash, Losing It is about three misfit adult siblings and their parents who — between divorce, new parenthood, early-onset dementia and let’s just say life — are all losing it in different ways. And family is the only way they’re going to find it.
Written by Phirman and Schneider, the untitled single dad comedy centers on an intellectual but emotionally challenged single dad who moves to Queens with his two young daughters and forms an unlikely family with the other residents in their apartment building. Phirman and Schneider executive produce alongside Haskins & Halpern who are under an overall deal at ABC Studios.
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