New ABC Network president Channing Dungey had an important decision last year: greenlight more family comedies or add other types of comedy to their strong lineup. She went with a bit of both and now they are bursting at the seams with half-hours.
Community alum Yvette Nicole Brown has boarded the untitled Mayor City comedy, Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton has joined Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Nia Long is set to star in The Goldbergs spinoff.
Jon Cryer has been cast as the lead in the upcoming ABC pilot Losing It, Noah Wyle to star in the CBS drama pilot Perfect Citizen
Comedy spec into more territories!
Dram-Com out to territories.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of provocative “Juno†meets “Easy Aâ€. Darcy is a smart, sassy, abstinence-preaching virgin intent on keeping her virtue while all around her are desperate to lose theirs. But her resolution is tested when an undeniably enticing but sexually reckless teen rock star moves in to the house next door.
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