Dan Bucatinsky & Cristela Alonzo Set CBS Comedy‘She Will get It From Me’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is growing She Will get It From Me, a semi-autobiographical single-camera comedy from Emmy winner Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal) impressed by his journey as an adoptive guardian. He’s joined on the challenge by Cristela Alonzo (Cristela) who is about to star and can co-write and govt produce with Bucatinsky. The intention is for Bucatinsky to additionally star however there is no such thing as a performing deal for him presently, we hear. Jennifer Lopez’ Nuyorican and Ryan Seacrest Prods. are producing for ABC Signature.

She Will get It From Me facilities on what occurs when the teenaged, adopted daughter of two hyper-devoted, straight-laced, suburban homosexual dads seeks out a relationship along with her uniquely daring, take-no-prisoners, Latin delivery mother (Alonzo). The sequence examines a recent blended household, a poignant and hilarious exploration of the shot-gun marriage of not solely the delivery mother and the adoptive dad and mom, but additionally the issues and joys of mixing each of their massive, noisy, multiethnic, and multigenerational households.

Government producing alongside Bucatinsky and Alonzo are Seacrest, Andrea Shay, Nina Wass for Ryan Seacrest Productions, Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina for Nuyorican, Brian Dobbins, Peter Principato, and Maggie Haskins for Artists First. ABC Signature, the place Ryan Seacrest Prods. has been primarily based, is the studio.

She Will get It From Me attracts on parenthood experiences Bucatinsky chronicled in his 2012 bestselling comedic memoir Does This Child Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Homosexual Dad. He’s reuniting with Lopez on the CBS comedy after showing reverse her within the romantic comedy movie Second Act.

Bucatinsky is understood for his portrayal of James Novak in ABC’s Scandal which earned him an Emmy. He’s recurring on Hulu’s How I Met Your Father and subsequent seems in Ben Affleck’s Nike movie for Amazon. Bucatinsky is repped by A3 for literary and APA for performing. He’s managed by Principal Leisure LA and in addition repped by Myman Greenspan Fox.

Alonzo broke floor in 2014 along with her ABC comedy Cristela, turning into the primary Latina to create, produce, write, and star in her personal sequence within the U.S. Different TV credit embody HBO’s His Darkish Supplies, Nickelodeon’s The Casagrandes, and Legends of the Hidden Temple, additionally for Nickelodeon. Alonzo has accomplished two stand-up comedy specials for Netflix: 2017’s Decrease Elegant and 2022’s Center Elegant. She is repped by WME, Artists First and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.