EXCLUSIVE: CBS is taking an alternate strategy to comedy improvement with A Lot, an improvisational-style multi-camera collection starring June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. The undertaking hails from Grace and Frankie creator Marta Kauffman by way of her Okay Goodnight banner and Lionsgate Tv. The undertaking reunites Raphael with Kauffman after her run as a collection common on Grace and Frankie, which ran on Netflix for seven seasons.
Due to the comedy’s improv idea, after listening to the pitch, a choice was made to shoot some materials for CBS executives to see reasonably than making an attempt to script it by way of the standard improvement course of.
The proof of idea for the comedy, starring husband-and-wife actor-comedians Raphael and Scheer, who’ve improv background, already has been filmed with Alex Fernie directing, I hear. The footage is anticipated to be screened alongside CBS’ conventional comedy pilots ordered this season — each multi-cam — a father-son sitcom starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. and JumpStart, based mostly on the caricature, for upfront pickup consideration.
Kauffman and Hannah Canter from Okay Goodnight are co-writing the visible improvement undertaking. The 2 will government produce with Okay Goodnight’s Robbie Tollin, Raphael and Scheer.
A Lot is a multi-cam improv comedy a couple of couple of their late 30s who pour their life financial savings into their greatest enterprise endeavor but: constructing a housing improvement on a defunct studio lot. However these home flippers get greater than they bargained for when their new undertaking turns into a nightmare.
This marks a departure for CBS which, after years of multi-camera comedy dominance, began branching out with single-camera exhibits akin to hits Younger Sheldon and Ghosts. As networks are in search of methods to face out in a cluttered house, they’re taking possibilities with new codecs and improvement paths as is the case with CBS and The Act, which comes from the co-creator of one of many greatest multi-camera comedies in TV historical past, Mates‘ Kauffman.
Scheer was not too long ago a collection common on Showtime’s Black Monday, on which Raphael recurred. She is repped by MGMT Leisure and UTA; he’s with UTA.
Along with seven seasons of Grace and Frankie, Okay Goodnight produced the Sundance Movie Competition documentary Seeing Allred.
