NBC Builds up Imagines Sarah Silverman Comedy To Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: NBC continues its aggressive push this development season with early pilot orders. The newest project to obtain the eco-friendly light might be the comedy starring Sarah Silverman, the network showed up in August carrying out a investing in an offer war getting a hefty put pilot commitment. The half-hour, from last century Fox TV and Imagine TV, can be a pet project of Imagine principal Ron Howard. Loosely based on Silvermans existence, the untitled single-camera comedy stars the comedian just like a lady readjusting for the single existence carrying out a decade-extended live-in relationship. Silverman written the script with Serta Sterling and Jon Schroeder, who've been author-producers on her behalf account self-titled Comedy Central series. Silverman, Sterling and Imagine’s Howard, John Grazer and Francie Calfo are executive creating, with Schroeder becoming co-professional producer. A purchase for your Sarah Silverman project follows NBC’s recent pilot pick-ups for Beautiful People, a advanced drama by Michael McDonald, and comedies Isabel and Save Me, which are now casting. In addition, the J.J. Abrams/Eric Kripke adventure thriller Revolution and crime drama Blue Tilt have pilot production obligations within the network. NBC now houses 3 female comics recognized for their raunchy, no-holds-barred standup: Silverman, Whitney Cummings, creator and star of her eponymous comedy series, which has received an entire-season pickup with the network, and Chelsea Handler, who's behind the midseason series Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea?, that is coupled with Whitney.