Peacock knocks out his fires and builds his lay originals with new comedies 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey en The right place creator Mike Schur. The new comedies, next to the new ones MacGruber series with Will Forte and two shows “late-night” with headlines throughout Amber Ruffin en Larry Wilmore, are part of Peacock’s slate of projects designed to stimulate the new platform’s presence in the streaming wars.
Following the news that Peacock has officially ordered a MacGruber series starring and executive produced by Will Forte, the streaming platform NBCUniversal announced two new shows from comedy heavyweights Tina Fey and Mike Schur.
Girls5eva, executive produced by Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Meredith Scardino, set to star in Grammy winner and Broadway star Sara Bareilles as “Dawn, a former member of the short-lived family group 90s Girls5eva, who is now a bit quiet in life with managing her family’s small Italian restaurant in Queens. When the opportunity arises, Dawn gets the band back together for a reunion of Girls5eva and it may be exactly what she needed. The series follows the reunion of the members of a one-hit girl group from the 90s, as they “give their pop star dreams another shot.”
The series is written and executive produced by Meredith Scardino, and executive produced by Tina Fey (Little Stranger, Inc.), Robert Carlock (Bevel Gears), Jeff Richmond, David Miner (3 Arts Entertainment), Eric Gurian (Little Stanger).
Meanwhile The right place en Parks and Recreation creator Michael Schur is co-creating and executive producing the new comedy Rutherfood Falls May Ed Helms en Sierra Teller Ornela. The comedy is set in “a small town in New York and the reservation of the Native American it borders”, both “being turned around as local legend and city name, Nathan Rutherford (Ed Helms) fighting the relocation of a historic statue.” The series has set its first cast with Jana Schmieding, Michael Greyeyes (I know that a lot is true), Jesse Leigh (Heathers), en Dustin Milligan (Schitt’s Creek). Mike Falbo, David Miner and Morgan Sackett also serve as executive producers Rutherford Falls.
Peacock has also set up a ‘late night block’ (if you can have a late night block on a streaming service) with new ‘current’ shows by Amber Ruffin and Larry Wilmore, which will lead The Amber Ruffin Show and the Untitled Larry Wilmore Show, respectively. Peacock has ordered nine half-hour episodes of The Amber Ruffin Show which is set to launch in September, and 11 episodes of the Untitled Larry Wilmore Show, which is set to launch the same month.
These comedies are likely to pique a lot of interest in Peacock, who launched with favorite catalog titles but have received less buzz for their originals, which include the sci-fi series Brave New World, the animated series Cleopatra in Space, and others. Both Fey and Schur are loved for their contributions to several great network comedies all-time, and whatever new projects they create will attract eyeballs. These new comedies and their galaxies certainly add a fat to Peacock’s cap.
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