Freed from any constraints in the second season, which starts production in August, creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have been mulling questions about potential changes now that it’s being made with Netflix in mind.
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If we were forced to take one and only one thing away from Netflix’s break-out comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – minus the Emmy nods, the incredible Jon Hamm cameo, or just the general warm feelings the show gives you – it would be the re-emergence of the brilliant Titus Burgess.
Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour today (July 28), Fey recalled how the 13 episodes had already been filmed before the show moved from NBC to Netflix.
Because “many people had told her they were watching the show with…children…[Fey] didn’t want to stray from the more broadcast-friendly tone of comedy”. “It’s one of those things where I’m sure “Saturday Night Live” wishes they were on the air right now … next year at this time you’ll be doing a panel with just Darrell Hammond”.
“I was in ninth grade and he taught me the improv section of my theater class, and everyone loved him”, she said. “I think it does give us licence to play with time and culture – or to potentially offend an advertiser or the NFL”.
The series follows Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, “The Office”) starting over in New York after being trapped by a cult leader in an underground bunker for 15 years.
Whilst she avoided a major embarrassing teacher crush on pre-Mad Men Hamm (or so she says), the actress conceded that he “was not ugly”.
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She also expressed approval for Netflix’s attitude towards ratings. “She’s sort of in a big hurry to get everything she wanted out of life and hitting some speed bumps along the way”.
