Jermaine Fowler has been putting in some serious work and it has finally paid off for him at CBS.
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It stars Jermaine Fowler as a new employee of a donut shop in Chicago and Judd Hirsch as the shop’s set-in-his-ways owner.
The play debuted in 2008 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where Letts remains a member.
“This show has been very high on our radar since we first put it into development last winter”, CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller said in a statement.
The CBS Television Network has given a series order to SUPERIOR DONUTS, a new half hour multi-camera comedy from CBS Television Studios. The sitcom, which takes place in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood, will also star Katey Sagal, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Anna Baryshnikov, Darien Sills-Evans and Rell Battle. “In terms of year-to-year, looking at the leads, we are less diverse than last year”.
This is the latest example of a CBS project to score a series order after going through a second pilot. Here is an interesting factoid. It was picked up to series that had a successful run on the network.
As the fall season gets underway, CBS has just ordered a new donut-centric comedy.
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Fowler will serve as exec producer on “Superior Donuts“, along with Bob Daily, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Mark Teitelbaum, John Montgomery, Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman.
