Fey will team up with Robert Carlock to produce the new show, and 30 Rock’s writer Tracey Wigfield is also on-board. The comedy series is shrouded in secrecy with NBC’s President of NBC Entertainment Jennifer Salke saying that “Mike prefers to keep details under wraps while he meets actors and actresses”. Fey and Carlock had originally been slated to release the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on the struggling network, but in an odd move, NBC announced it was passing on Schmidt last year and Fey’s comedy ended up on Netflix where it was met with critical acclaim and multiple Emmy nods. If Fey and Carlock are involved, you can bet that the cable network will be as ridiculous as possible.
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It’s also why I’m now doing cartwheels (in my head, mind you, even Tina can’t make me that athletic) over this news from the final day of TCA. Schur will be joined by David Miner as executive producer.
Wigfield, who won an Emmy for penning the season finale episode of “30 Rock” with Tina Fey, is now a writer and producer on Universal Television’s “The Mindy Project“, which will begin streaming on Hulu on September 15.
The new Fey-Carlock project will be produced by Universal Television, 3 Arts and Little Stranger. Thankfully, theyre aiming to boost things back up in the future, and theyre bringing in some of the biggest comedic names in the networks recent history to do it, with projects in the works from 30 Rocks Tina Fey and Parks and Recreations Mike Schur. Robinson and The Carmichael Show (both airing this summer); midseason freshman Coach, Crowded, Hot & Bothered, Superstore and Truth Be Told, the latter of which is its lone first-year fall debut.
Miller’s Imaginary Friend is a comedy about an intelligent yet unmotivated woman who discovers a special and unexpected way of dealing with her mediocre life.
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Miller and Colom & Valentini were chosen among the 2,100 applications NBC received for the NBC Playground initiative. They are based in Los Angeles.
