CBS is developing a multicamera comedy project, “Quinta & Jermaine,” from “Superior Donuts” star Jermaine Fowler and Larry Wilmore.
The project, which has a pilot production commitment, would star Fowler and internet star Quinta Brunson as a childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.
Brunson, a veteran of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, is known for her viral Instagram series “The Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date” and YouTube Red’s scripted comedy “Broke.”
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The high-profile project is from ABC Studios who will co-produce with CBS Television Studios. Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson will executive produce with 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman.
Wilmore is the co-creator and consulting producer of HBO’s “Insecure” and helped to launch ABC’s “Black-ish,” where he served as showrunner for the first 13 episodes. He also had a...
The project, which has a pilot production commitment, would star Fowler and internet star Quinta Brunson as a childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.
Brunson, a veteran of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, is known for her viral Instagram series “The Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date” and YouTube Red’s scripted comedy “Broke.”
Also Read: Ratings: 'Chicago' Mega-Crossover Hands NBC Huge Wednesday Viewer Win
The high-profile project is from ABC Studios who will co-produce with CBS Television Studios. Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson will executive produce with 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman.
Wilmore is the co-creator and consulting producer of HBO’s “Insecure” and helped to launch ABC’s “Black-ish,” where he served as showrunner for the first 13 episodes. He also had a...
- 10/4/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Superior Donuts alum Jermaine Fowler is returning to CBS with a new starring vehicle. The network has given a pilot production commitment to Quinta & Jermaine, a multi-camera comedy starring and executive produced by actor-comedian Fowler and Internet star Quinta Brunson (Broke) and executive produced by Insecure co-creator Larry Wilmore. The high-profile package, which netted one of the biggest comedy sales so far this season, hails from ABC Studios, which will co-produce with CBS TV Studios.
Written by Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson, Quinta & Jermaine stars the title duo as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.
Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson executive produce with 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman.
Fowler, who likely is drawing on his experience as a new father, teamed with his friend Brunson. The two collaborated on the idea of taking on parenting from a fresh persecutive and partnered with Wilmore.
Fowler’s first broadcast project,...
Written by Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson, Quinta & Jermaine stars the title duo as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood.
Wilmore, Fowler and Brunson executive produce with 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman.
Fowler, who likely is drawing on his experience as a new father, teamed with his friend Brunson. The two collaborated on the idea of taking on parenting from a fresh persecutive and partnered with Wilmore.
Fowler’s first broadcast project,...
- 10/4/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Jermaine Fowler is back in business with CBS.
In one of the biggest comedy deals of the current development season, the former “Superior Donuts” star–along with Quinta Brunson and Larry Wilmore–has landed a pilot production commitment for a multi-camera comedy at the broadcaster.
Titled “Quinta & Jermaine,” the series will star Fowler and Brunson as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood. Fowler, Brunson, and Wilmore are all writers and executive producers on the project, with Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman of 3 Arts Entertainment also executive producing. ABC Studios, where Wilmore and his Wilmore Films banner are under an overall deal, will produce in association with CBS Television Studios.
Fowler starred as Franco Wicks on “Superior Donuts” for CBS for two seasons alongside Judd Hirsch, Katey Sagal, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, and Rell Battle. He also recently appeared in the critically-acclaimed film “Sorry to Bother You...
In one of the biggest comedy deals of the current development season, the former “Superior Donuts” star–along with Quinta Brunson and Larry Wilmore–has landed a pilot production commitment for a multi-camera comedy at the broadcaster.
Titled “Quinta & Jermaine,” the series will star Fowler and Brunson as childhood best friends who find themselves expecting a child while navigating adulthood. Fowler, Brunson, and Wilmore are all writers and executive producers on the project, with Michael Rotenberg and Josh Lieberman of 3 Arts Entertainment also executive producing. ABC Studios, where Wilmore and his Wilmore Films banner are under an overall deal, will produce in association with CBS Television Studios.
Fowler starred as Franco Wicks on “Superior Donuts” for CBS for two seasons alongside Judd Hirsch, Katey Sagal, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, and Rell Battle. He also recently appeared in the critically-acclaimed film “Sorry to Bother You...
- 10/4/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has garnered acclaim for their prestige TV offerings, but one of their most underrated contributions to the television landscape is 2015’s “7 Days in Hell,” a mockumentary of the infamous John Isner/Nicolas Mahut Wimbledon showdown that shattered the record for longest tennis match in history. On the strengths of stars Andy Samberg and Kit Harrington, “7 Days in Hell” also took aim at a few of the legendary tennis rivalries of the 70s, 80s and 90s that brought the sport into the mainstream.
It’s a goofy, perfectly timed spoof that plays with the familiar tropes of sports docs, namely the ones in Espn’s “30 for 30” series. Apparently, it worked so well that HBO wanted more. Samberg and “7 Days in Hell” writer Murray Miller have reteamed for another trip through niche sports history with “Tour de Pharmacy,” a fictional look at a doping scandal in the world of 80s cycling.
It’s a goofy, perfectly timed spoof that plays with the familiar tropes of sports docs, namely the ones in Espn’s “30 for 30” series. Apparently, it worked so well that HBO wanted more. Samberg and “7 Days in Hell” writer Murray Miller have reteamed for another trip through niche sports history with “Tour de Pharmacy,” a fictional look at a doping scandal in the world of 80s cycling.
- 5/19/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
VH1 has marked a February 2014 premiere for its latest “rock doc,” although it’s rap and not rock music that’s at the center of this 4-part documentary. The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop, based on Steve Stoute’s bestseller The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created A Culture That Rewrote The Rules Of The New Economy, takes a trip down memory lane to examine how hip-hop culture influenced music, film, television, fashion, business, race relations and the politics that opened the door for Obama’s America. “Tanning” in this case is a phrase coined by Stoute for the deep-rooted influence traditionally African-American hip-hop has had on pop culture from The Jeffersons to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to Eminem’s 8 Mile. Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys, 30 for 30‘s Broke and The U) directed the docu with Alfred Spellman producing,...
- 10/30/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
"Collision Course," the film below, is the latest "30 for 30" short documentary to have its premiere online. The doc comes from Billy Corben, who in addition to having made two feature-length "30 for 30" films for Espn, "Broke" and "The U," also directed "Cocaine Cowboys" and "Limelight." "Collision Course" focuses on a story that comes across as an extension of the one Corben assembled in "Cocaine Cowboys" and its sequel. It's about Don Aronow, builder of cigarette boats that became world famous and an important component of the racing world as well as the illicit one of drug running, a fact that lead to his murder.
- 9/25/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Espn announced in May that it was bringing back "30 for 30," the network's award-winning program of sports-centric documentaries, for another round of 30 new features. The series kicks off next week with "Broke" by Billy Corben, a doc about the financial difficulties many pro athletes experience when their careers come to an end, thanks to bad investments, freeloaders, medical problems and tendencies to show off. Read More: Espn Announces Fall '30 for 30' Schedule, Adds '9.79*,' 'Ghosts of Ole Miss,' 'There’s No Place Like Home' For "30 for 30 II," Espn and Grantland have also collaborated on a sidebar program of 30 doc shorts that will premiere online, a new one each month. An introductory short about Pete Rose, Eric Drath's "Here Now," has been online since may, but the official "30 for 30 Shorts" kick-off happened today with "Arnold's Blueprint,"...
- 9/26/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
It's baaaack! Espn Films critically-acclaimed (Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning) 30 for 30 film series returns for a second season. And the network has announced the schedule for the new slate of films in the series, that will officially kick off with Billy Corben's look at pro athletes who squander their earnings in Broke (a film I reviewed on this site a few months ago at Tribeca) on Tuesday, October 2, at 8 pm on Espn/Espnhd. Episodes will then air on consecutive Tuesday nights in October, concluding the 2012 run with one film airing in December after the Heisman Trophy Presentation. The fall slate of 30 for 30...
- 8/8/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Espn announced that their excellent and much-lauded sports documentary series, "30 for 30," will return in May along with four of the 30 new feature-length docs they plan to premiere. Now the network has set its fall schedule for the series and confirmed three additional titles for the season. The new iteration of "30 for 30" will air Tuesday nights in October on Espn, with one film airing in December after the Heisman Trophy Presentation. Tuesday, Oct. 2, 8pm: "Broke," directed by Billy Corben Tuesday, Oct. 9, 8pm: "9.79*," directed by Daniel Gordon Tuesday, Oct. 16, 8pm: "There’s No Place Like Home," directed by Maura Mandt and Josh Swade Tuesday, Oct. 23, 8pm: "Benji," directed by Coodie and Chike Tuesday, Oct. 30, 8pm: "Ghosts of Ole Miss," directed by Fritz Mitchell Saturday, Dec. 8, 9pm: "You Don’t Know Bo," directed by Michael Bonfiglio You can find...
- 8/7/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Fans of quality sports documentaries can mark their calendars for Tuesday, October 2, when Espn's "30 for 30" franchise returns. Originally designed as a series of 30 documentaries tied to Espn's 30th anniversary, the "30 for 30" brand was resurrected this spring and will be back for what the network is calling "Vol. II." Up first for the new run of "30 for 30" docs is "Broke," from Billy Corben, who chronicled the University of Miami football program in "The U" for the first cycle. In "Broke," Corben focuses on once-wealthy sports stars who have found themselves in bankruptcy....
- 8/4/2012
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. Espn revealed plans for its 30 For 30 Shorts, an offshoot of its 30 For 30 documentary series, at today’s TCA panels. The short films, ranging from 3 to 12 minutes, will be produced in collaboration with Bill Simmons’ Grantland.com. The shorts will first be presented on the website beginning September 26 and later will be featured on all of Espn’s digital platforms, said Connor Schell, vice president, Espn Films. And on the panel was the subject of the first installment, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first short focuses on the former California governor’s teenage years with the Austrian Army. Just before the panel featuring Schwarzenegger and Michael Zimbalist, co-director of the short, Espn presented a panel on 30 For 30 Volume II, featuring directors of the next crop of 30 documentaries on sports figures that begins in October and continues through 2014. Included on the list was Billy Corben, director of Broke,...
- 8/4/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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