EXCLUSIVE: David E. Tabert has sold single-camera comedy Overtime, about a retired NBA player, to ABC, with Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo) executive producing and Courtney Lilly (black-ish, grown-ish) in negotiations to also executive produce.
Additionally, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s first musical, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, is staying in the holiday musical lane with Twas’ The Night, a musical anthology series in the works at Disney+ with Becky Hartman Edwards (Firefly Lane) executive producing.
Talbert is writing both projects, which he is executive producing with his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert through their Golden Alchemy Entertainment as well as the company’s Jim Miller.
In Overtime, a celebrated NBA star retires and returns home to play positions he’s managed to avoid throughout his twelve-year career… Father.
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