By Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski HBO Max has given a 10-episode series order to a single-camera comedy starring Jean Smart, from Broad City alums Paul W.
Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders The Universal TV project, executive produced by The Good Place creator Mike Schur, originally received a pilot order in late January.
The pilot was in the midst of casting and had just secured Smart for the lead when all Hollywood production shut down in mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Scripts already were being written and, based on the strength of the scripts and Smart’s casting, HBO Max has decided to give the project a series order.
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