Kevin Hart’s Childhood Inspires BET+ Adult Animated Series Co-Starring Wanda Sykes & Deon Cole
deadline.comBET+ has added its first adult animated comedy, inspired by Kevin Hart‘s childhood. Lil Kev is a half-hour series that takes a humorous, satirical, and subversive approach to real-life issues he experienced with no-holds-barred comedy and no words off limits.
The BET+ and Hartbeat series will premiere in the spring. Wanda Sykes is set to star as Kevin’s hardworking and God-fearing mother, Nancy, alongside Deon Cole, who stars as Uncle Richard Jr., Nancy’s formerly incarcerated, fully-ripped, hustling younger brother.
Additional casting to be announced. Set in 1993 North Philadelphia, Lil Kev follows 12-year-old Kevin Hart, whose wild imagination and unshakable optimism constantly collide with his neighborhood’s harsh realities.
At the same time, his no-nonsense mother Nancy juggles night shifts as an E.R. nurse while waging a one-woman war to keep Kev on track – no easy feat with his mischievous older brother Robert blazing all the wrong trails, his trainwreck father Henry’s outrageous attempts to win Nancy back, and his ex-con uncle Richard Jr.’s questionable life advice.
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