Netflix has given a 16-episode series order to God’s Favorite Idiot, a workplace comedy from Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, with Falcone and McCarthy set to star and executive produce.
Michael McDonald (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Nobodies) is attached to direct and executive produce.Created by Falcone, in God’s Favorite Idiot, mid-level tech support employee Clark Thompson (Falcone) finds love with co- worker Amily Luck (McCarthy) at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God.
Also, there’s roller skating, a lake of fire and an impending apocalypse.Falcone and McCarthy executive produce via their On the Day production company.God’s Favorite Idiot marks the married duo’s sixth collaboration together.
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