MacGruber is coming back to life yet again! Star Will Forte is reviving his classic Saturday Night Live character for a TV series on new streaming service Peacock.
NBCUniversal announced a pickup of eight half-hour episodes on Monday. MacGruber, a delightfully deranged parody of MacGyver, began on SNL in 2007 and got the feature film treatment in 2010.
The movie was not successful at the box office but has become a cult classic in the decade since it was released. The creative team behind the movie will reassemble for the series, with Forte writing and executive-producing alongside John Solomon and Jorma Taccone.
Taccone will direct. Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, Andrew Singer, and Erin David will also serve as executive producers. Here's.
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