‘The Premise’ Creator B.J. Novak On FX Anthology Examining “Stories Of Our Time”, His Attempt To Cast Jack Nicholson, & Screening Pop Star Episode For Billie Eilish – TCA

deadline.com:

With his new FX anthology series The Premise, creator B.J. Novak looked “to say something simple and sincere” about some of the most compelling issues of our time, “exploring an idea thoroughly and moving the hell on.”“I wrote these scripts and said, ‘These are stories about our time, the way I see them,'” Novak said during the show’s TCA panel on Friday. “It was really about, how do we tell the stories of our time by looking them in the eye and having fun with them?”The Premise is a generally comedic collection of “one-of-a-kind stories,” which Novak pitched to FX as “The Twilight Zone without the sci-fi,” or “Black Mirror without the dystopian technology.”In its first season, the show will tackle such topics as gun violence, allyship, the