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Nasim Pedrad wanted to create a comedy with a Middle Eastern character that wasn't "acting against Jack Bauer" in TBS' Chad. Saturday Night Live alumna Pedrad, who is starring as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy in the single-camera comedy, opened up the Chad panel at the Winter TCA press tour with a passionate…

TBS has given a 10-episode series pickup to Chad, Nasim Pedrad’s single-camera comedy pilot starring the Saturday Night Live alumna as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy. The order marks a happy ending to the project’s long journey to the screen, which was first developed at Fox and 20th Century Fox TV four years ago…

TBS has given a 10-episode series pickup to Chad, Nasim Pedrad’s single-camera comedy pilot starring the Saturday Night Live alumna as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy. The order marks a happy ending to the project’s long journey to the screen, which was first developed at Fox and 20th Century Fox TV four years ago…

Saba Homayoon (Mistresses) and Paul Chahidi (This Country) are set opposite Nasim Pedrad and Jake Ryan in Pedrad’s TBS comedy pilot Chad. Alexa Loo (Rogue) and Ella Mika (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) round out the series regular cast. In addition, Rhys Thomas (Saturday Night Live, Documentary Now) has been tapped to…

Eighth Grade standout Jake Ryan is set as a lead opposite Nasim Pedrad in TBS comedy pilot Chad. Created and written by Pedrad, Chad is a single-camera Middle-Eastern family comedy that follows a 14-year-old Persian boy, played by Pedrad, during high school as he desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's…

Nasim Pedrad's comedy Chad has found a new home at TBS, which has picked it up to pilot three years after the project was ordered to pilot by Fox. Chad, created and written by Pedrad, is a single-camera Middle-Eastern family comedy that follow a 14-year-old Persian boy, played by Pedrad during high school as he…