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When Regina Hall read the pilot script for Black Monday, the '80s comedy from Jordan Cahan and David Caspe, she immediately fell for the character of Dawn. A leading trader at a second-rate Wall Street firm, Dawn operates within a toxic boy's club environment and gives as good as she gets. "I loved that she’s just as…

YouTube has greenlighted a 10-episode comedy series toplined by Happy Endings alum Adam Pally and Detroiters star Sam Richardson, with Jay Pharoah (Saturday Night Live) as a key recurring guest star. The untitled series, set for a 2019 premiere on YouTube Red, reunites a number of key auspices behind ABC’s comedy…

House Of Lies star Don Cheadle is returning to Showtime with another half-hour comedy set in the business world. Cheadle and Andrew Rannells (Girls) have been tapped to star in the half-hour Wall Street comedy Ball Street, which has been formally greenlighted to pilot by the premium cable network. The project hails…

ABC has put in development single-camera comedy Twinsters, from Funny or Die and Upright Citizens Brigade’s Juliet Seniff, Marry Me and Happy Endings creator David Caspe and Davis Entertainment (The Blacklist, Timeless, Dr. Ken). Written and co-executive produced by Seniff with Caspe overseeing, Twinsters is based on…

In a competitive situation, Manhunt, a half-hour series project from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and Life In Pieces executive producer Aaron Kaplan, has landed at Showtime for development. I hear the pitch, from Sony TV…

CBS has given a pilot order to Cuz-Bros (form. Roommates), a multi-camera comedy from Happy Endings creator/exec producer David Caspe and former Happy Endings co-executive producer Erik Sommers. The project, from Happy Endings producer Sony TV and Jamie Tarses’ studio-based Fanfare, which co-produced the cult ABC…

The single-camera half-hour from Happy Endings creator David Caspe already had one of the biggest commitments for a comedy project this season, a big pilot production commitment at NBC that included a full license fee and series penalty. Now the network has given the Sony TV project — which has Seth Gordon set to…

In a competitive situation, CBS has landed a comedy from Happy Endings creator David Caspe and Community co-executive producer Erik Sommers with penalty. It is one of two comedy projects sold by Sommers, along with an ABC half-hour executive produced by Will Gluck. Both are produced by Sony TV. CBS’ Roommates reunites…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is believed to be the biggest commitment for a comedy project so far this development season, Marry Me, a single-camera half-hour from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, just landed at NBC. The Sony Pictures TV project — which has Seth Gordon, who exited Horrible Bosses 2 today, attached to direct…

EXCLUSIVE: David Caspe is staying firmly in the Sony Pictures TV fold. The creator/executive producer of the studio’s cult ABC comedy Happy Endings has closed a new two-year overall deal with the studio. For the past three seasons, Caspe served as showrunner on Happy Endings. Following the show’s recent cancellation…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a happy beginning in television for comedy writer David Caspe, whose first TV pitch, Happy Endings, became a series that will premiere April 13 on ABC in the plum post-Modern Family slot. Now Caspe has signed his first TV overall deal, a two-year pact with Happy Endings producer Sony Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions is negotiating a rights deal to turn the 1970s animated science fiction TV series Star Blazers into a large scale live action feature. Ellison will hire Christopher McQuarrie to write the script, with Ellison and Josh C. Kline producing with McQuarrie. The series was…