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“Being a little boy in Texas, when you see Star Wars and Bladerunner, that’s the first time I actually looked at the credits and saw the concept artist and all the people behind the scenes,” says production designer Bruton Jones. “That’s what I wanted to do and there was no looking back.” When he was brought in to…

NBC has ordered a second season of comedy series Grand Crew. Starring Echo Kellum, Justin Cunningham, Grasie Mercedes, Carl Tart, Aaron Jennings and Nicole Byer, Grand Crew hails from writer-producer Phil Augusta Jackson. Written by Jackson with Goor supervising, Grand Crew revolves around a group of Black friends who…

NBC will air original episodes of all five of its comedy series — returning shows Young Rock, Kenan and Mr. Mayor – and new series Grand Crew and American Auto — during the week of December 13, ahead of their regular 2022 season premieres. The standalone holiday specials were initially announced in May before Grand Cre…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Grand Crew announced the addition of Grasie Mercedes to the cast in a series-regular role. She’ll portray Fay, a recently divorced transplant to Los Angeles who becomes fast friends with the regulars at Eastside Cru. The comedy, from the Brooklyn Nine-Nine duo of writer-producer Phil Augusta Jackson…

As one Justin Spitzer-created workplace comedy series, Superstore, is coming to an end on NBC this season, another one will be joining the network’s lineup next season. NBC has given a series order to American Auto, from Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, starring Ana Gasteyer, Jon Barinholtz. Also…

As many pilot cast options are coming to an end this month, the broadcast networks are making decisions on the projects that have been shot this fall. NBC in June committed to filming three comedy pilots this year, Night School, American Auto and Grand Crew (fka Phil Augusta Jackson/Dan Goor comedy). All have been…