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NBC has picked up a second season of comedy series American Auto, Deadline has learned. We hear the order is for 13 episodes. The news is not surprising as the freshman from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer had been the clear front-runner for renewal among NBC’s current comedy series. More NBC pickups are expected to…

Coming off a five-year run as writer-producer on NBC’s The Office, Justin Spitzer in August 2013 sold another single-camera workplace comedy, American Auto to NBC, with a put pilot commitment. The script did not go to pilot, and Spitzer went on to create Superstore. After he stepped down as Superstore showrunner in…

EXCLUSIVE: Superstore and American Auto creator Justin Spitzer has signed a big new four-year overall deal with the studio behind the NBC comedy series, Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under the pact, Spitzer will continue as executive producer/showrunner on American Auto while also…

SPOILER ALERT: This post includes details about the series finale of NBC’s Superstore. Superstore gave fans one last bang for their buck before closing the doors to Cloud 9 for good. The NBC workplace comedy wrapped its six-season run with a two-part series finale, which saw a happy ending for Amy (America Ferrera)…

Saturday Night Live alumna Ana Gasteyer is set to lead the ensemble cast of NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Spitzer, American Auto is set at the headquarters of a major American automotive…

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Dyer (The InBetween) is set as a lead in NBC single-camera comedy pilot American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Spitzer, American Auto is set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in…

NBC has given pilot green light to two comedies, multi-camera Jefferies, starring Jim Jefferies, from the stand-up comedian, writer-producer Suzanne Martin and Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner's Hazy Mills;  and single-camera American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Beach Watch, a single-camera comedy from Superstore co-executive producers Bridget Kyle and Vicky Luu, series’ creator/executive producer Justin Spitzer, and his Spitzer Holding Company, and Universal TV, where Spitzer is under a deal, Written by Kyle and Luu, Beach Watch revolves…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Once More, a single-camera half-hour comedy from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where Spiitzer and Hazy Mills are under deals Written by Jack Moore (Queen America, Dear White People), Once More revolves around Will…

A showrunner change is ahead for Season 5 of Superstore. Creator Justin Spitzer is stepping down as showrunner as he, Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green have re-upped their overall deals with Universal TV, the studio behind NBC’s critically praised comedy series. Spitzer has served as showrunner of Superstore since the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Superstore season finale. The Season 2 finale of Superstore shook things up for many of the characters tonight, including fan-favorites Amy (America Ferrera) and Jonah (Ben Feldman) who unexpectedly took their love/hate relationship to the next level. Tonight's…

It only occurred to me in retrospect, but when I signed on to play Amy in Justin Spitzer's Superstore, it was the first part I'd ever been offered that hadn't been written as Latina. I never think of myself as a Latino person; I'm simply a person. And as an actor, I feel capable of inhabiting all kinds of roles and…