Kat Coiro has been tapped to direct Happy Accident, ABC’s single-camera family comedy pilot from Modern Family writers Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack, 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Higginbotham and Pollack, Happy Accident centers around two Pittsburgh families — a father…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Richard Lovely, a single-camera comedy from Grace and Frankie executive producer Billy Finnegan, director Kat Coiro (The Mick) and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Finnegan, the project, which has an About a Boy vibe to it, is about Richard Lovely, a best-selling children’s book…

Kat Coiro has been tapped to direct Daddy Issues, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from actress-writer Erin Foster, New Girl creator Liz Meriwether and 20th Century Fox TV. Coiro’s hire completes a core creative team of all-female auspices on the project. What’s more, it marks the pilot directorial debut of Coiro, who…

ABC has put in development a single-camera comedy pilot from filmmaker Kat Coiro (And While We Were Here, A Case Of You), which Julie Anne Robinson (The Middle) may direct. The semi-autobiographical family comedy is set in a South Beach Haitian restaurant. Coiro grew up in the apartment above her parents’ Haitian…

Splitting The Difference, a comedy created by filmmaker Kat Coiro (And While We Were Here, A Case Of You), has sold to ABC with penalty. It hails from Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Universal TV, where the company is under a first-look deal. The project is based on Tré Miller-Rodriguez’s memoir Splitting…