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WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who steered his real estate office company through some disastrous decisions, only to walk away from it with $1.7 billion, was a tell-tale ripe for a binge-viewing era. What was the way into this Icarus story? For co-creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, it was through…

Jared Leto, who stars in WeCrashed, said he knew he would regret not meeting with Adam Neumann before embodying the former WeWork CEO for the Apple TV+ series. “I didn’t want to play a villain, especially villainize someone who’s still alive,” the Morbius star said during a panel for the show at Deadline’s Contenders…

Little America co-creator Lee Eisenberg is expanding his relationship with Apple. On the heels of the season premiere of the critically acclaimed series, Apple has signed an overall deal with the six-time Emmy nominee and WGA award-winning writer, director and producer. Under the multi-year pact, Eisenberg will create…

ABC has put in development a single camera blue-collar family comedy from writer Paul McLalin, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District and ABC Studios. Written by McLalin, the Untitled Factory Town Project follows a blue-collar family in Kalamazoo, Michigan who are…

Apple has picked up to series Little America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developing Little America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal Television. Written by Eisenberg, who…

Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures is teaming with Good Universe to produce the R-rated comedy Good Boys from The Office alums Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, both of whom wrote the script and will also be making their feature directorial debut. Said to be in the vein of Sausage Party and Superbad, the film follows…

Fox has handed a put pilot commitment to Pigeon, a half-hour single-camera comedy toplined by Anders Holm, one of the stars of Comedy Central’s long-running comedy Workaholics. The cable series is in the middle of a two-season pickup. There has been no announcement and Comedy Central is not commenting but I hear the…

CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to Dick Ernest, a period multi-camera comedy from writer-producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (Hello Ladies, Trophy Wife, The Office). ABC Studios, where the duo is under an overall deal, is the studio. Written/executive produced by Eisenberg and Stupnitsky, Dick Er…

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, CBS has landed Gorgeous Morons, a multi-camera comedy project from prolific writer-producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and ABC Studios, with a big put pilot commitment. Co-created by Eisenberg, Stupnitsky and frequent collaborator/former Office head writer Danny…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky have signed a new two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. The Office alums serve as executive producers/showrunners on two new comedy series sold under their previous deal with the studio, Trophy Wife at ABC and Hello Ladies at HBO. Additionally, Eisenberg…

Bad Teacher, a single-camera comedy series adaptation of the hit 2011 movie to be penned by Hilary Winston (Happy Endings, Community) and produced by the film’s writers-producers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, has been set up at CBS. The movie, from Columbia Pictures and Mosaic, starred Cameron Diaz as a…