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A year after Black-ish ended its run, Anthony Anderson is returning to ABC as a star of another single-camera comedy, pilot Public Defenders. Randall Einhorn has come on board to direct the pilot written by Eddie Quintana. Liz Astrof is set as showrunner. In the comedy, up to their earholes in…

Fox has handed a pilot order to Pivoting, a half-hour single-camera comedy from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV. Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in Long Island. It follows three women after the death of their childhood…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put into development The Last Happy Couple, a comedy based on the United Studios of Israel series La Famiglia, from Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls), original series creators Ran Dovrat, Avi Belkin and Ohad Perach, Ben Winston and James Corden’s Fulwell73, Anonymous Content and CBS TV Studios. Written by…

Another classic sitcom is eying a reboot. Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Alice, a multi-camera comedy based on the 1976 CBS TV series starring Linda Lavin. It comes from Diablo Cody (One Mississippi), Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls) and Warner Bros. TV, which produced the original series and where Cody and her…

In a competitive situation, CBS has landed The Big House, a multi-camera comedy from former 2 Broke Girls executive producer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment (Life In Pieces, American Housewife) and Warner Bros. TV. The project has received a put pilot commitment. Written by Astrof and inspired by…