Development News - February 4, 2015
The CW's Cheerleader Death Squad; HBO's Brothers in Atlanta; and NBC's Untitled Aseem Batra.
NBC's UNTITLED ASEEM BATRA PROJECT
- NBC has given a pilot order to an untitled multi-camera comedy written by Aseem Batra. Universal Television will produce, with Batra and Joe & Anthony Russo executive producing. The project is a politically incorrect office comedy centered on best friends Dale and Georgie whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the "perfect" woman.
THE CW's CHEERLEADER DEATH SQUAD
- The CW has ordered a pilot for mystery drama Cheerleader Death Squad written by Marc Cherry, Neal Baer and Dan Truly. CBS Television Studios and Cherry/Wind Productions will produce, with Cherry, Baer, Truly and Sabrina Wind as executive producers. Described as Heathers meets Alias, the project centers on a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains a select few to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency.
HBO's BROTHERS IN ATLANTA
- Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell has been cast on the comedy pilot starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin. He will play Walter, one of the backup singers to Shirle (guest star Maya Rudolph) and a nemesis to Moose (Salahuddin).
