HATCHING TWITTER JOINS PEACOCK
First Published on Deadline.com
HATCHING TWITTER, A TALE OF BETRAYED FRIENDSHIPS AND HIGH-STAKES POWER STRUGGLES THAT ACCOMPANIED THE METEORIC RISE OF THE INFAMOUS TECH COMPANY.
Ahead of Comcast’s investor presentation today to officially unveil NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service Peacock, the platform has announced its inaugural development slate. It includes comedies MacGruber, starring and co-written by Will Forte; and Clean Slate, starring and co-written by Laverne Cox and George Wallace. Creative auspices on Peacock’s series in development also include Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Norman Lear and Lorne Michaels, among others. The projects come from within NBCUniversal Content Studios — from both Universal TV and UCP — as well as from outside studios, Warner Bros. and Sony.
From the get-go, Peacock’s original series slate had a comedy bent, with sequels to sitcoms Saved By the Bell and Punky Brewster among the platform’ first orders, along with pickups for A.P. Bio and Ed Helms-Mike Schur comedy Rutherford Falls.
The streamer’s development slate continues that programming direction. Five of the six projects on it are comedies, MacGruber; Clean Slate; Expecting, executive produced by Kaling; coming-of-age comedy Division One, co-written by Maggie Carey and Julia Brownell and executive produced by Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions; and fantasy animated comedy series The Adventure Zone. Additionally, Peacock has put in development an anthology drama series, whose first installment, Hatching Twitter, goes behind the meteoric rise of the tech company.