CBS has made its first comedy pilot order this season, and it went to the community’s script with the highest-profile expertise pairing hooked up, Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. Four months after Deadline broke the information of the father-son undertaking being in improvement at CBS, the multi-camera comedy, co-written by the elder Wayans and former Last Man Standing govt producer Kevin Hench, stays untitled.
It facilities on a legendary discuss radio host and fortunately divorced “Poppa” (Damon Wayans) who has his perspective challenged at work when a brand new feminine co-host is employed, and at dwelling the place he finds himself nonetheless parenting his grownup son (Damon Wayans Jr.), a superb dreamer who’s attempting to pursue his ardour whereas being a accountable father and husband.
Wayans, Hench and Wayans Jr. govt produce. CBS Studios, the place Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Entertainment has been based mostly since its launch, is the studio. Kameron Tarlow, VP Productions, will probably be overseeing the undertaking for Two Shakes.
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The Wayans Father/Son comedy joins CBS’ two drama pilot orders this season: Elsbeth, starring Carrie Preston, and Matlock, headlined by Kathy Bates. The order comes amid a resurgence of multi-camera comedies, fueled by the latest success of exhibits like Night Court and That ’90s Show.
This marks Wayans’ return to community comedy after he co-created, govt produced and starred in ABC’s My Wife and Kids, which ran on ABC for 5 seasons from 2001-05. It is on that multi-cam present that his son, Wayans Jr., made his TV performing debut with a serious recurring position. He went on to star in single-camera comedies Happy Endings and New Girl earlier than headlining the CBS multi-camera sitcom Happy Together.
That CBS sitcom lasted a season, however it gave followers a style of what the Wayanses’ onscreen father-son dynamic would seem like when Wayans visitor starred as Wayans Jr.’s father in an episode titled, “Like Father, Like Son.”
Wayans Jr., who additionally appeared on his father’s Showtime sketch comedy The Underground, most lately was seen within the movies Supercool, Cherry and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. He lately wrapped Netflix’s Players and is an govt producer on the streamer’s upcoming drama sequence Glamorous.
Wayans is a four-time Emmy nominee who co-created and starred within the iconic sketch sequence In Living Color. He most lately starred as Roger Murtaugh on Fox’s Lethal Weapon sequence and subsequent will probably be seen starring alongside Pam Grier in Tubi’s noir thriller Cinnamon.
In addition to his prolonged stint as govt producer on Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing, Hench co-created and govt produced Cristela and Mr. Iglesias. He is at the moment govt producing Allen’s new Disney+ sequence The Santa Clauses.
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