Family Comedy Series ‘Mapletown’ In The Works From ‘Silicon Valley’s Chris Diamantopoulos
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Chris Diamantopoulos, who starred in HBO’s Silicon Valley and is currently on Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, has co-created and is set to star in a new family comedy series that is being taken out to market.
Diamantopoulos has teamed up with Aircraft Pictures and Untitled Entertainment, which also reps him, for half-hour series Mapletown.
The producers have set the project up in Canada and are preparing to shop for a U.S. partner. Set on a small Canadian island, the series follows the brilliant teenage mayor who, after being elected to run her hometown of Mapletown, asks her opponent, the smart middle-aged Detwiler, played by Diamantopoulous, to be her Chief of Staff.
Described as Malcolm in the Middle meets Northern Exposure, it will capture the tension between old-school islanders and brand-new transplants who come to need one another against all odds.
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