Fox Orders Presentation For ‘The Kumars’ Revival & Script From ‘Workin’ Moms’ Duo In International Content Strategy Expansion To Comedy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Kumars are plotting a return — this time on American television. Fox has ordered a presentation for multi-camera comedy Meet The Kumars, a followup to the award-winning 2001 BBC series The Kumars At No.
42. Most of the original cast is back for the U.S.-flavored revival of the family sitcom/talk show. Fox also has come in as a partner on The Donut (working title), a single-camera family business comedy in development at Canada’s CBC from Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg, stars of CBC/Netflix’s popular comedy Workin’ Moms, which Reitman created.
The two commissions are part of Fox’s international content expansion, which involves developing and producing scripted series with local creators and studios in English-language territories, currently Canada and the UK and ultimately Australia as well. Fox’s live-action comedy night ambitions Meet the Kumars and The Donut also are part of a new wave of comedy development at Fox. “We’re in the process of rebuilding our comedy brand around Animal Control,” said Michael Thorn, Fox Entertainment’s President, Scripted Programming.
The series starring Joel McHale is the only live-action current comedy on Fox as well as the network’s only fully owned live-action show.
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