EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is going Japanese with its latest scripted comedy format.
The streamer is developing Last Second Chance, a fantasy comedy series based on Nippon TV’s Rebooting.
Corey Nickerson, an exec producer of Black-ish, who has worked on Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23, Scrubs and Chuck, is writing the adaptation with Nahnatchka Khan, who created Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23 as well as Fresh Off The Boat, directing.
The series is about a woman who is literally given a second chance at life – this time around she must change her ways and prevent her own murder, which raises bigger questions about whether change is possible or if everything is predetermined.
It is based on Rebooting, which premiered in Japan in 2023, which follows a “mundane woman about to redo her banal life”. The Japanese series follows Asami Kondo, age 33, who is single, lives with her parents, and works at the local city hall. Suddenly, she has to start her life all over again. She finds herself lying on an Ob-Gyn bed. Next to her are her parents, both young. Asami’s second go at life has just begun.
20th Television is the studio after Rideback, the company behind Disney’s recent live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, which grossed over $1B at the box office, brought the Disney-owned studio the scripted format. Khan’s Fierce Baby is also producing.
Nickerson and Khan will exec produce alongside Rideback’s Jonathan Eirich, Jonathan Gabay and Michael LoFaso, Robert Leger and Fierce Baby’s Jennifer Carreras.
Nickerson, who was previously in an exclusive overall deal at CBS Studios, previously co-created Fox comedy pilot Fatrick with Khan.
It is the latest international format that Khan has developed; the Young Rock co-creator developed a U.S. remake of Australian rom-com series Laid, which aired for one season on Peacock.
Last Second Chance marks one of the first TV projects to come out of Rideback since it hired former Berlanti Productions exec Jonathan Gabay as President of Television in February 2025. The company is behind Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will air its second season later this year as well as Netflix’s upcoming comedy feature Best of the Best, which is directed by Lena Khan and written by Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam.
Nickerson is repped by CAA and attorney Michael Schenkman and Khan is repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
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