NBC has ordered two pilots: a rom-com called “Newlyweds” and an untitled comedy about therapists-slash-best friends played by Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal.
“Newlyweds” is written by Gail Lerner, who executive produces alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Scott Schwartz. Per the official logline, the project is “a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship.” Lionsgate Television produces, and Universal Television is the studio.
Lerner is best known for her work as a writer and producer on Seasons 5 through 8 of NBC’s “Will & Grace” and Seasons 1 through 6 of ABC’s “Black-ish.”
The logline for the untitled pilot, written by Kari Lizer, reads, “Ginger (Sagal) and Jill (Lynch) have always been a team as opposites that work best together. As they sort their past and look toward their future, they’ll discover that in spite of it all, they wouldn’t change a thing.” The project is loosely inspired by real-life friendship between therapists and sociologists Pepper Schwartz and Janet Lever, who study sex and gender and serve as consulting producers. Executive producers include Lizer, Lynch, Sagal and Trip the Light Productions’ Krista Vernoff, Andrew Stearn and Alexandre Schmitt. The pilot is produced by Paramount Television Studios.
Lizer is best known as the creator of “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” which ran on CBS for five seasons from 2006 to 2010.
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