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The family comedy project starring Snoop Dogg has landed at NBC with a script commitment. Sitcom veteran Don Reo is writing the sitcom that has the rapper/entrepreneur/marijuana activist playing the father. The project was originally set up at Warner Bros TV last month. Reo will executive produce, with Snoop Dogg and Ted Chung serving as producers. Snoop Dogg has played a father figure on TV before, on his E! reality series Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, which chronicled his family life with his wife and three kids. Snoop Dogg previously worked with Reo on the Fox sitcom Brothers, which Reo created and on which Snoop Dogg did a guest arc. The musician has been focusing on acting recently and was recently cast in the title role in the biopic The Legend Of Fillmore Slim. My Wife And Kids co-creator Reo most recently worked on the WBTV-produced comedy Two And A Half Men. NBC has mixed track record with sitcom projects toplined by rappers. It scored a hit in the 1990s with The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air starring Will Smith, but its 2001 comedy pilot starring Sisqo and comedy legend Bob Newhart was a disaster. Reo and Snoop Dogg are with Paradigm.
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This is how NBC improves. Let FOX be NBC, then become more like FOX was during their early years.
Who’s says you can’t produce porn and have your own series on NBC. Love it!!!
Yeah, that pilot with Don Rickles and the Geto Boys didn’t come off either….
“Back up in your ass with the resurrection…”
You’d initially think it odd that a white guy over 60 could have success with writing a black themed sitcom, but he has in the past.He’s done family friendly black shows like Everybody Hates Chris and My Wife And Kids.He also wrote some episodes of Sanford and Son.
Should be interesting, as NBC rarely develops shows with black leads, which is interesting because there were several successful ones when I was growing up.227, The Cosby Show, A Different World, Amen, Diff’rent Strokes, Gimme a Break and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
I’m not the biggest Snoop Dogg fan, but I look forward to these minority based projects succeeding.
Bob Newhart did a show with Sisqo????
My thoughts exactly! WTF!?!
Wow, What executive put that together? Also, Sisqo is R&B, No?
The Thong, The thong, thong, thong!
Wow. Um… Just wow. And, we know Snoop’s character on “Brothers” had an ARC how? I could have sworn that show had 6 episodes.
C’mon guys… a script commitment is not a pilot and a pilot is not a series order. Let’s see if this makes it past the initial money being thrown at it.
What’s a “script commitment?” Isn’t that the same as just ordering a script? Like, y’know, regular development? When did everything become a commitment?
Family sitcom?
I hope it’s at least as good as the various porno films he’s produced and acted in.
Reo was also behind John Larroquette’s eponymous sitcom as well as the better-than-you-may-remember Blossom. Been a while since the Big Four has developed a sitcom with black leads; Brothers is the last one I can remember and before that, who knows when. This might work. Besides, NBC could use a show people actually watched.
I think it was Method and Red in 2004.The last successful black network sitcoms were My Wife and Kids and The Bernie Mac Show, both launched in 2001.
That is going to be one high set to work on.
NBC = Epic fail. What’s going on over there NBC?
Will Smith was a more versatile actor and realistically more versatile in personality than Snoop Dog.I hope if this goes through it doesn’t center on Snoop Dog too much because the guy doesn’t bring that much to the table personality wise. Who knows if he can even act
This sitcom idea sure as hell beats Snoop’s pimp project. (Plus, if it worked for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air it could work for the Marijuana Man a k a Snoop Dogg.)
Possible title for Snoop’s new family sit com?
How bout “Diff’rent Smokes” ?
Fo shizzle Snoopster…looks like the sound of this will be a cancel-avizzle on netweork tele-vizzle. Nothing But Crapazizzle.
His actual life is really like a sit-com,
the guy has been married to the same woman for close to 17 years, he’s a wealthy rap artist that lives in a huge mansion in Chino but drives his kids to school daily and is the head coach of his sons pop Warner football team and asst coaches his daughters soccer team, its actually funny but heart warming watching this gangster rapper provide bags of snacks every week to a girls soccer team then hop in a Bentley with his wife and kids off to the next kids sporting event.
The Greenblatt firing clocks takes a giant leap forward.
Remember NBC was floundering in last place until The Cosby Show resurrected the network. Snoop Dogg will do the same 30 yrs later. He is the new Bill Cosby!
Can anyone just pitch a show to NBC and have it picked up now?
This just hits me as a bad idea.
This show not only got a pilot commitment, it was shot in the room and will be airing tonight.
dear 2112 – please hurry up, get here and end it all as promised. thank you.
I can already hear Debbee Klien taking credit for this deal even though she did nothing.
NBC is really starting to change as a network and getting back to their glory years of the 80s and 90s. I think is a good direction their starting to take with their mass-appeal comedy approach.
I had a feeling they were starting to go in this direction once Whitney started and Chelsea later this season then Dane and Snoop next year.
It looks like the old days of limited appeal critic loving comedies like Community, Office, 30 Rock, and P&R are over.
Snoop is the smartest rapper i have eva seen