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EXCLUSIVE: FX has teamed with Amy Poehler to bring cult Web series Broad City to television. Poehler will executive produce the TV series adaptation of the Web comedy created by and starring Upright Citizens Brigade alumnae Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Jacobson and Glazer are set to write and star in the half-hour FX project, which has received a script commitment from the network. It centers on the Manhattan (and Brooklyn) misadventures of 20-something female best friends, played by Jacobson and Glazer. UCB co-founder Poehler’s relationship with Jacobson and Glazer goes back to their days together at the famous improv theater. The Saturday Night Live alumna is a fan of Broad City and has appeared in it (see trailer below), which led to her interest in taking the show to television.
Poeler, Jacobson and Glazer, all repped by WME, will executive produce the FX project with Poehler’s manager, 3 Arts’ Dave Becky, and Jacobson and Glazer’s manager Samantha Saifer. Nancy Pimenthal is on board as supervising producer. FX has been aggressively building a slate of offbeat comedies with It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The League, Louie and Wilfred. Broad City would mark the network’s first comedy series with female leads and all-female creators. Four-time Emmy nominee Poehler, who stars on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, received the 2011 Variety Power of Comedy Award last weekend.
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This was really good. Didn’t like the Amy P. part, ironically enough. The end, from Rosie Perez-dance on, was really well done. Usually these teaser/trailers are terrible, but this obviously was something people spent time on.
Is it my lack of estrogen but I didnt laugh once…… who wants this show?????
greatness from you to us.
This is exciting. It’s been a great year for women in comedy. Well, white women in comedy anyway…
this is awesome!
Ba-ba-ba-boring!
funny, funny, funny. no brainer for FX.
Awesome! I love Broad City!!!
they’ve had a youtube channel for over 2 years and have just 175,000 views and that’s considered a cult hit?
so I guess the youtube video of my dog chasing a laser pointer around the living room should be considered the breakout hit of the decade?
by the way, if you wanna see funny stuff on youtube that deserves it’s own show watch Puddin’ or 5 Second Films.
Love Eddie Pepitone!
all of sudden a great post like this comes along and you savor the taste of it on your eyes. please send me this video about your dog i would love to show it to my colleagues and counterparts. jerry! you did a great thought!
I would be happier if FX would put Powers on the air.
Umm, how is this funny at all?..and they have faces better suited for radio. I predict this does not make it to air.
Words cannot describe how unhappy a person you must be! Get a life!!!!
“..and they have faces better suited for radio. ” Really? I find it hilarious that a comment on beauty is the first thing you comment. This is comedy not modeling. Let’s list off all the male comics that have “faces suited for radio” shall we?
Very funny stuff. Fresh Should play well on FX
Not really an FX comedy block person but I would try to catch this online after it aired. Agree that Amy’s part wasn’t as funny as the two of them video chatting or running around the streets. This took awhile to warm up but I found them hilarious and highly appealing by the end.
Who needs more fat people on TV? Mike and Molly is bad enuff!
what are you talking about? I didn’t see one fat person on this…did on of these chicks not call you back or some shit?
… and now we have an assessment of their weight. Sexism needs some new go-to insults.
Can’t wait to see this as a new series. Followed Broad City on line and thought it was hilarious. Loved the one that Amy was in too. Good luck. Love to know when it will first appear.
Karen
Abbi and Ilana are the world’s best people.
I thought the web series was hysterical and am looking forward to the 30 min version….these girls are talented and I’d put money on this show doing well. My $0.02
Where was the humor? I mean this was suppose to be funny, right? Where was the entertainment value? This for me was just another example of some people who pass themselves off as Comedians thinking they are talented, when they obviously are not. Of course, since they themselves know they are not, they then resort to foul language in order to at least spur emotions whether it be positive or negative. It matters not to them. This is just an example why SNL has not been any good since the early 80′s. I don’t know if anyone has noticed but SNL has gone Gay
“SNL HAS GONE GAY” is actually the headline on Anxious Introvert Daily News today, I believe. This show is funny, smart and real, and from what I can tell, you are scaaaaary– best of luck! Stop insulting people for their successes, it’s the lowest fruit on the comedy tree, as evidenced by the fact that no one has given YOU a show.
-jam
It’s about time we see some REAL people dealing with REAL stuff on television. I feel like I was just finally served a glass of water. This is brilliant and it will WIN.
FOX….if TV ratings are down, box office is down, it means people aren’t wasting their time and money on ” garbage ” being produced and subject them to suffering and excruciating pain…..do you honestly think if people aren’t watching TV or going to the movies, it means some how they will waste their precious time going on the computer to watch a group of un appealing, stupid, skanky girls running around NYC and Brooklyn creating troubles? HELLO….you might as well do a reality TV show like Jersey Shore to attract the younger audiences on line….assuming that they’re on the computer and not out at some bar getting loaded…..it’s not going to do well….people have eyes , they can see. You can’t trick people or shove something down people’s throat if they’re not interested so that you can push your own agenda for all the wrond reasons….it’s stupid business and a waste of money! Cancel it! You will damage your own reputation too by lowering your standards….
These girls are REAL, and FUNNY and smart!
This is a GREAT move by FX. Get ready for some genuine intelligent humor. Can’t wait for the show.
Lena Dunham’s show on HBO is going to blow this out of the water.
Really looking forward to a world where I get to watch Lena Dunham’s GIRLS and BROAD CITY (looks so good) and THE NEW GIRL. It’s a great time for female-driven comedy, and it absolutely doesn’t have to be an either/or situation. All these shows can and will coexist.
Really? I assume the people that wrote that they liked this are friends with or connected to the show. Is FX that anamored with Amy Poehler to order this? It never ends to see execs who will line up to buy vanity projects from celebs. Amy is really funny but have you checked the numbers on “Parks and Rec”?
Wow, is that bad. How bad of shape is Fox in to produce a piece of excrement like this. I’ve seen better Youtube videos done by 12 year-olds. Wow! Stunned at how bad that is.
FINALLY. I’m sick of seeing unrealistic “comedies” about girls that “live in brooklyn.” FINALLY something that is real and actually funny. This is brilliant!
Racist much? Sorry your not white?
Even if I had to turn down the sound, I would not mind looking at AP as often as possible.