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Comedy Central has given a pilot order to Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the comedy duo behind the urban-set web series Broad City. The pilot will be based on the Jacobson/Glazer web series and will star the two Upright Citizens Brigade alums. Broad City will be executive produced by Jacobson and Glazer, along with UCB co-founder Amy Poehler, Poehler’s manager, 3 Arts’ Dave Becky, and Jacobson and Glazer’s manager Samantha Saifer. Tony Hernandez is Co-Executive Producer. The project was originally set up at FX last fall. “Amy Poehler told me this would be a great show for us, and that’s good enough for me,” said Comedy Central’s head of original programming Kent Alterman.
Broad City follows two girls, played by Jacobson and Glazer, throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time. (see trailer below.) The series has been nominated for the ECNY’s Best Web Series award; Jacobson and Glazer also were nominated individually.
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Finally. Best web series ever.
This was a great web series (and a hell of a live show). Please don’t everyone be expecting it to be Lena Dunham 2.0, because it’s anything but that.
Love this show on HBO I think it is called Girls.
Awesome! I could’ve totally seen this on FX like Louie but COmedy Central is good about developing web series’
The dumpy,flawed,alcohol consuming, handsome, grandma panty wearing chicks and the beta males they mate with adventures continues. *yes, I wrote handsome*
I think it’s nice that the series got picked up, but what in your book constitutes a “hit” series on the internet. It looks to me like the series averages 10,000 views on you tube. That’s less than the video of my cousin getting hit in the face by a basketball at a stanford game.
Comments like your, Mr Roberts , are what give the Internet a bad rap. Didn’t your mother ever tell you that if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it!
Thought they were a better fit at FX with Louie, It’s Always Sunny, Wilfred, but I’m glad they’re getting on the air! The Girls comparisons will be plenty but I find these girls (and Amy’s incredible humor) to be a lot more real and innovative!
Awesome! Can’t wait
And this looks nothing like GIRLS, I hadn’t even thought of that until I read that one comment.