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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development F*ck I’m In My Twenties, a half-hour comedy project based on the Tumblr blog of 24-year-old Emma Koenig, which also has spawned a book. The project, from BermanBraun and Universal Television, chronicles a woman’s experience as a twentysomething living in the big city. It will reflect the reality 
today’s generation is facing post-graduation as does Koenig’s blog, which consists of hand-drawn musings (like the one on left) about the plight of today’s millennials. It has drawn comparisons to the TV show of another twentysomething female creator, Lena Dunham’s Girls. Koenig, repped by CAA, Circle Of Confusion and Hansen Jacobsen, will co-write the script with Jeff Lowell (Common Law). Lowell and BermanBraun’s Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein are executive producing. Koenig, a college graduate, started the blog while working odd jobs as she was trying to make it in New York, auditioning for a string of web series. Her book of the same name came out in August.
This is the second Tumblr blog by a twentysomething female writer to get a TV adaptation, joining Lauren Bachelis’ Hollywood Assistants blog, which inspired a comedy set up at CBS. Tumblr is proving to be as popular source material for broadcast comedy series this season as Twitter once was.
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I would say this is surprising, but this is the state of network comedy today. Network execs are like that desperate guy at a bar, chasing whatever they think is the next thing. Get back to the basics or give your job to people who have a clue. Or just blame all your poor ratings on DVR, even though Modern Family can still turn out a 4.9.
Countdown to “How does a blog get a script deal?? I have been trying to sell a pilot! for years!” comments in 3, 2, 1…
Happy to see young women being a bigger creative force in the TV industry! We still are SO behind in the women of color department, though.
Oh joy, more comedies, cuz the current ones are doing so great. Hey nets, us 40 somethings are bored with watching the 20 somethings flounder.
“the plight of today’s millennials”
Kill me now.
Want a movie deal? Write a book. Want a TV deal? Start a blog.
I must not be the right audience for these new shows being based on tumblr musings and secondhand jokes. Somebody give me a lobotomy so I can enjoy this new wave of “comedy” that is destined to come our way.
So, the networks are getting on the Lena Dunham bandwagon. Who will they copy next?
‘F*ck! I’m In My Twenties’…
‘F*ck! “F*ck!I’m In My Thirties’…
‘F*ck! F*ck!‘F*ck! I’m In My Forties’…
‘F*ck! F*ck!‘F*ck!F*ck! F*ck!‘F*ck!F*ck! F*CK!! I’m In My Fifties And Still Writing A Blog’… I’ve Got to Leave This Apartment!
Lowell’s hilarious. Look forward to this.
Why didn’t I put my blog about the same thing on Tumblr!!
Congrats though (said through gritted teeth)
And, of course, the sequel: “Oh Shit, I will soon be dead”.
The Lena effect.
It’s official. I’m leaving town. Nice to know you, folks.
Satan
This development season has done a great job of making women over thirty feel even older.
F*ck isn’t Jeff Lowell in his 50s? Leave it to NBC to try to capitalize on Girls (from the point of view of an out of touch older white male).
it’s not even a good blog! Can Anyone say Sh*t My Dad Says 2?
“about the plight of today’s millennials”
As a ‘millennial’ myself, let me just say — I’m sorry everyone else. This ‘plight’, as referenced here is simply embarrassing for me. Certainly there are some real, legitimate, problems that post grads face, but the little bitty trivial stuff like choosing between PBR or Simple TImes at Trader Joes, or eating microwavable dinners because mommy and daddy never taught you to cook, it’s just shameful, petty nonsense that the privileged 20 somethings face. They don’t have things like 6 figure student loan debts, broken down cars, or babies on the way; but they still want to complain nonetheless. Because when you’re entitled with no title, that’s what you do apparently. For previous generations these blog posts were just isolated vents that were contained to our echo chamber friends, as they should be. But now it goes up on a blog in forms of forced memes and unfunny witticisms, clicked to submit as the content creator twiddles her thumbs in anxiety, desperate for any ‘likes’, +1′s, and shares of approval. And look, that’s all well and good and maybe just a consequence of the culture we’re in; but executives please, PLEASE stop feeding this self-aggrandizement. You’re desperate, we get it. Comedy to execs now consists of ‘what other way can we get these goofy friends to live together’, oh! What if one of them has a baby, and another a party girl conflicted by her biggest kept secret — spoiler alert, she’s Mormon!!! Double points for timeliness, that’ll test well for those target demos!
And look, before you misinterpret what I’m saying, it’s this: don’t hate the player, hate the game. Millennials were told when we were very young how incredibly special each and everyone one of us was. Then we worked hard in high school because “you have to get good grades to go to a good college”, so we did. Then it turns out, college was easy as hell because you told us, “don’t major in what you think you’ll get a job in, because there are no jobs; just major in what you love.” So we did that too. And now, for most of my peers, here we are. No direction, no life skills, no jobs, and no clue why we did everything we were supposed to, and then come graduation time we weren’t handed anything but a heavy piece of parchment with old english text, and now apparently — script buys and development deals. It just reeks as desperation when the grown ups are looking to the kids growing up to tell them how to be funny; that may be the best joke of all. Too late, the cool kids are all going to cable and you’re long left behind. Enjoy the side splitting laughs that stories about the desperate plight of 20 year olds will bring to your network; I had no idea my parents would pay me to complain.
Sounds like you need a TV show….
Now this is a show I would watch. A “comedy” about the what happens when the “every one gets a trophy” generation meets the real world.
Emma is beautiful she’s gorgeous that’s why she got this deal. Her blog stinks it’s nothing but nonsense. Somehow she met the right people in person and her beauty propelled her upward. It’s a scientific fact it’s been researched and proven extensively if you are a beautiful person you will have much more success than an average looking person even if they are smarter than you are. Your good looks will elevate you in every field doesn’t matter what field but here in Hollywood it’s especially powerful and even more powerful if you don’t want to be in front of the camera, there everyone is beautiful and you are competing with thousands of pretty people for acting parts but if you want to be a writer it pays to be gorgeous.
Sounds like this was written by Emma herself.
Wow. There is someone whiter, luckier and less talented than Lena Dunham. Imagine that.
Cuz sh*t my dad says worked out so well….is tumblr an upgrade from Twitter?
Another zygote who thinks they have wisdom to impart. Have to agree with Louis CK who says this is the most worthless generation ever.
And I predict that if this show gets beyond the development stage the Parents Television Council will scream “BOYCOTT!!!!” and demand FCC action because NBC is using “the F-word” in the title of one of their shows, just like they did when “$#*! My Dad Says” was picked up by CBS.
I don’t like the title of this project. Not many folks would ever say the uncensored version of the title out loud, which would be bad for promoting the project and the weblog it is based upon.
Just read the blog from beginning to end hoping to connect. Where’s the wisdom???? Where’s the substance? Where’s the plight? REALIZATION: NBC BOUGHT THE TITLE. Which they can’t even use and will inevitably change to TWENTIES. Then they’ll realize they have nothing.