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NBC has given the green light to a single-camera comedy from The Office developer/executive producer Greg Daniels starring The Office regular Craig Robinson and written by the show’s supervising producer Owen Ellickson. The untitled project centers on a talented musician (Robinson) with rough edges who adjusts to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school, where he encounters teacher politics and the temptations of single moms. The comedy hails from Universal TV, Daniels’ Deedle Dee Prods and 3 Arts Entertainment. Ellickson, Daniels, Deedle Dee’s Tracy Katsky and 3 Arts’ Howard Klein and Mark Schulman executive produce, with Robinson serving as producer. This marks the second pilot order at NBC for Daniels and his Deedle Dee, joining an untitled half-hour written by another Office writer, Robert Padnick. For a full list of broadcast network pilots, including casting information, and for all Deadline pilot season stories, go to our Pilot Panic page.
Robinson plays the likable Dunder-Mifflin warehouse manager Darryl Philbin on The Office, which he joined as a recurring in the first season and was promoted to regular in Season 4. Daniels is currently overseeing the ninth and final season of the Emmy-winning comedy.
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Congrats Craig and Owen!
Owen Ellickson is… Bringing it, bringing it! Swinging it, swinging it!
The plot outline sounds pretty similar to Steve Harvey’s old sitcom (except that was multi-cam). Presumably this will be edgier and, hopefully, it will also be funnier.
Well, Craig Robinson is a million times funnier than Steve Harvey. And that was a show that was very broad, and I feel like Robinson and Daniels might make something a bit more cerebral.
…and Greenblatt LOVES cerebral and niche, which is why their comedies are in the toilet by broadcast standards.
Yeah, because critics are just RAVING about the shows on CBS…
CBS has hits. NBC has a few critical darlings. Critics don’t pay the bills in broadcast television – viewers do. Greenblatt shined in premium cable where critical darlings like Girls can pull in 600K viewers and get rewarded with a third season. CBS is a comedy winner and these other fumbling (broadcast) networks should pay attention to them. New Girl on Fox is not a hit. Go On and 1600 Penn are not hits. For better or worse, Big Bang and Two Broke Girls are hits. Hits pay the bills, Zachary.
Way to go 3 Arts!
I’m sure that was sarcastic. 3 Arts are parasites and Howard Klein is loathed by everyone except his family. Wait, no… they loathe him too.
“A talented musician with rough edges who adjusts to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school”.
Didn’t we see this show a few years ago? Wasn’t it called “The Steve Harvey Show”? At least it was funny.
I’m his family. I like him a lot.