Real talk, NBC fucking loves Mike Schur. Like, they’re borderline obsessed with him.
The man who co-created both Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine – and who wrote a whole swag of early-season episodes of The Office, as well as starring in a bit part as Dwight Schrute‘s unique cousin Mose – is further entrenching himself as the network’s great comedic hope with yet another single-camera comedy with a stacked cast.
Schur successfully sold a series entitled The Good Place to NBC, who just went straight ahead and ordered the show straight-to-series, which is the TV production version of making it rain on someone.
Better still, the show has gone straight ahead and secured itself a cast that is already absolutely A+.
Deadline reports that perennial favourites Kristen Bell and Ted Danson are slated to head up the show, which will centre on Bell playing a young New Jersey woman named Eleanor who “comes to realise that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behaviour.“
Meanwhile, Danson will fill the role of Michael who “through an unlikely set of circumstances, comes to be Eleanor’s guide through her self-designed self-improvement course.”
Bell’s deal reportedly will not prevent her from fulfilling her commitments to House of Lies, which is close to wrapping its shooting schedule for season five. Danson, meanwhile, has a clear dance card for the time being, having wrapped filming on season two of CSI: Cyber a while back, and with the second season of Fargo aired to completion.
Srsly though. A sitcom from Mike Schur featuring Kristen Bell where Ted Danson is a whacky self-help guru? Couldn’t be keener.
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Source: Deadline.
