AMC has opened writers’ rooms for two new potential series — one a comedy from Rashida Jones and another a drama from executive producers on “Better Call Saul” — the cable network announced Friday. Both projects will be considered for greenlights under the cabler’s “scripts-to-series” development model.
Jones’ project, with the working title “Kevin Can F*** Himself,” hails from creator Valerie Armstrong and explores the secret life of a woman we all grew up watching: the sitcom wife.
Here’s the potential series logline, per AMC: A beauty paired with a less attractive, dismissive, caveman-like husband who gets to be a jerk because she’s a nag and he’s “funny.” Our series looks to break television convention and ask what does the world look like through her eyes? Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera zaniness, the formats will be constantly informing one another as we ask what happens when this...
Jones’ project, with the working title “Kevin Can F*** Himself,” hails from creator Valerie Armstrong and explores the secret life of a woman we all grew up watching: the sitcom wife.
Here’s the potential series logline, per AMC: A beauty paired with a less attractive, dismissive, caveman-like husband who gets to be a jerk because she’s a nag and he’s “funny.” Our series looks to break television convention and ask what does the world look like through her eyes? Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera zaniness, the formats will be constantly informing one another as we ask what happens when this...
- 11/2/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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