Amazon Kills Plans for #MeToo Comedy
by EG
In a surprising move, Amazon has decided not to move forward with a new comedy created by Lee Daniels (Empire) and Whitney Cummings (2 Broke Girls). Along with its impressive pedigree, the proposed series boasted a big-name cast and promised to address extremely fashionable topics involving feminism and 21st-century social politics. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
Amazon has passed on Good People, its half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.
The pilot featured a high-profile cast that included Cummings, Lisa Kudrow, Martin Short and Greg Kinnear, Short already has lined up a new TV series — he is starring opposite Steve Martin in a serialized comedy co-created and executive produced by Martin and executive produced by Dan Fogelman. The hot project, which has a straight-to-series order at Hulu, comes from Fox 21 sibling 20th Century TV.
Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good People revolves around three generations of women working in the ombudsman’s office of a college that navigates the current cultural climate, the concept of feminism across different generations and the struggle to reconcile socially constructed ideas with current ethical views regarding complex issues such as sex, race, class and gender.
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