Developing a sitcom for the BBC (working title: Sharp Cuts).
What next: Currently writing a sitcom for the BBC.
Louis C. K. had been offered seven figures to develop a sitcom for a major network.
It's a British and American co-production that mostly makes fun of American television: a satirical and quite funny comedy about two British television writers, a husband- and wife team, Sean and Beverly Lincoln Stephen Mangann and Tamsin Greig) who are lured to Hollywood to adapt their hit sitcom for an American network.
8 P.M. (HBO) EXPORTING RAYMOND (2011) Phil Rosenthal, the creator of "Everybody Loves Raymond," chronicles his frustrations of adapting his sitcom for Russian television.
Now Huang's memoir, a coming-of-age story titled "Fresh Off the Boat," has been adapted into a sitcom, which will première next month on ABC.
"The Best of Enemies" is perhaps the first account of the United States's traumatic racial history that could be adapted into a sitcom.
This fall the format is coming home, being adapted for a family sitcom for the first time.
Sure enough, by the end of the first season of "Episodes," the drinking, swearing, womanizing – and, we emphasize, fictional – Mr. LeBlanc had landed in bed with the female half of a husband-and-wife creative team that was supposed to be adapting their hit British sitcom for him.
ABC also gave the conceit a try in 2009, recruiting Cheryl Hines and Megan Mullally for "In the Motherhood," a sitcom adapted from popular Webisodes based on real mothers' experiences.
That idea is almost as improbable as the notion that a comedy adapted from a British sitcom and initially poised for oblivion (after NBC's screening of the pilot, it was headed for exile on Bravo, one executive related) would become a bellwether of many of the changes that have overtaken television today.
