EW: DIRECTV Orders First Original Comedy Series

[dfergie]

The entertainment network has picked up 10 episodes of original comedy Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on Tony-winner Peter Ackerman's (The Americans, Ice Age) critically acclaimed play of the same name, Midnight explores a variety of modern-day relationships through the conceit that nothing good happens after midnight. The series is set in L.A. and takes viewers on a 12-hour collision course that begins at dusk and explodes at dawn.

hollywoodreporter.com

 

[dfergie]

DirecTV has set the cast for its first original scripted comedy series, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight.

Based on Tony winner Peter Ackerman's (The Americans, Ice Age) critically acclaimed play of the same name, Midnight explores a variety of modern-day relationships through the conceit that nothing good happens after midnight. The series is set in Los Angeles and takes viewers on a 12-hour collision course that begins at dusk and explodes at dawn.

The series starts with Ben (Stephen Schneider, Broad City), a sweet, young Jewish professor of English at a university who is stunned when his girlfriend, Nancy (Collette Wolfe, Young Adult), makes an anti-Semitic remark during an intimate encounter in his office. Leo (Parker Young, Enlisted) and Phil (Jimmy Ouyang, Silicon Valley) play two 19-year-old sophomores who come up with a scheme to prank the university's dean (Keith David, Enlisted), only to have their plan foiled by security guard Dawn (Kerri Kenney, Reno 911). Grace (Alanna Ubach, See Dad Run) is in the middle of a late-night session with her therapist Mark (Eddie Kaye Thomas, American Pie), who has offered to set her up on a blind date with his brother, a man who is radically different than her past suitors.

hollywoodreporter.com

 

[ejb1980]

I assume this will air on Audience? What is "EW?"

 

[coolman302003]

I assume this will air on Audience? What is "EW?"

From the Hollywood Reporter article: "Production is underway in L.A. The series will air on DirecTV's Audience Network later this year and will be exec produced by Ackerman and Nick Hamm (Full Circle, Rogue) for Momentum TV."