NBC orders Maya Rudolph Variety Pilot to Air as Primetime Special Post-Olympics

[DJdish]

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alumna Maya Rudolph is returning to NBC with a new variety series project produced by SNL honcho Lorne Michaels, this time in primetime. The network has ordered a pilot for a variety series headlined by Rudolph. I hear the plan is to air the pilot as a special after the Winter Olympics. Rudolph is executive producing with Michaels, Erin David and Dave Becky. The project has been in the works for several months. When NBC comedy series Up All Night, in which Rudolph co-starred with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, did not go forward with the planned multi-camera revamp in February, Rudolph, along with her co-stars, began fielding pilot offers. Rudolph didn’t entertain them, indicating to studios and networks that she was interested in doing a variety show instead

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/maya-rudolph-nbc-variety-series-lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live/

 

[mike123abc]

With the right show/lines she can be very funny. I hope it does well.