CBS picks up a comedy from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt team
Determined not to miss out on all the critical praise and fancy Emmy nominations that went zooming over to Netflix the last time a network passed on a comedy from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt producers Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Jack Burditt, the major networks recently engaged in a competitive bidding war for an as-yet-untitled new show from the team. According to Deadline, CBS eventually emerged the victor, securing the rights to the multi-camera sitcom, which apparently centers on an athlete who “drives family, friends and strangers bonkers after he unexpectedly finds himself retired.” (“Bonkers” is presumably a clinical term that means “Starts a sentence in a normal way, before suddenly veering off into a pretty great joke, maybe about hasbrowns or paninis.”)