Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells making TV show out of barely remembered John Ritter flick Stay Tuned

Gad and Rannells—who became friends after starring together in The Book Of Mormon, but who’ve never done a film or TV project together—both issued “fun” joke-y statements about the news, which we now print here, unaltered, for you to mercilessly judge. Gad: “For over a decade Andrew and I have been the Laverne and Shirley of our generation (according to our mothers). It only makes sense to now do a TV series where we can literally do an episode as Laverne And Shirley (assuming the rights to those characters aren’t prohibitively expensive and that the algorithm rewards Laverne And Shirley viewership).” And Rannells: “Personally, Josh and I have always reminded me more of a Sam and Diane or at times a Cagney and Lacey, but either way, I am thrilled we are reuniting once again! This time with Akiva, Greg and Jordan, who seem even more unhinged than we are.”

(We’ll personally give Rannells the point—less labored—but it was a close-run match. Well-played to both teams)

Cahan previously worked with Rannells on Showtime series Black Monday. Neither of them, as far as we can tell, have any experience with turning popular actors into cartoon mice for what will later turn out to be way less of a movie’s run time than the trailer would like you to believe.