TBS buys another comedy show produced by Conan O'Brien
Deadline reports that TBS has ordered a sitcom pilot from Conaco, Conan O’Brien’s production company, thus combining two of the only three things TBS cares about: multi-camera comedies and Conan O’Brien. (The third thing is Tyler Perry, and it’s too early to rule out his involvement.) Characterized as a “post-recession comedy”—because only through the astringent power of widespread unemployment have we learned how to truly laugh—the show will tell the story of a “charismatic twenty-something” who buys a small-town brewery in an effort to reinvigorate said small town. It’s like Sullivan & Son, except with a brewery instead of a bar. The pilot was written by Josh Heald, whose past credits include Hot Tub Time Machine. Heald has been working on this project with Conaco for some time; in an earlier incarnation, it was called Most Likely.