Monica Potter Comedy Produced By Ellen DeGeneres, Workplace Comedy From Jimmy Fallon Get NBC Pilot Orders

NBC has given pilot orders to comedies produced by top talk show hosts Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon. This brings NBC’s half-hour pilots to nine, including straight-to-series comedy Telenovela starring Eva Longoria.

The first project, an

untitled multi-camera from Warner Bros. TV and DeGeneres’ studio-based A Very Good Production, stars Parenthood‘s Monica Potter. The project, which had a pilot production commitment, was written by I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer. Loosely based on Potter’s life, it stars the actress as a woman who juggles her busy family life as well as her three ex-husbands, which proves to be difficult when she starts dating again. Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer executive produce with A Very Good Production’s DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman. Potter serves as producer.

A Very Good Prods. has upcoming NBC multi-camera family comedy series One Big Happy.

Single-camera comedy Sharing, from Universal TV and Fallon’s Eight Million Plus, is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Jeremy Bronson wrote the script based on a British concept by Damian Lanigan. Bronson is executive producing with Fallon and Rick Schwartz; Lanigan is a co-executive producer.

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