Peacock is charting a brand new path.
The streaming service introduced at this time the straight-to-series order of the streamer’s first grownup animated comedy In The Know.
Mike Decide (Beavis and Butt-Head, Silicon Valley, King of the Hill), Zach Woods (Silicon Valley, The Workplace), and Brandon Gardner will co-create and govt produce.
Decide and Woods will each star.
Alongside Decide, Greg Daniels (The Workplace) and Dustin Davis govt produce for Bandera Leisure.
The collection comes from studio Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, and govt producers Bandera Leisure.
“Lauren Caspian is NPR’s third hottest host,” the logline reveals.
“He’s a well-meaning, hypocritical nimrod, similar to you and me.”
“He’s additionally a cease movement puppet. Every episode follows the making of an episode of Lauren’s present Within the Know, by which Lauren conducts in-depth interviews with actual world human friends.”
“Lauren collaborates with a various crew of NPR employees. They’re additionally puppets and nimrods,” the logline continues.
“Within the Know will seize the conversations so many people have in our each day lives in a heightened, hilarious method” mentioned Lisa Katz, President Scripted Content material, NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming.
“We’re excited to be working with the perfect within the enterprise in Mike, Greg, Zach and Brandon, and our companions at Common Tv.”
“We’re thrilled to be engaged on this distinctive and creative collection with such an achieved group and might’t look forward to audiences to be Within the Know,” mentioned Erin Underhill, President, Common Tv.
Peacock’s growth slate has featured a wide range of totally different comedy initiatives, however coming into the grownup animation area marks a really totally different course for the service.
The service is dwelling to scripted reveals like Bel Air, One among Us Is Mendacity, A Pal of the Household, Killing It, and a lot extra.
Unscripted choices embody Under Deck Down Beneath, The Amber Ruffin Present, and Love Island.
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Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.
