EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Chenoweth, who is set to recur on NBC‘s upcoming single-camera cheerleading comedy series Stumble, is eyeing her own starring vehicle at the network. NBC has put in development a multi-camera comedy starring and executive produced by the Tony winner.
Written by Alissa Neubauer (Call Me Kat), the untitled sitcom centers on Mary (Chenoweth) who is required to complete community service as the director of a local church choir where she’ll be dragged kicking, screaming and singing toward redemption.
Kapital Entertainment and 3 Arts are producing; Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio. Chenoweth and Neubauer executive produce alongside Kapital’s Aaron Kaplan and 3 Arts’ Troy Zien and Michael Rotenberg. Tiffany Przybyla Wong is the creative executive for Kapital.
The pitch for the Kristin Chenoweth comedy was sold before she was cast in the Stumble pilot in May; the deal just took a long time to negotiate.
Chenoweth next returns to Broadway in The Queen of Versailles, reuniting with songwriter Stephen Schwartz for the first time since Wicked premiered in 2003. She’s starring and producing the musical, which is set to begin performances on October 8. Chenoweth was recently seen in Our Little Secret for Netflix opposite Lindsay Lohan, and also appeared in Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon!. She’s repped by UTA, JTMC Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams.
Most recently, Neubauer served as showrunner/executive producer for Season 2 of Fox’s Call Me Kat. Prior to that, she worked with Chuck Lorre Productions and Warner Bros. TV for 18 years, starting as a script coordinator on Two and a Half Men and rising to writer/co-producer. She went on to work on all 8 seasons of CBS‘ Mom, serving as co-executive producer for the final six seasons. She’s repped by Gersh and attorney Gretchen Rush at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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