Ted Danson returning to comedy in new NBC show from Mike Schur, Kristen Bell comes too

In a move seen by no one who really cares, Ted Danson joined Mike Schur's new NBC comedy. And he'll also be joined by House of Pie -- sorry, Lies' -- Kristen Bell. Good Place, the show, was ordered straight to series with 13 episodes according to Deadline. Bell is said to be staying on with Showtime's dramedy House of Lies while Danson will definitely not be returning to CSI: Cyber. The summer series "centers on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Danson plays Michael, who, through an unlikely set of circumstances, comes to be Eleanor’s guide through her self-designed self-improvement course."

 

Mike Schur and Matt Hubbard are making an interracial comedy for the kind of interracial NBC

Interracial comedies are all the rage becoming almost as big as regular racial comedies as of late. Now, Parks & Rec's Mike Schur and Matt Hubbard have a commitment at NBC to create a family comedy focused on Andrew and Josie an interracial couple living in Missouri. Deadline reports the untitled single camera comedy is to be written by Hubbard while he will produce with Schur. This is the second new show for Schur who also got a straight to series order for The Good Place, a show that focuses on a woman struggling with what it means to be good.