ABC Nabs Rachel Bloom & Dan Gregor Comedy ‘Do You Want Kids?’ With Bloom Set To Star; Steve Levitan To EP
EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom is returning to broadcast with Do You Want Kids?, a comedy pitch that has landed at ABC for development in a competitive situation.
Bloom is set to star in the single-camera project, which she is writing with her husband, film and TV writer Dan Gregor. As Do You Want Kids? went to ABC, the half-hour will be produced by sibling 20th Television, with one of the top comedy producers on the studio’s roster, Steve Levitan, coming on board as an executive producer.
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Do You Want Kids? is about a husband and wife who in one universe have a baby and the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.
In real life, Bloom and Gregor are in the first universe; the married couple has a child. They executive produce the project alongside Levitan and Danielle Stokdyk via Levitan Productions.
This marks a reunion for Bloom with Levitan, Stokdyk and 20th TV; she played one of the leads in Levitan Hulu comedy series Reboot, which was produced by 20th TV.
Bloom won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her work on the CW’s comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which she co-created, executive produced and headlined. Her one-woman stage show, Death, Let Me Do My Show, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award this year, was filmed for a Netflix special, which is now streaming. Her recent acting credits also include Max’s series Julia as well as in the Netflix films Your Place or Mine and The School for Good and Evil. She is repped by Sugar23, WME, YMU Entertainment, and Ginsburg Daniel Kallis.
Gregor, who was a writer-producer on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as well as CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, recently co-wrote the upcoming Naked Gun reboot for Paramount, starring Liam Neeson. He previously co-wrote the Emmy-winning Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers live-action/animated movie for Disney+ and co-wrote and directed SXSW selection Most Likely to Murder for Lionsgate and Hulu. Gregor is repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Levitan Productions also has Erin Foster’s breakout hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This, which was recently renewed for a second season.
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