TBS is about to get pregnant! The network has sent the new Tracy Morgan single camera sitcom straight to series. The untitled series is being created and executive-produced by Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) and John Carcieri (Vice Principals). Morgan will also serve as executive producer, as will Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) and Joel Zadak of Principato Young (Key & Peele).
The show is a fish out of water show and will show Morgan as a convict released from jail after a 15-year stint. His character is shocked to see just how much the world has changed in his absence. He returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood to discover his former girlfriend married an affable, successful white man, who is helping raise his twin sons he never knew existed. Tracy wants nothing more than to connect with his kids, but has no money or means to support himself, so he falls back on earning skills he learned in prison to make ends meed.
TBS ordered 10 episodes of this single-camera comedy series, and is aiming to capture “rawness of Tracy’s stand-up persona while also commenting on race relations, the Gen X/Millennial gap and the American penal system.”
“Tracy and Jordan are two of today’s most sought-after and authentically funny comedians, and this show captures all the hilarity you would expect from this brilliant duo,” said Brett Weitz, executive vice president of programming for TBS. “TBS is becoming a home for the most creative and diverse comedy creators in the business, and Tracy and Jordan are a perfect fit for this network.”
