Greg Daniels To Evolve British Comedy Friday Evening Dinner For NBC

EXCLUSIVE: After effectively adapting British place of work comedy Work for NBC, Greg Daniels is dealing with another half-hour British format for that network, this time around a household comedy. I hear that NBC has place in development a U.S. version from the United kingdom series Friday Evening Dinner with Daniels in the helm. It's unclear whether Daniels will write, co-write or supervise the writing from the adaptation for UMS. Produced by Robert Popper, Friday Evening Dinner, which first showed on Funnel 4 in Feb, focuses on the Goodmans, a conventional although not strictly observant Jewish family, and stories their Shabbat dinners. Every Friday evening, siblings Adam and Jonny unwillingly visit their parents — mother Jackie, who's enthusiastic about Masterchef, and father Martin, who likes to walk around shirtless — for any home-cooked meal. Contributing to the gallery of oddball figures is really a grandmother who struts her stuff inside a bikini and eccentric neighbor Jim who constantly interrupts dinner. Friday Evening Dinner, that has been restored by Funnel 4 for any second season, airs within the U.S. on BBC America. The show originates from Large Talk Prods, the United kingdom production company also behind another Funnel 4 comedy series that's being remade by NBC, Free Agents. NBC’s version, starring Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn, was acquired to series and launches this fall. Daniels is anticipated to executive produce Friday Evening Dinner together with his creating partner Howard Klein, Popper and Large Talk. The project falls underneath the new two-year overall deal Daniels lately signed with UMS. Additionally to developing and executive creating the Emmy-winning Work, WME-repped Daniels also co-produced and executive produces another NBC Thursday comedy series, Parks and Entertainment. Both shows are nominated for the best comedy series Emmys, making Daniels the very first comedy author-producer to possess two shows competing against one another for the reason that category since 1975, when James L. Brooks and Allan Burns were nominated forMary Tyler Moore and Rhoda. Furthermore, Daniels is nominated within the comedy writing category for penning Steve Carell’s farewell episode about the Office. This is a trailer for that British Friday Evening Dinner:

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