CBS has handed a pilot order to ‘JumpStart,’ a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley penned the TV adaptation
is set in Philadelphia and follows Joe, a cop, his wife Marcy, a nurse, and Joe’s partner Crunchy. Joe and Marcy are young, hip, urban parents with old school values who are willing to sacrifice for their kids and have some laughs while doing it!.
Conley executive produces with Kaplan and Melanie Frankel of Kapital Entertainment, Trilling for TrillTV and Armstrong’s producer Bridget McMeel, who brought the property to Hollywood, for Andrews McMeel Entertainment. Armstrong co-executive produces. Jessie Abbott is Kapital’s creative executive on the project.
This marks the second comedy pilot at CBS, joining a father-son multi-camera sitcom starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr.for television in 2014 when the project, a single-camera comedy with a different writer, was set up at Fox. Armstrong, one of only a handful of Black syndicated cartoonists in the U.S., based the“Nearly every married couple I know is like Joe and Marcy, my main characters,” he said in a 1996 interview. “The image of young Blacks is so skewed, so false.
Andrews McMeel Entertainment is the entertainment division of Andrews McMeel Universal, the world’s largest independent syndicate, distributing content to more than 2,500 U.S. and 400 international news outlets. Comics, columns and puzzles AMU syndicates include The Far Side, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, “Dear Abby,” “Miss Manners” and the Universal Crossword., which was recently renewed for a sixth season.
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