Feature helmer-scribe Bruce McCulloch ("Stealing Harvard") is jumping into network TV, developing a half-hour comedy for NBC.
McCulloch, a founding member of sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, will write and exec produce an untitled workplace laffer about a recent college grad trying to survive cubicle hell in the corporate offices of a coffee store chain.
DreamWorks and NBC Studios are producing for the Peacock, which has made a premium script commitment to the project.
While McCulloch is familiar to U.S. audiences through Comedy Central's airings of "Kids," scribe hasn't attempted a U.S. broadcast network skein before.
"I thought about it just as my movie career was starting to go," McCulloch told Daily Variety. "I did a pilot for HBO, but then did three features in six years. I've missed the fun of this thing, this pouring your brain out on the table every week and the reaction of a live audience."
On the feature front, UTA-repped McCulloch directed Molly Shannon in "Superstar" and the Jason Lee starrer "Stealing Harvard." He also wrote, directed and appeared in the 1998 indie laffer "Dog Park," which starred Janeane Garofalo and Luke Wilson.
While McCulloch is an admirer of workplace classic "Office Space," he said his script will differ from that pic in that most of his characters aren't old enough to be bitter. "It's all about these entry-level 'cubies,' " he said. "They're still trying to make it. They're not bored yet." (As reported by VARIETY)
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