EXCLUSIVE: Final Evening Was a Film, the comedy collection being shopped by buzzy sketch group Nearly Friday, on which we first reported in August, is heading to FX for growth, sources inform Deadline.
Reps for FX declined to remark. We perceive that offers are nonetheless being sorted. As we beforehand reported, the challenge groups the creatives from Nearly Friday — together with Billy Langdon, Liam Cullagh, Chet Collins, Eilise Patton, and Will Angus — with BoulderLight Footage, whose J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules have been tapped to go up a brand new style label for Paramount beginning subsequent 12 months.
Plot particulars are beneath wraps however the present is described as a high-concept comedy. The challenge originated as an concept from the Weapons duo of Lifshitz and Margules, which they dropped at Nearly Friday. It’s anticipated that each one members of the Nearly Friday troupe will take part within the present as writers and producers, along with on-screen work, with creator credit score going to the group’s Tyler Falbo, ought to the challenge be greenlighted.
Benjamin Purdy, President of BoulderLight Tv, developed the present with Falbo, in addition to Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, the creators of Netflix’s Peabody Award-winning mockumentary American Vandal, who’re anticipated to function showrunners and government producers. A+E Studios and Vary Studios, during which A+E has a minority stake, will function the studio.
BoulderLight and Nearly Friday are repped by Vary. BoulderLight can be with Ziffren Brittenham. UTA reps Falbo, in addition to Cullagh, Collins, Patton and Angus. Cullagh can be with Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; Collins with Vary; Patton with Brillstein Leisure Companions and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Angus with Mosaic and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern.
