Colin Jost To Star As Dentist/Drug Kingpin In Drama Series At Peacock
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Jost is branching out to scripted collection. The Saturday Night Live veteran has teamed up with writer-producer Alex Barnow (The Goldbergs, Power: Origins) for a drama, which you have got landed at Peacock for growth.
Jost is government producing and connected to star within the untitled collection, from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, the place Jost and his No Notes Productions have an total deal.
The undertaking is not going to have an effect on Jost’s tenure on SNL the place he has been for greater than twenty years in varied roles, together with co-head author and most lately Weekend Update co-anchor alongside Michael Che since March 2014.
Should the Peacock collection get picked up and Jost select to proceed on SNLhe might do each, one thing else SNL forged members have carried out prior to now, together with Kenan Thompson, who performed the sketch program and his eponymous NBC sitcom, Aidy Bryant, who did SNL and Hulu’s Shrilland Cecily Strong (SNL and Schmigadoon!).
The untitled Larry Lavin/Colin Jost undertaking shall be written by Barnow based mostly on Season 1 of the Audacy podcast Wolves Among Us. By day, Larry Lavin (Jost) was a revered Ivy League dentist and household man – by evening, the East Coast’s most elusive cocaine kingpin. This collection is impressed by the stunning and absurd true story of the suburban dentist who constructed a drug empire behind the façade of the American dream.
Barnow, who serves as showrunner, government produces with Jost and Jeff Grosvenor of No Notes Productions and Rachel Kaplan (La Brea) of Absecon Entertainment. Lavin, Matt Davis and Steve Seidel function co-executive producers.
While the collection is designated as drama, it’s anticipated to have comedic components as each Jost and Barnow come from comedy background.
This would mark Jost’s primetime TV appearing debut; he has appeared in such comedy options as Staten Island Summer, which he additionally wrote, How To Be Single, Tom & Jerry, Coming 2 America and the upcoming The Breadwinnerin addition to the comedy-drama Fly Me To the Moon alongside his actress spouse Scarlett Johansson.
On SNL, Just has carried out appearing in occasional sketches and at the moment portrays Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He additionally hosts Pop Culture Jeopardy! which is about to maneuver to Netflix from Prime Video. Jost is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine Barnes.
Barnow, who most lately served as a consulting producer on the upcoming Starz drama collection Originsthe most recent offshoot within the energy universe, was beforehand government producer and showrunner on ABC’s longrunning comedy collection The Goldbergs. He created and government produced one other ABC comedy, Mr. Sunshine, starring Matthew Perry, and in addition labored on a slew of broadcast sitcoms. Barnow, who co-wrote the 2019 function Shaft and received his begin in tv on Family Guy, is repped by UTA, Amplified Entertainment, and HJTH.
