Following the vast critical and audience success of the first Tina Fey show, "30 Rock," now network ABC has added her latest project, the pilot to "Family Fortune" for a run, just as her new show is about to premiere in the online streaming site Right now, it seems ABC will be all about comedies, as the new Tina Fey show (which will feature more people from her previous series, "30 Rock") is only one in a total of three series of the kind that the network has just chosen for its upcoming season.
According to Deadline, the new Tina Fey show will be called "Family Fortune," and it will be reuniting some of the people from the "Cabbot College" team, including Matt Hubbard, Fey, Robert Carlock and Fortune Feimster, who will be playing the lead character in the show, based on Feimster's family life as a North Carolina native who comes out of the closet to his close family and friends.
As Paste Magazine reports, the new Tina Fey show will center on Feimster's character, based on her family life and further stand-up comedy. The writing team will be Hubbard and Feimster, with Carlock and Fey working behind the scenes as executive producers, just as they worked on the Fox comedy from last year.
Spinoff reports that other comedy shows that will be starting on ABC in the upcoming season will be "Uncle Buck," a remake of the 1989 John Hughes film that starred John Candy as a bachelor taking care of his nephews, from MADtv writers Brian Bradley and Steven Cragg - the cast contains names such as Macaulay Culkin.
Another show that has just been picked up is a Johnny Knoxville autobiographical comedy about his time as a teenager, though he's also working on several other pitches.
While audiences wait for the new Tina Fey show, they can catch her Netflix show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," on Netflix since March 6, where she also works with Carlock.
