NBC Buys Family Comedy Project Created By John Legend

EXCLUSIVE: After extended discussions, NBC has closed an offer for Mixed Benefits, just one-camera comedy project executive created by singer-songwriter John Legend and former NBC executive Teri Weinberg. Take advantage of Pearlstein (Medium) will write and co-executive produce the comedy, which received interest from multiple systems before entering exclusive discussions with NBC, getting back Weinberg using the network where she offered as EVP under Ben Silverman. John Legend and Mike Jackson are executive creating though their Get Lifted Film Co. and Weinberg’s through her Yellow Brick Road banner. Universal Television will produce. Inspired by Jacksons childhood becoming an adult in suburban Philadelphia, Mixed Benefits focuses on a prominent, black, street-bred stylish-hop artist taking pleasure in his single existence who finds out he includes a teenage boy and decides for connecting with him and his whitened suburban family. The show explores the culture clash and also the complicated journey of the father and boy beginning their relationship because the father soon finds out that fame, talent, and wealth enable you to get nowhere if this involves raising a child. Pearlstein is writing feature comedy True North for Warner Bros with Imagine creating and Erectile dysfunction Helms mounted on star. He'll direct his original comedy script Someone Marry Craig in 2012. Before her stint NBC, Weinberg labored at then-upstart Reveille and created numerous series, including Ugly Betty and also the Tudors. She is constantly on the function as a co-executive producer around the Office. This marks the very first major foray into TV for Legend and Jackson’s Get Lifted Film and also the second high-profile comedy project at NBC this year which has a b-level singer attached like a producer. The network also offers a karaoke comedy within the works, that is executive created by Adam Levine. Mike Kasdan is mounted on direct the possibility pilot from the script by Gene Hong for 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment. Mixed Benefits was packed by CAA.