{"id":9156,"date":"2018-11-30T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/comedy-central-orders-scripted-series-awkwafina\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:50:33","slug":"comedy-central-orders-scripted-series-from-awkwafina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/comedy-central-orders-scripted-series-from-awkwafina\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central Orders Scripted Series from Awkwafina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy Central is working with writer, actor and rapper Awkwafina (<em>Ocean&#8217;s 8<\/em>, <em>Crazy Rich Asians<\/em>) on a ten-episode series.<\/p>\n<p>The half-hour self-titled series will feature Awkwafina as a twenty-something living in Queens, striving for a larger-than-life existence while living with her father and grandmother. Awkwafina, Karey Dornetto (<em>SMILF<\/em>, <em>Portlandia<\/em>) and Teresa Hsiao (<em>Family Guy<\/em>, <em>American Dad<\/em>) wrote the pilot directed by Lucia Aniello (<em>Broad City<\/em>, <em>Rough Night<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been watching Comedy Central since I was old enough to hold a remote, and so many of their shows have defined who I am today,&#8221; said Awkwafina. &#8220;I am so honored to be given their platform to tell the story of an Asian American girl against the backdrop of the city I was raised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a special project. Inspired by Awkwafina&#8217;s formative years in Queens, the show is both a personal look into one of comedy&#8217;s brightest stars and also a relatable, funny profile of a young hustler&#8217;s struggle,&#8221; said Sarah Babineau and Jonas Larsen, executive VPs and co-heads of talent and development for Comedy Central. &#8220;We&#8217;re happy to be used as a pawn in Awkwafina&#8217;s elaborate EGOT endgame.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy Central is working with writer, actor and rapper Awkwafina (Ocean&#8217;s 8, Crazy Rich Asians) on a ten-episode series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1985,135],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-awkwafina","tag-comedy-central"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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