Deadline has reported that Grace Parra Janney and Josh Bycel (Solar Opposites) are developing a single-camera comedy for ABC that is inspired by Grace’s large Mexican-American family.
(Deadline, Courtesy of Matt Misisco, Jack Guy, Josh Bycel)
What’s Happening:
- Deadline has reported that Grace Parra Janney and Josh Bycel have teamed up with Eva Longoria and her production company for a new half-hour series on ABC.
- The series focuses on a Mexican-American family dealing with grief, identity, and reevaluating their roles after the death of the family’s patriarch.
- Janney and Bycel are both writer-producers on Hulu’s comedy series Solar Opposites, which centers around four aliens who escaped their home world and landed in America.
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