Disney continues to build the library for their coming streaming service. Disney+ is reportedly finalizing a deal for a comedy series titled Life and Deaf, starring and executive produced by Marlee Matlin, according to Deadline.
- Life and Deaf is a family comedy about a child in the ‘70s with deaf parents who has to act as their ears and mouthpiece.
- The series is based on Jack Jason, Matlin’s long-time interpreter, and comes from Lizzy Weiss, Patricia Heaton and David Hunt’s Four Boys Entertainment and CBS TV Studios
- Weiss, Matlin, Jason, Heaton, Hunt and Rebecca Stay of FourBoys will all executive produce the new series.
- Lfe and Deaf reunites Matlin and Weiss, who worked together on Switched at Birth, which ran for five seasons at ABC Family/Freeform.
- Matlin, an Academy Award winner, has also recently appeared in ABC’s Quantico and Fox’s Family Guy.
- This is the second series order for CBS TV Studios at Disney+, after Diary of a Female President.
More on Disney+:
- The service will offer two subscription options:
- Monthly at $6.99 per month
- Annually at $69.99
- Disney+ will be ad free at launch and at this time, Disney does not have plans to introduce ads in the future.
- Disney+ will feature content from The Walt Disney Company’s massive library including:
- Disney
- Pixar
- Marvel
- Star Wars
- National Geographic
- Disney Channel (Disney Junior)
- Disney+ will also feature new, original content developed by Disney for Disney+, including:
- Marvel
- WandaVision (available year two)
- The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (available year one)
- Loki (available year two)
- Star Wars
- The Mandalorian
- A Rogue One prequel series that will focus on Cassian Andor
- The revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Pixar
- Forky Asks a Question
- Lamp Life
- National Geographic
- The World According to Jeff Goldblum
- Magic of the Animal Kingdom
- Disney+ will also offer much, much more. To see a full rundown of everything we know so far, check out our recap.