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“AOK”
Everything is “AOK” for Johnny Galecki, who, according to Deadline, is back to work with the new workplace comedy. The sitcom star is reportedly working with “Will & Grace” executive produce John Quaintance, CBS, and Warner Bros. Television to bring the multi-camera half-hour comedy to life. Says Deadline, “AOK” is “set at an underdog Internet company in pre-AOL 1991” and follows “a group of young and mostly idealistic entrepreneurs who work together, hang out together, and fall in and out of love with each other, all while trying to change their world, and holding up a mirror to ours.” Galecki told the trade publication, “This specific period of time is personal to many, including all of us involved so it’s important to make the show feel as authentic as possible. We are excited to reimagine the 90’s sitcom through a modern lens as John has created something truly special. We hope to surprise people in a familiar place with characters you will fall in love with.” “AOK” is now in the script stages of development and marks Galecki’s first executive producing role since CBS’s short-lived “Living Biblically” in 2018, continuing the “Big Bang Theory” star’s long-standing relationship with the cabler. No cast or further creative team members are attached to the project at this point.
Untitled TNT Roswell Drama
There are new signs of intelligent life at TNT, where a new drama series is in the works. First reported by Deadline, History series “Project Blue Book” creator/executive producer David O’Leary and showrunner/E.P. Sean Jablonski are teaming back up for the currently untitled Roswell Drama, which, “following multiple timelines…explores the famous “Roswell Incident” — the U.S. government’s alleged cover-up of a crashed alien spacecraft in New Mexico in 1947—and the after-effects seen decades later.” The now-in-development series seems like an answer to the early cancellation of “Project Blue Book,” which ran two seasons on History and failed to find a new network despite a petition in support of its renewal. O’Leary and Jablonski will give it a second go with the new series, and should it make it past the initial development stages, “Blue Book” casting team Scot Boland and Victoria Burrows might find themselves back onboard, as well.
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