Foreign exchange Developing TV Version Of Web Series Broad City With Amy Poehler Creating

EXCLUSIVE: Foreign exchange has teamed with Amy Poehler to produce cult Web series Broad City to television. Poehler will executive produce the tv series adaptation on the internet comedy created by and starring Upright People Brigade alumnae Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Jacobson and Glazer are likely to write and star inside the half-hour Foreign exchange project, which has received a script commitment within the network. It concentrates on the Manhattan (and Brooklyn) misadventures of 20-something female close buddies, carried out by Jacobson and Glazer. UCB co-founder Poehler’s relationship with Jacobson and Glazer goes back for his or her days together within the famous improv theater. The Saturday Evening Live alumna is interested in Broad City and contains came out within it (see trailer below), which introduced to her fascination with while using show to television. Poeler, Jacobson and Glazer, all repped by WME, will executive produce the Foreign exchange project with Poehler’s manager, 3 Arts’ Dork Becky, and Jacobson and Glazer’s manager Samantha Saifer. Nancy Pimenthal is aboard as supervisory producer. Foreign exchange remains strongly developing a slate of offbeat comedies from it’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The League, Louie and Wilfred. Broad City would mark the network’s first comedy series with female leads and many types of-female designers. Four-time Emmy nominee Poehler, who stars on NBCs Parks and Entertainment, received the 2010 Variety Energy of Comedy Award a week ago.