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Amy Poehler producing FX comedy from UCBT performers
<p><iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nTxq1PSm6kM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><i>Deadline</i> November 22, 2011<br>
<u>FX Developing TV Version Of Web Series Broad City With Amy Poehler Producing</u><br>
by Nellie Andreeva</p>
<p>EXCLUSIVE: FX has teamed with <a href="http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/talent/view/2186">Amy Poehler</a> to bring cult Web series <i>Broad City</i> to television. Poehler will executive produce the TV series adaptation of the Web comedy created by and starring Upright Citizens Brigade alumnae <a href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/talent/view/8134">Abbi Jacobson</a> and <a href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/talent/view/8509">Ilana Glazer</a>. Jacobson and Glazer are set to write and star in the half-hour FX project, which has received a script commitment from the network. It centers on the Manhattan (and Brooklyn) misadventures of 20-something female best friends, played by Jacobson and Glazer. UCB co-founder Poehler's relationship with Jacobson and Glazer goes back to their days together at the famous improv theater. The <i>Saturday Night Live</i> alumna is a fan of <i>Broad City</i> and has appeared in it, which led to her interest in taking the show to television. Poehler, Jacobson and Glazer, all repped by WME, will executive produce the FX project with Poehler's manager, 3 Arts' Dave Becky, and Jacobson and Glazer's manager Samantha Saifer. Nancy Pimenthal is on board as supervising producer. FX has been aggressively building a slate of offbeat comedies with <i>It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia</i>, <i>The League</i>, <i>Louie</i> and <i>Wilfred</i>. <i>Broad City</i> would mark the network's first comedy series with female leads and all-female creators. Four-time Emmy nominee Poehler, who stars on NBC's <i>Parks and Recreation</i>, received the 2011 Variety Power of Comedy Award last weekend.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/fx-developing-tv-version-of-web-series-broad-city-with-amy-poehler-producing/">source</a>)</p>