How Nahnatchka Khan’s Fierce Baby Is Killing Its New Murder Kick as It Debuts ‘Laid,’ Sets Dark New Tony Hale Project and Supernatural Lesbian Comedy (EXCLUSIVE)
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Writer and director Nahnatchka Khan, who is best known for sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Don’t Trust the B—- In Apartment 23,” and NBC’s “Young Rock” with Dwayne Johnson, is celebrating the launch of her latest laugh, the Stephanie Hsu-led murder comedy “Laid” on Peacock, Thursday with the reveal of her next projects: two more dark comedies, one starring Tony Hale and the other based on the LGBTQ graphic novel “Fuck This Place.” Titled “Boy Next Door,” the in-the-works TV series is inspired by John Hinckley Jr’s release from prison into his misguided and controlling mother’s house, this dark comedy follows a man who made a huge mistake a long time ago and now just wants to live a normal, unremarkable second half of his life: get a regular job, meet a regular girl, learn how to take a selfie.
Per the project’s logline, “Boy Next Door” asks the question, are we defined by our worst possible moment? And also, how do you send the emojis that move in a text?
Written by Corey Nickerson, the show — which is not yet attached to a network or streaming platform — is produced by Khan’s film and TV production company Fierce Baby Productions (which has a first-look deal with with Universal Television) and CBS Productions with Hale executive producing.
Based on a graphic novel of the same name by Kyle Starks and Artyom Topilin, “Fuck This Place” follows “a pair of big city lesbians” that inherit a 500 acre dairy farm in the middle of nowhere and assume it’s the “first step towards a beautiful future.” “But when the farm is hiding more than one big supernatural secret, we’ll watch as Gabby and Trudy’s American dream becomes an American nightmare.
