Amy Poehler To Produce Comedy Central Pilot Based On ‘Broad City’ Web Series

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Comedy Central has given a pilot order to Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the comedy duo behind the urban-set web series Broad City. The pilot will be based on the Jacobson/Glazer web series and will star the two Upright Citizens Brigade alums. Broad City will be executive produced by Jacobson and Glazer, along with UCB co-founder Amy Poehler, Poehler’s manager, 3 Arts’ Dave Becky, and Jacobson and Glazer’s manager Samantha Saifer. Tony Hernandez is Co-Executive Producer. The project was originally set up at FX last fall. “Amy Poehler told me this would be a great show for us, and that’s good enough for me,” said Comedy Central’s head of original programming Kent Alterman.

Broad City follows two girls, played by Jacobson and Glazer, throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time. (see trailer below.) The series has been nominated for the ECNY’s Best Web Series award; Jacobson and Glazer also were nominated individually.

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