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Joanna Quraishi Comedy About Woman Exploring Middle-Eastern Roots in Development at CBS

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Joanna Quraishi has a new project in the works. Variety reports that CBS is developing a comedy from the “Kevin Can Wait” scribe. Currently untitled, the series would center on a “millennial woman who sets off to get to know the Middle-Eastern culture and the family of her late father.”

In addition to penning the script, Quraishi will co-executive produce. Joining her behind the scenes are actresses, producers, and sisters Ashley and Jennifer Tisdale, known for “High School Musical,” and “The House Bunny,” respectively. They’ll EP via their Blondie Girl Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

“Part Timers,” “Weird Loners,” and “Swamp Talk with Shrek & Donkey” are among Quraishi’s other credits. One of her early gigs saw her working as a writers’ assistant at “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “It’s hard to name a single favorite experience, because there were many memorable ones, but probably the first time I got a joke into the monologue and heard the audience laugh at it,” she said of her time on the show. “It was the wildest thing, standing in the control room at the top of show and watching/hearing people react to something I’d thought was funny and pitched to the writers.”

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