FX has ordered another female-centric comedy, Deadline reports. The cable network has bought a comedy based on Samantha Irby’s memoir “Meaty,” which was inspired by her blog, “Bitches Gotta Eat.” Irby created the series with “Inside Amy Schumer” head writer Jessi Klein and “Broad City” co-creator/star Abbi Jacobson. Irby, Klein, and Jacobson will executive produce, with Klein serving as showrunner.
“Meaty,” Deadline reports, “follows Irby through failed relationships, taco feasts, her struggles with Crohn’s disease, poverty, blackness, and body image.”
FX recently committed to taking major steps towards hiring people of color and women. The network reportedly felt it was necessary to diversify after a 2015 Variety article by Maureen Ryan called out FX and other networks for their overwhelmingly white and male directing rosters.
The news of “Meaty” comes not long after it was announced that FX was renewing Pamela Adlon’s “Better Things” for a second season after airing only two episodes. The series is based on Adlon’s experiences as a divorced single mother of three girls, and being a working actress in Hollywood without the glitz and glamour commonly associated with the job. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Better Things” has “drawn FX’s most female-driven audience ever.” The trio of talented, hilarious women behind “Meaty” will offer FX audiences another female protagonist, and this time a woman of color: We expect it will find similar success with FX audiences.