At the beginning of the summer, “One Day at a Time” co-creator Gloria Calderon Kellett landed an overall deal with Sony TV. Alongside Netflix’s “One Day at a Time,” it affords Kellett and her production company, Big Girl Pants Pictures, the creative freedom to develop new projects. Deadline has reported that this two-year agreement has just made its first sale.
CBS has just secured the rights to Kellett’s newest project, “History of Them.” This multi-cam romantic comedy follows a multi-cultural couple as they develop their friendship into more. The story is “narrated by their future daughter, using the couple’s social media from present-day (Instagram/Twitter/Facebook) as a guide.”
Like “One Day at a Time,” this series will be semi-autobiographical and progressive in nature. It also “indicates an effort by the network to increase diversity” after its fall lineup was criticized for its lack of both women and people of color.
Kellett will write as well as executive produce. This is not the first time she has worked with CBS; she wrote various episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” and won an ALMA award for Season 3’s “How I Met Everyone Else.” Her previous credits include “Rules of Engagement,” “Devious Maids,” and “iZombie.”
Season 2 of “One Day at a Time” is currently in the works. Further details regarding “History of Them” have yet to be announced.
