“A Black Lady Sketch Show” star Quinta Brunson may soon have her own HBO Max show. According to Deadline, WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service has given a put pilot commitment to Brunson and Michelle Nader’s untitled workplace comedy. The duo wrote the project. Brunson will star, and Nader (“2 Broke Girls”) is serving as showrunner.
The show sees Brunson playing “an ambitious millennial flying up the ladder at a media startup company, who is unexpectedly tasked with running the newly hired, PR crisis-averting diversity team made up of green Internet newbies.”
Nader is executive producing with her producing partner Danielle Stokdyk (“Veronica Mars”), and Brunson’s co-executive producing. The comedy hails from Warner Bros. TV, where Nader is under a deal.
Brunson broke out with her viral 2014 web series, “The Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date.” “Since then, her original content has reached more than 1 billion people worldwide across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube,” the source notes. She toplined, penned, and produced the Facebook Watch series “Quinta vs. Everything,” and her screen credits include “Big Mouth,” “iZombie,” and “Single Parents.” She is one of “Black Lady Sketch Show’s” main quartet of stars, alongside creator Robin Thede, Ashley Nicole Black, and Gabrielle Dennis. The HBO sketch series has been renewed for a second season with a premiere TBD.
Nader ran and exec produced “2 Broke Girls,” which aired from 2011-2017 on CBS. She and Stokdyk are developing “Pretty,” a CBS comedy about a woman in a wheelchair who moves to LA to pursue her dreams. “Spin City,” “The King of Queens,” and “Kath & Kim” are among Nader’s other writing-producing credits.