{"id":145326,"date":"2026-02-25T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145326\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:08:30","slug":"jake-johnson-to-play-private-eye-in-nbc-comedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145326\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Johnson to Play Private Eye in NBC Comedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNBC<\/a> has cast the lead role in another of its pilots \u2014\u00a0in this case tapping Jake Johnson<\/a> to lead a comedy about an L.A. private investigator.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson (New Girl, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) will star in the currently untitled show from Brooklyn Nine-Nine alumni Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici<\/a>. The pilot, produced by Universal Television, has also signed Akiva Schaffer (last year\u2019s The Naked Gun) to direct. <\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson\u2019s casting also continues a run of actors who had roles on Fox series in the 2010s leading NBC pilots this year. He joins his New Girl co-star Damon Wayans Jr.<\/a> (Puzzled), David Boreanaz<\/a> (The Rockford Files), Emily Deschanel<\/a> (an untitled criminal profiler drama), Peter Krause<\/a> (Protection) and Jane Lynch<\/a> (a comedy with Katey Sagal). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe logline for Goor and Del Tredici\u2019s single-camera comedy describes it as \u201ccontinuing the proud tradition of Los Angeles private eyes that began with Philip Marlowe and will end with this show.\u201d Johnson will play Mickey, a smart, cynical and heartbroken \u2014 but trying to pretend he\u2019s not \u2014\u00a0private investigator with a knack for the job. He was an LAPD officer until his life fell apart three years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoor and Del Tredici are writing the pilot and will executive produce alongside Schaffer. Johnson is a producer. <\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson next stars with Dakota Fanning in The Sun Never Sets from filmmaker Joe Swanberg, which is set to premiere at SXSW in March. He also has two Apple TV projects on tap for later this year \u2014 The Dink, a feature comedy about pickleball, and the series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. He is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC has cast the lead role in another of its pilots \u2014\u00a0in this case tapping Jake Johnson to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,60859,9473,9,24,63,60936,60937],"class_list":["post-145326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-jake-johnson","tag-nbc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tv-development","tag-tv-pilots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}