{"id":433823,"date":"2026-01-28T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:21:08","slug":"rachel-bloom-pete-gardner-reunion-set-in-do-you-want-kids-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433823\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Bloom & Pete Gardner Reunion Set In ‘Do You Want Kids?’ Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: ABC<\/a>\u2019s comedy pilot Do You Want Kids? is staging a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/a> reunion. Pete Gardner<\/a>, who was a regular on the CW comedy-drama, has been cast as a series regular in Do You Want Kids?, co-created and executive produced by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator, executive producer and star Rachel Bloom<\/a> and writer-producer Dan Gregor.<\/p>\n

\n\tGardner is joining the pilot, headlined by Bloom and Rory Scovel, in recasting. He is replacing Daniel Stern<\/a>, who had been originally set but exited days after he was charged<\/a> with a misdemeanor. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe single-camera Do You Want Kids?, from 20th Television, is about a married couple, Rosie (Bloom) and Alex Vasilescu (Scovel), who in one universe have a baby and in the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.<\/p>\n

\n\tGardner will be playing Freddy, the gruff patriarch of the Vasilescu family. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrent O\u2019Donnell is directing the pilot, co-written by the husband-and-wife team of Bloom and Gregor. The trio are executive producing with Steven Levitan and Danielle Stokdyk of 20th TV-based Levitan Productions and Jeff Morton.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to his role as Rebecca\u2019s (Bloom) boss on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Gardner did a multi-episode arc on the last season of Netflix\u2019s Never Have I Ever. He was recently featured in a supporting role in the film adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Gardner is repped by Ellis Talent Group and Seven Summits Pictures & Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ABC\u2019s comedy pilot Do You Want Kids? is staging a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend reunion. Pete Gardner, who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1855,205455,154652,48935,88,205456,23387,92],"class_list":["post-433823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-crazy-ex-girlfriend","tag-daniel-stern","tag-do-you-want-kids","tag-entertainment","tag-pete-gardner","tag-rachel-bloom","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}