{"id":66930,"date":"2025-08-08T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:58:07","slug":"rachel-bloom-stars-in-do-you-want-kids-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66930\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Bloom Stars In \u2018Do You Want Kids?\u2019 Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: ABC<\/a> has handed a pilot order to Do You Want Kids?, a single-camera comedy starring Rachel Bloom<\/a> in her return to broadcast TV after co-creating and headlining the CW\u2019s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Bloom co-wrote the pilot script for the 20th Television-produced Do You Want Kids with her husband, film and TV writer Dan Gregor<\/a>. The duo executive produce with Steven Levitan and Danielle Stokdyk of the 20th TV-based Levitan Productions.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tPrimetime-Panic<\/p>\n

Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks the first comedy pilot order \u2014 and second overall \u2014 at ABC this year. The project, which landed at ABC as a pitch<\/a> last October in competitive situation, was among the hot prospects this past spring<\/a>, when the network greenlighted its first pilot of 2025<\/a>, drama RJ Decker, and again this summer<\/a> as ABC brass were making \u201csecond cycle\u201d pickup decisions. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe ABC summer 2025 pilot buzz roster <\/a>also included the Scrubs reboot, which has since been ordered straight-to-series<\/a>; the potential Rookie spinoff, The Rookie North, which continues to look for a leading man; and comedy Mittens.<\/p>\n

\n\tABC has two new scripted series for 2025-26 so far \u2014 both IP extensions and both picked up straight-to-series \u2014 9-1-1: Nashville, which premieres in the fall, and Scrubs, set for midseason.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo You Want Kids? is about a husband and wife \u2014 played by Bloom \u2014 who in one universe have a baby and the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn real life, Bloom and Gregor are a married couple with a child. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks a reunion for Bloom with Levitan, Stokdyk and 20th TV; she played one of the leads in Levitan Hulu comedy series Reboot, which was produced by 20th TV.<\/p>\n

\n\tBloom won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her work on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She was recently cast in the upcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie, written by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by David Frankel. Bloom\u2019s one-woman stage show, Death, Let Me Do My Show, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award this year, was filmed for a Netflix special, which is now streaming. She is repped by Sugar23, WME, YMU Entertainment, and Ginsburg Daniel Kallis.<\/p>\n

\n\tGregor, who was a writer-producer on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and CBS\u2019 How I Met Your Mother, recently co-wrote the Naked Gun reboot for Paramount, starring Liam Neeson. He previously co-wrote the Emmy-winning Chip N\u2019 Dale Rescue Rangers live-action\/animated movie for Disney+ and co-wrote and directed SXSW selection Most Likely to Murder for Lionsgate and Hulu. Gregor is repped by UTA, Kaplan\/Perrone, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n

\n\tLevitan Productions also has Erin Foster\u2019s breakout hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This, which is returning for a second season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ABC has handed a pilot order to Do You Want Kids?, a single-camera comedy starring Rachel Bloom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1855,48934,48935,88,23387,48936],"class_list":{"0":"post-66930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-dan-gregor","10":"tag-do-you-want-kids","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-rachel-bloom","13":"tag-steve-levitan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930","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=66930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}