Hulu is passing on its previously announced comedy pilot Group Chat, but La La Anthony and Kim Kardashian are already back at the streamer with a fresh project. The new untitled half-hour comedy comes from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver, who is both writing and executive producing, while Anthony and Kardashian also serve as executive producers. Anthony is expected to star.
The series follows the Bay Area’s top crisis manager for professional athletes—potentially Oliver’s character—whose life is thrown into turmoil when her husband becomes embroiled in scandal. Leaning on the three women who have supported her through every stage of her life, she navigates dating, ambition, motherhood, and the chaotic glamour of starting over.
20th Television, where Kardashian holds a first-look deal, is producing the project. The previous Hulu project in the works, Group Chat, was loosely inspired by Anthony’s bestselling book The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness and centered on six successful women in their forties in Los Angeles. Anthony starred alongside Yaya DaCosta, Melanie Liburd, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and Stephanie Suganami. While Group Chat promised a satirical look at friendship and ambition, Hulu ultimately decided not to move forward.
Oliver brings an impressive track record to the new pilot. She wrote Girls Trip, Little, The Sun Is Also a Star, and The Blackening, and created the series First Wives Club and Harlem. Upcoming projects include sequels to Girls Trip and The Blackening, Netflix’s The Wedding Date, and Deck The Y’Alls, starring Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.
With Tracy Oliver at the helm, and Anthony and Kardashian producing, Hulu’s new comedy promises a smart, funny, and heartfelt look at friendship, ambition, and life under the spotlight.