Will Forte Is Developing a MACGRUBER Series for Peacock, and More Shows Have Been Announced

We’ve got some new info from the upcoming NBC-owned streaming service, Peacock, about some of the new series that are headed to the streamer. They include MacGruber, a spin-off from the SNL skit and movie starring Will Forte; Clean Slate, starring and co-written by Laverne Cox and George Wallace; Expecting, a series executive-produced by The Office and The Mindy Project alum Mindy Kaling; Division One, a coming-of-age comedy co-written by Maggie Carey and Julie Brownell and executive produced by Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions; The Adventure Zone, an animated fantasy/comedy series, as well as an anthology drama series, with a first installment entitled Hatching Twitter, which “goes behind the meteoric rise of the tech company.”

Peacock has also previously announced the reboots of Queer As Folk, Punky Brewster, and Saved by the Bell. Deadline provides the following full descriptions of the new series. Check them out, and let us know what you’re most excited about! Peacock will launch this April.

The Adventure Zone

Based on the McElroy Family’s wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons podcast and #1 NY Times Bestselling graphic novel series—The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world.
Executive Producers: Clint McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy
Writer/Executive Producer: Adam Higgs

Clean Slate

Old school car wash owner, Henry, is thrilled that his estranged child is returning to Alabama after 17 years. However, Henry has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he thought was a son returns as the determined, proud, trans woman, Desiree.
Writer/Executive Producer: Dan Ewen
Writer/Executive Producer/Star: Laverne Cox
Writer/Producer/Star: George Wallace
Executive Producers: Norman Lear, Brent Miller
Producer: Paul Hilepo
Studio: Sony

Expecting

Ellie, a fiercely independent but perpetually single music manager, has always wanted a family but never found a man worthy of the role of “father.” That is, until her 39th birthday, when she decides to ask her gay best friend and co-worker, Jonathan, if he’ll be her sperm donor. When Jonathan surprises himself by saying “yes,” it sets off a chain of events that turn Ellie and Jonathan’s personal and professional lives upside down as they try to turn their “chosen family” into a biological family.
Writer/Executive Producer: Chris Schleicher
Executive Producers: Mindy Kaling, Howard Klein
Studio: Warner Bros.

Division One

Division One is a coming-of-age comedy about an underdog women’s collegiate soccer team that gets a new female coach – a former professional soccer player who’s fallen from grace – and must decide whether or not they’re going to take the risk of trying to be great.
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Maggie Carey
Writer/Executive Producer: Julia Brownell
Executive Producers: Amy Poehler (Paper Kite), Abby Wambach & Glennon Doyle, Kim Lessing (Paper Kite), Dave Becky & Tom Lassally (3Arts Entertainment)
Studio: Universal Television

Hatching Twitter

Through exclusive access and exhaustive investigative reporting, New York Times best-selling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Nick Bilton draws on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails to tell intimate true stories of companies behaving badly and technology gone awry. The first installment of this anthology series will be based on Bilton’s acclaimed book Hatching Twitter, a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles that accompanied the meteoric rise of the infamous tech company. 140 characters and a few lines of code changed the world, disrupting the very fabric of the way people communicate. This series will explore the real masterminds behind it all, how it was done, and the colossal ramifications the technology will have on our future.
Writer/Executive Producer: Nick Bilton
Executive Producer: Patrick Macmanus
Studio: UCP

MacGruber

After rotting in prison for over a decade, America’s ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber (Will Forte), Vicki, and Piper must race against time to defeat the forces of evil. Only to find that evil… may be lurking within.
Writer/Executive Producer/Star: Will Forte
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Jorma Taccone
Writer/Executive Producer: John Solomon
Executive Producers: Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, Andrew Singer & Erin David (Broadway Video)
Studio: Universal Television