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[04/30/18 - 11:40 PM]
Development Update: Monday, April 30
Updates include: Dan Trachtenberg tapped to helm Amazon's "The Boys"; Jimmy Kimmel to voice "Man of the House" at ABC; and quartet cast in SundanceTV's "Unspeakable."

[03/30/18 - 11:29 PM]
Development Update: Friday, March 30
Updates include: Disney Channel pulls the plug on "Stuck in the Middle"; Amazon to bring "A League of Their Own" to the small screen; and CBS All Access rounds out cast of "$1."

[03/26/18 - 11:01 PM]
2018 ABC Program Development Guide - Comedy Series
ABC details its nine comedy projects under consideration for next season.

[03/12/18 - 11:25 PM]
Development Update: Monday, March 12
Updates include: Nina Dobrev to lead "Fam" at CBS; Robin Tunney to star in ABC's "The Fix"; and Rachelle Lefevre set to topline FOX's "Infamy."

[03/01/18 - 11:13 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, March 1
Updates include: Jim Belushi signs onto ABC's "Salvage"; Josh Helman books lead role on The CW's "The End of the World as We Know It"; and Alyson Hannigan cast in newly ordered pilot "Man of the House" at ABC.

[10/27/17 - 11:24 PM]
Development Update: Friday, October 27
Updates include: Lifetime taps leads for "The Simone Biles Story"; Bethany Joy Lenz is bound for ABC's "Grey's Anatomy"; and Kaley Cuoco launches production company at Warner Bros. Television.







MAN OF THE HOUSE (ABC)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
10/27/17 - 4/30/18
STATUS:
previously in development (2018-2019 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot
DESCRIPTION:
(from ABC's press release, March 2018) Inspired by writer Frank Pines' real life, this multi/single-camera hybrid family comedy centers on two recentlydivorced, very different, sisters who, against their better judgment, move in together to raise their collective kids - two girls and one boy - under one roof in the suburbs of Miami. Jessie (Alyson Hannigan) is a sensitive social worker and overprotective mom to teen football star Bradley, and happy-because-she's-in-denial preteen Blair. Jessie's sister Charli is a beautiful, overly-confident, take-no-prisoners mom who gets her way with everyone, except maybe her beautiful teenage mini-me of a daughter, Elena. Our story begins when Jessie's husband unexpectedly dumps her, and she moves her kids in with her sister Charli, but what no one expects is that Charli immediately decides to kick-out her own husband, creating a new blended family where, no matter how much they irritate each other, they love and need one another, and are all going to be better off. Sure, her whole life Charli has always been the "alpha" with Jessie (and with everyone else), and she's certain her ways of parenting (and doing everything, frankly) are superior, but the big secret is that softie Jessie is actually the rock of this family. These two sisters are going to lean on each other more than ever to raise these kids and, as Bradley oscillates between the hyper-male world of high school football and the hyper-female world at home, this group of women is going to teach him how to be a better man, whether he likes it or not.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Alyson Hannigan as Jessie
· Jake Short as Bradley
· Jenna Ortega as Elena
· Jimmy Kimmel as Bradley (Adult Voice)
· Leslie Bibb as Lexi (FKA Charli)
· Reece Caddell as Blair
CREW INFORMATION:
· Frank Pines as CRTR/EP
· Gail Berman as EP
· Joe Earley as EP
· Kerry Washington as EP
· Pilar Savone as EP
· Richie Keen as DIR (Pilot)
· Vijal Patel as CRTR/EP
GENRE(S):
· comedy (all)
· comedy (multi-camera)
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· ABC Studios
· Jackal Group, The
· Simpson Street