EXCLUSIVE: CBS is growing Zarna, a multi-camera comedy starring humorist Zarna Garg. The undertaking, which drew curiosity from a number of networks, comes from The Big C creator Darlene Hunt, Mindy Kaling’s Kaling International, Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and Warner Bros. Television, the place Kaling International is under an overall deal.
In Zarna, written by Garg and Hunt, Zarna (Garg) is a proud immigrant lady who’s been elevating her American-born youngsters on Indian values. But now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to deal with her personal American dream.
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The story displays Garg’s personal story. She immigrated from her native India to the U.S. as a youngster and, after getting BA and JD levels, spent 16 years as a stay-at-home mother earlier than her kids inspired her to attempt stand-up, launching her comedy profession.
Zarna’s expertise attracts parallels to that of Leanne Morgan, who additionally launched into a stand-up profession after elevating a household and now is headlining a multi-cam comedy from one other veteran comedy writer-producer, Chuck Lorre, at Netflix.
Hunt, who serves as showrunner, and Garg govt produce Zarna with Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott by way of Kaling International; Howard Klein by way of 3 Arts; in addition to Hart, Bryan Smiley and Mike Stein by way of Hartbeat.
Garg’s relationship with Hart dates again to 2021, when she received his comedy competitors Lyft Comics on Peacock.
Meanwhile, Garg wrote on social media in May about assembly Kaling for the primary time. (You can see the publish under.) Garg, who was with her daughter, should have made an impression as, simply 4 months later, a undertaking she and Kaling teamed up on has bought to a community.
At CBS, Warner Bros. TV has had a string of comedy sequence from Lorre, the newest being the upcoming Young Sheldon spinoff Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. Figuring a drama enterprise template between the 2 corporations has confirmed more difficult, with a Cold Case reboot the newest undertaking that didn’t make it previous the deal-making stage.
Garg was featured in the 2022 Apple TV+ sequence Gutsy, hosted by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. Her debut comedy particular, Zarna Garg: One in a Billion, debuted on Prime Video final yr.
The Indian immigrant expertise is usually mirrored in Kaling’s work, most notably on her Netflix sequence Never Have I Ever.
Hunt just lately developed and govt produced the Fox comedy sequence Call Me Kat, which was based mostly on a British format.
Mindy provides us hope that certainly one of us can obtain at *that* excessive stage.
I joke about by no means ever permitting my youngsters to change into writers as a result of there aren't any jobs in writing, particularly for Indians. When they push again and level to ‘data’ to make their case, inevitably they listing the… pic.twitter.com/bydSSn0EVd
— Zarna Garg (@ZarnaGarg) May 13, 2024
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