Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero Dating With Comedy ‘Buffalo Tens’ in the Works at Fox

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo Tena single-camera comedy, written, executive-produced and potentially starring Another period creators Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero, was created at Fox for development. Lindhome and Leggero produce the project with their colleagues Another period executive producer Debblie Liebling and James Lassiter. Lindhome and Leggero are expected to star in the comedy, produced by Fox Entertainment, if it is picked up to series. (Under its modified development model, Fox often skips the pilot stage and moves from scripted to series for drama and comedy.)

In Dozens of buffaloes, When two brash forty-something matchmakers (Lindhome, Leggero) in Buffalo, New York, are unexpectedly dumped by their husbands, they are forced to put their dating regime to the test. tried and true” – the Ten Commandments of Buffalo –. As they find themselves back on the dating scene for the first time in 20 years, they’ll realize that the outdated methods they’ve been recommending to their clients won’t help them at all, and they may have to revisit question everything they know about dating, relationships and love. . But the journey will be long for these two characters who avoid introspection like the plague.

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Lindhome and Leggero created, wrote, produced and starred in Another period, which ran for three seasons on Comedy Central.

Lindhome is also one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates and co-created their self-tiled show on IFC. She has written songs for animated films, including LEGO 2, The Addams Family And The SpongeBob Movie and television shows, including Waffles and Mochi, Duncanville And The Big Bang Theory. His acting credits include At Knives Out, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Under the Silver Lake, just kidding And Brooklyn 99. We will next see her in the Tim Burton film Wednesday on Netflix. Lindhome is replaced by 3 Arts and Ginsburg Daniels.

Leggero will next be seen on the big screen in Fox’s MarVista and paper kites First time director alongside Chelsea Peretti. On television, she recently appeared in Broken on CBS, as well as Modern Family, Key and Peele And Comedy Bang Bang. Most recently, Leggero completed work on his book The world deserves my childrena collection of essays about motherhood in our post-apocalyptic world, to be published by Gallery Books on November 15. Leggero is repped by CAA, Artists First and Shreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

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