Sports activities actions Current Comedy ‘Sidelined’ In The Works At Amazon From Emily Heller, Megan Gailey & Two Shakes Leisur

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is rising a single-camera comedy set behind the scenes of a struggling nationwide sports activities actions current.

Sidelined comes from comedians Emily Heller and Megan Gailey and Two Shakes Entertainment, the manufacturing agency organize by Damon Wayans Jr. and Kameron Tarlow.

CBS Studios and Amazon Studios are producing.

The endeavor is centered throughout the current as they decide to shake points up by pairing an unknown, passionate female sports activities actions fan with an irrelevant, former skilled basketball “good man,” and what appears to be their very troublesome historic previous.

Heller is a writer/producer on HBO’s Barry

and has moreover labored on reveals equivalent to Search Celebration and Of us of Earth. She is beneath an complete deal at CBS Studios.

Gailey is a writer, actor, and slapstick comedian, who has carried out on Conan, had a half hour stand-up specific on Comedy Central and made an look on The Tonight Current. She has written on reveals equivalent to HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay and co-hosts a podcast the Lifetime Neighborhood’s I Love A Lifetime Movie.

Two Shakes is behind assortment equivalent to Kim Cattrall and Miss Benny’s Glamorous for Netflix. The company recently renewed its first-look handle CBS Studios by the use of May 2024. Its focus is taking characters who’re traditionally 4th, fifth and sixth on a reputation sheet and making them 1st, 2nd, and three^rd.

Heller and Gailey will write and produce with Wayans Jr. and Tarlow moreover exec producing.

Heller and Gailey are repped by Mosaic, WME, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. Two Shakes is repped by WME, Ziffren Brittenham and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.