
NBC’S Tina Fey-produced comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is making a major move.
The comedy will now move from NBC to Netflix, where the “Ellie Kemper” series has preemptively been renewed for a second season, the streaming service announced Friday. The comedy will debut in March 2015.
From Universal Television and “30 Rock” exec producers Fey and Robert Carlock, NBC picked up the comedy about a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York straight to series following a multiple-network bidding war.
NBC picked up 13 episodes and announced the comedy would premiere in the fall. The series, however, was left off the network’s fall slate and never received a time slot.
“When the opportunity arose for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock to premiere their new show on Netflix with a two-season commitment, we decided this was the best possible scenario to launch this captivating new series,” NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said.
Fey and Carlock, who co-wrote the spec script, will write, executive-produce and co-run the series. Fey also has a comedy set up at ABC with Matt Hubbard and Carlock to exec-produce. And the “30 Rock” alums came close to earning a series order at Fox for its straight-to-series comedy “Cabot College.”(SD-Agencies)Tina Fey
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