We say it every other week. Streaming platforms, after their attempt to position themselves in the market with pedigree series, are increasingly interested in producing classic series, which do not require anything from the viewer other than relaxing on the couch. What is this week’s indicator? Netflix has commissioned a sitcom with a live audience from Chuck Lorre, the all-powerful creator of comedy series such as The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Two and a Half Men.
As is usual with Lorre, the screenwriter and executive producer has collaborators. This time she has teamed up with Susane McMartin, who already worked under her in the sitcom with Charlie Sheen and in Mom, and the comedian Leanne Morgan: both are creators with him and Morgan will also be the protagonist of the fiction.
Morgan is a sensation in the world of comedy: she was a jewelry seller and, after amusing her clients with jokes in their dining rooms, she embarked on a new career as a comedian after turning fifty. After her monologue went viral on YouTube, Netflix took over her special for the content platform.
In the sitcom, Morgan will play a fictionalized version of herself: a mother of three who, after her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman, tries to start over. But she did not expect to find herself at this point already a grandmother and entering menopause.
It will not be the first time that Lorre works under Netflix. Taking advantage of the fact that the content platform did not ask for the same things as free-to-air television, he wrote The Kominsky Method with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin. He also made Descolocados, a stoner comedy with Kathy Bates, which followed a more conventional sitcom mold. Of course, the series with Morgan will be his first sitcom with a live audience for Netflix, where this format has been explored through content such as Madres forcedas, The ranch or Día a día.
For now, there is confidence in the project: the streaming service has ordered a first season of 16 episodes.
