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 Wednesday June 24, 03:39 PM
Martin Lawrence producing family sitcoms
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Martin Lawrence is having a busy TV development season, with his production company fielding a couple of comedy projects.
At Fox, Lawrence is behind an animated comedy based on his experiences growing up in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.
At Starz, he has an interracial family show based on the comedy of stand-up comic Gary Owen, the only white man to host BET's "ComicView,"
Additionally, Lawrence is developing with Starz a family comedy set at a funeral home that is expected to be taken out to other networks. All are from his Runteldat banner.
The Fox project, which is being penned by Rodney Barnes, will follow the misadventures of 13-year-old Martin as he comes of age in D.C. Lawrence quickly connected with Barnes, who grew up in Maryland and was worked on "Everybody Hates Chris" and the animated "The Boondocks."
The interracial comedy project for Starz is about a white guy from a trailer park who marries a well-to-do black woman. It is inspired by Owen's real-life experience and stems from Runteldat's stand-up series for Starz, "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up," which has featured Owen.
(Editing by Dean Gooodman at Reuters)
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