NBC Buys Comedy From Broken Lizard Duo, Changes Australian Format Laid

NBC has boughtKept Males, a multi-camera comedy from authors-stars Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, people in the Broken Lizard comedy filmmaking group behind such movies as Super Military and Beerfest. Heffernan and Lemme will write the project, which notifies he story of two pals who become according to their unique partners after their business shuts lower. Furthermore they'll executive produce with 3 Arts. APA-repped Heffernan and UTA-repped Lemme just wrapped photography round the Babymakers with Olivia Munn and Paul Schneider. In addition, NBC is developing a U.S. version in the Australian black comedy series Laid, from BermanBraun. Ali Rushfield (Assist Me To Help You) will write the script for your project, which was brought to NBC and BermanBraun by Jeremy Fox and Kary Mchoul of Digital Rights Group. It concentrates on a girl whose ex-males/one-evening stands start dying under suspicious conditions, compelling her to create an analysis along with her roommate and continue to stay away from the murder spree. UTA-repped Rushfield, Lloyd Braun, Gail Berman and Gene Stein are executive creating. The first series, created by Marieke Sturdy and Kirsty Fisher, opened up on ABC1 in February. The format was repped by ICM.