Kim Kardashian Inks First-Look Deal With 20th TV, Teams With Kenya Barris For Series Starring La La Anthony In Works At Hulu
EXCLUSIVE: A year and a half ago, Kim Kardashian landed her first major acting role in Season 12 of FX’s American Horror Story. Since then, she has been tapped to star in and produce a new drama series for Hulu, All’s Fair, and has driven two movie and one scripted TV series packages that sold in bidding wars. Now, Kardashian has signed a first-look deal with 20th Television, the studio behind AHS and All’s Fair, which will span drama, comedy and limited series.
For her first project under the multi-year pact, Group Chat, Kardashian has teamed with longtime close friend La La Anthony. The BMF cast member will headline the comedy, created by black-ish creator Kenya Barris based on Anthony’s bestseller The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness. Group Chat, which is in development for Hulu, is a co-production between 20th TV and BET Studios where Barris is a principal partner.
Kardashian and Anthony serve as executive producers. Barris executive produces through his Khalabo Ink Society, with the company’s Adam Kᴀssan also executive producing.
“I’m incredibly interested in telling stories that are personal, complicated, relevant, from my own experiences and those familiar to me,” Kardashian said. “I had a front row seat to working with the exceptional team at 20th Television during American Horror Story: Delicate, and I’m so excited to dive into developing my first wave of television projects with the team led by Karey Burke and Eric Schrier, and to continue working alongside Craig Erwich and his entire group at Hulu and Disney.”
At Hulu, Kardashian has All’s Fair, with FX’s Delicate also streaming on the platform. Both come from 20th TV-based uber producer Ryan Murphy. Additionally, reality juggernaut The Kardashians is in its fifth season on the Disney streamer.
“Kim is a multi-hyphenate in every sense of the word, who has her finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist while simultaneously helping to define it. Her success in television with our teams – from The Kardashians to American Horror Story: Delicate – coupled with her ability to capture the imaginations of millions, puts her in the unique position to develop and produce stories that will undoubtedly pierce the culture,” said Karey Burke, President of 20th Television, and Craig Erwich, President of Disney Television Group, in a joint statement.
The three packages involving Kardashian that sold in very compeтιтive situations this year include series Calabasas, executive produced by the SKIMS mogul and her Delicate co-star Emma Roberts, which landed at Netflix; and two movies, in which Kardashian is set to star in addition to producing, comedy The Fifth Wheel, also at Netflix, and unтιтled thriller at Amazon MGM Studios. She’s repped by WME.
Barris, the creator/executive producer of the black-ish franchise which spanned three series, is executive producing the acclaimed new BET+ series Diarra From Detroit, created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick. The prolific writer-producer-director’s recent credits also include series #blackAF, Entergalactic and The Vince Staples Show as well as movie You People — all for Netflix. He is repped by WME, Artists First and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Known for her role as LaKeisha on Starz’s hit Power, Anthony is a series regular on Starz’s BMF and recurs on Showtime’s The Chi. She recently starred alongside Melissa Joan Hart in the film The Bad Guardian. Her first book, the 2014 The Love Playbook, was followed by The Power Playbook the following year. Anthony is repped by WME, Unтιтled Entertainment and The Law Office of Renee Farrell.
