Damon Wayans & Damon Wayans Jr. To Headline Father/Son Comedy At CBS – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: In a dream sitcom pairing twenty years within the making, Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. are set to star in a father-son multi-camera comedy. CBS is creating the untitled mission, co-written by Wayans and former Final Man Standing government producer Kevin Hench.

The comedy revolves round legendary speak radio host and fortunately divorced “Poppa” (Wayans) who has to tug his grown son (Wayans Jr.), who has all his attraction and none of his drive, kicking and screaming into maturity earlier than he turns 40.  

Wayans, Hench and Wayans Jr. government produce. CBS Studios, the place Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Leisure has been primarily based since its launch, is the studio.

This marks Wayans’ return to community comedy after he co-created, government produced and starred in ABC’s My Spouse and Youngsters, which ran on ABC for 5 seasons from 2001-05. It’s on that multi-cam present that his son, Wayans Jr., made his TV appearing debut with a serious recurring function. He went on to star in single-camera comedies Comfortable Endings and New Woman earlier than headlining the CBS multi-camera sitcom Comfortable Collectively.

That CBS sitcom lasted a season nevertheless it gave followers a style of what the Wayanses’ onscreen father-son dynamic would appear like when Wayans visitor starred as Wayans Jr.’s father in an episode titled, “Like Father, Like Son.”

Wayans Jr., who additionally appeared on his father’s Showtime sketch comedy The Underground, was most lately seen within the movies Supercool, Cherry and Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar. He lately wrapped Netflix’s Gamers and is an government producer on the streamer’s upcoming drama sequence Glamorous.

Wayans is a four-time Emmy nominee who co-created and starred within the iconic sketch sequence, In Residing Colour. He most lately starred as Roger Murtaugh on Fox’s Deadly Weapon sequence and can subsequent be seen starring alongside Pam Grier in Tubi’s noir thriller Cinnamon.

Along with his prolonged stint as government producer on Tim Allen’s Final Man Standing, Hench co-created and government produced Cristela and Mr. Iglesias. He’s presently government producing Allen’s new Disney+ sequence The Santa Clauses.