Pete Davidson's getting a half-hour comedy series on Peacock.
that we ran yesterday? Well, today the streamer announced a new show that could very well make the list at some point in the future. Pete Davidson, one of the better parts of, a half-hour live action comedy that promises to be “a heightened, fictionalized version” of his real life. According to the press release, you can expect “grounded storytelling with absurd elements from the unfiltered and completely original worldview for which Pete is well known.
Despite being a live-action comedy that’ll run for 30 or so minutes an episode, the press release studiously avoids the word “sitcom.” Has that officially become a bad word in the modern age of streamers and prestige TV? Are the connotations of live studio audiences, laugh tracks, and blatantly artificial sets still too strong, even almost 20 years after the USOh hey, here’s a quote from that press release.
Tomfoolery aside, Davidson is legitimately funny in his Weekend Update appearances, has an enormous amount of hangdog charm in live sketches on the show, and although it was way too long, his moviewas largely an enjoyable and funny film built almost entirely on his weird combo of hipster dirtbaggery and extreme vulnerability. A show with that same tone could be really good. Maybe
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