EXCLUSIVE: Rob Corddry is set as a lead opposite Terry Crews and Ryan Michelle Bathé in 'JumpStart,' CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip, from Kapital Entertainment, TrillTV and CBS Studios
, whose pilot was written by Wayne Conley and will be directed by Phill Lewis, is set in Philadelphia and follows Joseph L. Cobb , a cop, his wife Marcy , a nurse, and Joe’s partner Crunchy .In addition to being Joe’s police partner, Crunchy is his best friend. They’re so inseparable the Cobb children call him “ Uncle Crunchy”. Marcy calls him Joe’s “ hubby”. Crunchy was “woke” long before the word was a thing. He knows when to be serious and when to be seriously funny.
Turman plays Joe’s “Pop” Frank, who is retired from the force now, but still has more “ street cred” than his son. Even cons and ex-cons that Frank once arrested still respect and admire him. He gets Christmas cards from one of them! Frank knows he’s set a very high bar for Joe, and believes that someday Joe will surpass it… but probably not today.
JumpStart reunites Corddry with Kapital and CBS/CBS Studios; he was a series regular on the network’s 2019 comedy series, which ran for two seasons. This also marks a reunion for Turman and Kapital following the actor’s role as Emmett Till’s great-uncle Mose Wright in the company’s ABC limited seriesBlack Cake.with Crews, Kaplan and Melanie Frankel of Kapital Entertainment, Trilling for TrillTV, Andrews McMeel Entertainment’s Bridget McMeel and Troy Zien.
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