Demi Lovato To Star In Food Issues Comedy From Hazy Mills At NBC – Deadline

Demi Lovato is returning to scripted tv in a meals points comedy that’s within the works at NBC.

Lovato, who received her break within the Disney Channel’s Camp Rock franchise and starred in Sonny with a Likelihood, is to star in and exec produce Hungry, which has acquired a put pilot dedication from NBC.

The only-camera comedy is being written and exec produced by Will & Grace author and Scorching In Cleveland creator Suzanne Martin. It comes from Hazy Mills and SB Projects in affiliation with Common Tv.

Hungry follows a bunch of mates who belong to a meals points group assist one another as they search for love, success and the proper factor within the fridge that’s going to make all of it higher.

Lovato, herself, appeared in a visitor position within the closing season of Will & Grace, her first position since visitor starring on Glee in 2013. The singer, who has battled bipolar dysfunction and habit, is the topic of a YouTube Originals doc collection Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Satan, which is able to premiere at SXSW.

Lovato and Martin will exec produce with Hazy Mills’ Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner and SB Tasks’ Scooter Braun, James Shin and Scott Manson.

That is the most recent collaboration between Martin and Hazy Mills, who’ve labored nearly completely since partnering on Scorching In Cleveland on TV Land. Their joint initiatives since embrace Scorching In Cleveland spinoff Soul Man, NBC comedy collection Crowded and NBC pilots Like Household in 2018 and final 12 months’s Jefferies, which was rolled to this cycle.

Hazy Mills additionally a number of different initiatives at the moment in growth at NBC, mild procedural Des & Lou, written by David Slack, Uncivil, a comedy from Roast Battle creator Rell Battle and Mideast Minute creator Pardis Parker, Speak Present The Sport Present with Man Branum and The Stratford, a reimagining of William Shakespeare’s world.

SB Tasks, whose boss Scooter Braun manages Lovato, is behind CBS drama Scorpion and FXX’s Dave has a first-look deal at Amazon Studios, the place it’s creating The Undesirables, with Ken Cheng and Arvin Chen.