We just discovered that the actress Tia Mowry has just landed in a new sitcom for Nick At Nite titled Instant Mom! This must be the show that she was working on when we heard that she dropped out of the BET sitcom The Game. Plus we heard that this has been in development for awhile and that her reps quietly wanted her to jump on this because of the show’s potential. We guess it happened just the way they planned.
Anyway, here is what Deadline is reporting;
EXCLUSIVE: Nickelodeon has ordered three multi-camera comedy pilots. Family comedy Instant Mom, which has Tia Mowry in negotiations to star, is for nighttime channel Nick at Nite that targets adult/adolescent viewers, while the superhero-themed The Thundermans and supernatural The Haunted Hathawaysare for the daytime children’s channel.
Instant Mom, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, was written by Warren Bell and Jessica Butler loosely based on their real life. It centers on a 25-year-old party girl (Mowry) who trades in Cosmos for carpools when she marries an older man with kids. Bell, Butler and Kaplan executive produce the project, which intends to cast an all-African American family. This marks Kaplan’s second pilot for Nick at Nite along with Wendell & Vinnie starring Jerry Trainor. It is three-year-old Kapital Entertainment’s 15th pilot. For Mowry, who toplines with her twin sister the Style reality series Tia & Tamera, this marks a return to scripted comedy. She recently left BET’s The Game where she co-starred for five seasons.
The Thundermans, written by Jed Springarn (Big Time Rush), centers on Phoebe Thunderman who just wants to be a normal teenager, but there’s a bit of a problem: she comes from a family of superheroes. And, while most superheroes are lucky to have one power, phoebe happens to have twelve.
The Haunted Hathaways, written by Robert Peacock (The Soul Man), is described as “The Brady Bunch meets Beetle Juice.” It is set in New Orleans and centers on the Hathaway siblings who discover a family of other worldly beings living in their new home.
