EXCLUSIVE: Punky Brewster duo Eugene Garcia-Cross and Robin Shorr have teamed up with Trendy Household star Ty Burrell on a brand new multi-camera comedy for ABC.
Deadline understands that the trio are growing Forgive and Forget for the Disney-owned community, a household comedy about Alzheimer’s.
The present, which comes from twentieth Tv, follows Ben Flemings, who, when his life-of-the-party father is recognized with Alzheimer’s, is pressured to absorb the one man he’s labored his complete life to not turn out to be.
Garcia-Cross will write with Shorr as showrunner. They are going to exec produce alongside Burrell through his Desert Whale Productions banner.
Garcia-Cross is a co-producer on Disney+’s reboot of The Santa Clause and beforehand labored on Punky Brewster for Peacock and Indebted for NBC. He was a member of the 2018 NBC Writers On The Verge Program.
Forgive and Neglect is impressed by his experiences of caring for a father or mother with Alzheimer’s and the present hopes to destigmatize a illness afflicting hundreds of thousands.
Shorr was most not too long ago a co-exec producer on Punky Brewster and was showrunner and exec producer of Disney+’s Diary of a Future President. Shorr additionally beforehand labored on Galavant, The Center and The Carmichael Present.
Burrell launched Desert Whale Productions in 2020 with an total deal at twentieth Tv. The corporate is specializing in growing and producing half-hour comedies from rising and underrepresented voices and beforehand developed Yours, Mine & Paul with Julia Meltzer at ABC.
Garcia-Cross is repped by APA, 3 Arts and lawyer Joe Weiner, Shorr is repped by Verve, 3 Arts and Bruce Gellman and Burrell is repped by CAA and Stone, Genow, Smelkinson, Binder & Christopher.
