Jenn Lyon (Claws) has been forged because the lead of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC.
Underlining simply how tight the job market is post-peak TV with well-paying sequence common function alternatives few and much between, there have been six well-known actresses who examined for the half, I hear. Most of them have led sequence, films or Broadway productions, with main award winners within the midst.
Written by the Astrof siblings of their first collaboration, Stumble is a mockumentary in regards to the ridiculously excessive stakes aggressive world of junior school cheer.
Lyon will play Courteney Potter. Tied for the winningest coach in Junior Faculty Cheer historical past, Courteney has an enormous fall from grace when a “scandalous” video emerges of her partying together with her staff, forcing her to take a job teaching at a small crappy college in a city with an unpronounceable title. Can she win the championship with a rag tag staff of misfits? She will be able to. She should. She … won’t.
Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof govt produce alongside cheerleading coach Monica Aldama, identified for her look on the Netflix docuseries Cheer, and producer Dana Honor via her Defining Eve Productions. Jeff Blitz directs and govt produces the pilot solely. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, is the studio.
Finest identified for her function as Jennifer on TNT’s Claws reverse Niecy Nash, Lyon will subsequent seem within the upcoming Netflix restricted sequence Sirens, reverse Julianne Moore. Different TV credit embrace Blissful Face, Elsbeth, English Trainer, Useless Boy Detectives and Justified. Lyon’s Broadway credit embrace Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning The Coast of Utopia and Larry David’s Fish within the Darkish. She’s repped by SDB Companions, Talentworks, Principal Leisure LA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
