Alanis Morissette’s life goes to be the muse for an ABC comedy.
The Disney-backed broadcast community has inked a script deal for Relatable, a single-camera comedy impressed by the household lifetime of the Grammy-winning “Jagged Little Capsule” singer-songwriter.
Relatable follows a 40-something girl, married with three children, who spent her younger grownup life as a global rock star, well-known for her self-penned anthems of feminine rage and teenage angst. Now the “voice of her era,” although deeply bonded together with her household, can’t fairly get the following era dwelling in her home to hearken to her. ABC notes that Morissette’s life will inform the writing and tales, although all of the characters are fictional and non-biographical.
Morissette will function an exec producer and pen authentic music for the present. Elizabeth Beckwith (ABC’s The Goldbergs) and showrunner Christopher Moynihan (Man Up) co-created the pilot and can pen the script. Beckwith counts ABC’s Speechless amongst her TV credit and likewise penned parenting guide Elevating the Good Baby By way of Guilt and Manipulation. Moynihan beforehand tailored Common characteristic Night time College as an NBC pilot that by no means moved ahead. He additionally counts NBC’s Marlon amongst his credit.
Relatable hails from Disney’s twentieth Tv, Thruline Leisure and Crush Music. Thruline’s Willie Mercer and Ron West exec produce alongside Crush Music’s Jonathan Daniel.
Morissette’s 1995 debut album “Jagged Little Capsule” marked its anniversary final yr with the singer-songwriter hitting the street this yr with rescheduled tour to rejoice the milestone that launched her profession. She launched her 10th studio album final yr. “Jagged Little Capsule” additionally impressed a Broadway musical that scored 15 Tony nominations and gained two. Morissette is also a decide on the Fox competitors sequence Alter Ego.
