HBO Gives Go-Ahead to Reporter Comedy Pilot From Lorne Michaels

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - HBO is following up "The Newsroom" with another project revolving around the news media - but this time it's being played up for laughs. The network has greenlit a comedy pilot from "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" executive producer Lorne Michaels and former "Late Night" writers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin. The as-yet-untitled pilot is a half-hour buddy comedy following Bashir and Diallo, two 30-year-old reporters, as they try to make it big in the burgeoning black mecca of contemporary Atlanta, aka the New South. ...



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