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A year after canceling gay-themed The New Normal after one season, NBC is teaming with Ellen DeGeneres for a lesbian-themed comedy.
The untitled Liz Feldman project centers on a lesbian and her straight male best friend who get pregnant just as he meets and marries the love of his life.
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Feldman (2 Broke Girls) will pen the script and executive produce the half-hour multicamera vehicle alongside DeGeneres and her Warner Bros. Television-based A Very Good Production banner president Jeff Kleeman.
The comedy marks the latest gay-themed vehicle at NBC, including this season's Thursday half-hour Sean Saves the World, which reunites Will & Grace star Sean Hayes with the network.
Last season's cancelations wiped out a score of gay characters on broadcast television. Among them: NBC's Smash, which featured several LGBT characters; Go On and ABC's Happy Endings, among others.
NBC Entertainment president Bob Greenblatt, who is openly gay, has a history of LGBT-themed programming dating back to his time at the head of Showtime, where he greenlit lesbian-themed The L Word as well as a U.S. adaptation of gay-themed Queer as Folk.
For her part, Feldman had a long-running vlog on lesbian-themed site AfterEllen.com.
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