EXCLUSIVE: Comic Chris Estrada (This Idiot) is about to headline, co-write and govt produce Forklift, a single-camera warehouse comedy in improvement at NBC. Former prime Comedy Central executives Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau will govt produce for Good Stroll, the corporate they launched after leaving the cable community within the wake of the Viacom-CBS merger.
In Forklift, co-written by Estrada and Rick Cisario, Victor (Estrada), a forklift driver promoted to warehouse supervisor, finds that upward mobility comes with a price when his pals and colleagues go from viewing him as their brother to now being a part of “Huge Brother.”
The collection is impressed by real-life experiences by Estrada who was nonetheless working at his warehouse job when he obtained the decision that Hulu had taken his comedy collection This Idiot in for improvement.
Estrada and Cisario govt produce with Good Stroll’s Alterman and Babineau in addition to Jordan Tilzer. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, is the studio.
The sale of Forklift comes amidst a serious comeback for comedy collection constructed round standup comedians.
Touring comic Estrada, who has appeared on Comedy Central standup specials throughout Alterman and Babineau’s tenure there, beforehand co-created, govt produced and starred within the 2022 Hulu comedy collection This Idiot, which ran for 2 seasons. He lately visitor starred on the NBC/Common TV sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez; co-wrote and starred in fifth of July; and might be seen within the upcoming Neon characteristic Flawed Ladies reverse Kristen Stewart, Seth Rogen and Lakeith Stanfield. Estrada is repped by UTA, El Centro Administration and Yorn Levine.
Cisario is the author of the upcoming characteristic Previous Buddies with Brian Cox, Henry Winkler, Emma Roberts and Evan Rachel Wooden. His screenplay Supported is on the 2024 Blacklist’s Incapacity listing. He’s repped by Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes.
Good Stroll has a number of tasks within the works stemming from the corporate’s current first-look take care of FX in addition to gross sales at different studios and platforms. The corporate is repped by UTA and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewitt & Kole.
