NBC’s ‘Carmichael Show’ Renewed for 13 Episodes

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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NBC has picked up a new season of The Carmichael Show for 13 episodes. The critically praised comedy is inspired by the life of stand-up Jerrod Carmichael; it follows Carmichael and his opinionated southern family as they reluctantly deal with modern-day America.

David Alan Grier and Loretta Devine play Carmichael’s parents.

The show was absent from an NBC schedule announcement earlier in the day, with Robert Greenblatt, NBC entertainment chairman, explaining that the network and studio were still negotiating the length of Carmichael’s season.

The Carmichael Show is co-produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television and Universal Television.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.