Freeform OKs Pilot for ‘Alone Together’

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Freeform, the Disney-owned cable channel, said it greenlit a pilot for a new comedy called Alone Together from The Lonely Island team of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer.

The show features two millennial misfits trying to make their way in Los Angeles and find themselves in a strictly platonic relationship. 

Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo will star, write and executive produce the pilot.

“This is a fiercely funny look at young adults who are unapologetically themselves while blazing their own paths, which fits nicely into the tradition already set by our current slate,” said Karey Burke, executive VP, programming and development at Freeform.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.