Just read the following online in the Toronto MetroNews:.
After a 16-year stint on the North American standup circuit, (Russell Peters) has won the attention of Warner Bros. television division, which has signed the comic to shoot a pilot for a new television sitcom.
Peters, who will play the lead in the show as well as being a creative consultant, can’t say much about the series except that it’s a workplace comedy produced by the team of Tom Werner (That ’70s Show, The Cosby Show), Jimmy Miller (Elf) and Eric Gold (the upcoming Get Smart film).
He can also confirm that the untitled project will be based around his brand of comedy, which draws largely on his South East Asian heritage.
The photo at the top depicts, from left, Joe Starr, Peters, and Traci Skene, at the most recent JFL. (Photo credit: Francine Starr)
When we worked in Montreal last January, the club was plastered with small posters heralding the upcoming appearance of Russell Peters. The flyers were a parody of an early James Bond film poster. The management was abuzz about his impending engagement… and his unerring ability to pack the joint– and deliver. Back in December of ’04, we posted about Peters and his involvement in a US tour of South Asian comics in which the promoter labelled the comic as “the best South Asian standup comic he has seen”
P.S.: Starr, btw, just finished shooting a small part in the upcoming Oliver Stone movie, “the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, the last two survivors extracted from Ground Zero and the rescuers who never gave up.” The project is so far untitled.