Mazel! TV Show Based on Andy Cohen's Life in Development at NBC

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You already cognize Young Rock. Now, get acceptable to conscionable young Andy Cohen.

The Watch What Happens Live big and Real Housewives enforcement shaper is bringing his puerility to beingness connected the tiny surface for the caller drama bid Most Talkative, which is presently successful improvement astatine NBC.

The series—inspired by his 2013 New York Times bestselling book of the aforesaid name—will travel a fictionalized 13-year-old Cohen increasing up successful St. Louis successful the 1980s, agelong earlier helium became the Bravo icon helium is today.

"He's gay, loves the Cardinals, his barroom mitzvah tutor is simply a stoner, and his soap opera-fueled imaginativeness makes him some the beingness of the enactment and the root of endless drama," reads the show's synopsis. "Most Talkative is simply a bid astir not fitting into immoderate 1 container and figuring retired however to physique your own."

Universal Television and Blumhouse Television are some currently attached to the project.

"I'm tickled to usage my puerility arsenic the jumping disconnected constituent for what I cognize volition beryllium a hilarious show," Cohen—who is simply a begetter to 3-year-old lad Benjamin and 4-month-old girl Lucy—said successful a statement, "and to enactment with an unthinkable team, including my pal Jason Blum and UTV."

Known for being the king of world TV—having produced unscripted specified shows arsenic Top Chef, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Million Dollar Listing franchise and more—Cohen is a comparative newbie erstwhile it comes to scripted television.

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Having appeared arsenic himself connected shows specified arsenic Riverdale and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Most Talkative marks the archetypal scripted bid the prima has officially developed.

Cohen volition enforcement nutrient the amusement with writers Gordon Greenberg and Michael Weiner, with Emmy victor Todd Holland also acceptable to enforcement nutrient and direct. Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold and Chris Dickie volition besides enforcement nutrient for Blumhouse Television.

(E!, NBC and Bravo are each portion of the NBCUniversal family.)

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