Alanis Morissette’s life goes to be the inspiration for an ABC comedy.
The Disney-backed broadcast community has inked a script deal for Relatable, a single-camera comedy impressed by the household lifetime of the Grammy-winning “Jagged Little Capsule” singer-songwriter.
Relatable follows a 40-something girl, married with three children, who spent her younger grownup life as a world rock star, well-known for her self-penned anthems of feminine rage and teenage angst. Now the “voice of her technology,” although deeply bonded along with her household, can’t fairly get the subsequent technology dwelling in her home to take heed to her. ABC notes that Morissette’s life will inform the writing and tales, although all of the characters are fictional and non-biographical.
Morissette will function an exec producer and pen authentic music for the present. Elizabeth Beckwith (ABC’s The Goldbergs) and showrunner Christopher Moynihan (Man Up) co-created the pilot and can pen the script. Beckwith counts ABC’s Speechless amongst her TV credit and in addition penned parenting e book Elevating the Good Youngster By way of Guilt and Manipulation. Moynihan beforehand tailored Common function Evening Faculty as an NBC pilot that by no means moved ahead. He additionally counts NBC’s Marlon amongst his credit.
Relatable hails from Disney’s twentieth Tv, Thruline Leisure and Crush Music. Thruline’s Willie Mercer and Ron West exec produce alongside Crush Music’s Jonathan Daniel.
Morissette’s 1995 debut album “Jagged Little Capsule” marked its anniversary final yr with the singer-songwriter hitting the street this yr with rescheduled tour to have a good time the milestone that launched her profession. She launched her 10th studio album final yr. “Jagged Little Capsule” additionally impressed a Broadway musical that scored 15 Tony nominations and gained two. Morissette is also a decide on the Fox competitors collection Alter Ego.
