Major US television networks have three new comedies in development, each located in retirement villages and aged care homes, according to AARP.
Veteran TV writer and producer Norman Lear (pictured), aged 95, has been taken up by NBC to produce a TV show titled ‘Guess Who Died’ to be staged in a retirement village.
(It took him seven years to get it accepted. He produced the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude – when he was aged in his 50s).
Lear told the New York Times that it was “a show about the elderly that nobody wants. ... I wrote it because we are so underrepresented."
CBS just bought 'Assisted Living', a 2018 sitcom from Nora Kirkpatrick (The Office), about a college student kicked off campus who moves to a retirement village and bonds with his elder roommate.
Fox also has a retirement village comedy pilot titled 'Cool Kids'.
