IMDb TV expands originals slate with Primo from Michael Schur, Shea Serrano

New York Times best-selling author Shea Serrano

Amazon-owned AVoD service IMDb TV has commissioned the single-camera comedy, Primo (working title), from creator Shea Serrano and executive producer Michael Schur.

The half-hour project is produced by Amazon Studios and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and tells the story of Serrano’s life growing up in San Antonio. It will stream exclusively in the US and UK on IMDb TV.

Michael Schur

Serrano, a New York Times best-selling author behind books including The Rap Year Book, is executive producing alongside Schur, who is the creator behind NBC’s The Good Place.

Schur also co-created Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Peacock original Rutherford Falls, and was a writer-producer on the US version of The Office.

Other exec producers on the project are David Miner for California-based 3 Arts Entertainment and Morgan Sackett.

The series is described as a “heartwarming and highly entertaining coming-of-age comedy about a teenager balancing college aspirations, societal expectations and a hectic home life anchored by his single mom and five uncles.”

IMDb TV’s programming slate includes: upcoming court programme Judy Justice, set to premiere on November 1, as well as heist drama Leverage: Redemption; a spin-off of the police procedural Bosch; comedy series Sprung; home design series the Untitled Jeff Lewis Project; half-hour drama On Call from executive producer Dick Wolf; British spy thriller Alex Rider; and Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers.