‘SNL’ Veterans Seth Meyers, Michael O’Brien Unite for New NBC Sitcom

Late Night host Seth Meyers, former Saturday Night Live author Mike O’Brien and SNL creator Lorne Michaels are teaming as much as produce a half-hour pilot for NBC, Deadline reports.

The present, previously dubbed AP Bio, will deal with a “hilariously cynical Ivy League professor who loses out on his dream job and goes to work as a highschool biology instructor the place he imposes his unorthodox educating fashion and makes use of the children to plot out revenge on those that wronged him.” Meyers, O’Brien and Michaels will govt produce alongside Mike Shoemaker (Saturday Night Live) and Andrew Singer (30 Rock, Portlandia).

O’Brien joined SNL in 2009, working as a workers author and brief filmmaker; he turned a featured participant for the 2013-2014 season however rejoined the writing workers the next 12 months earlier than his departure. Meyers labored with O’Brien throughout the former’s prolonged tenure on the sketch present, from 2001 to 2014.

Michaels’ Broadway Video manufacturing firm additionally produces SNL, Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.