NBC Developing TV Pilot Based on Leslye Headland Play Assistance
Leslye Headland’s comedy Assistance, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, will make the leap from stage to screen with a new TV pilot deal, Deadline reports. NBC will develop the play—a darkly comic story about a naïve assistant and her monstrous boss—into a single-camera comedy, with Headland writing and Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, Owen Burke and Adam McKay producing. …