Finally! HBO orders a pilot from Issa Rae
theGrio REPORT - Issa Rae has at last landed an HBO pilot for her awkward-black-girl comedy Insecure -after working with the network on the project since 2013.
Issa Rae has at last landed an HBO pilot for her awkward-black-girl comedy Insecure –after working with the network on the project since 2013.
Deadline describes the series:
Insecure focuses on the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern day African-American woman. These are also themes Rae has tackled in her successful webseries, The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl, which won a Shorty Award.
Previously, Rae had run into some troubles with television executives when she first floated the idea of her series.
She shares:
After meeting with a couple different executives in television, and seeing our visions don’t really align, I don’t want to sell my life to it now. In one meeting, during the first ten seconds, this guy said, ‘The show is pretty funny. This is about a typical black woman with her black women problems.’ And then said big names were necessary to make it to television. Everything we were against, he was for.
Now, however, Rae has penned a pilot with her executive producer Larry Wilmore. Wilmore recently made headlines himself due to his new gig as the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show.
Both Rae and Wilmore have a penchant for joking about taboo topics such as race and the success of series like Black-ish, Jane the Virgin and Empire show that audiences are currently receptive to programming starring people of color.
Hopefully, this means great things for Insecure.
