EXCLUSIVE: ABC has handed a pilot order to Do You Want Kids?, a single-camera comedy starring Rachel Bloom in her return to broadcast TV after co-creating and headlining the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Bloom co-wrote the pilot script for the 20th Television-produced Do You Want Kids with her husband, film and TV writer Dan Gregor. The duo executive produce with Steven Levitan and Danielle Stokdyk of the 20th TV-based Levitan Productions.
This marks the first comedy pilot order — and second overall — at ABC this year. The project, which landed at ABC as a pitch last October in competitive situation, was among the hot prospects this past spring, when the network greenlighted its first pilot of 2025, drama RJ Decker, and again this summer as ABC brass were making “second cycle” pickup decisions.
The ABC summer 2025 pilot buzz roster also included the Scrubs reboot, which has since been ordered straight-to-series; the potential Rookie spinoff, The Rookie North, which continues to look for a leading man; and comedy Mittens.
ABC has two new scripted series for 2025-26 so far — both IP extensions and both picked up straight-to-series — 9-1-1: Nashville, which premieres in the fall, and Scrubs, set for midseason.
Do You Want Kids? is about a husband and wife — played by Bloom — who in one universe have a baby and the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.
In real life, Bloom and Gregor are a married couple with a child.
This marks a reunion for Bloom with Levitan, Stokdyk and 20th TV; she played one of the leads in Levitan Hulu comedy series Reboot, which was produced by 20th TV.
Bloom won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her work on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She was recently cast in the upcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie, written by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by David Frankel. Bloom’s one-woman stage show, Death, Let Me Do My Show, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award this year, was filmed for a Netflix special, which is now streaming. She is repped by Sugar23, WME, YMU Entertainment, and Ginsburg Daniel Kallis.
Gregor, who was a writer-producer on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, recently co-wrote the Naked Gun reboot for Paramount, starring Liam Neeson. He previously co-wrote the Emmy-winning Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers live-action/animated movie for Disney+ and co-wrote and directed SXSW selection Most Likely to Murder for Lionsgate and Hulu. Gregor is repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Levitan Productions also has Erin Foster’s breakout hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This, which is returning for a second season.
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