Hayes MacArthur and Rashida Jones in ‘Angie Tribeca’ (TBS)
It all started with a name dropped in a random conversation in the Carell family kitchen more than two years ago.
“Steve and I were laughing about something, and we came up with Angie Tribeca,” says Nancy Carell, the life/producing partner of The Office funnyman Steve Carell. “We thought, ‘Hey, that would be a good name for a character on a TV show.’ Then we thought, ‘What kind of TV show would that be?’ and went from there.”
The husband-and-wife team, who met at Second City in Chicago, flushed out the flashy fictional moniker into a sitcom idea that married two genres they love — over-the-top wacky slapstick and crime procedurals (think Airplane! meets all the Law & Orders) — and eventually took Angie Tribeca to TBS. “It’s an absurd satire, an absurd sideways look at procedural dramas like CSI and the heaviness and seriousness of all these new cable dramas like True Detective and Fargo,”
It all started with a name dropped in a random conversation in the Carell family kitchen more than two years ago.
“Steve and I were laughing about something, and we came up with Angie Tribeca,” says Nancy Carell, the life/producing partner of The Office funnyman Steve Carell. “We thought, ‘Hey, that would be a good name for a character on a TV show.’ Then we thought, ‘What kind of TV show would that be?’ and went from there.”
The husband-and-wife team, who met at Second City in Chicago, flushed out the flashy fictional moniker into a sitcom idea that married two genres they love — over-the-top wacky slapstick and crime procedurals (think Airplane! meets all the Law & Orders) — and eventually took Angie Tribeca to TBS. “It’s an absurd satire, an absurd sideways look at procedural dramas like CSI and the heaviness and seriousness of all these new cable dramas like True Detective and Fargo,”
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