Netflix has cleaned house and canceled the comedy series “The Crew,” “Mr. Iglesias,” “Holding,” and “Nation Comfort” across the one fell swoop, Variety has learned.
Both “The Crew” and “Country Comfort” had broadcasted one season, while “Bonding” and “Mr. Iglesias” had aired two. Netflix has finalized an development deal with “The Crew” lead Kevin James to single-cam comedy series for him to produce and star in. Moreover, Netflix keeps on being good to go with Gabe Iglesias of “Mr. Iglesias,” with the third of a series of his stand-up specials scheduled to shoot this summer. Netflix has additionally finalized on an development deal with Rightor Doyle, star of the dark comedy “Bonding.”
The streaming platform as of late reported the renewal of “The Upshaws,” featuring Kim Fields, Mike Epps and Wanda Sykes, for Season 2 for 16 episodes. In the series, which appeared on the streamer in May, Bennie Upshaw (Epps, the top of a Black working-class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess simply making an honest effort to venture up and care for his family — wife Regina (Fields), their two young daughters (Khali Spraggins, Journey Christine) and firstborn son (Jermelle Simon), the teenage son (Diamond Lyons) he fathered with another woman (Gabrielle Dennis) — and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law (Sykes), all without a blueprint for progress. However, the Upshaws are resolved to make it work, and make it to a next level, together.
Netflix additionally has a one-hour comedy-variety special executive produced by and featuring Will Smith cooking and an untitled comedy series set in the Los Angeles Lakers’ front office from Mindy Kaling, Elaine Ko and Jeanie Buss.