FX is looking to add to its comedy roster.
The Disney-owned outlet has ordered a pilot for Snowflakes, a comedy about a group of twentysomethings. The project comes from writers Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) and has assembled a creative team that also includes director Jonathan Krisel and executive producers Nick Kroll, Karey Dornetto and Alicia Van Couvering.
Snowflakes, which hails from FX Productions, is described as an ensemble show “following a group of codependent housemates trying to be good people, despite being neither ‘good’ nor ‘people’ yet.”
The pilot order comes as FX prepares to say goodbye to What We Do in the Shadows, which will end with its upcoming sixth season. Long-running animated series Archer and the critical favorite Reservation Dogs also bowed out in 2023.
Kronengold and Shaw were the youngest writers on The Tonight Show during their tenure there, which ran from 2019-21. The writing partners also published a short story collection, Naked in the Rideshare, last year.
Kroll, who has a first-look deal with FX Productions, created and stars in Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth. He’ll executive produce via his Good at Business banner with Van Couvering, the company’s president.
Dornetto was showrunner for the first two seasons of Awkafina Is Nora From Queens and counts Portlandia and Arrested Development among her credits. Krisel, who co-created, directed and ran Baskets, also directed the pilot for English Teacher for FX, which earned a series pickup in November.
Kronenberg and Shaw are repped by UTA and Gang Tyre. Kroll is with UTA, Rise Management and Schreck Rose. Dornetto is repped by UTA, Artists First and Jackoway Austen. Krisel is repped by UTA, Mosaic and Yorn Levine.
