“Key & Peele” showrunners developing “The Romeos” comedy

PanARMENIAN.Net - With Key & Peele recently ending its five-season run, the hit sketch series’ executive producers/showrunners Ian Roberts and Jay Martel have sold another half-hour comedy with a male duo at the center — this one a little older. Titled The Romeos, the single-camera comedy has been set up at ABC and ABC Studios, according to Deadline.

Written and executive produced by Roberts and Martel, The Romeos (stands for Retired Older Men Eating Out) has a Grumpy Old Men vibe and revolves around two completely dissimilar 65-year-old neighbors who join forces to take full advantage of their second acts — driving each other, and everyone around them, crazy in the process.

Roberts, a founding member of Upright Citizens Brigade, and Martel were executive producers & showrunners on Comedy Central’s Peabody Award-winning Key & Peele for its entire five-season run, sharing an Emmy nomination for Best Variety Sketch Series with the series’ creators/executive producers/stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

Additionally, Roberts and Martel serve as executive producers/showrunners on TV Land’s upcoming comedy series Teachers, which debuts in January. The duo also wrote this year’s movie Get Hard starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart and won a WGA Award in 2014 for Best Comedy Variety Special with Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas. They are repped by Verve and Principato-Young.