Fran Drescher Comedy ‘Indebted’ on NBC Feb. 6
Comedy Indebted begins on NBC Feb. 6. Dan Levy created the show, which sees young couple Dave and Rebecca, played by Adam Pally and Abby Elliott, take in Dave’s broke parents. Drescher and Steven Weber play the penniless parents.
“These boomerang parents aren’t great with boundaries and the question of who’s parenting who quickly become blurred in this multi-generational comedy,” said NBC.
Levy writes the series and executive produces. Doug Robinson exec produces too.
Drescher of course starred in The Nanny on CBS. She was creator, executive producer and star on that comedy. Drescher also created, exec produced and starred in the TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced.
“It’s a very specific family that I know very well because it’s my family,” Levy told B&C. “They’re dealing with hard times but they’re so likeable and they’re so positive, in a world where comedy is so sarcastic and so mean spirited.”
Levy’s NBC bio makes it clear he has nothing to do with Schitt’s Creek. “He is not Eugene Levy’s son. That’s the other Dan Levy,” it said.
Indebted is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with Doug Robinson Productions.
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Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.