THE EYERANIANS » ABC http://www.eyeranians.com News from the Iranian Pop Culture and politics Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:36:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ‘Farsi’ pilot gets green light from ABC http://www.eyeranians.com/archives/258 http://www.eyeranians.com/archives/258#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:16:45 +0000 persiancowboy http://www.eyeranians.com/?p=258 Continue reading →]]> funny_in_farsiThe TV pilot Funny in Farsi, which follows an Iranian immigrant’s life in the United States, will be going into production, ABC officials say.

The comedy pilot is based on Firoozeh Dumas’s novel Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Variety.com reported Friday. Dumas was born in Iran but grew up in Newport Beach, California.

ABC Studios will produce the TV version. Nastaran Dibai and Jeffrey Hodes have been brought on board as the executive producer and to write the pilot.

Variety also reported CBS has picked p the pilot The Good Wife from CBS Paramount Network TV. The new Scott Free Productions pilot will follow the wife of a disgraced politician who takes a legal job in the wake of her husband’s political disaster.

Source: United Press International

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