In an unexpected announcement, TNT and TBS have begun development of a comedy TV series sequel to the 1985 Paramount Pictures film “D.A.R.Y.L.” with “Arrested Development” and “Veep” star Tony Hale in the lead.
Hale would play an older version of Daryl (Barret Oliver played him in the original), a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. The half-hour single-camera comedy follows Daryl, who is now 44, trying to keep up with a world that he was never designed for.
The listing includes the great tagline: “The boy everyone wanted … has become the man no one needs … in the TV adaptation nobody asked for.” Jody Lambert and Matt Oberg are penning the project which hails from Paramount Television.
It is one of four projects the networks have put into development, the other three being Sony’s sci-fi Quantum Leap-esque relationship comedy “Space,” an adaptation of Albert Camus’ paranoid thriller story “The Fall” with Philip Noyce helming the pilot, and the comedy thriller “Liar’s Club” about a woman leading a double life as a Connecticut country club socialite who moonlights as an NYC underground gambler.
Source: The Wrap
