Ben Stiller is one of the executive producers behind a comedy "The Sidelines"

Ben Stiller is one of the executive producers behind a single-camera cheerleader comedy "The Sidelines" in development at Fox. 

Ben Stiller (Cannes, France, 2018).
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The half-hour single-camera comedy, follows a newly separated mother of two who, at 40, decides to pursue her life’s dream of becoming a professional cheerleader. Despite all odds, she sets up a squad for a local Detroit football team and becomes the accidental mother of this group of dissatisfied, resilient young women – and rediscovers herself in the process.

Kate Gersten (“The Good Place,” “Mozart in the Jungle”) is writing the script and executive producing the show, which hails from Fox’s Gail Berman-led SideCar Content Accelerator. Other executive producers for the series include Gail Berman, Ali Larter, Alissa Vradenburg, and Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock and Jackie Cohn for Stiller’s Red Hour banner. Laura Vikmanis is a consulting producer.

Fox partnered with Berman to launch SideCar back in February, with the goal of identifying and incubating programming both for the network and third-party platforms. Fox retains ownership of all series that originate under the SideCar banner.

Ben Stiller also is directing and executive producing "Home", a single-camera comedy based on the British series, with Stacey Traub which has received a put pilot commitment at NBC. He also has workplace thriller "Severance" with Adam Scott, which has received a series order at Apple, and is executive producing a friends comedy with Hannah Marks and Corinne Brinkerhoff, which sold to the CW.

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