Fox is developing a comedy with Ali Larter and Ben Stiller about a mom who becomes a pro football cheerleader.
Larter (Heroes, The Rookie) will star in and executive produce The Sidelines, a single-camera comedy from SideCar Content Accelerator — the network’s in-house content arm — and Fox Entertainment. Stiller will also exec produce via his Red Hour Films. Fox has given a script commitment to the project.
Written by The Good Place veteran Kate Gersten, the show centers on Larter’s character, a newly separated mother of two who, at age 40, decides to chase her lifelong dream of becoming a professional football cheerleader. Against all odds, she makes the squad for a team in her hometown of Detroit and becomes the accidental den mother to a group of scrappy, resilient young women, rediscovering herself in the process.
Gersten and Larter will exec produce with SideCar head Gail Berman, Alissa Vradenburg, Stiller and Red Hour’s Nicky Weinstock and Jackie Cohn. Laura Vikmanis, who became the oldest NFL cheerleader when she made the Cincinnati Bengals’ squad in 2009, is a consulting producer.
(Excerpt) Read more in: The Hollywood Reporter