Exclusive: The comedy duo of Mimi Davila (Problemista) and Laura Di Lorenzo (Selena: The Series)—who perform as The Chonga Girls— are set to write, star and co-executive produce an eponymous multi-camera comedy series in development at CBS Studios, Deadline has learned exclusively.
The project hails from Marlena Rodriguez who will serve as writer and showrunner. Additionally, Rodriguez will EP alongside Wilmer Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman under his Wv Entertainment banner, and Al Madrigal.
The Chonga Girls follows two dangerously confident childhood friends, Mimi and Laura, who move from Miami to Hollywood to realize their dream of becoming famous. But, much to their surprise, they find themselves working at the makeup counter for a department store right off the Walk of Fame.
L-r: Marlena Rodriguez, Wilmer Valderrama, Kaitlin Saltzman and Al Madrigal
Davila is a Cuban/Bulgarian actress, comedian and writer who, alongside her best friend Di Lorenzo,...
The project hails from Marlena Rodriguez who will serve as writer and showrunner. Additionally, Rodriguez will EP alongside Wilmer Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman under his Wv Entertainment banner, and Al Madrigal.
The Chonga Girls follows two dangerously confident childhood friends, Mimi and Laura, who move from Miami to Hollywood to realize their dream of becoming famous. But, much to their surprise, they find themselves working at the makeup counter for a department store right off the Walk of Fame.
L-r: Marlena Rodriguez, Wilmer Valderrama, Kaitlin Saltzman and Al Madrigal
Davila is a Cuban/Bulgarian actress, comedian and writer who, alongside her best friend Di Lorenzo,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Eric I. Lu (The Resident) and Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS) are developing a drama series based on Anthony Almojera’s memoir Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic, Deadline has learned. CBS Studios is the studio.
Riding the Lightning will follow a veteran team of Ems workers in New York City grappling with life-or-death emergencies while welcoming an eager group of new recruits to their tight-knit unit.
Lu will serve as the writer and executive producer; Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman will executive prodced through his Wv Entertainment. Almojera will serve as a consultant on the project.
Lu will feel right at home working on a medical drama thanks to his four years working as a writer and producer on Fox’s The Resident. He joined the show in Season 2 and departed after the sixth season. He is repped by Echo Lake, and Gang,...
Riding the Lightning will follow a veteran team of Ems workers in New York City grappling with life-or-death emergencies while welcoming an eager group of new recruits to their tight-knit unit.
Lu will serve as the writer and executive producer; Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman will executive prodced through his Wv Entertainment. Almojera will serve as a consultant on the project.
Lu will feel right at home working on a medical drama thanks to his four years working as a writer and producer on Fox’s The Resident. He joined the show in Season 2 and departed after the sixth season. He is repped by Echo Lake, and Gang,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The family comedy Mexican Beverly Hills is being developed for CBS by Erick Galindo, Aaron Izek, and Wilmer Valderrama, Deadline has learned. The single-camera project is inspired by Galindo’s New York Times essay of the same name.
Mexican Beverly Hills tells the story of a working-class Mexican-American family that moves to the wealthy, heavily Latinx city of Downey—also known as the Mexican Beverly Hills—where they both fit in and stand out in ways they never have before.
Galindo and Izek will write and executive produce; Wilmer Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman will also executive produce under Valderrama’s Wv Entertainment banner.
Galindo is a five-time Telly Award-winning writer, director, and producer known for his personal essays. He regularly writes about culture for LAist, NPR station Kpcc, and The New York Times, and was the first managing editor of L.A. Taco, where his work won a James Beard Foundation award.
Mexican Beverly Hills tells the story of a working-class Mexican-American family that moves to the wealthy, heavily Latinx city of Downey—also known as the Mexican Beverly Hills—where they both fit in and stand out in ways they never have before.
Galindo and Izek will write and executive produce; Wilmer Valderrama and Kaitlin Saltzman will also executive produce under Valderrama’s Wv Entertainment banner.
Galindo is a five-time Telly Award-winning writer, director, and producer known for his personal essays. He regularly writes about culture for LAist, NPR station Kpcc, and The New York Times, and was the first managing editor of L.A. Taco, where his work won a James Beard Foundation award.
- 10/27/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Wilmer Valderrama and his banner Wv Entertainment have optioned graphic novel Aztlán for development via their overall deal with CBS Studios.
The plan is to now undertake a search for a scribe to adapt the material into a series. Valderrama will serve as executive producer while the company’s Kaitlin Saltzman will serve as co-exec producer.
Written by Eduardo Ancer, Aztlán is described as a Mesoamerican epic fantasy based on the Aztec myth of the Five Suns. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows the royals, warriors and rogues in the race to gather the Masks of the Elemental Gods and harness their powers ...
The plan is to now undertake a search for a scribe to adapt the material into a series. Valderrama will serve as executive producer while the company’s Kaitlin Saltzman will serve as co-exec producer.
Written by Eduardo Ancer, Aztlán is described as a Mesoamerican epic fantasy based on the Aztec myth of the Five Suns. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows the royals, warriors and rogues in the race to gather the Masks of the Elemental Gods and harness their powers ...
Actor Wilmer Valderrama and his banner Wv Entertainment have optioned graphic novel Aztlán for development via their overall deal with CBS Studios.
The plan is to now undertake a search for a scribe to adapt the material into a series. Valderrama will serve as executive producer while the company’s Kaitlin Saltzman will serve as co-exec producer.
Written by Eduardo Ancer, Aztlán is described as a Mesoamerican epic fantasy based on the Aztec myth of the Five Suns. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows the royals, warriors and rogues in the race to gather the Masks of the Elemental Gods and harness their powers ...
The plan is to now undertake a search for a scribe to adapt the material into a series. Valderrama will serve as executive producer while the company’s Kaitlin Saltzman will serve as co-exec producer.
Written by Eduardo Ancer, Aztlán is described as a Mesoamerican epic fantasy based on the Aztec myth of the Five Suns. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows the royals, warriors and rogues in the race to gather the Masks of the Elemental Gods and harness their powers ...
Exclusive: NCIS co-star Wilmer Valderrama has renewed his first-look deal with CBS TV Studios, the studio behind the popular CBS drama series. Valderrama stars as Special Agent Nick Torres on NCIS, which was just renewed for an 18th season. He has been on the show since Season 14, with the first-look producing pact running parallel to his acting deal for the show.
Under the first-look agreement, Valderrama has developed several series projects for CBS TV Studios through his Wv Entertainment banner, including Hipster Death Rattle, a dark comedy based on the book by Richie Narvaez, with writer Rafael Agustin and Corinne Brinkerhoff; as well as the previously announced, The Turners, a half-hour single-camera autobiographical family doctors comedy from writer Naomi Ekperigin at ABC with Two Shakes Entertainment co-producing; and Patriots From the Barrio, a WWII drama about a Mexican-American unit, based on the book by Dave Gutierrez, from writer John Covarrubias.
Under the first-look agreement, Valderrama has developed several series projects for CBS TV Studios through his Wv Entertainment banner, including Hipster Death Rattle, a dark comedy based on the book by Richie Narvaez, with writer Rafael Agustin and Corinne Brinkerhoff; as well as the previously announced, The Turners, a half-hour single-camera autobiographical family doctors comedy from writer Naomi Ekperigin at ABC with Two Shakes Entertainment co-producing; and Patriots From the Barrio, a WWII drama about a Mexican-American unit, based on the book by Dave Gutierrez, from writer John Covarrubias.
- 5/21/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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