Jeff Astrof, who wrote, with Matt Miller, NBC’s upcoming mockumentary Trial & Error, said he came up with the idea about five years ago in the early days of the super-hot murder-docu genre, when watching the documentary The Staircase, about a novelist tried for murder after his wife was found dead at the bottom…

Comedy veterans Max Mutchnick and Jeff Astrof have partnered to write and executive produce The Happy Peppers, a multi-camera comedy that has been set up at CBS. Warner Bros TV, where both Mutchnick and Astrof are under overall deals, is the studio. The Happy Peppers is about Henry and Emily, an adult brother and…

NBC is taking The Trail, giving a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy from comedy veteran Jeff Astrof and Forever creator Matt Miller. Written/executive produced by the duo, the half-hour, whose title is a scrambled version of Trial, is a documentary-style procedural comedy. It follows the arrest and…

Comedy veteran Jeff Astrof has signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television to develop projects for broadcast via WBTV and cable via its Warner Horizon division. The pact expands Astrof’s relationship with the studio. He serves as executive producer/showrunner on Warner Horizon’s TBS comedy series Ground Fl…

In a competitive situation, CBS has made a pilot production commitment to a multi-camera comedy executive produced by Bill Lawrence. Written and executive produced by Jeff Astrof, the project revolves around two lifelong best friends who are poised to become successful restaurateurs — if they can keep from…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Fat, Forty And Fired, a multi-camera family comedy from writer Jeff Astrof (Grounded For Life), went to ABC with a put pilot commitment. Based on the book of the same name by Nigel Marsh, Fat, Forty And Fired centers on a man and father who, upon losing his job, realizes…