‘The Burbs’ Series Remake Starring Keke Palmer a Go at Peacock

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Peacock is packing up for The Burbs.

The NBCUniversal streamer has given a straight-to-series order for a comedic mystery series based on the 1989 Tom Hanks-Carrie Fisher movie of the same title. Keke Palmer is attached to star in The Burbs, which counts Seth MacFarlane and Brian Grazer among its executive producers. Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment produced the film.

Palmer will play half of a young married couple who return to the husband’s childhood home. Their world is upended when new neighbors move in next door, bringing old secrets of the cul-de-sac to light, and new deadly threats shatter the illusion of their quiet little neighborhood.

Directed by Joe Dante and written by Dana Olsen, The Burbs received so-so reviews from critics when it was released in February 1989, though it opened at No. 1 at the box office. It has since become something of a cult favorite, however.

Celeste Hughley (Palm Royale, Dead to Me) is writing the series, which comes from Universal Studio Group’s UCP. Hughley will executive produce with Grazer, Kristen Zolner and Natalie Berkus for Imagine; MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Aimee Carlson for Fuzzy Door Productions (which has an overall deal at UCP); and Palmer. Olsen is a co-exec producer.

Fuzzy Door also produces Ted, the series based on MacFarlane’s movie about a man and his talking teddy bear.

Hughley is repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson; Palmer, by 3 Arts Entertainment, Luna PR, and Hertz Lichtenstein; MacFarlane and Fuzzy Door, by WME and Jackoway Austen; and Olsen, by attorney Daniel Riviera.

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