Salon.com > The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Issa Rae lands ABC sitcom http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/issa_rae_lands_abc_sitcom/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/issa_rae_lands_abc_sitcom/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13027995 Issa Rae, the Stanford grad who created the popular Web comedy "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," has landed her own TV show. Producer Shonda Rhimes has sold "I Hate L.A. Dudes," another comedy by Rae, to ABC. Deadline reports:

"I Hate L.A. Dudes" centers on an aspiring journalist, new to Los Angeles, who becomes the lone female voice on a budding, male-driven Internet talk show, while learning to decode the often humiliating and exasperating rules of the LA dating scene. Rae, repped by UTA, 3 Arts and John Meigs, is writing/co-executive producing. Expanding into comedy has been a major priority for Shondaland, which established its brand in drama.

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