David Allen Grier Satirizes The News Magazine Format

Urban news satire, anyone? Set to premiere in the first quarter of 2009, the tentatively titled David Allen Grier’s Chocolate News is set to spoof magazine shows from a decidedly urban angle. From the press release:

”’David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News’ (working title) is a fake magazine show hosted by ‘In Living Color’ alum and Tony(R) Award-nominee David Alan Grier that makes no apologies for its biased approach as it investigates inherently urban pop culture topics such as an operation to save black and white conjoined twins, steroid use in Little Leaguers and a rapper’s public service announcement gone awry. The point-of-view is decidedly from an African American perspective and everyone and everything is fair game for Grier and his regular team of investigators. The series will be executive produced by Grier (‘Little Man’), Robert Morton (‘Mind of Mencia’), Fax Bahr and Adam Small (‘MADtv’) and Generate’s Peter Aronson and Jordan Levin.”

Comedy Central announced the greenlighting of this news business comedy show as part of their 2008-2009 development slate.

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