La La Anthony & Kim Kardashian Get New Hulu Comedy, ‘Group Chat’ Dead

Hulu is not moving forward with Group Chat, its comedy pilot starring and executive produced by La La Anthony, written and executive produced by Kenya Barris and executive produced by Kim Kardashian.

Longtime close friends Kardashian and Anthony are back at Hulu with a new comedy series project from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver, which the duo are executive producing, with Anthony likely to star.

In the untitled half-hour, written/executive produced by Oliver, when the Bay Area’s most sought-after crisis manager for professional athletes (the role earmarked for Oliver) finds her own life upended by her husband’s scandal, she turns to the three women who’ve been by her side through every version of her life. Together they navigate dating, ambition, motherhood, and the glamorous mess of starting over.

20th Television, where Kardashian has a first-look deal, is the studio.

Loosely inspired by Anthony’s bestseller The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness, Group Chat revolved around six fly, successful women in their forties who have conquered LA and seemingly have it all. Anthony starred alongside Yaya DaCosta, Melanie Liburd, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Stephanie Suganami. 20th TV produced.

In addition to Girls Trip, Oliver has written movies Little, The Sun Is Also a Star and The Blackening and has created the series First Wives Club and Harlem. Her feature development slate includes Girls Trip and Blackening sequels as well as The Wedding Date at Netflix and Deck The Y’Alls, starring Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain. Oliver is repped by CAA, Artists First, and Myman Greenspan.

Known for her role on Starz’s Power, Anthony was a series regular on BMF and recurred on The Chi. Her first book, the 2014 The Love Playbook, was followed by The Power Playbook. Anthony is repped by Linden Entertainment, WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern

Kardashian recently wrapped the Netflix comedy film The Fifth Wheel, which she produces and stars in. She stars in and executive produces the Hulu legal drama series All’s Fair, which is returning for a second season. Kardashian also is exec producing her family’s Hulu series The Kardashians, the upcoming reality series Team Moms for Paramount+ as well as the scripted series Calabasas, in development at Netflix, and a live-action film based on the Bratz franchise in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. Kardashian is repped by WME.