Leslye Headland’s comedy Assistance, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, will make the leap from stage to screen with a new TV pilot deal, Deadline reports. NBC will develop the play—a darkly comic story about a naïve assistant and her monstrous boss—into a single-camera comedy, with Headland writing and Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, Owen Burke and Adam McKay producing. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM on September 17, 2012