Meghan Trainor to Star in Sitcom as Part of New NBCU TV Deal

Meghan Trainor is now all about the laughs. The singer has sealed a important over-all offer with NBCUniversal Television and Streaming Entertainment that consists of a comedy collection in growth.

Trainor will star in and enable acquire the sitcom for NBC, but there is no strategy or writers connected just but. The comedy is the first challenge underneath the cross-platform offer, which is the initially of its variety less than the new NBCU Tv and Streaming Leisure framework less than Susan Rovner.

The deal will also involve other opportunity jobs throughout scripted and unscripted articles for NBCU’s numerous network, cable, streaming and syndication programming shops, which include Bravo, E!, Oxygen, SYFY, Universal Young ones, United states of america and Peacock, in addition to NBC.

NBCU is established to announce the deal on Friday. “In addition to becoming a phenomenally gifted performer, Meghan is a vibrant and hilarious ray of light who is the great in shape for NBC’s brand name,’” claimed Rovner, who joined the company as chairman, amusement information, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming, in October. “We love the plan of introducing Meghan into the earth of scripted comedy as nicely functioning with her to come across all the innovative and outrageous methods she can interact with followers throughout our models. With 8 unique platforms, we’re in a position to offer the final playground for multi-hyphenate artists, and this is just a person of the ways we’re leveraging our new construction to reward both expertise and audiences.”

Trainor is also set to share the information on her social media accounts on Friday. The performer known as the huge offer “so further than a aspiration arrive genuine. I’m obsessed with and inspired by Susan and simply cannot wait to do the job with her and her incredibly gifted team to convey our concepts to lifetime.”

Trainor initially strike it huge with 2014 breakout solitary “All About That Bass,” ultimately charting 8 multi-platinum singles, offering thousands and thousands of albums throughout the world, and earning see as a voice for female empowerment and regard.

She is a Grammy Award-profitable singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and is one particular of only five feminine artists to obtain a diamond certification for “All About That Bass,” which shares the RIAA Gold & Platinum Awards prime honor with only 15 other singles in heritage.

On Television, she formerly served as a judge on Fox’s “The 4: Struggle for Stardom,” as perfectly as on “The Voice United kingdom.” She has also experienced voice roles in the animated films “Smurfs: The Misplaced Village” and “Playmobil: The Movie.”