‘Token White Friends’ comedy on CBS from Cedric The Entertainer

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Token White Friendsa multi-camera comedy from The neighborhood team of CBS Studios and executive producers Aaron Kaplan via Kapital Entertainment, Wendi Trilling via TrillTV and Cedric The Entertainer & Eric Rhone via A Bird and Bear Entertainment.

Written and executive produced by Josh Greenberg (Not dead yet), Jordan Black (The Wonder Years) and Jon Haller (30 Rock) White Token Friends is inspired by a true story. In it, when a black couple adopts a white child, they reach out to three estranged white college friends to become part of their village.

According to the creators, Token White Friends is “about parenting, culture clashes, and why it’s problematic for a 7-year-old white kid to wear cornrows.”

Greenberg, Black and Haller, all of whom have previously worked on Last man standingrecently sold the nerd table, an animated series based on the trio’s geeky ’90s childhood for Peacock and Universal with Will Glick producing.

Black’s series credits also include Punky Brewster, The Last AND and Saturday Night Live. He is represented by IAG, manager Pamela Thomas and VanderKloot Law.

Greenberg’s series credits also include Crowded and Raising hope. He is represented by Gersh and managers Jarrod Murray & Allard Cantor of Epicenter.

Heller is represented by Gersh and manager Zadoc Angell & Amotz Zakai at Echo Lake.