Peacock shares first look at Bupkis starring Pete Davidson - Digital Trends

After an eight-season tally on Saturday Night Live, Pete Davidson is heading to scripted tv for his adjacent move. Davidson volition write, produce, and prima successful Bupkis, a caller drama bid from Peacock. The work announced that accumulation is underway, and shared the archetypal look astatine the series.

According to the authoritative synopsis, Bupkis is a heightened, fictionalized mentation of Davidson’s existent life. The half-hour unrecorded enactment drama volition integrate grounded storytelling with absurd elements from the unfiltered and wholly archetypal worldview for which Pete is well-known.

BUPKIS -- "The Florida Project" Episode 103 -- Pictured: (l-r) Pete Davidson, Joe Pesci (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/Peacock)

Starring alongside Davidson is Joe Pesci, the Academy Award-winning histrion champion known for his wiseguy roles successful Goodfellas, Casino, and Raging Bull. Pesci volition play Davidson’s grandfather. Also joining the formed is Edie Falco, the four-time Emmy Award-winning histrion who became a tv icon for her relation arsenic Carmela Soprano successful The Sopranos. Falco volition prima arsenic Davidson’s mother.

Davidson’s erstwhile brag and mentor, Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, volition service arsenic an enforcement producer. Judah Miller volition beryllium the showrunner/writer/producer, portion SNL‘s Dave Sirius volition constitute and enforcement produce. Jason Orley, who directed Davidson successful Big Time Adolescence and the 2 drama specials, Pete Davidson: Alive from New York and Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends, volition nonstop and co-executive produce.

Similar to Bupkis, Davidson incorporated elements of his beingness successful the 2020 drama The King of Staten Island. Directed by Judd Apatow, Davidson starred successful this semibiographical mentation of his life, playing a directionless young antheral dealing with the effects of his father’s decease successful 9/11 arsenic helium tries to find intent successful his life.

Bupkis presently has nary premiere date.

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