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When Nikki Glaser took to the stage to join in The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, she made headlines with her close-to-the-bone whip-smart jokes. Then, just days later, she broke viewing records with her comedy special Someday You’ll Die, which has now earned her an Emmy nomination. Now she has a show in the works called Unsettling, written by Jamie Lee, about two childless women who decide to parent together. Here, she mulls over her compulsion to say unspeakable things, explains why she doesn’t want kids and expresses compassion for Tom Brady. Then there are those big awards shows she would love to host…

Deadline: You’ve been doing this for 20 years but this one-two punch of The Roast of Tom Brady and then your Max special Someday You’ll Die coming within days of each other has really shot you to household-name fame.

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Two months after hitting a career high with her stellar performance on Netflix’s The Roast of Tom Brady, comedian Nikki Glaser’s star continued to rise on Wednesday morning with her first Emmy nomination for Max comedy special Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die.

In conversation with Deadline on nominations morning, Glaser told Deadline about seeing her life change overnight after the Netflix roast, her new series Unsettling in development at Amazon, her interest in hosting awards shows, and more.

Of Unsettling, which she’ll exec produce and lead opposite fellow comic Jamie Lee, Glaser said, “I just love the people involved with it. They make some of the funniest, [most] heartwarming TV there is, and I’m so excited to move forward with it.”

Glaser added that the show is “slowly coming along, so it seems like it’s something that will be happening, but you never know.” A half-hour,...

Steve Carell is headed to HBO.

The former star of The Office will lead the cast of an untitled single-camera comedy from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses (Scrubs). HBO has handed out a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes for the series, which had been the focus of a multiple-platform bidding war.

The comedy is set on a college campus and centers on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter. Lawrence and Tarses, who previously collaborated on Scrubs and who are currently working on the Apple series Bad Monkey, will write the first episode.

“HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV. Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me. Nothing can go wrong now,” Lawrence said.

The series hails from Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence recently renewed his overall deal. Lawrence, Tarses and Carell will exec produce the comedy.

Quiver has picked up North American rights from Premiere Entertainment Group to the romantic comedy Plan B starring Jamie Lee from HBO’s Crashing and Jon Heder from Napoleon Dynamite.

Premiere is continuing international sales here on the story of a woman who gets pregnant after a one-night stand with her awkward neighbour and impulsively decides to sleep with a successful businessman to pass off the baby as his.

Tom Berenger, Shannon Elizabeth, and Kate Flannery round out the key cast. Quiver plans to release the film later in the year.

Brandon Tamburri directed Plan B film from his original...

After hearing Poseidon’s name mentioned throughout Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ first six episodes, we’ll finally meet the Greek god who rules the sea.

Tuesday’s penultimate episode, titled “We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of,” will see Black Sails alum Toby Stephens make his debut in the live-action Disney+ show as Poseidon. Given that the powerful sea god has been Mia from Percy’s life thus far — a few divine interventions being the exception — it’s easy to write him off as an uncaring dad. However, the upcoming installment looks to put things in perspective. It’s...