{"id":506683,"date":"2026-01-10T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506683\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:01:22","slug":"netflix-orders-i-suck-at-girls-comedy-series-from-bill-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506683\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Orders ‘I Suck At Girls’ Comedy Series From Bill Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Netflix<\/a> has given a series order to I Suck At Girls<\/a>, a comedy from Justin Halpern<\/a>, Patrick Schumacker<\/a>, Bill Lawrence<\/a>\u2019s Doozer and Warner Bros TV where all are under overall deals, Deadline has learned. The order may be cast-contingent, I hear.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbbott Elementary co-showrunners Halpern and Schumacker are writing the project based on Halpern\u2019s book I Suck At Girls. The series revolves around three awkward high school sophomores who stumble through the messy world of teenage romance and identity, learning that sucking at girls is just part of growing up.<\/p>\n

\n\tHalpern and Schumacker are executive producing through their Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions alongside former 20th TV head of comedy Chet Dave, now Head of Development for Delicious Non-Sequitur, and Doozer\u2019s Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer. WBTV is the studio. <\/p>\n

\n\tA cast-contingent order for I Suck At Girls has been rumored since September. The pickup has now become a reality as casting notices went out today, I hear. Filming is targeting a summer start, sources said.<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Netflix and WBTV declined comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tPublished in May 2012, I Suck At Girls was Halpern\u2019s follow-up to his bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says, based on his popular Twitter feed, which he and Schumacker adapted into the CBS\/WBTV comedy series $h*! My Dad Says that starred William Shatner.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros TV and Lawrence originally optioned I Suck At Girls three months before it was published by HarperCollins. A single-camera comedy adaptation by Halpern and Schumacker, with Lawrence executive producing, triggered a bidding situation later that year, landing at Fox with a pilot production commitment<\/a>. It went to series, Surviving Jack, starring Christopher Meloni, which ran for one season.<\/p>\n

\n\tHalpern and Schumacker last year re-teamed with Lawrence for another stab at the book with a new premise, resulting in I Suck At Girls, which was taken in by Netflix. <\/p>\n

\n\tHalpern and Schumacker serve as executive producers\/co-showrunners alongside creator\/star Quinta Brunson on the hit ABC\/WBTV comedy series Abbott Elementary and also were co-developers and executive producers on the studio\u2019s animated HBO Max series Harley Quinn. They are managed by Adventure Media and represented by attorney Allison Binder at Goodman Genow Schenkman Smelkinson + Christopher.<\/p>\n

\n\tDoozer\u2019s current series include Apple TV\u2019s Ted Lasso, Shrinking and Bad Monkey and the upcoming HBO comedy series Rooster, starring Steve Carell, and ABC\u2019s Scrubs revival \u2014 all created or co-created by Lawrence. He is repped by CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a series order to I Suck At Girls, a comedy from Justin Halpern, Patrick…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[226882,171,226883,226884,4659,226885,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-506683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bill-lawrence","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-i-suck-at-girls","11":"tag-justin-halpern","12":"tag-netflix","13":"tag-patrick-schumacker","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115872116494686064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}