Pete Holmes, Judd Apatow Pilot 'Crashing' Gets Picked Up to Series

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HBO has picked up the Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes pilot to series and this might be the best comedy news all week.

The single camera comedy series is called Crashing, and we’ve been excited about this series since we first heard about it last year. Directed by Judd Apatow, written by and starring Pete Holmes, co-starring Artie Lange (according to Artie Lange) and featuring the stand up comedians of New York City, and on HBO, we can’t think of another series we’re more excited to see.

The series stars Holmes as a comic whose wife has left him, and has nowhere to stay. He couch surfs the living rooms of his friends and colleagues- New York’s finest stand up comedians while trying to figure out what to do next.

The concept for the show is semi-autobiographical, based on Holmes experiences, with Holmes’ manager Dave Rath executive producing. This was the first time Judd Apatow directed a pilot, and his second series with HBO. His first series, Girls, was recently picked up by HBO for a sixth (and final) season. This will be Pete Holmes first return to television since TBS decided not to renew the brilliant and very much missed late night talk show, The Pete Holmes Show.

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