A True O.G.: Snoop Dogg Lands Sitcom Deal With NBC

(MTV) Him started not in in similar fashion single Lengthy Beach hustler, formed his bones since some breakout rap star plus contains played everything starting at one loveable stoner toward Huggy Bear plus each undead gangster inside a 2001 horror flick "Bones."But is America ready for Snoop Dogg family sitcom star? According in order to Deadline Hollywood any D-o-double G's family comedy project has landed next to NBC with single script in the works since veteran comedy writer Don Reo ("Blossom," "Everybody Hates Chris," "Of me Wife as well as Kids").

Snoop, the family guy which person has managed up to strike a balance between lascivious rhyme dropper also pee-wee football coach, intend perform a dad among the present, whichever man intend also produce. Snoop owns already worked with Reo on each Fox sitcom "Brothers," single display around one former NFL player on whatever he played each role of cousin Kenny a Lawyer.

He's already done some dry dash since a person out of certain abode among his E! reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood," which followed his house lifetime with his wife plus triple kids on top of couple seasons. Snoop possesses seesawed among music also movies for years plus was recently cast inside the title role of a biopic "Any Legend made from Fillmore Slim," a tale belonging to a 1970s San Francisco blues guitarist also pimp who was often referred in order to in similar fashion the "West Coast Godfather out of a Game."

Deadline noted which NBC possesses had mixed success with rapper sitcoms, ranging since the hit 1990s jog by Testament Smith among "The Fresh Prince belonging to Bel-Air" for certain notoriously awful 2001 pilot starring "Thong Song" star Sisqo along with comedy icon Bob Newhart.