If you're a fan of Sunday newspaper comic strips, you've likely chuckled a time or two reading Robb Armstrong's JumpStart. The comic strip has been a newspaper fixture since 1989 and after 34 years, it will be making the leap to the small screen as Deadline is reporting that CBS is developing a multi-camera comedy.
Wayne Conley, who recently penned episodes of The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Partners In Rhyme, and Queen Sugar will write the pilot.
The comic strip is set in Philadelphia and follows beat cop Joe Cobb, his wife Marcy, and Joe's partner, Edmund Crunchy. Joe and Marcy's 5 kids (Sunny, JoJo, and the twins Teddy & Tommi ) also feature prominently at times.
JumpStart is the largest African-American drawn comic in the world and regularly appears in the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Boston Globe.
A live-action adaptation was previously in development with 20th Century Fox back in 2014 but it appears this current iteration with CBS has already progressed much further. Stay tuned to Toonado for further updates including casting news and a premiere date.