EXCLUSIVE: David E. Tabert has sold single-camera comedy Over timeabout a retired NBA player, to ABC, with Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo) Executive Producer and Courtney Lilly (blackish, adult) in negotiations to also produce exporting products. Also, the filmmaker behind the first Netflix musical, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas JourneyShe stays with in the holiday musical alley it was the night a music anthology series in the works at Disney+ starring Becky Hartman Edwards (Firefly Lane) executive producer. Talbert is writing both projects, which he is executive producing with his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert through Golden Alchemy Entertainment and the company’s Jim Miller.
In Over time, an acclaimed NBA star, is retiring and returning home to play positions he avoided during his 12-year career… father. Husband. Neighbor. Friend. Spoiled throughout his adult life, he followed the perfect game plan to great success. Now, away from the spotlight and left to his own devices, he faces his toughest opponent yet… himself.
In it was the night Santa Claus, now retired to civilian life, indulges his grandchildren in their favorite family tradition and tells tales of his magical adventures. Only this year they don’t care about the ones with happy endings. This year, they insist he tells them about that one night, that fabled night, when everything went wrong. And the one family that got it right.
Talbert and Sisson-Talbert have a first-look deal for Netflix’s Golden Alchemy to write, direct and produce following the success of the films Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, which the duo produced and was written and directed by Talbert.
After starting out as a playwright, Talbert broke into studio-level directing first sunday He followed with films baggage claimbased on his novel and the holiday theme Almost Christmas And el camino christmas, He did the latter for Netflix.
As a playwright, Talbert has written and produced 14 national tours, including The Fabric of a Man, for which he won the NAACP award for Best Playwright of the Year, and he also wrote the novels Love on the Dotted LineAnd Love Lives Here No More: Book One of Doggy Tales, which he wrote with Snoop Dogg.
Talbert also won the NAACP Trailblazer Award for Achievement in Theater and the New York Literary Award for Best Playwright of the Year for his Musical Love in the Nick of Tyme. He is represented by UTA and JSSK.