Hulu is developing a comedy series from Zoe Young that has Chelsea Handler attached to executive produce and potentially star.
The potential series is titled “Townhouse.” Per the official logline, the show follows “a washed-up reality star and her live-in entourage of misfits as they scramble to rehab her image and reboot her career. When her estranged daughter unexpectedly moves into their crumbling Manhattan townhouse, the TV has-been is confronted with the one role she’s spent her entire life avoiding: motherhood.”
Should the show move forward, Handler would play the lead role. Young is the creator, writer, and executive producer on the project. 20th Television is the studio.
The show would mark Young’s first TV writing credit. She is a 2025 graduate of USC’s Writing for Screen & Television MFA program.
Handler is a celebrated stand up comedian and show host. In addition to her stand up career, she is best known for hosting the late-night talk show “Chelsea Lately” at E! for seven seasons. She followed that up with shows like “Chelsea” and “Chelsea Does” at Netflix. As an actress, Handler has been in shows like “Not Dead Yet,” “The Comeback,” and “The Good Wife.” She also starred in the E! sketch comedy series “The Chelsea Handler Show,” while the NBC sitcom “Are You There, Chelsea?” was based on her book “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea,” with Handler also appearing onscreen as the character Sloane.
Young is repped by WME and Yorn Levine. Handler is repped by Ocean Avenue, WME, Hansen Jacobson, and Align PR.