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Rachel Bloom teams up with husband Dan Gregor for new ABC sitcom
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Rachel Bloom teams up with husband Dan Gregor for new ABC sitcom

Fresh off her Netflix special Death, let me do my specialRachel Bloom has set up her next project, and she’s keeping it in the family. That is, both her work and family Reboot boss Steve Levitan signed on as executive producer – and her actual family, namely husband Dan Gregor. The couple is co-writing a new sitcom called Do you want children?? at ABC.

Per Term, Do you want children? follows “a man and woman who have a baby in one universe and not the other, and the many ways that huge decision changes their lives.” Bloom will also star in the series, which is reportedly a single-camera comedy. Gregor joked on Twitter/X: “Writing a show about our child with my wife. If there are any therapists looking for future work….” Meanwhile, Bloom posted on her Instagram Story that the couple is “finally making money off our marriage.”

Of course, the duo has worked together before. Gregor, who was a writer-producer How I met your mother and wrote along Chip and Dale: Rescue Guardsalso served as producer and director of Bloom’s critically acclaimed CW music series, Crazy ex-girlfriend. It’s also not the first time they’ve created comedy by becoming parents. The birth of their daughter at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 is a significant point Death, let me do my specialand serves as another example of how skillfully Bloom balances material that is both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Since she earned her Golden Globe for CXGFBloom appeared in the Max series Julia and the short-lived Levitan series Reboot. She has also appeared in the Frasier revival as Phoebe Glazer, the daughter of Frasier’s agent Bebe (Harriet Sansom Harris). Meanwhile, Gregor is co-writer of the upcoming film Naked gun reboot movie starring Liam Neeson.