REPORT: NBC To Produce New Tina Fey Show Set In Fire Island

Deadline Hollywood reports that NBC has signed a deal for a new Tina Fey-produced show that appears to have its setting in a Fire Island bar.

The project, said to be in the vein of Cheers, is a character-driven workplace comedy where a young woman in search of reconnecting with her father finds a new home and family on Fire Island. This marks the first project from Fey’s Little Stranger production company under the four-year deal she inked with Uni TV last fall.

It should be noted that there are a dozen towns on Fire Island and that the two gay hotspots, Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove, are not mentioned in reports about the show. Still, this is Tina Fey, so...