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Safdie bros. to launch show within a show with comic Nathan Fielder

Comedy will deal with how an alleged curse affects a newly married couple and their home-makeover reality TV program

By Emily Burack 20 February 2020, 1:52 pm Edit
From left, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie and Adam Sandler on the set of 'Uncut Gems.' (Courtesy)
From left, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie and Adam Sandler on the set of 'Uncut Gems.' (Courtesy)

JTA — Fresh off their critically acclaimed film “Uncut Gems,” Jewish brothers Benny and Josh Safdie are making a comedy pilot with the Jewish comedian Nathan Fielder.

Fielder is best known for “Nathan for You,” a Comedy Central show.

The Showtime series, called “The Curse,” will star Fielder and Benny Safdie, and Deadline reports it “explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple who star in ‘Flipanthropy,’ their troubled HGTV show.”

HGTV is an American television network that specializes in home improvement and real estate reality shows.

Nathan Fielder arrives at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Fielder is set to play the husband and Safdie the producer of the fictional show.

There’s no word on a tentative premiere date, but Twitter is ridiculously excited.

https://twitter.com/jonahvwhale/status/1229905223201718272

https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/1229903637461098496

https://twitter.com/AlmondMilkHotel/status/1229921796838785025

https://twitter.com/twelveoclocke/status/1229947768275427329

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