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Half-Hour TV · Development

Fed Up

When a government investigation team begins documenting a struggling federal prison during budget cuts, the unstable staff becomes even more dysfunctional than the inmates themselves.

The Office in a federal prison. Genre bending workplace comedy mixing mockumentary, multi-viewpoints, and cinéma vérité, grounded in the lived experience of the creator. Single-camera, satirical, sharp. Thirty-minute episodes about the people who have God-like power over the incarcerated — and the symbiosis that makes the whole machine F'd Up.

Human

Writers' room and performances stay human. The fast-paced jokes have to land in the room.

Machine

Schedules, coverage notes, and augmented institutional spaces. No generative faces.