Hulu passes on La LA Anthony and Kim Kardashian pilot ‘Group Chat’

Hulu has opted not to pick up the comedy pilot “Group Chat.” Variety has learned. The show is inspired by La La Anthony’s book “The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness” and comes from writer Kenya Barris and executive producer Kim Kardashian.

The project was first announced as being in development in 2024 under Kardashian’s first-look deal with 20th Television. In addition to executive producing, Anthony would also star in the pilot, while Kardashian would guest star and serve as a narrator in the series. The cast also included Yaya DaCosta, Melanie Liburd, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Stephanie Suganami.

But Anthony and Kardashian continue to do business together. Both are attached as executive producers on an untitled comedy series from Tracy Oliver that is currently in development at Hulu. In addition to writing, Oliver is also an executive producer on the project. 20th Television is the studio.

The logline for the new project reads: “When the Bay Area’s most sought-after crisis manager for professional athletes finds her own life turned upside down by her husband’s scandal, she turns to the three women who have been by her side through every version of her life. Together they navigate dating, ambition, motherhood and the glamorous mess of starting over.”

Oliver is perhaps best known for writing the hit 2017 comedy film “Girls Trip,” which grossed more than $140 million worldwide. She went on to write films such as ‘The Blackening’, ‘The Sun Is Also a Star’ and ‘Little’. On the TV side, she is known for developing the TV series “The First Wives Club” at BET+ and for creating the Amazon Prime Video series “Harlem,” which ran for three seasons.

OIiver is represented by CAA, Artists First and Myman Greenspan. Kardashian is repped by WME. Anthony is repped by Linden Entertainment, WME and Sloane Offer.