HBO has picked up “Crashing,” a half hour comedy pilot set to film in November, TheWrap has learned.
Judd Apatow will direct the pilot and serve as executive producer, while Pete Holmes is set to star, write and also executive produce. Dave Rath is also an executive producer.
Holmes will play a sweet, wholesome comedian who has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics after his wife leaves him.
Holmes is representeded by WME and Generate. Appatow is with UTA, Mosaic and Ziffren Brittenham.