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‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Erin Foster Says Kristen Bell Kept the Show’s Production in L.A.: ‘She Wants to Be Home With Her Kids’


Comedy producers from 'Nobody Wants This,' 'Hacks,' 'Abbott Elementary' and more discussed their hit shows at Variety's A Night in the Writers' Room.

Clockwise from left: Erin Foster (“Nobody Wants This”), Justin Halpern (“Abbott Elementary”), Sarah Naftalis (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Tad Quill (“Animal Control”), Benito Skinner (“Overcompensating”), Jen Statsky (“Hacks”), Eric Ledgin (“St. Among other unexpected crossovers revealed during A Night in the Writers’ Room: Since they both shot in Toronto, it turns out “What We Do in the Shadows” executive producer Sarah Naftalis and “Overcompensating” creator/exec producer/star Benito Skinner shared the same crew. “I was worried about some of the specificity of it, because this was my experience in the closet… instead, I’m being met with so many messages from people who I think saw themselves in the show and maybe saw themselves not only in my character, but in this nostalgic world of college, and being able to laugh at that cringe time in their life.”

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