NBC, the network known for shows like This is Us and The Office, has ordered a pilot of Bright Futures, an upcoming comedy series, reports Variety. Bright Futures will star Lilly Singh, a Canadian YouTube personality and vlogger, who is better known by the name of her YouTube channel, IISuperwomanII. She is also known for films like Ice Age: Collision Course and Bad Moms and will star alongside Michael B Jordan in HBO film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The NBC series is based on the transition of a bunch of naive twenty-somethings into successful professionals.
Lilly Singh will play the roommate, Sid, of Emily Ratajkowski’s character, Sarah. Emily, a model and actor, is best known for playing the role of Andie Fitzgerald in David Fincher’s Gone Girl. Her character, according to the publication has a girl-next-door personality but “also with a behind-the-ear-tattoo,” according to a report by Variety. Lilly’s character Sid is a medical school graduate who became a doctor just so that people would call her doctor.
