NBC Orders Stumble Cheerleading Comedy To Series — Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam Star
NBC has positively flipped for Stumble, giving the cheerleading mockmentary a series order for the 2025-26 TV season.
The network thus is one step closer to filling some holes in its fall schedule, which is waiting on sitcom lead-outs for both St. Denis Medical (on Mondays) and Happy's Place (on Fridays). The Tracy Morgan/Daniel Radcliffe comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which already has a series order, is also in the mix to claim a time slot, while an untitled project from Sierra Teller Ornelas (Rutherford Falls, Superstore, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), set at a Native American community center, is not moving forward.
Hailing from Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error) and Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls), Stumble is a single-camera comedy about "the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer." It counts Cheer coach Monica Aldama among its executive producers.
Stumble stars Jenn Lyon (Claws) as Courteney Potter, "the winningest coach in Junior College Cheer history," who must take a job coaching a ragtag team after a fall from grace. Nonetheless, Courteney is determined to rally the Sammy Davis Sr. Junior College cheer squad to win her record-breaking 15th championship — and maybe improve her team members' lives along the way.
The cast also includes Taran Killam (Single Parents, SNL) as Boone, Courteney's husband and the college's football coach; Ryan Pinkston (Young Rock) as Stevie, a junior college dropout who re-enrolls to join Courteney's team as a thirtysomething "senior"; Jarrett Austin Brown as Dimarcus, the school's starting QB who leads the team in unsportsmanlike conduct penalties; Anissa Borrego (Stop the Bleeding) as Krystal, a true "cheerlebrity" and the squad's star flyer; dancer Arianna Davis as Madonna, a narcoleptic tumbler who ironically provides the cheer team with energy; dancer Taylor Dunbar as Peaches, a kleptomaniac with sick skills; and Georgie Murphy (Small Achievable Goals) as Sally, a wannabe cheerleader who grew up in the foster care system before moving into her car at age 18.
Additionally, Kristen Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies) will recur as assistant cheer coach Tammy Istiny, whose last name is pronounced "Isstinny" (though everyone assumes it's "Is Tiny").
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