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Broad City

Broad City
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Genre Comedy
Created by
Starring
  • Ilana Glazer
  • Abbi Jacobson
Theme music composer DJ Raff
Opening theme "Latino & Proud"
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 30 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Ilana Glazer
  • Abbi Jacobson
  • Amy Poehler
  • Dave Becky
  • Tony Hernandez
  • Samantha Saifer
Producer(s)
  • Lilly Burns
  • John Skidmore
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s)
Release
Original network Comedy Central
Picture format 1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format Stereo (2014–15)
5.1 surround sound (2016–)
Original release January 22, 2014 (2014-01-22) – present (present)
External links
Website

Broad City is an American comedy television series, created by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. It was developed from their web series of the same name, which was independently produced from 2009 to 2011. The creation of the web series began after Glazer received poor feedback on a project she and a partner had been working on. After expressing her frustration to Jacobson, the two decided to work on a project together, eventually creating the web series Broad City. The series is based on Glazer and Jacobson's real life friendship, and their attempt to "make it" in New York. Amy Poehler is one of Broad City's executive producers, and appeared in the webseries finale. The series premiered on Comedy Central on January 22, 2014.

The second season premiered on January 14, 2015 while the third season premiered on February 17, 2016. The series has also been renewed for a fourth and fifth season. On December 7, 2016, Abbi and Ilana announced August 2017 as the premiere date for the fourth season which is being shot in winter as opposed to their typical summer shooting schedule.

Broad City follows Ilana and Abbi, two Jewish American women in their twenties, who experience adventures of carelessness and frivolity in New York City. Ilana seeks to avoid working as much as possible while pursuing her relentless hedonism, and Abbi tries to make a career as an illustrator, often getting sidetracked into Ilana's schemes.

Glazer and Jacobson met when they both attended courses at the Upright Citizens Brigade. In February 2010 they started their own web series on YouTube, which proved popular. Amy Poehler became aware of the series and mentored Glazer and Jacobson, becoming executive producer when the show came to TV. When Glazer and Jacobson wrote the pilot script, their characters were named Evelyn Wexler and Carly Abrams respectively, but ended up using their real first names instead. The pair continued writing most of the episodes together, with approximately half of the episodes to date bearing their names as writers.

Paul W. Downs, who produces and stars as Trey, has written several episodes on the series with Lucia Aniello, who has also produced and directed episodes on the series. Paul has written "Working Girls" (episode 1.3), "Knockoffs" (episode 2.4) and "Coat Check" (episode 2.9).


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