Originally published March 31, 2018. Updated March 30, 2018.
Last month it was announced that Ghostbusters director and Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig will be returning to the small screen to direct a female-led comedy pilot at Freeform entitled Girls Code, which has been written and created by Kim Rosenstock (New Girl, GLOW).
The workplace comedy pilot follows the odd couple partnership between two former MIT lab partners – Wendy, a brazen, self-centered tech CEO, and Angela, a community-building social entrepreneur – who must try to overcome their many issues and unfavorable history with each other in order to run a groundbreaking, all-female tech incubator.
Cast in the roles of Wendy and Angela are Sophia Di Martino (Flowers) and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Downward Dog) respectively. Wendy is a wunderkind robotics engineer and CEO of Lighthouse Industries. While charismatic, successful, confident and seemingly unstoppable, a PR disaster and catastrophic malfunction force her to step back and figure out what to do next. Angela, an equally brilliant professor of engineering, chose to pursue the non-profit side of coding by creating an incubator for up-and-coming female tech entrepreneurs, overseeing a workplace of genius women, young and old, who are on a mission to change the world.
IN addition to Di Martino and Howell-Baptiste, Hayley Magnus (The Dressmaker) plays Wendy’s upbeat, ambitious and hypercompetent assistant Johanna, Andy Buckley (The Office) will portray Wendy’s mentor who often fills a paternal role for her, and Rene Gube (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as the burnt-out but hardworking chief operating officer of Lighthouse Industries.
Filming on the Girls Code pilot is now underway.
