Roku, is greenlighting a new comedy series “Tightrope!” starring Ty Burrell and executive produced by Bryan Cranston. Burrell’s “Tightrope!” retells the drama of the vintage 1950s series as a slapstick comedy, where the Emmy winning actor plays a lone wolf detective following cases city to city, while he searches for his long-lost love who got away.
The six-episode series will be produced by Moonshot Entertainment, Desert Whale Productions, and Village Roadshow Television.
Roku’s growing slate of Roku Originals offers bold, fresh entertainment from the biggest names in Hollywood. In addition to “Tightrope!,” viewers get free access to “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” “The Great American Baking Show,” “Honest Renovations,” “Morimoto’s Sushi Master,” the “Die Hart” franchise, “WWE: Next Gen,” “WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story,” and more.
