YouTube star, Flula Borg, is coming to NBC

YouTube star, Flula Borg, is coming to NBC

Flula Borg will star in Cuckoo.

YouTubers have been making more and more of an impact in mainstream culture lately and the most recent YouTuber to make the splash to TV is Flula Borg.

Flula is a German-born DJ, musician, actor, and YouTube personality that has landed the lead role in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series, that starred Andy Samberg.

Cuckoo is a story about a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo, played by Flula Borg, much to her father’s annoyance. In the British version of the series, an English girl returns home from her post-college gap year with an eccentric hippie American husband named Cuckoo, originally played by Samberg.

UK writers Robin French and Kieron Quirke created the BBC series and wrote the adaptation along with Tim Long (The Simpsons). Long will also serve as the showrunner.

Robin French, Kieron Quirke and Tim Long will all executive produce with the original series’ exec producers Ash Atalla for Lionsgate TV and the original series’ producer Roughcut Television.

Flula Borg currently has over 60 million views and almost 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. When NBC makes the decision whether or not to pick up the pilot, Borg’s profile will have certainly raised. He is set to play a key role in Pitch Perfect 2 on May 15th.

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