‘The Burbs’ Series Remake Starring Keke Palmer a Go at Peacock

Peacock is packing up for The Burbs .

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The NBCUniversal streamer has given a straight-to-series order for a comedic mystery series based on the 1989 Tom Hanks-Carrie Fisher movie of the same title. Keke Palmer is attached to star in The Burbs , which counts Brian Grazer and Seth MacFarlane among its executive producers. Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment produced the film.

Palmer will play half of a young married couple who return to the husband’s childhood home. Their world is upended when new neighbors move in next door, bringing old secrets of the cul-de-sac to light, and new deadly threats shatter the illusion of their quiet little neighborhood.

Directed by Joe Dante and written by Dana Olsen, The Burbs received so-so reviews from critics when it was released in February 1989, though it opened at No. 1 at the box office. It has since become something of a cult favorite, however.

Celeste Hughley ( Palm Royale, Dead to Me ) is writing the series, which comes from Universal Studio Group’s UCP. Hughley will executive produce with Grazer, Kristen Zolner and Natalie Berkus for Imagine; MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Aimee Carlson for Fuzzy Door Productions (which has an overall deal at UCP); and Palmer. Olsen is a co-exec producer.

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Fuzzy Door also produces Ted , the series based on MacFarlane’s movie about a man and his talking teddy bear.

Hughley is repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson; Palmer, by 3 Arts Entertainment, Luna PR, and Hertz Lichtenstein; MacFarlane and Fuzzy Door, by WME and Jackoway Austen; and Olsen, by attorney Daniel Riviera.

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