Ashley Tisdale ‘Toxic Moms’ Comedy In Works At Netflix (Exclusive)

EXCLUSIVE: When typing “toxic moms” into Google search, the top suggested query is “toxic moms Ashley Tisdale.” The High School Musical alumna is capitalizing on that viral association withToxic Moms, a comedy series which, in a competitive situation, has landed at Netflix for development

Tisdale, who is expected to star, has teamed on the project with Sabrina Jalees (Mating Season, Search Party) and Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe, Beef)

Tisdale, Jalees and Wong executive produce; I hear Wong may direct if the comedy goes to series

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“I guess we all can be a little toxic,” Tisdale wrote on IG next to images of Deadline’s story

Based on an original idea, Toxic Moms is informed by Tisdale’s experience as a mom of two young children

She reflected on aspects of that in her now-viral essay Breaking Up with My Toxic Mom Group which launched a frenzied Internet sleuth campaign to ID the celebrities in the mom group she was referring to

Toxic Moms is looking to join a string of current Netflix comedy series centered on a female lead, including Running Point, Nobody Wants This, Survival of the Thickest and North of North

Tisdale, who broke out on Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack & Codyand the High School Musicalfranchise, went on to star on the CW’s Hellcats and comedy series Merry Happy Whatever for Netflix and Carol’s Second Actfor CBS. She also executive produced and recurred on the Freeform (then-ABC Family) comedy series Young & Hungry and is a main voice cast member of Disney Channel’s Phineas and Ferb. Tisdale, who also has multi-camera comedy You’re Only Young Twicein development at CBS, is repped by Gersh and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

Jalees is with WME, OPE Partners and attorneys Patti Felker and JR McGinnis. Wong is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson Teller

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