John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have sold a comedy themed around “thirty-something guys who hate their jobs and make a pact to go back to when they were happiest–working at the mall,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Punching Out is in the same world as “Bosses” which gathered 118 million in 2011 at the domestic box office, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Goldstein and Daley will both write and executive produce the single-camera comedy, which had back and forth bides from multiple networks.
The hit-writing team will be setting up Punching Out at 20th Century Fox TV, with Chernin Co.’s Peter Chernin and his TV chief Katherine Pope on board as executive producers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.