News > Russell Peters Makes a Deal with Fox

September 18, 2007

Written by David Morgan

Canadian comedian Russell Peters has scored a script deal for a comedy project with Fox. reports that Peters is writing and is attached to the untitled project, which is based on the comedian's own upbringing. His manager/brother Clayton Peters said:

Basically, this is the most honest type of project that we could hope for for Russell. It's a project based on growing up with our own family, which was a working-class South Asian household.

Mr. Peters is reportedly quite popular in Canada. 

 

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