Seth Meyers Developing Workplace Comedy The Game Room at NBC

Seth Meyers is developing a new half-hour comedy for NBC called The Game Room.

The project is a workplace comedy, meaning a 30-minute show built around co-workers and the place they work. It is in development, meaning NBC is working on the idea but has not yet ordered a pilot or a series. Deadline reported the news on 24 September 2026.

A half hour is the traditional length for US broadcast comedy. It usually means about 22 minutes of story plus adverts.

Michael Colton and John Aboud are attached to write the scripts. They will also act as co-showrunners, the writers who lead creative choices day to day, and as executive producers, the senior group responsible for getting the show made.

Colton and Aboud know network comedy well. They previously created Home Economics, the ABC family comedy that ran for three seasons. That credit matters in television. Writers are often hired on the strength of shows they have already run.

The Game Room comes from Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions. Meyers runs the company with producer Michael Shoemaker. The pair founded it in 2017.

The banner works under an overall deal at Universal Studio Group, meaning the studio backs its development and gets first look at new ideas. Universal Studio Group is the studio on The Game Room. NBC is the network where it is being developed. In US television, that split is common. One organisation makes the show. Another decides whether to schedule it.

Meyers, Shoemaker, Colton, Aboud and Jason Carden are all listed as executive producers. That is the full producing team announced so far.

If the script moves forward, NBC could order a pilot, meaning a single test episode, or give a straight-to-series order, meaning no pilot is shot first.

For viewers, this is an early step. Nothing has been filmed. No airdate has been set. Development is where ideas are written, rewritten and tested before a channel commits money to production. For now, The Game Room lives on paper.

Meyers is not new to NBC. He hosts Late Night, the network's late-evening talk show. He will remain in that chair through 2028 after extending his contract and renewing his development deal with NBCUniversal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That deal lets him keep hosting while building new scripted projects like The Game Room.