NBC Drops Bill Cosby Sitcom; Netflix Postpones Comedy Special Amid Rape Scandal
Christian George Acevedo | | Nov 20, 2014 12:39 AM EST |
Bill Cosby's career is starting to suffer from all the issues of sex assaults thrown at him.
NBC has dropped its plans for a Cosby sitcom, slated for launching in 2015, network officials have confirmed.
The show was supposed to be Cosby's comeback on primetime.
Bill Cosby was slammed by three women for sexually assaulting them.
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According to NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks, the project "is no longer under development."
She did not give any details.
Production sources told New York Daily News that the show was just on planning stage when the studio decided to shelve it.
The show's script has not even been prepared yet.
NBC's decision came a day after Netflix announced it would postpone Cosby's stand-up comedy special, "Bill Cosby 77," which should premiere Nov. 27.
Netflix did not give any reasons of the show's postponement but the announcement followed the exposé of the third woman who claimed she was drugged and sexually assaulted by the comedian.
Three women have already stepped out in publicly to slam Cosby for sexually assaulting them, after comedian Hannibal Buress called Cosby a rapist in public while he was performing live in Philadelphia last month.
On Tuesday, former supermodel Janice Dickinson told in an interview that Cosby had raped her in 1982.
Dickinson said that she was given "wine and a pill" after dining with Cosby in Lake Tahoe. She woke up the following morning only to realize that the comedian had already assaulted her.
Dickinson's revelation followed publicist Joan Tarshis' exposé claiming that Cosby raped her in 1969.
Tarshis claimed that Cosby invited her to his home when she was just an aspiring actress. He persuaded her into doing drugs then forced her to perform oral sex on him, she claimed.
Barbara Bowman, the first alleged victim to come out, claimed Cosby raped her in 1985 in his New York City brownstone.
A fourth woman also posted a note on Facebook Tuesday, also accusing Cosby of rape, but the post has been deleted since.
Rape accusations are not new for Cosby, although he has never been criminally charged. In 2006, Cosby settled a rape case with a Temple University employee outside court.
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