'It won't have a party attitude': Veteran comedian Bill Cosby set to create new family sitcom for NBC

It's been 14 years since his last sitcom wrapped.
Now it looks like Bill Cosby is set to return to the small screen in a comedy for NBC, which first aired The Cosby Show 30 years ago.
The TV company has confirmed that the 76-year-old actor-comedian has signed a deal to develop and star in a new half-hour sitcom, Deadline Hollywood reports.

Back in the old routine: Bill Cosby, pictured arriving for a taping of the Late Show With David Letterman in New York last week, is working on a new sitcom for NBC

It is being produced by Tom Werner, whose company produced the 1980s hit, according to AP.
The star, who played Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show, will again play the head of a multi-generational family. Cosby and Werner are reportedly meeting writers for the project.Bill told Yahoo TV in November that he wanted to develop another family comedy that 'would [satisfy] the people who have come to me in public places and said, "Can't you put something on that I can watch?"

Family fun: Bill and Phylicia Rashad starred in The Cosby Show about a middle class family living in New York, which bowed in 1984. Now the 76-year-old is developing another family sitcom

'There is a viewership out there that wants to see comedy, and warmth, and love, and surprise, and cleverness, without going into the party attitude.'
The project is in the early stages and an NBC spokesman told AP on Wednesday that, as yet, there isn't a series order or a deal to produce a pilot episode.
The Cosby Show launched in September 1984 and ran for eight seasons. It focused on obstetrician Cliff Huxtable and his upper middle-class African American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

Fatherly advice: Bill with Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played the Huxtables' son. The comedian said he believed there are people who 'want to see comedy, warmth, love, surprise and cleverness'

It was followed by another sitcom, Cosby, that aired on CBS for four seasons starting in 1996.
In November, the veteran star appeared in Bill Cosby: Far From Finished, a stand-up comedy special that premiered on Comedy Central.
Meanwhile, Cosby is working on an update for his animated series Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids with writer Tom Straw. The show bowed in 1972 and ran, on and off, until 1985.