Bill Cosby Show Coming Back To TV; Comic Legend In Talks With NBC For Multi-Generational Family Comedy

Bill Cosby, the comedy legend, "Cosby Show" and "What Kids Say" host is coming back to TV. Bill Cosby will star on an NBC show that is due to premiere next year. According to reports NBC is developing a new TV series with Cosby that is slated to start in 2015.

After a long period of talks, NBC revealed that Bill Cosby will star in a multi-generational multi-camera family comedy. Cosby will play the patriarch. The new Bill Cosby Show will be written by Mike O'Malley and produced by Sony Pictures TV. Cosby is scheduled to meet with the head writer this month.

Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show executive producer Tom Werner signed the contract with NBC in January.

Bill Cosby is a comic legend. He starred on several shows named after himself and put all the voices into Fat Albert. Cosby sold us pudding and told us how raise our kids. Jerry Seinfeld said, in last season's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, that if there were a Mount Rushmore of Comedy, it would feature the granite faces of Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Don Rickles and Bill Cosby.

Cosby recently said "NBC has given me an opportunity to work in a series, it's a generational situation, I will be meeting with the writer, Mike O'Malley, and that's all I can tell you. What bothers me is that I'm coming in when there are so many different choices, hundreds of choices (on television). If you had 10 million people, that might be a test pattern in the early '80s. Today, 10 million will keep you alive on a network show for a long time, man."

Bill Cosby does about 140 shows a year, but the 77-year-old comedian says that's not as much as it sounds "Let's average it out to about 140 shows a year. No, no, no, no, no. There are those of us who are the troubadours. Think about it, if I do 140, it comes out to maybe an average of two-point-something, maybe 2.3 or 2.4 shows a week. Now, two-point-something a week means that five days, I'm off. Or 4.7 days a week, I'm off. I could be any place my wife would let me," the comedian said.

Bill Cosby will do an hour of stand-up for Netflix this fall. Cosby's show will join performances by comics Jim Jefferies, Bill Burr, Chelsea Peretti and Chelsea Handler. Cosby's special was directed by Robert Townsend. Cosby loves that there will be no commercial breaks.

Netflix announced four exclusive stand-up comedy specials from Bill Cosby, Jim Jefferies, Bill Burr, Chelsea Peretti and the Chelsea Handler special Uganda Be Kidding Me Live. Last year Cosby taped his first standup show in 30 years, "Bill Cosby: Far From Finished."

"Bill Cosby 77" will premiere on Nov. 28. The live Bill Cosby show was taped the legendary comedian's 77th birthday, on July 12, ) at the San Francisco Jazz Center. In the hour-plus Cosby show, he talks about relationships, marriage and kids.