Ice Cube Penning New Series For NBC

by **Nygee** Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:26 pm

Ice Cube will write and executive produce a new hour-long cop comedy series for NBC.

According to Variety, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios chairman Ben Silverman has been aggressively pursing Ice Cube to work on a series for the network.

"As we continue to expand our roster of diverse talent both on-camera and behind the camera, a guy like Ice Cube, who’s multitalented, is someone we really wanted to be in business with," Silverman said. "He’s had an amazing career, to have gone from NWA to this."

Cube is not currently slated to star in the project although the network holds out hope that he will make some guest appearances and possibly provide music towards the shows score.

"We really want to capture his voice and his eye for talent, and his producing acumen," Silverman said. "If he appeared in the pilot or series, we’d be really excited about that."