Besides remembering your boss’ exact Starbucks order, one of the most important parts of being someone’s personal assistant is letting them take credit for your ideas. Sean “Puffy” Combs’ assistant is taking things a step further, however, by allowing her employer to take credit for her own lived experiences. Deadline reports that Combs is executive producing a new comedy for ABC, The Hustle, that’s based on the life of his real-life assistant, Sarah Snedeker.
The show will focus on a “small-town girl” who is hired as an assistant to “a street-educated billionaire business mogul” who transports our heroine to a glimmering, gold-plated “world of extravagance, debauchery, and adventure.” Between monologues about what a good boss her employer is and how she doesn’t think he was ripping off The Police at all, we expect the protagonist to casually mention at some point that she would never expect anyone to be interested in a humble assistant like herself, least of all as a network sitcom. “That’s where you’re wrong,” her employer will say, transforming into a magical dragon with Sean Combs’ face. “Climb on!,” he’ll exclaim, and the two will fly off to Hollywood together, laughing.
No date has been set for The Hustle as of yet, but the series has received a script commitment, so it will at least make it to that stage. The Goldbergs’ Stacey Harman is set to write that script and The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick to direct it, with Snedeker serving as a producer and consultant.