Earl's Pearl.(Barbie Adler )

Broadcasting & Cable, May, 2006 by Brown, Joel

By Joel Brown

For comedy writer Adler, humor runs in the family

Barbie Adler finished her season's work as a co-executive producer on NBC hit My Name Is Earl at the end of March--just in time to complete another project: Her daughter Ava was born.

Ava's arrival meant a little extra hiatus, and the Earl crew will be glad to see Adler back on the job. She has had three straight winning seasons of single-camera-comedy writing, one on Earl and two on Arrested Development . A long list of Emmy, WGA and other award nominations is topped by a share of Arrested 's '04 Emmy for best comedy and Earl 's '06 People's Choice Award for favorite new TV comedy. She has a two-year overall deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV, the kind of thing that...

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