On this new Netflix multi-camera series, Gabriel Iglesias plays a good-natured public high school teacher who works at his alma mater. He takes on teaching gifted but misfit kids to not only save them from being “counseled out” by a bully bureaucrat Assistant Principal (Oscar Nuñez), but also to help them unlock their full potential. Sherri Shepherd co-stars as Principal of the high school.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Iglesias spoke about what he wanted to see in the series.
“There’s a story we’re exploring with one of the students having attendance issues because she has to work to help her family,” Iglesias explains to EW. “It was important to me that the show be funny but also have substance. My producer Kevin Hench told me in the beginning, ‘I really want this show to have corazon’ (Spanish for ‘heart’). We didn’t want this to be a wacky show, but for it to also have feelings.”
Iglesias executive produces alongside Kevin Hench, who executive produces FOX’s Last Man Standing.
Starring Gabriel Iglesias, Oscar Nuñez, Sherri Shepherd, Jacob Vargas, Maggie Geha, Richard Gant, Cree Cicchino, Fabrizio Guido, Gloria Aung, Coy Stewart, and Tucker Albrizzi.
Mr Iglesias hits Netflix internationally on June 21st with 10 episodes.
