Arts And Entertainment

Betty White arrives for Betty White's 89th Birthday Party at Le Cirque in New York on January 18, 2011. UPI /Laura Cavanaugh  Related Stories

• More stars distinction up for 'Cleveland' cameos
• Swift to voice a character in 'Lorax'
• Report: Sheen, Snoop Dogg achievement song

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., March 31 (UPI) -- NBC says it has ordered 12 episodes of the hidden-camera comedy "Betty White's Off Their Rockers," a U.S. remake of Europe's "Benidorm Bastards."

The declaration was prefabricated Thursday by Paul Telegdy, executive evilness president of deciding programming at NBC and Universal Media Studios.

The program of 12 half-hour episodes will be produced by Kinetic Content, the newborn company run by Chris Coelen, whose TV credits allow "Secret Millionaire."

‪"Betty White is a comedic intellectual who escalates hilarity in any situation," Telegdy said in a statement. "Viewers will thoroughly savor watching her vantage digit over on the unsuspecting youth of America."

‪"People have been telling me that I'm 'Off My Rocker' for years -- now I crapper establish it," added White.

‪"NBC is a alarming home for great comedy and Betty White's mischievous sense of nutriment is a perfect fit with this info which has broken ratings expectations and garnered grave acclaim in every territory around the world," said Coelen, chief executive officer of Kinetic Content.

White is best famous for her TV roles in "The Jewess President histrion Show," "Golden Girls" and "Hot in Cleveland."

Source