FX Orders The League

FX has ordered The League, a semiscripted comedy pilot from Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer/director Jeff Schaffer. The show centers on a fantasy football league and tackles issues of marriage, friendship, parenting and love in suburbia. Schaffer and his wife Jackie Marcus Schaffer, for whom fantasy football is a big part of their lives and marriage, are executive producing the pilot, which is shooting. Schaffer is directing.

In addition to Mark Duplass, the show’s cast includes Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Katie Aselton, Jon Lajoie and Alina Foley, daughter of actor Dave Foley. Leslie Bibb is on board as a guest star.