https://deadline.com/2026/04/rachel-bloom-comedy-pilot-do-you-want-kids-dead-abc-passed-1236877033/

After renewing Scrubs and Shifting Gears, ABC has passed on its sole comedy pilot for next season. Created by Bloom and her husband Dan Gregor, with Rory Scovel playing Bloom’s husband, Do You Want Kids? “is about a married couple, Rosie (Bloom) and Alex Vasilescu (Scovel), who in one universe have a baby and in the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.” According to Deadline, the pilot was met with mixed reaction.

Rachel Bloom Mourns "Do You Want Kids?" ABC Pilot
by Armando Tinoco
May 1, 2026


Rachel Bloom is opening up about ABC passing on the "Do You Want Kids?" pilot she co-wrote and starred in.

In a post on social media, Bloom got real about her feelings following “failure” to be picked up to series and all the hopes that vanished with it.




“Since people – including myself – mostly use this place primarily to post about success, I want to give a shout out to my other buddy, Failure,” Bloom posted on Instagram. “When a project dies, I mourn multiple things. I mourn the project itself, but I also mourn the life I thought I was going to lead with the project becoming a reality.”

“We made a show about multiple timelines in the life of a couple, so it feels appropriate to mourn the timeline I thought I was gonna have this year with this show. I thought I’d be flying to NY in May for Upfronts. I thought we were going to hire amazing writers for an LA-based writing staff. I thought we were going to start shooting in Los Angeles in August through October. We had so many episode ideas, multiple season arcs.”




Bloom said that “over the past 6 years I’ve mourned multiple failures, multiple timelines. But I never mourn the work.”

“And who knows? Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was a rejected Showtime pilot. Maybe this has a life somewhere else,” she added in the replies of her post.

https://deadline.com/2026/05/rachel-bloom-mourns-do-you-want-kids-abc-pilot-crazy-ex-1236878084/