NBC Premieres Stumble Cheer Comedy Friday

NBC's new comedy series "Stumble" premieres Friday at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, following a fired cheerleading coach as she assembles a ragtag junior college squad in pursuit of a national championship. The single-camera mockumentary, created by siblings Jeff and Liz Astrof, draws inspiration from the competitive world of cheerleading while centering on underdog characters and high-stakes routines.

The show stars Jenn Lyon as Courteney Potter, a veteran coach at the fictional Sammy Davis Sr. Junior College in Wichita Flats, Texas. After a video surfaces showing her celebrating a victory with her team by drinking champagne and awarding "best booty," the dean fires her. Undeterred, Courteney, one win shy of a record 15th championship, takes a job at Headleston State Junior College in Oklahoma, home of the Buttons mascot tied to the town's candy button industry. There, she builds a team from scratch to qualify for the nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Her squad includes Madonna, played by Arianna Davis, a talented tumbler hampered by narcolepsy; Dimarcus Jarrett, portrayed by Jarrett Austin Brown, a former football player with a record for unsportsmanlike conduct; Peaches, played by...