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A new Fox comedy set in Colonial Massachusetts has a very promising first trailer

The British are coming... again!

Adam Pally and Leighton Meester in Making History. Qantrell Colbert/FOX

A historical time-traveling comedy that takes place in both present-day and Colonial-era Massachusetts is coming to Fox in 2017.

Making History stars Adam Pally (The Mindy Project, Key and Peele) as Dan Chambers, a computer science professor at a small Massachusetts college who has discovered a way to travel back in time, according to the show’s website. A “colossal screw-up” in the present day, Dan is able to use 200-plus years of song lyrics, movie lines, and stand-up jokes to get himself a colonial-era girlfriend named Deborah, played by Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl).

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Unfortunately, Dan’s meddling has changed history, partly because Deborah is the daughter of Paul Revere. To help set things right, Dan enlists the help of a colleague, history professor Chris Parish, played by Yassir Lester (Girls, Key and Peele).

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The trailer has plenty of local references, with the trailer’s pivotal scene playing out at the historic Revolutionary War-era watering hole Buckman Tavern in Lexington, and the characters trading jokes and Jerry Maguire quotes with a fictionalized version of John Hancock.

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Making History will air on Sundays in 2017 at 8:30 p.m., following The Simpsons and preceding Family Guy in Fox’s Sunday night comedy block.

Check out the full trailer below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TVyOqCkr0

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