Mayim Bialik and Damon Wayans Jr. team for a Hope Café NBC comedy inspired by a coffee shop promoting mental health education

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The multicamera comedy Hope Café is "inspired by Hope For the Day’s Sip of Hope in Chicago, the world’s first coffee shop where 'It’s OK Not to Be OK' and 100% of the profits go to mental health education," per Deadline. In the series, the friendships, lives and loves of the workers and customers are all intertwined at the Hope Café, a coffee shop where the baristas are also trained as mental health counselors. Think Freud, with tattoos and a frother." Hope Café will be written by Fuller House and 2 Broke Girls vet Linda Videtti Figueiredo, with Bialik and Wayans serving as executive producers.