The Rock's "Young Rock" Comedy Series On NBC To Premiere On February 16

NBC has announced that the "Young Rock" comedy series will premiere on Tuesday, February 16 at 8pm ET.

The show will run for thirty minutes each week. Young Rock is part of NBC's new one-hour comedy block on Tuesday nights, which also features the "Kenan" series with Kenan Thompson.

There's no word on how long Young Rock will run for, but Deadline noted that both new NBC comedies could end up having short orders, which would see them wrap up at the end of March.

Young Rock will chronicle the formative years of former WWE Champion The Rock, and The Great One himself will appear in each episode.

NBC gave the series a straight-to-series order back in January of last year. Filming on Young Rock began back in November in Queensland, Australia, at locations in and around Brisbane and South East Queensland. The show is coming from Fresh Off the Boat creator Nahnatchka Khan and co-executive producer Jeff Chiang, who wrote the pilot episode together. Khan and Chiang are executive producing Young Rock, along with Rock, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Jennifer Carreras and former WWE writer Brian Gewirtz of Seven Bucks Productions. Daina Reid will direct various episodes, while Jeffrey Walker will serve as co-executive producer.

The Rock, who has said the series will be special and unlike anything else he's ever done, previously revealed the cast of the show, with details on each character they will be playing, including the role of his late father, WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson. You can click here for that reveal.

Stay tuned for more on Young Rock. Below is NBC's latest promotional material for the series, along with a new graphic:

"Young Rock" focuses on different chapters of Dwayne Johnson's life. From growing up in a strong and resilient family, to being surrounded by the wild characters of his professional wrestling family, to playing football at the University of Miami, the show will explore the crazy rollercoaster that has shaped Dwayne into the man he is today and the larger-than-life characters he's met along the way.

Dwayne Johnson, Joseph Lee Anderson, Stacey Leilua, Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant, Uli Latukefu, Ana Tuisila, Fasitua Amosa and John Tui star.

Nahnatchka Khan, Dwayne Johnson, Jeff Chiang, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz and Jennifer Carreras serve as executive producers.

"Young Rock" is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, Seven Bucks Productions and Fierce Baby Productions.