NBC Buys Western Created By Sean Hayes

EXCLUSIVE: Westerns continue being a hot genre in the TV systems. NBC, the very first broadcast internet to leap around the trend inside a large way this past year using the pilot order to Renovation, has bought an untitled Western project from Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills production company. Friday Evening Lights alumna Kerry Ehrin is writing the project, that is occur the 1880s and focuses on Jacob Morris, a youthful, eccentric New England physician of mental disorders who moves to some primitive Western town in the feet from the Colorado Rockies. There he immediately sticks out because he doesn’t fight having a gun but instead uses new ideas which are being practiced within the East. A dark tone from the show mixes drama and comedy, similar to the series Ehrin has most lately done, NBC’s Being a parent. Ehrin, Hayes and the Hazy Mills creating partner Todd Milliner will executive produce for Universal TV. Milliner stated he and Hayes have been speaking about doing Western for some time but didn’t think a broadcast network would go for this. They were given urged through the recent curiosity about the genre but mostly by NBC’s decision to get their drama project Grimm to series. Grimm, a cop procedural with fairy-tale elements, was initially produced by Hazy Mills 5 years ago if this was setup at CBS. Milliner and Hayes had almost lost hope when NBC acquired Grimm to pilot after which to series captured. “Grimm was the oddest idea we've had,” Milliner accepted. “(The pickup) shows that you ought to carry on even when it’s not the best time or even the right network. Eventually it will likely be.” Hayes and Milliner lately pitched the concept for that Western to NBC, which loved it. The network recommended Ehrin like a author, and also the project joined together rapidly. This is just one of three projects Hazy Mills has within the works at NBC, where it's under a unique deal. Others r a comedy starring Hayes because the 1 / 2 of a gay couple having a teen daughter, that is being compiled by Peter Tolan, and game show pilot Celebrity Game Evening, featuring celebs crashes people’s weekly game nights. Furthermore, the 8-year-old clients are behind TV Land’s hit Hot In Cleveland. The Ehrin-written NBC project joins two other broadcast Westerns in development for next season, both at ABC. Ron Moore’s Hangtown is occur the first 1900s and something of their three lead figures has similar roots to Jacob Morris’. It focuses on a Clint Eastwood-type Marshal, a youthful physician in the New England who has an interest in making use of the brand new area of forensics to resolve crimes, and a youthful lady author. ABC’s other Western in development is David Zabels Gunslinger. Furthermore, TNT lately gave a cast-contingent pilot order to Bruce C. McKenna and Danny Cannons Gateway, occur the 1880s. Beginning the present TV renaissance from the genre was AMC, that has the 1860s-set series Hell on Wheels approaching.