USA Greenlights First Half-Hour Aircraft pilots

15 several weeks after it signaled a transfer to half-hour comedy development using its first half-hour script buy underneath the current regime, top-ranked cable network USA has greenlighted its first couple of half-hour comedy aircraft pilots in greater than a decade: an untitled Douglas McGrath project (formerly On We Go), executive created by Nathan Lane who's discussions to star, and Michael Feldman’s Paging Dr. Freed. The pickup of thesehalf-hour comedy aircraft pilots underscores our resolve for broadening the benefit of USAs entertainment brand, stated the network’s co-presidents Shaun Wachtel and Chris McCumber. The orders put USA well on the right track hitting its goal of getting half-hour series about the air through the fall 2013 launch from the systems high-profile off-network acquisition, ABC hit Modern Family. The network has more half-hour scripts in development. From the 12 series projects on its development slate introduced in the USA upfront in May, five were half-hour. One of these was On We Go. USA went several half-hour comedies underneath the systems old regime within the the nineteen nineties, including Strange Science, USA High and Campus Cops, before USA reconstructed its brand like a home of sunshine, character-driven hourlong series in the last decade. Listed here are explanations of USA’s recently acquired half-hour aircraft pilots: UNTITLED DOUGLAS McGRATH PROJECT (also known as ON WE GO) is really a half-hour single camera comedy a good unlucky actor whose Broadway aspirations should be placed on hold when he returns to his Texas home town upon his father’s health going for a turn for that worse. Nathan Lane will star and function as executive producer. Douglas McGrath (Bullets Over Broadway) will write and executive produce the pilot from Universal Cable Prods.Lane is presently filmingSnow Whitened opposite Jennifer Aniston and can segue towards the British Teacher with Julianne Moore. PAGING DR. FREED is really a half-hour comedy about two siblings taking within the reins of the father’s medical practice after his untimely dying. Its format — single-camera, multi-camera or hybrid — is not yet been determined. From Fox 21 and Universal Cable Prods, Michael Feldman (Thats so Raven) will write and executive produce with Katy McCaffrey and Kaira Manley becoming producers.