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Peter Tolan has closed a deal to write Sean Hayes’ comedy project for NBC. Tolan will co-pen the script with his producing partner Michael Wimer. As a result, Sony Pictures TV, where Tolan is based with an overall deal, has come on board as a co-producer alongside Universal Media Studios. The comedy will star Hayes as the half of a gay couple who are raising a teen daughter. This is the latest series that features gay parents or their kids as central characters, following early efforts such as the ABC comedy It’s All Relative and current hits Modern Family and Glee, where the lead character, Rachel, is the daughter of a gay couple. This is the second broadcast project for Tolan this development season. He also has a drama with writer Josh Berman at ABC about a female FBI profiler.
Angel and Dollhouse alums Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain have sold drama project Beautiful Girls to Fox. The project, from Warner Bros TV, is described as a young, salacious soap dealing with sexual politics and intrigue set against the backdrop of the beauty industry at a cosmetics company. Last season, Craft and Fain supervised the development of the CW/WBTV drama pilot The Secret Circle but left the pilot after Kevin Williamson came on board to focus on development under their overall deal at WBTV. Craft and Fain previously created ABC’s Women’s Murder Club.
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The FBI Peter Tolan project looks interesting. After all, he is a good writer.
What a fantastic concept. Hoping it will bring more light, humor and insight and further acceptance to the idea of gay parents. And Sean Hayes is already widely loved. Eager to see this.
While I’m glad to see more projects featuring gay parents (or any reflection of families other than the boring traditional TV model), it’s hardly fair to lump Glee into this bunch considering we’ve never even MET Rachel’s parents (the only glimpse we ever had was a photo of them in the pilot… and they’ll likely look VERY different if they ever actually cast actors to play them).
Adam Carolla should play Sean’s partner. That could work well.
I don’t know. I’d love to see it on air, but America’s not interested in comedies featuring Gay characters who aren’t flamboyant like Cameron on Modern Family. we also like our Jews whiny and our Blacks… okay you know what, we don’t like watching Blacks on network comedies which is why they’re all on BET and TBS. So unless Sean’s doing Just Jack with a kid, I look forward to seeing the pilot when it’s passed around after the upfronts. it’s not perfect but it’s the greatest country out there.
Beautiful Girls = Bold & Beautiful + Capitol
Always glad to see something new from Liz Craft and Sarah Fain — great writers and great people. Congrats!
Finally: An NBC show with a squishy Liberal premise! Nice to see they aren’t just appealing to the Nascar crowd anymore, but are AT LONG LAST doing something with a little Progressive appeal.
It’s called “diversity” NBC… and I’m glad you finally decided to look into it.
Ha, I have heard NBC called a lot of things, but never diverse, it is one of the most liberal networks out there. Which is why it is usually in last place.
How sad to continue to promote the gay agenda with this type of programming. Cramming this lifestyle down the throats of viewers to further the idea of gay parenting is wrong in of itself, but now it has become apparent that there is a widespread gay agenda to promote 2 percent of the population in extraordinarily exaggerated ways. I hope this show fails in every conceivable way.
Agreed Ruth. Can’t these gay people come up with any good series that don’t involve gays? Why does every show have to be pushing their agenda forward? Oh, yeah, because of their 400 years of slavery,…no, that’s not them, oh yeah, because of the holocau…no, that’s not them either. Why exactly are they so put out? Oh, yeah, because they can’t marry each other.
I guess it goes to show how far LGBT rights have come that ignorant statements like Reckless’s focus on gay marriage. Meaning we’ve moved past all the hatred that once meant: no gay characters at all on TV, no gay teachers, no gay parents, no tolerance of gay culture, arrests of gays for minor offences, anti-sodomy laws, “adultery” laws aimed at gays, religious proscriptions against gays, and yes, gays were targets of mass murder in the Holocaust too.