Will & Grace Creators Get New Show
February 18, 2008

Now that the strike is finally over, new shows can start to ramp up development and you can expect a flood of announcements like the one today that David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, who created the multi-award-winning comedy Will & Grace, will produce a new show for ABC. Variety reports that a whirl of pickups are expected and that the Kohan/Mutchnick project is just the first out of the gate. It will be a multi-camera half-hour comedy pilot that has been greenlight by ABC. The project doesn't have a title yet and was apparently written on spec before the strike. It comes from Warner Brothers TV and was unleashed on the market when the strike ended. ABC snapped it up.

The show from the creators of Will & Grace will be about two friends and business partners, one straight and one gay, who are forced to balance their friendship with their romantic relationships. Sounds awfully similar to Will & Grace, but as they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Can they find success again?

The show could even loosely be based on the real lives of Mutchnick and Kohan (could they call it "David & Max"?) Kohan is straight and Mutchnick is gay. The two had a pilot nearly ready to go at CBS last year around a similar plot but this is said to be a different script. The two also wrote Four Kings, Twins, and Good Morning Miami, so they clearly have experience with both success and failure. Let's hope this new project is the former.

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