NBC is eyeing to launch another medical drama for the 2017-18 TV season.
According to Deadline, the network has given a pilot order commitment to an untitled medical drama series from "Law & Order veteran," Warren Leight-Paul. Early plot details of the project were also released, giving fans of the medical drama genre another potential series to look forward to.
Formerly titled "Salvation," the project is being described as a real time "extreme event" medical series that follows the nurses and doctors of an understaffed Brooklyn hospital that becomes the borough's last viable trauma center after a catastrophic hurricane wreaks havoc on the city. On a holiday weekend with few doctors on call, the medical staff will be pushed to make the most difficult life-and-death choices as they work to save their patients and themselves.
Should NBC greenlit the project into a series, it will join "Chicago Med" and "The Night Shift" among the network's slate of medical dramas. As for casting, the report did not mention any actor's involvement at this point.
In addition to a new medical drama, NBC has also ordered a new comedy pilot from "The Mindy Project" star and creator, Mindy Kaling. The project's title is also in the works, but the plot reveals that Kaling will be playing a role in some capacity. Charlie Grandy (The Office) is also attached as executive producer.
Deadline reported that Kaling's new comedy centers on a charismatic gym owner with no ambition who lives with his younger brother, a gorgeous idiot. Their simple life of women and working out is put on hold when they have to take in the older brother's son - whom they have never met.
Kaling also previously starred and served as producer on NBC's hit sitcom, "The Office."
As soon as production begins, more details about Leight-Paul's medical drama and Kaling's comedy are expected to be revealed in the coming months.
