NBC Developing Pediatrician Comedy Series With Craig Zadan & Neil Meron

According to Deadline, NBC is developing a comedy based on Beverly Hills pediatrician Dr. Scott W. Cohen's book "Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year". Dynamic duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive producing alongside David Bickel (The King of Queens), with Cohen and Storyline Entertainment's Mark Nicholson also on the team.

Bickel will pen the series, which follows "a celebrity pediatrician who is top of the line and revered at work but who is not as good practicing what he preaches with his wife and kids at home."

This news comes right on the heels of Zadan and Meron starting up another project for the network -- a celebrity adventure show.

Zadan and Meron will return as producers of the Oscars in 2015; this will be their third time running the event. The duo's upcoming projects include executive producing the television musical PETER PAN LIVE! -- NBC's follow-up to THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE!. Their new MTV comedy series, HAPPYLAND, premieres this summer. For the big screen, Zadan and Meron are producing PIPPIN for the Weinstein Company, a musical based on the extensive Beach Boys song catalog for FOX 2000 Pictures, and MONSTER HIGH, based on the Mattel franchise forUniversal Pictures.

Zadan and Meron's feature film, television and theater productions have earned a total of six Oscars, 11 Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, five Golden Globes, two Peabody Awards, five GLAAD Awards and two NAACP Image Awards. For film, they executive produced the 2002 Best Picture winner CHICAGO, which won Oscars in six of the 13 categories in which it was nominated. Their credits also include the feature films FOOTLOOSE (2011), HAIRSPRAY (2007) and THE BUCKET LIST (2007). Zadan also produced the original FOOTLOOSE (1984).

Their other critically acclaimed credits include last year's miniseries BONNIE AND CLYDE the TV series SMASH and DROP DEAD DIVA. The duo has also produced such Emmy-nominated television movies as STEEL MAGNOLIAS, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, as well as ANNIE, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA and GYPSY.

On Broadway, Zadan and Meron recently produced the revivals of the Tony-winning 'HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS', starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, and the Tony-winning PROMISES, PROMISES, featuring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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