NBC Orders Drama Pilot From Tony Phelan and Joan Rater

NBC has ordered a pilot for the Tony Phelan and Joan Rater drama "Council of Dads,"according to Variety.

The show, which is based on Bruce Feiler's memoir of the same name, follows Scott Perry and his family, whose lives are thrown into upheaval when he gets a potentially terminal diagnosis. Facing his mortality, he and his wife, Robin, assemble a unique group of carefully chosen friends to support his family and guide them through the ups and downs of life's many challenges.

Tony Phelan and Joan Rater will write and executive produce under their Midwest Livestock Productions banner. Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, and KristieAnne Reed will also executive produce for Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Feiler will executive produce with Bruckheimer TV's James Oh producing. Phelan and Rater are under an overall deal with Universal Television, who is the studio for the drama.

Phelan and Rater are best-known for serving as showrunners on "Grey's Anatomy" at ABC for eight seasons. They also created the CBS drama series "Doubt" and developed a Nancy Drew reboot at the network. The duo currently has another Nancy Drew project in development at NBC.

Read the original article on Variety.