Two Comedies Land At ABC And NBC

ABC has bought The Cult Of Mac, just one-camera comedy from Australian playwright/TV author Tony McNamara (Tangle), ABC Galleries and studio-based Brillstein Entertainment. It focuses on Ted Macfadden who casts back to his 1987 Chicago childhood with his iconoclastic/crazy father Mac for inspiration in raising a child his progressive modern Bay Area family. This marks the U.S. debut to find the best Australian showrunner McNamara, who's repped by UTA and Principal. NBC has bought Four Play, one half-hour comedy script produced and compiled by actress Liz Vassey. The project, created by Flody Suarez, Todd Holland and Karey Burke’s Dark Toy Entertainment and Universal TV, involves four people creating an unlikely family while raising a recently adopted child. CSI alumna Vassey has formerly written 2 pilot scripts as in addition to a 2010 episode of CSI together with her co-star Wallace Langham.