ABC has given a put pilot order to “Lakeside VA,” a comedy hailing from Jim Parsons‘ That’s Wonderful Productions and writer Shelly Gossman, Variety has learned.
“Lakeside VA” follows a C+ team of VA hospital employees who are underfunded, understaffed, and stopped overworking themselves to make up for it years ago, until a new hotshot female chief of surgery steps in to turn them into an A team.
The idea is inspired by Gossman’s personal experiences and first-hand accounts from veterans and VA staff across the country. Her father is a Vietnam veteran, and she worked a day job at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in her early twenties.
Gossman will serve as writer and co-exec producer. Bill Wrubel (“Modern Family,” “Will & Grace”) is on board as showrunner and executive producer. Parsons and Todd Spiewak will serve as EPs, and Eric Norsoph is a producer, overseeing the project for That’s Wonderful Productions.
The half-hour, single-camera comedy hails from Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind Parsons’ mega-hit “The Big Bang Theory.”
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CAA reps Gossman, Parsons, Wrubel and That’s Wonderful Prods. Additionally, Parsons is handled by Marsha McManus of Principal Entertainment LA and Cheryl Snow of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown. Wrubel is additionally repped by Ken Richman of Hansen Jacobson.
