NBC has ordered Council of Dads to series.
The drama pilot hails from Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. It is produced by Universal Television in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Midwest Livestock Productions.
The half-hour drama is inspired by Bruce Feiler’s best-selling memoir. This is the second time the memoir has been adapted for TV.
It follows an extended family whose patriarch, Scott, a “loving father of four, has his entire life’s plan thrown into upheaval by a cancer diagnosis [and] calls on a few of his closest allies to step in as back-up dads for every stage of his growing family’s life.”
Phelan and Rater are penning and executive producing the series. It stars Sarah Wayne Callies, Clive Standen, Tom Everett Scott, J. August Richards, Blue Chapman, Emjay Anthony, Michele Weaver, Thalia Tran, Steven Silver and Michael O’Neill.
