ABC Greenlights Kelsey Grammer Sitcom Pilot

ABC has given a pilot commitment to a half-hour, multicam comedy starring Kelsey Grammer as a corporate tycoon who reconnects with his family after being downsized out of his powerful job. Everybody Loves Raymond writer Tucker Cawley is penning the pilot. This new project comes just months after ABC passed on Grammer’s last comedy in development, an adaptation of the British sitcom Roman’s Empire. Grammer most recently starred in Fox’s Back to You – alongside Patricia Heaton, who has her own comedy pilot at ABC, The Middle. Cawley’s been working on NBC’s upcoming Amy Poehler comedy; his credits also include Welcome to the Captain.