Earl Creator Greg Garcia Lines Up New Pilot At Fox

My Name Is Earl creator/executive producer Greg Garcia has landed a put pilot at Fox. The single-camera half-hour show will revolve around a 25-year-old who winds up having to raise an infant with the help of his quirky family. The kid was the result of a one-night stand with a woman who ended up on death row for murder.

Garcia is about to start writing the script. In the new show, the young father clashes with his parents – who are in their 40s, having become parents themselves as teenagers. “It’s kind of in the world that ‘Earl’ inhabited,” Garcia said. “The same type of people. And with ‘Yes, Dear,’ I enjoyed writing about families and raising children. So I came up with this idea, which in a way combines those two things.”

Garcia first considered pitching the still-untitled project as a movie. But when My Name Is Earl was canceled, Garcia decided to rethink it as a TV series. Noting that My Name Is Earl also dealt with dysfunctional families, Garcia said he believes there’s something relatable when it comes to writing about such relationships.

Garcia said he’s still saddened that My Name Is Earl ended so abruptly after four seasons on NBC. “There’s a lot of disappointment and frustration at how it ended,” he said. “But after that, we looked for a new home and tried to make it economically work, but it didn’t work out. We unfortunately had to finally call it a day. Everyone tried.”