Fox Picks Up Jack And Dan From Burn Notice Creator Matt Nix

Fox has picked Jack and Dan, a pilot from Burn Notice creator/executive producer Matt Nix. The 13-episode hourlong series centers on Jack, an ambitious, by-the-book cop who is partnered with Dan, a drunken, lecherous, wild-card cop who hangs onto his job only because of a heroic act years before.

The new show will be a procedural featuring lead characters with a comedic bent. It’s an action comedy cop show that follows both the cops and the criminals and the ways they come together. The fun is seeing how they clash, and that doesn’t happen in the conventional procedural ways.

Nix originally wrote “Jack” as a movie almost a decade ago. Back then, he felt the premise would work better as a series, but being a feature writer, a screenplay was the only form he knew. Nix reworked the script for TV and the studio considered producing the project under its international co-production model.