Ray Romano Lands Drama Pilot On TNT

Ray Romano is looking to return to television as a slightly neurotic, divorced father on cable network TNT’s pilot Men of a Certain Age. The character-based project will take a wry look at what it means to be a guy approaching midlife while also exploring the bonds of male friendship, all through the eyes of three college buddies who are in their 40s. Romano will play Joe, who had dreams of being a pro golfer but instead owns and runs a party store. His two best friends are Owen, an overstressed black husband and father who is a car salesman at his dad’s dealership, and Terry, an offbeat, handsome, intelligent and still struggling-to-make it actor. Romano wrote the script with Mike Royce, a writer-producer from Everybody Loves Raymond.