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'Survivor' Guru Burnett Sells Sitcom to The WB
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'Survivor' Guru Burnett Sells Sitcom to The WB
(Tuesday, October 21 08:24 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - British ex-commando moves to Los Angeles and, unable to find work in his specialty, takes a job as a live-in nanny to help make ends meet.
If that sounds like the setup for a sitcom, well, it is. Here's the really funny part, though: It's pretty much the story of "Survivor" creator and executive producer Mark Burnett.
Burnett will executive produce a sitcom pilot for The WB based on his early years in Los Angeles. He moved to the States in the early 1980s after serving in Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands as part of the British special forces. Although he intended to become a freelance operative in Central America, he had a tough time finding a paying gig in that field.
Desperate for cash, he took a temp job as a nanny that turned into two years of employment.
"I'd gone literally in a two-week period from being a trained military commando guy who'd just come out of the Falklands War against Argentina, and suddenly now I'm changing diapers, and I'm living in lap of luxury in Beverly Hills," Burnett tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The WB first heard about Burnett's experiences when it was working with him on another comedy pilot last spring. The show, called "Are We There Yet?," didn't get picked up. The soldier-nanny idea, however, sounded like "just a really great framework for a great sitcom," says Mike Clements, who oversees comedy development for the network.
The untitled project has a pilot commitment from The WB. Burnett's eponymous production company will produce the show with Warner Bros. TV. Burnett also has a script commitment from the network for a drama project based on the DC Comics title "Global Frequency," about everyday people recruited for covert operations.
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