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http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/fox...on-jim-rash-with-pilot-production-commitment/
Loved Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23. AND with some Jim Rash thrown in? I could be into this...Fox Nabs Comedy From Nahnatchka Khan, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash With Pilot Production Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
EXCLUSIVE: In a hot comedy pairing, Don’t Trust The B—- At Apt. 23 creator/executive producer Nahnatchka Khan has teamed with Oscar-winning writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) for a half-hour comedy aimed at the 2014-15 season. The project, Fatrick, was taken out today and, not surprisingly, sold at the first place it was pitched to, Fox, which gave it a pilot production commitment. 20th Century Fox TV, where Khan is under an overall deal, produces Fatrick, which centers on Patrick, a handsome, fit, 30-something Formerly Fat Kid forced to face the damage caused by years of being Fatrick: a chubby little kid just trying to survive. Khan co-created and will write the pilot with Don’t Trust The B—- co-executive producer Corey Nickerson, with Faxon and Rash set to direct. The four will executive produce.
20th TV is off to a fast start this pitch season with two pilot production commitments, for Fatrick and Cindy Chupack/Jake Kasdan’s The Longest Date, and a put pilot for Michael Green’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, all at Fox, and sizable penalties for drama Travelers and comedy Cristela at ABC.
This would be the TV directing debut for CAA-repped Faxon and Rash who made their first foray into directing with the indie The Way, Way Back, which triggered a bidding frenzy at Sundance. This marks Faxon’s return to Fox and 20th TV after toplining freshman comedy Ben & Kate last season. Fatrick also marks Khan’s return to Fox where she worked on American Dad! for seven years. Her first series as a creator, the underrated Don’t Trust The B—-, also was originally set up at Fox before moving to ABC where it just wrapped a two-second run. She is with WME. Nickerson, whose credits also include Scrubs and My Boys, is with CAA.