{"id":154910,"date":"2021-08-11T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=154910"},"modified":"2021-08-11T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:38:02","slug":"carolyn-pierre-outlar-roy-wood-jr-team-up-to-develop-medical-comedy-series-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/carolyn-pierre-outlar-roy-wood-jr-team-up-to-develop-medical-comedy-series-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Pierre-Outlar &#038; Roy Wood Jr. Team Up To Develop Medical Comedy Series on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/08\/medical-comedy-roy-wood-jr-carolyn-pierre-outlar-nbc-1234812569\/#!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE<\/a>: <\/strong>Physician assistant-turned-screenwriter&nbsp;<strong>Carolyn Pierre-Outlar<\/strong>&nbsp;has drawn from her own experience in the medical field for a comedy in the works at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/08\/nicole-scherzinger-joins-cast-of-nbcs-annie-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC<\/a>. Pierre-Outlar has teamed up with&nbsp;<em>The Daily Show<\/em>&nbsp;correspondent <strong>Roy Wood Jr.<\/strong> on the untitled series, which is in development at the broadcast network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project comes from Universal Television and will be written and co-exec produced by Pierre-Outlar, who first started the project, then known as&nbsp;<em>Rhonda Mitchell M.D<\/em>, as a web series, and Roy Wood Jr., who also exec produces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-1-4-e1628724526802.jpeg\" alt=\"Carolyn Pierre-Outlar, Roy Wood Jr.\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-154913\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The project focuses on an overbearing doctor after she takes over her father\u2019s Harlem-based practice and struggles to balance her personal and professional life while managing an irreverent group of patients and co-workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the latest broadcast series developed by Wood Jr., who earlier this year set up a single-camera comedy about the&nbsp;<em>National Guard<\/em>&nbsp;at Fox with Denis Leary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comedian also recently exec produced documentary&nbsp;<em>The Neutral Ground<\/em>, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans that no one would remove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will next be seen alongside Jon Hamm in the upcoming film&nbsp;<em>Confess, Fletch<\/em>,&nbsp;currently in production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood is repped by Mainstay Entertainment, WME, and Del Shaw Moonves and Pierre-Outlar is repped by Crystalship Artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Physician assistant-turned-screenwriter&nbsp;Carolyn Pierre-Outlar&nbsp;has drawn from her own experience in the medical field for a comedy in the works at&nbsp;NBC. 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