LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - J.J. Abrams is taking a comedic turn at Fox with a half-hour project written by Mike Markowitz.Beyond a bare-bones logline of "a comedic medical show," details on the premise are being kept under wraps.
Abrams, co-creator/executive producer of Fox's sophomore sci-fi drama "Fringe," is executive producing the untitled comedy, which has been given a presentation order.
The medical drama field is crowded with stalwarts "Grey's Anatomy" and "House" as well as "Private Practice" and newcomers "Trauma," "Miami Trauma," "Mercy," "Three Rivers" and "Hawthorne." But ABC's "Scrubs" and Showtime's freshman comedy-drama "Nurse Jackie" are the only medical comedies on the air.
Markowitz has worked on such comedy series as "Becker" and "It's All Relative."
