EXCLUSIVE: So Assist Me Todd followers, who’re nonetheless mourning the cancellation of the CBS collection after two seasons, have one thing to cheer about. Sequence creator Scott Prendergast is again with Pennies, one other mild broadcast procedural that has two speedy members of the family on the middle. In a aggressive state of affairs, Fox has landed Pennies with a script dedication plus penalty. The challenge hails from Kapital Leisure which can function the co-studio with Fox Leisure.
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Written by Prendergast, the hourlong Pennies is a few reclusive forensic pathologist named Penny who’s extra comfy with the our bodies underneath her (dogged) care than with actual folks. Penny solves mysteries and murders stemming from the San Francisco morgue, aided by her over-confident extrovert sister, additionally named Penny, an lawyer within the D.A.’s workplace.
Prendergast government produces with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Leisure and Brian Morewitz of Morewitz Media.
Along with creating and government producing CBS’ So Assist Me Todd, which starred Marcia Homosexual Harden and Skylar Astin, Prendergast wrote on the FX comedy collection Wilfred. As an actor, he recurred on HBO’s Silicon Valley. He’s repped by Gersh and Levin Regulation Corp.