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Ray Romano Plays with TNT
Ray wasn't going to sit back and let Debra and Robert have all the fun.
Instead, Ray Romano is following in the footsteps of former Everybody Loves Raymond costars Patricia Heaton and Brad Garrett and has gotten busy scripting his return to TV.
According to trade reports, the Emmy-winning comedian is working on a pilot for a basic-cable series with fellow Raymond writer and producer Mike Royce.
The hour-long dramedy, Men of a Certain Age, will star Romano as Joe, a divorced father of two and one of a trio of now fortysomething college pals, each of whom is experiencing the joys of encroaching middle age in his own way.
No studio is on board yet, but TNT, home of The Closer and Saving Grace, has already signed on to produce the pilot.
"Mike and I have always had success writing what we know," the 50-year-old Romano said Monday. "What we know now is that we're middle aged, neurotic and fat."
This will be Romano's first major TV gig since Raymond closed down in 2005, snagging its second Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in the process.
While he's currently in limited theatrical release in the poker-themed improvisational comedy The Grand, playing husband to cardsharp Cheryl Hines, Romano has also spent some of his post-Raymond days helping out Garrett's once-struggling new sitcom, Til Death, by guest starring as a waiter and playing himself in the now-defunct small-screen comedy Knights of Prosperity.
Romano also lent his voice to the sequel Ice Age: The Meltdown, which registered the second-highest opening spring weekend of all time in March 2006.
But although his costars seem to have avoided the Seinfeldian curse of follow-up sitcom failures, Romano could still wind up being the only Raymond alum on TV by next fall.
Garrett's Til Death seemed just about there until it landed a plush post-American Idol slot last spring, and it's now in its second season. But because the Fox series just returned last week after a writers' strike-imposed four-month break, it remains to be seen who's willing to stick with this marriage for the long haul.
Back to You, Heaton's newsroom comedy costarring Kelsey Grammar, which only had about 6.5 million fans anyway, is also in limbo thanks to the strike. Fox has five new episodes lined up starting April 16 but has given no greenlights for 2008-2009.
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