ABC Greenlights The Call

November 13, 2006 World Screen

LOS ANGELES, November 13:
The ABC Network has picked up a real-time medical-comedy project from the
creators of 24.

The project, whose name is
The Call, focuses on two
paramedics who are best friends and go about saving people’s lives while
messing up each other’s. It is based on an idea from Joel Surnow and Bob
Cochran, who also created the hit drama 24. The episodes of The Call
will be self-contained, and not serialized as they are in 24.

According
to The Hollywood Reporter, The
Call will be written by Dave
Hemingson, creator of the FOX comedy Kitchen Confidential.