FOX Scores New FtvS Show

LOS ANGELES: A new series from the creator of USA Network’s hit show Burn Notice that will be produced under Fox Television Studios’ international co-production model has landed on the FOX network.

FOX has ordered 13 episodes of Jack and Dan, which is from creator and executive producer Matt Dix and executive producer Mikkel Bondesen. It centers on Jack, an ambitious, by-the-book cop, who is partnered with Dan, a drunken, lecherous, wild-card cop who hangs onto his job only because of a heroic act in his past. Unlike FtvS’s previous international co-pros, Jack and Dan will be pitched to the worldwide market with a U.S. partner already attached; Mental, Defying Gravity and Persons Unknown all landed U.S. placement (FOX, ABC and NBC, respectively) after international broadcasters had come on board.

Nix said of his new creation: "It’s not a comedic whodunit. It’s an action comedy cop show that follows both the cops and the criminals and the ways they come together. The fun is seeing how they clash, and that doesn’t happen in the conventional procedural ways."