TBS Orders Pilot from Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley

ATLANTA: TBS has ordered the half-hour comedy pilot Sullivan and Son, which stars Steve Byrne and is executive produced by Vince Vaughn (The Break Up) and Peter Billingsley (Iron Man).

The project is from Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Productions and Warner Horizon Television. Byrne is writing the pilot with executive producer/showrunner Rob Long (Cheers).

The series takes place in a neighborhood bar in a working-class part of Pittsburgh. Byrne plays Steve Sullivan, the son of the current owner and the grandson of the bar’s founder. He leaves his job as a successful corporate attorney in New York to return to his old neighborhood and take over the bar.