{"id":4976,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2013\/05\/31\/tracey-morgan-tapped-for-fx-comedy-pilot\/"},"modified":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","slug":"tracey-morgan-tapped-for-fx-comedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/tracey-morgan-tapped-for-fx-comedy-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Morgan Tapped for FX Comedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LOS ANGELES: Tracey Morgan (<em>30 Rock<\/em>) has signed on to star in the FX&nbsp;Networks comedy pilot <em>Death Pact<\/em>, from Rob Long and Tad Safran. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><em>Death Pact<\/em>, produced by FX&nbsp;Productions, was co-created by Long (<em>Sullivan &amp; Son<\/em>, <em>Cheers<\/em>) and Safran (<em>The Long Weekend<\/em>). Morgan will star as a formerly lazy pot-dealing assistant high school coach, who returns to his hometown as a decorated war hero. He winds up involving three down-on-their-luck friends and former students in his new radical self-help philosophy. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&ldquo;Needless to say anything starring Tracy Morgan could be off-the-charts hilarious and we&rsquo;re betting this one is,&rdquo; said Nick Grad, the executive VP of original programming and development at FX. &ldquo;Rob Long, Tad Safran, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum have delivered a terrific starring vehicle for Tracy. We look forward to casting the other three co-stars and getting started with production. This is going to be fun.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Tracey Morgan (30 Rock) has signed on to star in the FX&nbsp;Networks comedy pilot Death Pact, from Rob Long and Tad Safran. 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