Movie Academy Preident Tom Sherak To Produce Family Sitcom For ABC

EXCLUSIVE: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak is already in business with ABC over the broadcasting of the Academy Awards. Now he is adding to that producing duties on a family comedy project created and executive produced by High Fidelity scribe Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. ABC has just bought the pitch, We’ll Be Out By Christmas, which is based on real-life experiences by Sherak and his producer wife Madeleine when their daughter moved back into the family home with her three kids while her husband while getting his MBA. Tom and Madeleine Sherak will executive produce the hybrid comedy through their My Bench Prods., along with Tom’s son, producer William Sherak, and Jason Shuman through their Blue Star Entertainment. The Sheraks originally sold the pitch as a feature to Paramount in 2009 with different writers, Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan. Veteran film marketing and distribution executive Tom Sherak’s only producing credits to date are features Rent and The One, so this would mark his TV debut. UTA-repped Pink recently directed the 2010 movie Hot Tub Time Machine and produced Knight And Day. Morris is with WME and Art/Work Entertainment. My Bench and Blue Star were repped in the deal by attorney Scott Whitehead.