TNT Greenlights Medical Drama Pilot From David E. Kelley And Sanjay Gupta

EXCLUSIVE: In David E. Kelley’s first foray into cable, TNT has given an airplane pilot order to a different medical drama in the Practice creator and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Kelley authored the script for that project, tentatively entitled Chelsea General, according to Gupta’s approaching novel Monday Morning. Kelley and Gupta, who's a practicing neurosurgeon, are executive creating. Chelsea General promises to become a wise, witty and very effective medical drama, the type of series David E. Kelley is famous to make, stated Michael Wright, EVP and mind of programming for TNT, The best spinner's and Turner Classic Movies. We anticipate dealing with David and Sanjay in getting the doctors fascinating tales and figures to television. Set to become released in March 2012, Guptas Monday Morning is placed at Chelsea General and follows the lives of 5 surgeons because they push the limits of the capabilities and confront their personal and professional foibles. It uses since it's backdrop the hospitals Monday Morbidity and Mortality conference, considered the majority of secretive meeting in most of drugs, where doctors gather for any private overview of complications and errors in patient care. It analyzes how surgeons be prepared for mistakes and then try to grow from them. Chelsea General is Kelley’s first project like a free agent. The Emmy-winning author-producer elected to not renew his overall deal at Warner Bros. TV in May so he is able to pursue passion projects in various areas, including cable. This marks Kelley’s go back to the medical genre 17 years after he produced CBS’ Chicago Hope. Kelley, repped by WME and attorney Michael Gendler, is constantly on the executive produce his NBC/WBTV sophomore legal dramedy Harry’s Law, which lately received a complete-season order. Chelsea General joins two other recent pilot orders from TNT, Western Gateway from Warner Horizon and check-and-save procedural Scent from the Missing from CBS TV Galleries.