{"id":234856,"date":"2025-09-17T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234856\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:21:12","slug":"rob-lowe-to-lead-comedy-the-ram-in-the-works-at-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234856\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe to Lead Comedy ‘The Ram’ in the Works at ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRob Lowe<\/a> is attached to lead a comedy series currently in development at ABC<\/a>, Variety has learned exclusively. <\/p>\n

\n\tTitled \u201cThe Ram,\u201d the show is said to be a \u201cworkplace romantic comedy in which Rob Lowe plays a daily sports talk show host who falls for the new producer brought in to boost his ratings,\u201d per the official logline. <\/p>\n

\n\tBetsy Thomas (\u201cMy Boys,\u201d \u201cMom\u201d), Bob Fisher (\u201cWedding Crashers,\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re the Millers\u201d), and Rob Greenberg (\u201cHow I Met Your Mother,\u201d \u201cFrasier\u201d) serve as writers and executive producers. Noted sports talk host Colin Cowherd will also executive produce along with Eric Tannebaum, Kim Tannenbaum, and Jason Wang of the Tannenbaum Co. as well as Peyton Manning<\/a>, Jamie Horowitz, andBen Brown via Omaha Productions. Lowe will executive produce in addition to starring. <\/p>\n

\n\t20th Television is the studio. Omaha Productions is currently under a first-look deal at 20th TV. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn TV, Lowe most recently starred in the Fox drama \u201c9-1-1: Lone Star\u201d for five seasons as well as the Netflix comedy \u201cUnstable.\u201d Lowe and his son, John Owen Lowe, were co-creators and stars of the latter series. His other major TV roles include \u201cThe West Wing,\u201d \u201cParks and Recreation,\u201d and \u201cBrothers and Sisters.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOmaha Productions was founded by Manning in 2020. In addition to their first-look deal at 20th TV, the company also has a wide-ranging partnership set at ESPN anchored around its \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d with Peyton and Eli Manning alternate telecast. Omaha is also behind the upcoming Hulu comedy series \u201cChad Powers\u201d starring Glen Powell, which is inspired by a segment from Eli Manning\u2019s series \u201cEli\u2019s Places.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLowe is repped by WME, Brillstein, Latham & Watkins and R&CPMK. Thomas is repped by Artists First, CAA, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman. Fisher is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Greenberg is repped by UTA. Cowherd is repped by Silver Tribe Media.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt present, ABC only has two scripted comedies in primetime \u2014 \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d and \u201cShifting Gears.\u201d The broadcaster is currently prepping a reboot of \u201cScrubs\u201d<\/a> that will see several original cast members return. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe is attached to lead a comedy series currently in development at ABC, Variety has learned exclusively.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8811,171,23612,45131,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-234856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-peyton-manning","11":"tag-rob-lowe","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115221973671785568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}