NBC Greenlights Wendi McLendon-Covey Comedy Series ‘St. Denis Medical’
thewrap.com“St. Denis Medical” Friday, which will bring the actress back to primetime shortly after wrapping a 10-season run on ABC’s “The Goldbergs.” The mockumentary-style show from “Superstore” writers Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin follows “an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors and nurses try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity,” per the show’s official logline.
McClendon-Covey stars as Joyce, the hospital’s administrator. The show also stars David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Mekki Leeper and Kahyun Kim. “Hospitals are funny.
They don’t mean to be, and they may not be funny if it’s happening to you, but a lot of funny things happen in hospitals,” McLendon-Covey told TheWrap of the role in a recent interview. “This would be kind of like, ‘The Office’ but in a hospital setting.”Ruben Fleischer directed the pilot episode for “St.
Denis Medical.” Spitzer will executive produce the show through his Universal TV-based Spitzer Holding Company alongside Ledgin and Simon Heuer, Head of TV Development at Spitzer Holding Company.
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