NBC Developing Peter Pan TV Series…as a Workplace Comedy

<p><strong>NBC<&sol;strong> currently has a live televised production of <strong><em>Peter Pan<&sol;em><&sol;strong> planned for this holiday&comma; but the network isn&&num;8217&semi;t done with the source material yet&period; Though not related to the upcoming live production&comma; the project entitled <strong><em>Wendy and Peter<&sol;em><&sol;strong> will place the title characters in a modern workplace setting&period; The recently ordered program will be a single camera production for a half-hour romantic comedy in which Wendy is all grown up and searching for a &&num;8220&semi;real man&period;&&num;8221&semi; Of course&comma; Peter refuses to grow up and Wendy ends up spending more time infatuated with flying lad for better or worse&period; Having recently been ordered&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s too soon to say who will be starring in the show and how much relation it&&num;8217&semi;ll have to the original source material&period; All we know for sure is that the executive producers will be <strong>Rashida Jones<&sol;strong> and <strong>Will McCormack<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obviously&comma; this would seem like an attempt by NBC to capitalize on the fairy tale craze what with <strong>ABC&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Once Upon A Time<&sol;em><&sol;strong> featuring several classic storybook characters &lpar;including Peter Pan&rpar;&period; As a concept&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s rather out there&comma; but could be funny if written and acted well enough&period; Good or bad&comma; it will certainly gain some initial attention as a more daring idea that will either be a comedy hit or a major disaster that will go down in the TV history books&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;slashfilm&period;com&sol;peter-pan-tv-show-wendy-nbc&sol;">Slashfilm<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;