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Tim Minear lands pilot at ABC

by Anna Johns, posted Aug 28th 2007 2:02PM

tim minearTim Minear's next project will be at ABC. The network just won a lengthy bidding war with Fox for Minear's new show, Miracle Man. Minear created it with Emmy winning producer Todd Holland, who also created Wonderfalls with Minear. Miracle Man "centers on a disgraced former televangelist, a man of no faith, who finds that God is using him to perform real miracles and change lives, starting with his own", according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Minear has a lot of fans out there for many of his short-lived shows, including Drive, Wonderfalls, and Firefly. For Miracle Man, Minear is reaching back to his upbringing for material. He grew up in an evangelical family and his father works for religious radio. Minear says the series is not an attack on religion.

So far, ABC has just made a pilot commitment to Miracle Man.

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jsm

TB - as my wife refers to, my "man crush" I will pretty much watch him in any role - and I don't watch too much pilot TV anymore. He is the very definition of a 21st century man's man - none of this metrosexual (on the one hand) or Fred Thompson (on the other) bull crap. And Damn if Harrison Ford hasn't let us all down.

August 29 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Brady

JSM, I would absolutely watch Nathan Fillion in that role!

August 29 2007 at 9:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonny Rice

Oh, come on guys. Even if it lasts only five or six episodes, that's fix or six episodes of quality Minear/Holland goodness. If we're lucky, Pushing Daisies will be a hit, and ABC will use its night to launch Minear's new series (a guy can dream, right?). I'll be looking forward to see if it lands on ABC's schedule.

August 28 2007 at 10:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jennifer

Time to place your bets on how many shows air before cancellation...

August 28 2007 at 5:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YouFaceTheTick

Uh, this was already a movie with steve martin. Lame. Almost as lame as that idiotic Quantum Leap rip/off called Journeyman.

August 28 2007 at 4:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jsm

With Nathan Fillion in the role of the miracle man, of course.

August 28 2007 at 4:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Teddy

This sounds ("Highway to Heaven") like it's going ("Touched by an Angel") to be really ("Joan of Arcadia") original (Steve Martin in "Leap of Faith").

August 28 2007 at 3:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lemon Lyman

Good for him! Maybe ABC won't pull the plug as fast as FOX did with all his other shows... Drive kinda sucked, but the guy's a really talented writer.

August 28 2007 at 2:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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