NBC orders another Western script

The Western genre is ongoing to warm up in TV development circles as The new sony Pictures Television has offered NBC on the period drama from Rob Cassidy. Occur the 1840s, "The Frontier" concentrates on an assorted group who put down from Missouri with an adventure across an uncharted American landscape, following hopes for riches and reinvention in the western world. The restored curiosity about Westerns may come as AMC is placed to produce series "Hell on Wheels" and aircraft pilots from the&E and TNT derived fromderived in the genre will also be being considered. Cassidy ("Invasion") will executive produce "The Frontier" with Paul Frank and Thomas Schlamme, the helmer who's aboard to direct the pilot if it is purchased. The new sony is creating with Prospect Park. "Frontier" is really the 2nd Western NBC has arranged this year, developing the heels of the script purchased from Universal Media Galleries and also the "Friday Evening Lights" creating team of Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey and Liz Heldens that approaches the genre from the female perspective. ABC has additionally ordrered two Western scripts: another The new sony-offered "Hangtown" from Ron Moore and "Gunslinger" from David Zabel and ABC Galleries. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com