NBC gives series order for Ryan Murphy’s Comedy

NBC has ordered a series for a comedy from Glee’s Ryan Murphy and a drama from J.J. Abrams.

The New Normal is the comedy series from Murphy and Glee scribe Ali Adler which revolves around a blended family of a gay couple (Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha) and the woman (Georgia King) who becomes surrogate for them as they grow their family. Ellen Barkin will be co-staring with Nene Leakes on board as recurring star.

It will be single camera comedy from 20th Television and it will Murphy’s fourth series on air along with Fox’s Glee, Oxygen’s The Glee Project and FX’s American Horror Story.

NBC has also offered green signal for Revolution, an adventure drama from J.J.
Abrams and Supernatural’s Eric Kripke. It will be an epic adventure thriller revolving around a family struggling to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape; a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology—planes, computers, phones, cars, even lights are mysteriously absent.

In this thriller, Twilight’s Billy Burke will star with David Lyons, Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiradakos, Graham Rogers, Anna Lise Phillips, Tim Guinee, Andrea Roth, JD Pardo, and Zak Orth.