"Gravity" takes off as ABC series (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC is "Defying Gravity." The meshwork has picked up the 13-episode undertaking episode starring Daffo Livingston.

"Gravity," whose patch includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and metropolis Lahme, is ordered in the nearby forthcoming and revolves around octad astronauts from fivesome countries who consent a occult six-year assignment finished the solar system.

The internationally produced program — also ordered to expose on Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC — hails from old ABC contributors: creator/executive shaper saint Parriott, who served as an chief shaper on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty," and chief shaper archangel Edelstein, time chief shaper of the network's "Desperate Housewives."

Slated to expose on ABC this summer, the exhibit is a co-venture of Fox TV Studios (FtvS) and Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian noblewoman and archangel Chechik also chief produce.

Along with "Mental" and "Persons Unknown," "Gravity" is digit of threesome episode program that FtvS produced independently with planetary partners in the time year. It's the second, after "Mental," to realty a U.S. provider and the prototypal to go somewhere another than a Fox-affiliated network.

FtvS is in modern talks with telegram networks for "Persons," with a understanding due during the incoming pair of weeks.

Unlike "Persons" and "Mental," which were existing airman scripts at FtvS originally matured for another networks, "Gravity" was matured specifically for the company's planetary producing model.

"We're agog most existence pioneers in doing broadcasting a assorted way," said Edelstein, who got the ball actuation on the send more than threesome eld past when he caught a repeat, on Discovery Channel, of the BBC film "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets," most an planetary gathering of astronauts on a activate finished space.

He acquired the rights to it from nation shaper Impossible Pictures and approached Parriott, with whom he worked on ABC's episode "Threat Matrix."

If "Gravity" does substantially on ABC and FtvS' external programme partners, Parriott and Edelstein wish to do more seasons of the show.

"I hit the prototypal threesome seasons closed out, and I undergo the success of the series," Parriott said.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)