Director Jesse McCarthy-Burns Endeavors Into Development With ABC Comedy project

EXCLUSIVE: Top TV director Jesse McCarthy-Burns is making her first foray into network development getting just one-camera comedy project at ABC through ABC Art galleries. Haught Mess, put together by Ellen Rapoport, is certainly a grownup family comedy devoted to some lady who's caught between her new boyfriend and her failure to convey “no” to her siblings and siblings and mother. Rapoport and McCarthy-Burns are executive creating, with McCarthy-Burns set to direct the chance pilot. The 2009 season, McCarthy-Burns directed 3 aircraft aircraft pilots, ABC’s Guy Up and Push The Button and Nickelodeon’s The Best Way To Rock, which visited series. McCarthy-Burns is much better recognized for her pointing concentrate on NBC’s Saturday Evening Live and 30 Rock, which has acquired her a complete of 6 Emmy nominations, most recently this year for your live 30 Rock. CAA reps McCarthy-Burns and Rapoport who's handled by Management 360. Also at ABC, the network has bought a comedy script from author Rob Lowell (Just Shoot Me) and Brillstein Entertainment, which produced the NBC workplace comedy. The ABC Art galleries project concentrates on a politically correct modern-day guy who's haunted with the ghost of his father a 19 fifties champion, who coaches him on existence and love. Lowell, JoAnn Alfano and Daniel Rappaport professional produce.