Rise and For God and Country have been picked up to series by NBC, according to Deadline.
Former How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor plays the lead role in Rise, which is based on the book Drama High, written by Michael Sokolove about his high school drama teacher Lou Volpe.
The show is written by Dean Georgaris who will executive produce For God and Country with Keshet’s Avi Nir, Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan.
Radnor will play Lou Mazzuchelli, who is a drama teacher, father of three and an English teacher in Pennsylvania.