The pilot was written by Roberto Benabib, co-creator of The Brink, and will be co-produced and co-financed by CBS TV Studios along with Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television Studios.
The Wrap brings word that Oscar winner Ron Howard’s (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Solo: A Star Wars Story) dark comedy pilot 68 Whiskey has been ordered by Paramount Network.
Directed by Howard, the pilot is an adaptation of Charlie Golf One, an Israeli TV series.
Howard will also serve as executive producer alongside Grazer and Franci Calfo, the Imagine Television Group Chairman.