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EXCLUSIVE: ABC, the network of Grey’s Anatomy, is developing Vital Signs, a show about a fan of a Grey’s-esque medical drama who gets to live in it. The project, which attracted multiple offers before landing at ABC, comes from Grand Hotel creator/executive producer Brian Tanen, 20th Television and Kapital Entertainment.
Written by Tanen, Vital Signs is described as a reinvention of the medical show that asks: what if your favorite TV escape became your reality?
Its heroine, Emmy Correll, is in a rut. She wishes her dull, disappointing life was more like her favorite medical drama Vital Signs – where the characters are life-saving heroes with endlessly exciting love lives. But when Emmy’s wish comes true, and she is transported INTO the show, she must confront whether this new life is what she truly wants. Waking up in a TV show is disorienting! Especially because in this world, Emmy is apparently a newly hired doctor. But once she gets over the shock, she realizes she’s seen every episode; and she knows what’s going to happen. And that means here, in this world, she’s kind of a genius.
Tanen executive produces alongside Kapital’s Aaron Kaplan. Dylan Hammalian oversees for Kapital.
Vital Signs extends Tanen’s long relationship with ABC/Disney. Early on, he worked on such series as ABC’s Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives and Lifetime’s Devious Maids — all produced by ABC Studios. He went on to develop and executive produced the ABC/ABC Studios drama Grand Hotel based on the Spanish series Gran Hotel. He also served as co-showrunner/executive producer on Love, Victor for the Hulu/20th Television series’ three-season run. (ABC Studios, which subsequently was rebranded as ABC Signature, was recently folded into Disney TV Studios sibling 20th Television.)
Tanen is repped by UTA and attorneys Bryan Swatt and Ken Richman .
