Former NFL Pro Good Morning America Host Michael Strahan is working with his SMAC Entertainment partner Constance Schwartz-Morini The Resident Executive producer Marc Halsey on a new ABC Medical series.
According to Varietythe “feel-good” drama, title The front line, revolves around Sebastian “Bass” Clark, a pro-athlete doctor who left the front line of the football field to start a new career on the front lines of health care as a medical resident. The series focuses on the bass and the other doctors and staff at a prestigious Pittsburgh hospital as they deal with high-stakes cases.
ABC has given a script commitment to the series, with Halsey on board as writer and exec producer. Strahan is also hired to co-produce with Schwartz-Morini and Thea Mann through their SMAC Entertainment banner.
The series is inspired by some real-life stories of NFL players transitioning into the medical field. This includes New York Jets guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who returned to his home province of Quebec in 2020 to work at CHSLD Gertrude-Lafrance as part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Duvernay-Tardif’s work was later profiled in a TSN documentary, also with the title Front Linn.
Other NFL stars who have medical careers include former Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs players Jean-Philippe Darch, Dr. James Bradley, who served as head team orthopedic surgeon of the Pittsburgh Steelers for 29 years, and Tennessee Titans Alum. . Myron Role.
Strahan spent 15 years with the New York Giants, winning the Super Bowl in 2007 and breaking the record for most NFL single-season quarterback sacks. After his football career, Strahan switched to television work, as an analyst Fox NFL Sunday and later as co-host of Good Morning America such as Live! I have Kelly and Michael from 2012 to 2016, for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards.
As part of Strahan’s SMAC Entertainment, he helped produce several shows, including the ABC game show $ 100,000 Pyramidwhich he also organizes, HBOs The cost of profit in the State Game: Luckan an Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild on TNT.
The front lineTBA, ABC
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