Rob Reiner is poised to return to the small screen.
The writer and director's period drama The Tap has been picked up to pilot at USA Network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Tap is set at Yale University circa 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution -- a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and the arrival of the first female students. Three students struggle to find their true identities, including the ambitious and self-consciously conservative Jay, who desperately aspires to join the powerful secret society of Skull and Bones; Michelle, a strong minded feminist who has difficulty finding her community at the predominantly male institution; and Gloria, a student who’d prefer to focus on her education rather than involve herself in racial politics.
The pilot hails from writers Andrew Lenchewski (Royal Pains) and Aaron Tracy (Law & Order: SVU). Lenchewski will exec produce with Reiner and Alan Greisman of Reiner/Greisman and Charlie Ebersol (The Profit). Tracy will serve as a co-executive producer on the drama, which hails from Universal Cable Productions.
The Tap marks the second pilot order for USA Network as part of its 2016-17 development season. Damnation is also a period drama, but instead focuses on the American heartland during the 1930s.
The writer and director's period drama The Tap has been picked up to pilot at USA Network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Tap is set at Yale University circa 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution -- a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and the arrival of the first female students. Three students struggle to find their true identities, including the ambitious and self-consciously conservative Jay, who desperately aspires to join the powerful secret society of Skull and Bones; Michelle, a strong minded feminist who has difficulty finding her community at the predominantly male institution; and Gloria, a student who’d prefer to focus on her education rather than involve herself in racial politics.
The pilot hails from writers Andrew Lenchewski (Royal Pains) and Aaron Tracy (Law & Order: SVU). Lenchewski will exec produce with Reiner and Alan Greisman of Reiner/Greisman and Charlie Ebersol (The Profit). Tracy will serve as a co-executive producer on the drama, which hails from Universal Cable Productions.
The Tap marks the second pilot order for USA Network as part of its 2016-17 development season. Damnation is also a period drama, but instead focuses on the American heartland during the 1930s.
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