ABC developing comedy about the (fake, unfortunately) Vice President
ABC is developing a series about a fictional U.S. Vice President, which will take the White House intrigue of The West Wing and swap it for the day-to-day drudgery of attending photo ops, sitting through state funerals, and trying not to say anything stupid. Unfortunately, it will not borrow a page from every modern TV show and present an alternate universe where the Vice President leads a double life as a super sexy spy who’s always ducking out of press conferences to go bust some terrorist chops with his bare hands. Instead, creators Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air) and teen idol turned TV writer Shaun Cassidy have pitched the show as a comedy focusing on the more mundane “office dynamics” and “underdog nature of the veep’s team,” according to Variety, which also calls it “the political equivalent of Glee.”