News: Shondaland Sells Third Show to ABC

Shondaland, Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes’s production company, is taking a different take on the medical drama genre with a drama from Grey’s Anatomy co-executive producer Zoanne Clack, now set up at ABC. Written by Clark, the project centers on a U.S. Army Medevac (medical evacuation) team whose job it is to save lives while risking their own. They operate out of an oddly Americanized base camp in Baghdad circa 2004, where they get on each others’ nerves, sleep with the wrong people, navigate “office” politics and party like there’s no tomorrow. Clark executive produces with Shondaland’s Rhimes and Betsy Beers.

Clack has medical background that extends to overseas emergency operations. She attended medical school at UT Southwestern before doing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Emory University. She also has a Masters of Public Health in Behavioral Sciences and spent a year working with the Center for Disease Control in international emergency medicine. There, she helped develop an emergency medicine program in response to the bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and played a part in expanding emergency medicine to the Pacific island of Palau. Since switching to a writing career, Clack has worked on Presidio Med, ER and Grey’s Anatomy.

She is represented by CAA and Circle of Confusion.

Shondaland has now sold three shows to ABC this season, including comedy Splitsville and a convent-set drama from Alison Schapker. 

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Source: Deadline