Deadline reports that CBS just ordered the pilot from a project that James Galdolfini was really passionated about before dying, Taxi-22.
This single-camera comedy is the first pilot that CBS picks up for the season 2014-2015, and it was supposed to be executive produced by James Gandolfini, who had reached a deal to work on it just two weeks before his death.
Gandolfini had tried to launch Taxi-22 before at HBO, but after three failed tries with three different writers, had inked a new deal with CBS and it was settled that he wouldn’t star on the show, just exec produce it.
After the actor’s death, his team decided to go forward with the project anyway, even though they declared they would ever “[fly] in the missing-man formation” from then on.
Taxi-22‘s plot is about “a misanthropic and politically incorrect NYC cab driver in the vein of Archie Bunker.”