Kelsey Grammer to Star in NBC Drama Pops in Development

NBC is developing Pops, an emergency medicine drama starring Kelsey Grammer, who is also attached as an executive producer. The project is in development, and the supplied information does not indicate that the network has ordered it as a series. Danny Weiss, a writer and producer whose credits include Chicago Med, is writing the drama. Grammer is expected to play the title character, a man who changes careers later in life and joins the demanding world of emergency medicine, working alongside younger first responders. The project is inspired by Ed Levien, a Maryland resident who left a career in advertising to become an EMT in his 60s. Accounts of the project say Levien worked as an EMT for 12 years, beginning at age 64, and retired at 76 in 2025. His younger colleagues reportedly called him Pops. Levien is attached as an executive producer. Grammer, Weiss, Levien and Jordan McMahon are named as executive producers. Universal Television is the studio behind the project. No production schedule or series order was included in the available details, so the project remains at the development stage.