FX’s “Belated” Pilot Not Moving Forward

Disney’s FX has opted not to move forward with the comedy pilot, “Belated”, which starred Kal Penn, along with Ellie Taylor, Kaden Kearney, Amir Bageria and EaeMya ThynGi.

The half-hour comedy followed an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Sachin (Penn), a recently out man in his 40s, and Clay (Kearney), a 17-year-old trans teen, as Sachin and his ex-wife (Taylor) and children (Bageria and ThynGi) attempted to find their new normal.

The project was being created by Peter Tolan, who was the co-creator of “Rescue Me”, who had written, directed and produced the semi-autobiographical pilot.   It was also executive produced by Nick Alford.

No details were revealed to Variety on why the pilot didn’t get the go ahead to be made into a full series. Had the pilot gone ahead, we would have likely seen it released on Hulu in the United States and as a Star Original on Disney+ internationally.

FX has a number of other pilots currently in development including “English Teacher” and an untitled project from Lauren Ludwig.