The CW Developing "Ze," Drama About Trans Teen From "Milk" Producer Michael London
The CW is tackling another letter in the LGBT alphabet with Ze, a new drama about a transgender female-to-male teen and his quirky family. Deadline reports the project comes from Obie-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow (A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant) and executive producer Michael London (Milk).
According to Deadline's description of the CW show, "a personal choice takes on controversial public significance when a Texas teenager announces she is transgender and will be living life as a boy." The title comes from the gender-nonspecific pronoun "ze," an alternate to "he" or "she."
London has previously produced Sideways, Smart People and the Visitor, and is currently working on A Visit From the Goon Squad for HBO. Jarrow (right) is also cooking up Inside, a Philip Seymour Hoffman cop show for FX, and Nowhere, an adventure drama for MTV.
