Sunny in Philadelphia creators to helm new Fox sitcom

March has been a great month so far for cult-comedy fans, and it's only getting brighter with the news (reported by Variety) that Twentieth Century Fox TV has given the go-ahead to a new sitcom to be executive produced by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creators and stars Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, who inked a two-year overall contract with Fox.

The new show, Boldly Going Nowhere, centers on an intergalactic spaceship captain and how he copes with his off-duty hours spent among the norms. The idea for Nowhere sprung from an unlikely source: the Sunny guys' writing assistant, Adam Stein, who will receive a writing credit on the new single-camera, half-hour show.

So where does that leave the painfully unlovable (yet wonderfully watchable) gang from Philadelphia? Day, McElhenney and Howerton will spend this summer shooting the fourth and final season of the FX comedy before beginning work on Nowhere, in which the three will not star.

"We didn't want to step on anyone's toes or shoot ourselves in the foot for neglecting our duties on Sunny," McElhenney told Variety. "It's what got us here in the first place, we're proud of it, and our faces are all over it."

Related links:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia official site
Sunny on MySpace
Entertainment Weekly: Rob McElhenney Q&A

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