The great snowy plains of Donald Sutherland will be confined to the small screen and littered with metaphorical beer bottles, reports Deadline, as the actor has just signed on to co-star in Fox’s pilot Living Loaded, from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell. The single-camera comedy stars Mike Vogel—suggesting word on Pan Am’s official cancellation is due any day now—as a “loose, partying blogger” who writes for a website called Living Loaded, and who is forced to reform his hard-partying blogger ways when he becomes an NPR host at a public radio station run by his dad, played by Sutherland. Indeed, were there anything that could cause we average bloggers to knock it off with all of the partying, it would be the cold, judgmental silences of Donald Sutherland.
Anyway, Living Loaded is based on Dan Dunn’s novel of the same name, making this the second attempt to get Sutherland into a book-based sitcom, after he co-starred in A.J. Jacobs’ quickly scrapped My Life As An Experiment. And hopefully the Sunny team read Jacobs’ article about how Sutherland “requires a certain brand of Swiss underwear be supplied to him on the set,” otherwise this could end up equally rocky.