‘Royal Pains’ Update in the Works at NBC

NBC is looking to bring another former USA Network series into its fold.

The network is developing a sequel to Royal Pains, a medical dramedy that ran for eight seasons on USA from 2009-16. Mark Feuerstein, is set to reprise his role as Dr. Hank Lawson, a surgeon who joined his brother (Paulo Costanzo) as a concierge doctor for wealthy residents of the Hamptons, and will also be an executive producer.

Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch, a writer and executive producer on the original, are penning a script and will exec produce with Feuerstein and Rich Frank, who was also an EP on the USA series. The show comes from Universal Studio Group’s UCP.

The logline for the potential series reads, “Over a decade ago, Hank Lawson left a hospital to start a concierge practice in the Hamptons. Now, several years later and searching for a new purpose in life, Hank is about to embark on his biggest project yet.”

Royal Pains is the second former USA show to get a possible second life at NBC. The network is currently airing Suits LA, a spinoff of Suits that it ordered in the wake of the parent show becoming a streaming phenomenon in the second half of 2023. USA has mostly been out of the scripted series business in the 2020s, although it has an adaptation of John Grisham’s novel The Rainmaker on deck (and shares Chucky with sister network Syfy).

In addition to Feuerstein and Costanzo, Royal Pains also starred Reshma Shetty, Brooke D’Orsay, Jill Flint, Ben Shenkman and Campbell Scott. Feuerstein is the only actor attached to the NBC project so far.

Deadline first reported the news.