FX greenlights two drama pilots

February 11, 2009 "Lights," from "The Bucket List" writer Justin Zackham and Phillip Noyce, and the Yost project, based on an Elmore Leonard short story, mark the first pilot orders for FX since "Sons of Anarchy" got the nod in October 2007. "Lights," a drama from Fox TV Studios and FX Prods., centers on an aging former heavyweight boxing champion who struggles to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after his fighting days, leading him to accept reluctantly a job as an enforcer collecting debts. Added FtvS executive vp programming David Madden, "He is a guy who is used to thinking only with his fists and has to learn to think and deal with his emotions."

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