Ronald D. Moore, creator of Battlestar Galactica, is working on a new western for ABC.
Moore, who rose to prominence working on various iterations of the Star Trek franchise before rebooting Battlestar Galactica, has sold his pitch for Hangtown to ABC.
According to Deadline.com Moore will be working on the Sony Pictures TV production with his Caprica co-writer Matt Roberts.
Hangtown will follow three characters in an old west town; an instinctive crime-solving US Marshall, an East Coast Doctor who believes in forensic science, and a young woman writer trying to sell western crime stories to New York readers.
This is not the first time that Moore has tried to bring a western together for TV. Last year he worked on a remake of Wild Wild West for CBS, but the show was not picked up for a series.
Westerns seem to be very attractive to networks this year. ABC had to outbid rivals at NBC to secure Hangtown which will join Gunslinger as an ABC western in development. NBC still have their own western in development though in the form of Reconstruction.
Meanwhile TNT is developing 1880s set Gateway and AMC is nearly ready to go with its 1860s set Hell on Wheels.
