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Get Ready for: "Frequency"
  'the series'

Picture Dennis Quaid in original movie
Get ready to share the airwaves Tim Allen.  The neighbors are buying a ham radio! 

Tim Allen plays Mike Baxter, the lead character on the ABC sitcom "Last Man Standing".  In the series Baxter is port-rayed as having amateur radio as his hobby.  

Although ham radio has only been briefly interjected into a few episodes it has been enough to endear the show to amateur operators everywhere.  The ARRL supplied amateur radio certificates and other assistance in dressing the set.  Tim Allen recently earned a Technician class license in real life.

Now it appears that ABC might be sharing the admiration of the amateur radio community with a neighboring network.

A just published article in The Hollywood Reporter has stated that NBC is looking to create a television series based on the 2000 New Line Cinema action - thriller movie "Frequency".

While amateur radio has only briefly been presented on "Last Man Standing" , it would almost certainly figure prominently into all of the scripts of "Frequency".

The original movie featured Jim Caviezel stumbling onto his late father's (Dennis Quaid)  60's era Heathkit transceiver and thru a quirk of nature associated with the aurora borealis is able to communicate 30 years back in time to his dead father.

It is reported that NBC has already issued a 'script plus penalty' commitment for the series. Jeremy Carver is writing the script for Warner Brothers Television and will also be the Executive Producer of the series.  Toby Emmerich who wrote the movie will be a co-producer.

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