Ray Romano on TNT

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Ray Romano and Mike Royce, partners in the Emmy-winning ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ will write and executive-produce a pilot, ‘Men of a Certain Age,’ for TNT, the network announced Monday. Romano will also star in the project as a divorced father and one of three longtime friends approaching midlife.

The project is the latest in TNT’s new push to expand its weekday prime-time schedule with original scripted dramas. The cable network has green-lighted ‘Raising the Bar,’ a Steven Bochco project starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben and Jand Kaczmarek, and ‘Truth in Advertising,’ a series by the team behind its biggest hit, ‘The Closer.’

--Lynn Smith