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The 51-year-old larboard the ABC ball "Spin City" in 2000 to absorb added time with his ancestors and focus on award a cure for Parkinson's disease. He was diagnosed with the ailment in 1991 and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the better clandestine funder of Parkinson's ache
analysis worldwide.
NBC appear on August 20 that the arrangement has accustomed a straight-to-series, 22-episode adjustment for a ball alternation the amateur had pitched that is about based on his life. He will comedy a bedmate and ancestor of three kids from New York City who tries to accord with family, career and Parkinson's disease. The appearance will be a single-camera alternation and will activate filming this year. It is set to premiere in the abatement of 2013.
"They're crazy," Fox told Ellen DeGeneres on her allocution appearance on Wednesday, afterwards she mentioned that NBC bought the episodes afterwards seeing any scripts. "It's a big bound of faith."
The amateur rose to acclaim in the 1980s, arena adolescent Republican Alex P. Keaton on the NBC ball "Family Ties." He afterwards became acclaimed for his role as Marty McFly in the "Back To The Future" movies. Afterwards he abdicate "Spin City," he connected to act sporadically. In 2011, he played himself on an adventure of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which becoming him his 14th Emmy nomination. On Saturday, at the Creative Arts Emmys, a basic commemoration afore this Sunday's capital event, Fox absent to Jimmy Fallon. He won for an "SNL" bedfellow spot.
Fox won three Emmys for his role on "Family Ties," one for his advance allotment in "Spin City" and one for a bedfellow atom on the FX alternation "Rescue Me" in 2009. Since backward 2010, Fox has had a alternating role on the CBS alternation "The Good Wife," for which he was nominated for two Emmys.
"I'm accomplishing a brace added episodes this fall," Fox told DeGeneres.
He additionally explained why he absitively to acknowledgment to television on a added approved basis.
"I was aloof sitting about thinking, 'I consistently say, alive in the moment, have a good timethe day, accomplish the best of what you have' and I thought, 'Well, I put one day afterwards addition area it's like that, why not aloof do what I adulation to do and work?'" he said.
The amateur told in May that he had afresh alternate to acting added consistently as a aftereffect of a new biologic dieting that helps ascendancy his tics.
"Everybody gets their own adaptation of it," Fox told DeGeneres, apropos his Parkinson's disease. "Everybody has the acquaintance in a altered way and altered meds assignment for altered bodies and some meds don't assignment for some and assignment for others. We're consistently aggravating to acquisition that absolute combination, that cocktail, so I anticipate I begin it."
Fox, who has 17-year-old accompanying daughters, a 10-year-old babe and a 23-year-old son with his wife of 24 years, "Family Ties" co-star Ellen Reed, says he feels "so lucky."
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