Screenwriter Rob Sheridan will be testing the waters stateside this summer after he landed a blind pilot script deal with Warner Bros. Television for a half-hour comedy.

The Toronto-based scribe, who had a hand in Canuck TV hits including Corner Gas, Less Than Kind, Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Red Green Show, received a six-figure offer from the U.S. studio — which outbid Fox for a chance to work with Sheridan.

While he hopes to continue to work in Canada, Sheridan tells Playback Daily he jumped at the opportunity to ‘explore another arena.’

‘It’s not a case of my wanting to abandon [Canada] by any means, but at the same time, American television is something you grow up with when you live here and it’s a chance to see if I can play in that field a little bit,’ says Sheridan, who recently worked on CBC’s 18 to Life.

Sheridan began participating in several meet and greets with U.S. studio execs early this year after he signed with L.A.-based William Morris Endeavor Entertainment last November. The agency sent out samples of his work including two pilots he’d recently written: Everybody Has Cancer, crafted last year for Just For Laughs, and Stragglers, developed at Showcase several years ago.

Warner Bros. is behind such TV comedy hits as Friends, Two and a Half Men and the recent The Middle, starring Patricia Heaton and airing on ABC.

Sheridan says he’ll likely pitch Warner Bros. several ideas from which they’ll pick one to move forward with.

‘Whether or not this turns into a pilot down the road, obviously that’s the goal, but of course they commission more scripts than actually get shot, just as they shoot more pilots than actually get picked up,’ he adds.

In Canada, Sheridan is repped by Glenn Cockburn at Meridian Artists.