Canadian indie producer Less Bland Productions has optioned the Dan Needle’s play Ed’s Garage to develop a TV series.

“Ed’s Garage is a brilliant and hilarious play written by one of this country’s finest writers, with wonderfully rich and interesting characters and a premise that is perfectly suited to television,” said Less Bland creative director Ian Ferguson in a statement.

Executive producer Leslie D. Bland in his own statement said he thinks Ed’s Garage has the potential to be “the next great Canadian sitcom,” along the lines of Corner Gas.

The comedy is set in the rural town of Port Petunia, and centres on a former farmer, who is also a part-time mechanic and unofficial community counsellor, offering sage advice while fixing people’s cars. Then an urban psychotherapist sets up a private practice next door and upsets the balance.

Needles, a 2003 Stephen Leacock Medal-winner, is the creator of the Wingfield series of plays.

Victoria-based Less Bland Productions recently wrapped production on She Kills Me for APTN, and is slated to begin shooting the feature doc Gone South: How Canada invented Hollywood in L.A. this fall.