David Alan Grier to play the mayor in ABC comedy Prospect

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Grier, who starred last season on Fox's The Cool Kids, will play the mayor of a small town in the comedic western with a feminist twist. In Prospect, Hunter King plays an idealistic young woman who moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children. Grier will play the bigger than life Mayor Ambrose, whose a bit of a scoundrel but super charming with a good heart.