Michael Bay’s ‘The Last Ship’ gets series order from TNT

The Last Ship, a project that Transformers director Michael Bay is executive producing, has earned a series order from TNT.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, TNT ordered 10 episodes to be produced. It will start next month.

The series is based on the 1988 novel by William Brinkley. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the human population has been decimated. But Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoids the catastrophe and is left to deal with a world where only a handful of other people are left alive, notes The Wrap.

Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy) stars as Tom Chanler, the ship’s commanding officer. The character is married with three children.

The series is produced by Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Executive producers include Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, Hank Steinberg (Without A Trace) and Steven Kane. Other stars include Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Tracy Middendorf. U-571 director Jonathan Mostow helmed the pilot.

TNT is hosting its upfront presentation in New York next week and has already renewed Dallas.