By Nellie Andreeva | Hollywood Reporter

Brad Garrett is in negotiations to star in Fox's comedy pilot 'Til Death.'

Sources said the Emmy-winning co-star of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" committed to the Sony Pictures TV project Friday.

On the feature side, Garrett is set to join the Warner Bros. romantic comedy "Music and Lyrics By," starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.

Fox's "Death" centers on a just-married young couple who move in next door to a long-married couple. Garrett would play the long-married husband.

Eddie Kaye Thomas of "American Pie" fame was previously cast as the newlywed guy.

'Til Death" was written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, creators of CBS' long-running blue-color comedy "The King of Queens," which for years ran in the same CBS Monday comedy block as the Emmy-winning "Raymond."

Fox and Sony on Sunday declined comment on the matter.

Additionally, "King of Queens" star Kevin James went on to topline his own sitcom after getting a break as a recurring on "Raymond," and Garrett guest-starred on "King of Queens" as his character from "Raymond," Ray Barone's (Ray Romano) sulky policeman brother.

Yuspa and Goldsmith are executive producing " 'Til Death."

Garrett and his managers, Glenn Robbins and Doug Wald of Raw Talent, also are expected to produce in some capacity.

After the final season of "Raymond," which earned Garrett his third Emmy for portraying Robert Barone, Garrett was in talks to topline a "Raymond" spinoff centered on his character, which he announced at the Emmy Awards in September.

But by November, the prospect for a new series went away.

Garrett is the second Emmy-winning "Raymond" star to topline a pilot this development season. Patricia Heaton plays the lead in an ABC comedy.

Garrett, who also received an Emmy nomination for his starring role in the CBS biopic "Gleason," also is repped by WMA and attorney Michael Gendler.