ABC has greenlit Boundaries, a one-hour comedy pilot from director/producer J.J. Abrams, to be written by Grey’s Anatomy writer-producer Jill Soloway, who will also produce.

The show is about a failing cable access psychologist who rediscovers her true purpose when she is forced to take a job as a mobile notary.

It is the first major broadcast project to stem from Abrams’ six-year deal, signed in 2006, between his Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV. A previous pilot, medical drama The Anatomy of Hope, based on Jerome Groopman’s book, went to HBO earlier this year.

Abrams has worked extensively with ABC as executive producer of the series Lost, Alias, What About Brian, and Six Degrees. He is currently developing a new Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures.

Soloway, a former writer-producer for Six Feet Under, is working on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy as a consulting producer. During her three-year stint on Six Feet, she earned three best drama series Emmy nominations as part of the show’s producing team.

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J. J. Abrams, the 40-year-old writer-producer who co-created ABC’s Lost and went on to direct Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 3, has signed separate deals with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. TV that together are worth more than $55 million, published reports said over the weekend.

The two deals make Abrams, in the words of today’s (Monday) Los Angeles Times, “one of the entertainment industry’s most highly paid auteurs.” Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. TV, told the Times that “an opportunity presented itself” to woo Abrams away from Disney “and we went for it.” Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey added that he believes Abrams will become “the next Steven Spielberg” and called him “a triple threat: a great writer, producer and now, a first-class movie director.” His first assignment for Paramount, the Times said, is likely to be a film that will revive the Star Trek franchise.