Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 CBS: Applebaum Based on Ayelet Waldman’s Mommy Track Mysteries series of books, Applebaum, also from CBS Studios, centers on a former public defender who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom. Ayelet collaborated on the script with Jennifer Levin and Sherri Cooper. The 3 will executive produce with Chris Columbus, who will direct, and Michael Barnathan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 CBS: Quean Quean, written by [ilene] Chaiken, centers on an edgy and independent Millennial hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes. Chaiken and [Joel] Silver executive produce for Warner Bros. TV where Silver’s TV company is based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Malibu Country Malibu Country is a multicamera comedy starring the country star/actress as Reba who, after her “good ol boy” rock star husband cheats on her and burns through most of their money, divorces him and moves her family from Nashville to the only asset she has left — a little house in Malibu. There she’ll try to reignite her own singing career and keep herself and her three kids from being corrupted by the materialistic and rarefied Malibu world she now calls home. The project, which had a put pilot commitment, reunites McEntire with key auspices of her successful 2001 WB sitcom Reba. Former Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott wrote Malibu Country and executive produces with McEntire and former Reba executive producers McEntire, Mindy Schultheis & Michael Hanel. Also exec producing the sitcom are McEntire’s manager Narvel Blackstock; Dave Stewart, formerly of the Eurythmics; and Laura Ziskin Prods’ Pam Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Prairie Dogs Prairie Dogs, written/executive produced by Jackie Filgo & Jeff Filgo, centers on Neil, an uncool cubicle worker (“prairie dog”) at one of the coolest companies in the world, who becomes the victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief has created a much more fulfilling, kick ass life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Devious Maids Devious Maids is loosely based on the Mexican telenovela The Disorderly Maids Of The Neighborhood and centers on four Latina women who are maids in Beverly Hills. The original Televisa format revolves around five housekeepers who work in a quiet residential condominium where nothing ever happens until a tenant mysteriously disappears, a suitcase full of money appears, along with a dead body, and the maids find themselves in the middle of it all. Paradigm-repped Desperate Housewives creator [Marc] Cherry wrote the script and is exec producing the pilot with his Cherry/Wind Prods. partner Sabrina Wind, Televisa’s Michal Garcia and John Mass, Larry Shuman & David Lonner. ABC Studios is the studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Gotham Michael Green’s Gotham, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on a female cop who, after pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, discovers a magical world that exists within New York City.Kings creator and The River showrunner Green, repped by WME, is executive producing with his manager, 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Zero Hour Paul Scheuring’s Zero Hour, through ABC Studios, centers on a man who, in a bizarre twist of fate, is pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine. Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Dan McDermott are executive producing with Prison Break creator Scheuring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Red Widow (previously Penoza) [Melissa] Rosenberg’s Penoza, also from ABC Studios, is based on the Dutch format. It centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family. Endemol Studios, Alon Aranya and Howard Klein are attached to executive produce with UTA-repped Rosenberg, writer on the blockbuster Twilight movie franchise .Penoza was originally created by Pieter Bart Korthuis for Endemol’s NL Film & TV and producer Alain de Levita. The series is now in its second season on KRO in the Netherlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 NBC: Bad Girls ER, Third Watch and Southland executive producer John Wells is back at NBC with a new drama. The network has handed out a pilot pickup to Bad Girls, written by Nancy Pimental and executive produced by Wells. The project, based on the long-running UK hit series of the same name, follows the ins-and-outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates — some mothers, some friends — who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and the outside. Wells and Pimental are executive producing with John Wells Prods’ Andrew Stearn and original series’ producer Shed Media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 CW: Shelter Shelter, written by One Tree Hill creator/showrunner [Mark]Schwahn and produced by Warner Bros TV, is set at a historic New England summer resort where the new and returning staff attend to the practical, emotional and often comical needs of the guests while navigating friendships, rivalries and romances of their own. WME-repped [J.J.] Abrams and Schwahn are executive producing through their companies Bad Robot and Mastermind Laboratories, along with Bad Robot’s Bryan Burk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 CW: The Selection Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain’s The Selection which until recently had flown under the radar, also hails from WBTV. Based on the forthcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, it is described as an epic romance set 300 years in the future that centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 CW: Joey Dakota [bert] Royal’s romantic time-travel musical Joey Dakota is based on the successful Israeli half-hour series Danny Hollywood. It centers on a documentary filmmaker who travels back in time to the 1990s, where she meets and falls in love with the rock-star subject of her film. When she unexpectedly returns to present day, she must find her way back to the past to reunite with her love and prevent his untimely death.Easy A writer Royal penned the adaptation and is executive producing with Harmon, Eric & Kim Tannenbaum and Martha Haight for CBS TV Studios and studio based Harmon/-Tannenbaum Co., a production entity Harmon and the Tannenbaums use for their joint projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: American Judy ABC has started giving pilot orders to its starring comedy vehicles. First off is single-camera comedy American Judy toplined by Judy Greer and written by Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont. It centers on a cosmopolitan woman (Greer) who gets married and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs having to juggle step-kids, her mother-in-law, and the ex-wife of her husband who also happens to be the town sheriff. The project is inspired by Greer’s life, where she moved from Los Angeles for the man she loves and found herself raising stepchildren and making new friends in a small suburban town. ABC Studios is producing, with Greer producing and and Principato-Young’s David Gardner, Peter Principato and Paul Young executive producing alongside Kaplan and Elfont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 ABC: Scruples ABC has greenlighted to pilot drama Scruples, produced by former Imagine TV CEO-turned-feature director Tony Krantz and actress Natalie Portman. It is based on the 1978 bestselling book by Krantz’s mother, Beverly Hills novelist Judith Krantz, who also penned a sequel in 1992, and centers on a rich and powerful clothing designer in a world of sex, revenge and scandal. Bob Brush and Mel Harris wrote the adaptation and executive produce with Portman, her producing partner Annette Savitch and Krantz. Krantz’s Flame Ventures is producing with Warner Bros. TV, which has the rights to the property via the 1980 Scruples miniseries starring Lindsay Wagner, which it produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 4, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted March 4, 2012 FOX: Rebounding Steve Levitan is back at Fox. The network has picked up Rebounding, a single-camera comedy from the Modern Family co-creator, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, with Modern Family helmer Jason Winer on board to direct. The pilot order comes a couple of days after 20th Century Fox TV — where Levitan, Port and Wiseman are under overall deals — sent the comedy spec to the broadcast networks. Written by Port and Wiseman, Rebounding was inspired by Port’s real-life experiences. It is described as an uplifting comedy about a man recovering from the death of his fiance with the help of the idiots on his pick-up basketball team. Levitan, who has been very involved in the development of the project, was originally attached to direct but his schedule is not permitting, so Winer, who directed the pilot for Modern Family, will helm Rebounding, exec produced by Levitan, Port and Wiseman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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