Administrator Toups Posted January 25, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2013 NBC: Untitled Greg Daniels/Craig Robinson comedy NBC has given the green light to a single-camera comedy from The Office developer/executive producer Greg Daniels starring The Office regular Craig Robinson and written by the show’s supervising producer Owen Ellickson. The untitled project centers on a talented musician (Robinson) with rough edges who adjusts to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school, where he encounters teacher politics and the temptations of single moms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 ABC: Influence Influence, from 20th Century Fox TV where [Kyle] Killen is under a deal, is described as a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometime turn their powers to pull strings on one another. Killen is the writer/executive producer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 ABC: Killer Women Killer Women, from ABC Studios, is based on the Argentine series Mujeres Asesinas. It centers on Molly Parker, the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers — a ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there. [Hannah] Shakespeare (The Playboy Club) wrote the script and is executive producing with [sofia] Vergara, [ben] Silverman, [Martin] Campbell and Luis Balaguer, Vergara’s producing partner at Latin World Entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 ABC: Doubt ABC has handed a pilot order to Doubt, a legal drama written and executive produced by [David] Shore. The project, from Sony TV where Shore is under a deal, centers on a former cop who’s now a cunning, but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 CW: Reign Reign, from CBS TV Studios, charts Mary Queen of Scots’ rise to power when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old, betrothed to Prince Francis, and with her three best friends as ladies-in-waiting. It details the secret history of survival at French Court amidst fierce foes, dark forces, and a world of sexual intrigue. [Writers/exec producers Stephanie Sengupta & Laurie McCarthy] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 CW: Oxygen Oxygen, written/exec produced by Meredith Averill, about an epic romance between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after they landed on Earth and were consigned to an internment camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 CW: The Hundred The CW has given the green light to sci-fi drama The Hundred. Written by Jason Rothenberg, The Hundred is set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 ABC: Untitled Cullen Brothers comedy The project centers on Terry Gannon, a recently divorced single mother who temporarily moves in with her estranged father [James Caan[, a beer-swilling former baseball player. She reluctantly starts coaching her son’s underdog Little League team and is drawn back into the world of sports she vowed to leave behind. In addition to writing, [Robb and Mark] Cullen are executive producing with Aaron Kaplan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 ABC: Spy The original series’ creator Simeon Goulden wrote the U.S. version, which had a put pilot commitment from ABC. ABC Studios and Hat Trick produce, with Goulden and Hat Trick’s Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams executive producing. Spy centers on a well intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son, who also happens to be his complete opposite, who inadvertently takes a job at the Secret Service in order to prove himself a worthy father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 FOX: Boomerang Fox has given a pilot order to Boomerang, a drama from John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros TV. Written by Davey Holmes (Awake), the project is about a family who serve as assassins for the federal government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 NBC: Untitled John Mulaney comedy NBC has given the green light to an untitled multi-camera comedy from Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney and SNL honcho Lorne Michaels. The project, produced by Universal TV, Michaels’ Broadway Video and 3 Arts, is a young ensemble comedy starring standup Mulaney that is loosely based on his life. Mulaney wrote the pilot, which he is executive producing with Michaels, Broadway’s Andrew Singer and 3 Arts’ Dave Becky and David Miner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 FOX: Untitled JJ Abrams/JH Wyman drama Days after the cult series ended its run, the network has given a pilot order to a new sci-fi drama from Fringe‘s J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman. The untitled Warner Bros. TV/Bad Robot-produced project is described as an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 NBC: Believe The high-concept Believe, which had a pilot production commitment, was written by [Alfonso] Cuarón and Mark Friedman (Home Of The Brave). It is about the unlikely relationship between a girl in possession of a great gift/powers — which will come into their own in seven years — and the man who is sprung from prison to protect her from those trying to hunt her down. Cuarón, Friedman, [JJ] Abrams and Bryan Burk are executive producing for Warner Bros TV and Abrams’ Bad Robot. Cuarón is attached to direct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 NBC: Undateable The multi-camera project, which had a script commitment with penalty, is based on the book Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating Or Having Sex, by Ellen Rakieten & Anne Coyle. Written by [Adam] Sztykiel with [bill] Lawrence supervising, it is described as a bromantic comedy about two very different guys who are bonded by their common inability to attract women. Sztykiel and Lawrence executive produce with Jeff Ingold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2013 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2013 NBC: I Am Victor NBC has given a pilot order to drama I Am Victor, from former House executive producer Katie Jacobs and bestselling Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbo. Written by Mark Goffman (Studio 60, The West Wing), the project, based on Nesbo’s book, has some of House‘s DNA as it is described as “House as a divorce attorney”. It centers on Victor Port, a high powered divorce attorney with a unique view of relationships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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