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[ivysaur12]

So what I'm taking from all this is we can send IRL Ivysaur or movie scripts and he will market them and move them as his own and become a big cheese on the backs of us little people with bad ideas for movies.

Nope. I'm gonna be the best boss.

No one gets to complain about lunch. No one.

 

[beat]

Nope. I'm gonna be the best boss.

No one gets to complain about lunch. No one.

Does that mean you're gonna do lunch like Phil Rosenthal?

 

[ivysaur12]

Does that mean you're gonna do lunch like Phil Rosenthal?

I would probably do it like Shonda. 1 hour lunch break, everyone gives their receipts at the end of the week to the PA. IF WE'RE BEING SPECIFIC.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Discovery Orders Mafia Drama Series

Discovery Communications has picked up The Five Families, a scripted series from Irwin Winkler and Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas). Written by Pileggi, the project is based on the real figures and actual events in the history of the famed five organized crime families of New York: Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno and Colombo.

 

[TheOddOne]

Discovery Orders Mafia Drama Series

What.

 

[ivysaur12]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

 

[TheOddOne]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

oooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[King Allant]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

ooooh wonder what show it is that could hype you this much

And I take back what I said, you won't hear about it for a while. Same thing as with that new show at Netflix.

Oh my god I cried during this pitch I'm so happy we worked so hard hashtag weeping.

 

[ivysaur12]

And I take back what I said, you won't hear about it for a while. Same thing as with that new show at Netflix.

Oh my god I cried during this pitch I'm so happy we worked so hard hashtag weeping.

 

[backflip10019]

And I take back what I said, you won't hear about it for a while. Same thing as with that new show at Netflix.

Oh my god I cried during this pitch I'm so happy we worked so hard hashtag weeping.

Way to rub it in

 

[ivysaur12]

Way to rub it in

I didn't read the full email! Blame the woman in business affairs whose name sounds way too similar to Eva Braun.

EDIT: HAH 5 MONTHS. Oh my god. See you all then

lolololololol BA you're silly

 

[maquiladora]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

An old British show or recent/current?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

And I take back what I said, you won't hear about it for a while.

Boo.

Same thing as with that new show at Netflix.

The one from the Damages creators?

Oh my god I cried during this pitch I'm so happy we worked so hard hashtag weeping.

Is this the one you helped write?

 

[ivysaur12]

Boo.



The one from the Damages creators?



Is this the one you helped write?

Writing, no. Heavy hand in pushing/helping with it/giving notes. I wrote the mythology document which we put together to let Sony know that they should give us the property. I'm really proud of it. The guy who wrote it is awesome and super talented (he wrote Black Swan, jesus christ) and the pitch brought me to tears.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Writing, no. Heavy hand in pushing/helping with it/giving notes. I wrote the mythology document which we put together to let Sony know that they should give us the property. I'm really proud of it. The guy who wrote it is awesome and super talented (he wrote Black Swan, jesus christ) and the pitch brought me to tears.

Aww, that's great. Will the documents leak online so we can read them or will we have to make due with what's officially released?

 

[ivysaur12]

Aww, that's great. Will the documents leak online so we can read them or will we have to make due with what's officially released?

What's due. Hey, maybe email me when it breaks... in 5 months.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

Can you talk about it at all?

 

[Hours Left]

You should all hear about it, soon?

But...

MY FAVORITE PROJECT JUST SOLD YES YES YES! REMAKE OF A BRITISH SHOW WITH THE WRITER FROM BLACK SWAN YES!

Downton Abbey set in Beverly Hills? (On The CW of course.)

 

[TheOddOne]

Eliza Coupe to Star in USA Comedy Pilot 'Benched'

USA Network is adding to its comedy offerings.

The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has picked up pilot presentation Benched, starring Happy Endings alum Eliza Coupe, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The half-hour comedy hails from writers/exec producers Michaela Watkins (Saturday Night Live), Damon Jones (The Groundlings) and John Enbom (Party Down), the latter of whom will serve as showrunner. Prolific producer Mark Gordon (Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan) is on board as an EP alongside Andrea Shay for The Mark Gordon Co. The comedy hails from ABC Studios' recently launched boutique division, ABC Signature.

 

[ivysaur12]

Eliza Coupe to Star in USA Comedy Pilot 'Benched'

Knee jerk: if they wanted Eliza Coupe, they should've picked up Happy Endings last spring.
Measured response: Yay!

Also ew Mark Gordon.

 

[Tucah]

Knee jerk: if they wanted Eliza Coupe, they should've picked up Happy Endings last spring.
Measured response: Yay!

This was my exact reaction. Happy to see any of the Happy Endings cast get work, though I'd like it if they got work together.

 

[beat]

Also ew Mark Gordon.

Yeah but JOHN ENBOM! He gets a (near) lifetime pass for Party Down.

 

[TripOpt55]

I love Eliza Coupe for both Happy Endings and Scrubs. Will try anything she's in.

 

[maxcriden]

Yeah but JOHN ENBOM! He gets a (near) lifetime pass for Party Down.

Not to mention Veronica Mars!

Also, anyone looking forward to Dracula this week? The Daniel Knauf showrunning is the reason I am. Reviews so far are middling, but Carnivale took a while to really get going.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Also, anyone looking forward to Dracula this week? The Daniel Knauf showrunning is the reason I am. Reviews so far are middling, but Carnivale took a while to really get going.

Yep. There's even a thread for it!

 

[maxcriden]

Yep. There's even a thread for it!

Whoops! Thank you.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘12 Years A Slave’ Director Steve McQueen Sets Provocative Drama Project At HBO

McQueen has teamed with World War Z co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan, hip-hop mogul/producer Russell Simmons and Oscar-winning producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech) on the drama project, which is in development at HBO.

Co-written by McQueen and Carnahan and to be directed by McQueen, the untitled drama is carrying McQueen’s signature style of provocative filmmaking and is described as an exploration of a young African-American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems. We hear the project, described by some as “Six Degrees Of Separation meets Shame“, is being fast tracked, with casting choices already being explored for a potential shoot before McQueen starts his next movie.

 

[TheOddOne]

I'm listening.

HBO man, HBO.

 

[ivysaur12]

‘12 Years A Slave’ Director Steve McQueen Sets Provocative Drama Project At HBO

Oh my.

 

[Cornballer]

Press release via TVbtN: Starz Developing Drama Series 'WonderWorld' With Owen Wilson, Rene Balcer, Fred Berner & Regina Lee

Starz Chief Executive Officer, Chris Albrecht, announced today that STARZ has put into development a new hour-long scripted drama “WonderWorld,” with Owen Wilson, Rene Balcer, Fred Berner, and Regina Lee. Set in Ronald Reagan's America and inspired by one of the biggest undercover operations in FBI history, “WonderWorld” follows two straight-Arrow FBI agents as they infiltrate the violent Mob-controlled porn industry of the 1980s, with dire consequences for themselves and their families.

 

[TheOddOne]

Press release via TVbtN: Starz Developing Drama Series 'WonderWorld' With Owen Wilson, Rene Balcer, Fred Berner & Regina Lee

Everybody is going TV.

 

[beat]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/tina-fey-sold-nbc-another-comedy-starring-ellie-ke,105004/

Tina Fey sold NBC another comedy starring Ellie Kemper

[...] The network has given a straight-to-series, 13-episode order to Fey's new series co-created with 30 Rock's Robert Carlock, about a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and moves to New York--the city where the sitcoms are, and definitely no looming sense of apocalyptic doom. [...] This as-yet-untitled show joins Fey and Carlock's comedy about an all-girls college over at Fox, their other potential NBC show set on Fire Island, and pretty much anything else they can come up with between now and the end of the year.

Go Fey! and go Kemper! And go making shows in New York.

 

[beat]

Press release via TVbtN: Starz Developing Drama Series 'WonderWorld' With Owen Wilson, Rene Balcer, Fred Berner & Regina Lee

Sean O'Neal is a national treasure:

Starz has picked up WonderWorld, a new series about the "Mob-controlled porn industry of the 1980s," and a drama that brings together all of Starz's interests--period settings, the mafia, ample opportunity for nudity--in one magic place.

 

[tmarques]

So no one picked the new Lucy Ball's show? How's that even possible?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Sean O'Neal is a national treasure:

Starz has picked up WonderWorld, a new series about the "Mob-controlled porn industry of the 1980s," and a drama that brings together all of Starz's interests--period settings, the mafia, ample opportunity for nudity--in one magic place.

Sounds awesome!

 

[Cornballer]

- Deadline: Aaron Stanford & Amanda Schull To Topline Syfy’s ’12 Monkeys’ Pilot, Jeffrey Reiner To Direct, Natalie Chaidez To Showrun

Nikita co-star Aaron Stanford and Suits recurring player Amanda Schull have been cast as the leads of 12 Monkeys, Syfy’s drama pilot based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam movie starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. Natalie Chaidez (In Plain Sight) has joined the project as executive producer/showrunner and Jeffrey Reiner (Helix) as director/executive producer. Produced by Universal Cable Prods. and the movie’s producer Atlas Entertainment, 12 Monkeys follows the journey of Cole (Stanford), a desperate and haunted time traveler from the post-apocalyptic near future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race. Schull, repped by Innovative Artists and Sweeney Entertainment, will play Cassandra Railly, a brilliant doctor who is forced to choose between her idyllic life or joining Cole’s mission to uncover the dangerous conspiracy. Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett wrote the script and co-executive produce. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Richard Suckle executive produce. Filming is slated to begin in December in Detroit.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Hourman Added to The CW's Superhero Roster

The network that brought you Arrow is developing Hourman, a drama based on a DC Comics character who can see flashes of terrible things that will happen an hour in the future, TVLine has confirmed.

Starz Developing Half-Hour Scripted Dramedy Series 'Heartbeats'

STARZ has put into development a new half-hour scripted dramedy, “Heartbeats,” from Hypnotic’s Doug Liman and Dave Bartis, Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and writers Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan. “Heartbeats” is an intimate glimpse into the constantly intersecting and diverging lives of Bobby and Kristen; two down-to-Earth individuals who would be perfect for each other, if only they had met at a different time. “Heartbeats” will explore their story with an episode format that focuses alternatingly on Bobby and Kristen.

History To Remake Iconic ‘Roots’ Miniseries

The cable network is planning a new eight-hour Roots miniseries after acquiring rights to the 12-hour original from Mark Wolper, son of Roots executive producer, the late David L. Wolper, and to the book the mini was based on, Roots: The Saga Of An American Family, from the estate of author Alex Haley.

 

[WarrenMax007]

TBS Orders Steve Carell's Tribeca

TBS has collared Tribeca, a comedy pilot written and produced by Steve Carell and his wife Nancy, TVLine has learned.

The half-hour, single-camera project is described as a satirical look at a police procedural anchored by Angie Tribeca, a 10-year veteran of the LAPD’S elite RHCU (Really Heinous Crimes Unit). Angie is surrounded by an eccentric but brilliant group of detectives who reveal way too much personal information, and refuse to rest until justice has been served (or not). These dedicated men and women are more than counter-intuitive; they are non-intuitive

 

[beat]

TBS Orders Steve Carell's Tribeca

So Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but in Manhattan?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

The CW Developing iZombie Drama Series From Veronica Mars Creator Rob Thomas

The network is developing a drama series based on DC Comics’ iZombie property, and Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is on board to produce.

Billed as a supernatural crime procedural, the project centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job at the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. But with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories, and with the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head.

 

[beat]

Good choice! I read and liked iZombie. (it's not remotely Walking Dead ish. ... hope everyone at CW knows that...)

But for some reason, I never realized till reading that description that it sounds kind of a lot like Pushing Daisies in the sense of solving murder mysteries via the a supernatural method of learning the deceased's memories... Too bad Bryan Fuller's busy. (and speaking of comics, he's never ever gonna get that Pushing Daisies comic done, is he.)

 

[RatskyWatsky]

FX Developing ‘Rasputin’ Limited Series

As we mark the 400th anniversary of Russia’s Romanov dynasty this year, FX has put in development an event series about the man closely associated with Romanovs’ final years. Rasputin, from Indian film director Shekhar Kapur, tells the story of the Russian peasant and mystic who became an adviser to the Russian Imperial family.

Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring will write the script based on the upcoming book Rasputin: Dark Forces And The Fall of The Romanovs by Douglas Smith. Per FX, the event series centers on “one of the most controversial characters in history who is held responsible for bringing down the Russian Empire and changing the course of the world as we know it” and answers the question, “who was he really beyond the folklore, a true healer or the greatest charlatan the world has known?”

 

[Clevinger]

Sounds cool, except it being by the Prison Break guy.

 

[Linius]

Sounds cool, except it being by the Prison Break guy.

From what I heard Prison Break had a solid first season, so that's something I guess

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Frank Grillo To Topline DirecTV Series ‘Navy St.’

Frank Grillo (Zero Dark Thirty) is set to star in DirecTV’s original series Navy St.

Navy St. is described as a gritty family drama set against the backdrop of a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym based in Venice, California. It deals with survival, ambition, self-destruction and love in all of its messy iterations. Navy St. is said to be in the vein of acclaimed family/football drama Friday Night Lights, which ended its run on DirecTV.

Rosemarie DeWitt In ‘Olive Kitteridge’

Rosemarie DeWitt is set to co-star opposite Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins in HBO’s miniseries Olive Kitteridge, directed by Lisa Cholodenko and produced by Playtone.

Written by Jane Anderson, Olive Kitteridge tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

FX Developing ‘Desperadoes’ Miniseries About Infamous Dalton Gang

FX has put in development Desperadoes, a six-hour miniseries about one of the most dangerous gangs of the Old West, the Dalton Brothers.

 

[TheOddOne]

Oh, so an event series?!? OH.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Billy Ray Adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Last Tycoon’ As HBO Drama Series

Captain Phillips writer Billy Ray is set to write and direct The Last Tycoon, an HBO drama series project based on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s final unfinished novel. arty Of Five co-creator Chris Keyser is attached as showrunner to the project, which hails from Sony Pictures TV and I hear garnered interest from five networks, landing at HBO with penalty.

Inspired by the life of film mogul Irving Thalberg, on whom protagonist Monroe Stahr was based, The Last Tycoon centers on Stahr, Hollywood’s first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930′s as he climbs to the height of power pitting him against his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady, a character based on Louis B. Mayer. With Stahr as a focal point, the series delves into the true violence, sex and towering ambition of Hollywood in the 30′s.

Fucking A.

 

[TheOddOne]

Holy ish, do want.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Rosemarie DeWitt In ‘Olive Kitteridge’

Bill Murray Joins HBO Mini ‘Olive Kitteridge’

In a rare small-screen stint, Bill Murray has joined the cast of HBO’s Olive Kitteridge