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[TheAbsolution]

Anyone know where I could find an article that describes the network pilots this season?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Anyone know where I could find an article that describes the network pilots this season?

http://www.deadline.com/primetime-pilot-panic/

 

[Zaph]

David Schulner Sets Ancient Egypt HBO Drama With Ridley Scott

:O EGYPT :O

Stargate?!?!?!?!

 

[Dan]

David Schulner Sets Ancient Egypt HBO Drama With Ridley Scott

Why does this sound like a stealth Prometheus spinoff? Keep Ridley Scott away from the script at all costs.

Although... not sure this guy has the greatest credits either.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Legendary TV Options Max Brooks’ Horror Comic Series ‘Extinction Parade’

Legendary Television and Digital Media extinctionparade has optioned World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide author Max Brooks‘ horror comic series The Extinction Parade for development as a TV series. Brooks will assist in development of the project and pen the pilot episode, Brooks and Avatar Press said today. Extinction Parade pits zombies against vampires in a world where the zombie plague has put the human race on the endangered species list, according to a description of the series on Avatar’s website. Fearing the end of their food supply, the vastly outnumbered vampires enter into an all-out subdead war with the zombies, with humans caught in the crossfire.

 

[Steelyuhas]

Ancient Egypt could be a fantastic setting.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Fox Developing Event Series About Jesus’ Formative Years From Bob Cooper & EOne

With popularity of biblically-themed projects showing no signs of subsiding, Fox has put in development Nazareth, an event series written/executive produced by David Franzoni (Gladiator) and executive produced by Bob Cooper. Nazareth is the first project under an overall deal for event series that Fox has signed with Cooper’s Landscape Entertainment. It follows the formative years of Jesus of Nazareth. There had been a lot of interest recently in Jesus’ so called “lost years,” a lesser known period in his life because there is very little written about him from the age of 13, following a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he took with his parents, to age 30, when he began his ministry and was baptized by John the Baptist.

Nazareth hails from FX Prods., which produces most of Fox’s event series, and Entertainment One, where Landscape has a first-look deal. Eleven Films’ Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson executive produce with Franzoni and Cooper. Franzoni was a co-writer and producer on 2000 hit Gladiator, sharing in the film’s best film Oscar win and a writing nomination. Landscape and eOne recently teamed with Dimension Television, the TV arm of The Weinstein Co., on a Death In The Modern Age series.

Nazareth is the latest biblical longform TV project set up following the blockbuster success of History’s The Bible miniseries and its feature offshoot Son Of God. A Bible sequel is in the works at NBC, National Geographic Channel has mini Killing Jesus coming up and WGN America has greenlighted 10-part event series Ten Commandments.

Jesus, man.

 

[Kevin]

The Egypt one sounds completely like Stargate from the description. lol

 

[TheOddOne]

- Starz Orders Seth MacFarlane Comedy Starring Patrick Stewart

Starz has given a two-season order to Blunt Talk, a half-hour comedy from Seth MacFarlane starring Patrick Stewart, the network announced Tuesday.
The X-Men and Star Trek vet will produce and star as Walter Blunt, a British TV journalist who moves to America to conquer the world of cable news. Besieged by network bosses, a dysfunctional news staff, numerous ex-wives and children, Blunt's only ally is the alcoholic manservant he transplanted from the U.K. join him in Los Angeles. The series follows the fallout from Blunt's well-intentioned, but mostly misguided, decision-making both on and off the air.

Blunt Talk, from MacFarlane (Family Guy) and Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, was ordered straight-to-series for two 10-episode seasons.

"In the character of Walter Blunt, Seth, Jonathan and Patrick have found the alchemy that makes a borderline alcoholic, mad-genius-Brit the man you want fighting in America's corner," Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement. "Seth and Jonathan have struck the right balance between biting wit and outright absurdity in building this world, and we cannot wait for Patrick to breathe life into Walter."

Blunt Talk is set to premiere in 2015.

- The Returned Adaptation Ordered Straight to Series at A&E

A&E is investing in The Returned.

The cable network has picked up its take on the French zombie drama straight to series with a 10-episode pickup, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Bates Motel co-showrunner Carlton Cuse will oversee the production alongside Raelle Tucker (True Blood). Cuse penned the first episode and he and Tucker will write and exec produce the series together. Casting will begin immediately on the series, a co-production of A+E Studios and FremantleMedia North America. Production will begin in the summer.

- Showtime Drama To Chronicle Origins Of Crack Cocaine Epidemic In Los Angeles

John Singleton is returning to the setting of his debut feature Boyz In The Hood – 1984 Los Angeles — with Snowfall, a drama series project set up at Showtime. Singleton is set to direct and co-write the project, co-written by Eric Amadio. The two executive produce with Michael London and Underground’s Trevor Engelson and Evan Silverberg. Told through the eyes of a young black kid from Compton, a Mexican wrestler and a CIA agent charged with running money to the Contras, Snowfall will examine the beginnings of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. Allegedly fueled by CIA involvement stemming from the Iran-Contra affair, the drug started flowing to the U.S. in 1984, with Los Angeles as the first city to get hit hard.

The project is described as being in the vein of Boyz In The Hood, which earned Los Angeles native Singleton writing and directing Oscar nominations, meets The Wire. Amadio, also originally from LA, previously developed an NFL drama at Starz. Singleton is with WME and attorney Dave Feldman, Amadio with CAA and attorney Greg Slewitt. Both are managed by Underground.

- Lionsgate Acquires TV Rights To Biography Of UK Spy Kim Philby

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Syfy goin' crazy with graphic novel adaptations:

Syfy is making tracks for Jasper, Alabama — aka Town of the Living Dead — for the purpose of a comedic docuseries chronicling the small town’s endeavor to make an indie zombie movie, TVLine has learned.

Also to be announced as part of Syfy’s Upfront presentation on Wednesday:

* Per The Wrap, a Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead)-produced series adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel series Clone, which follows a retired soldier drawn into a vast conspiracy after he finds his home burglarized by his own clone.

* Per The Hollywood Reporter, adaptations of Frank Miller’s DC Comics series Ronin (as a miniseries) and Oni Press’ Letter 44 (which involves a newly minted POTUS’ discovery of a NASA-supervised alien construction project in outer space).

* Per Deadline, Syfy has picked up the Canadian-produced adventure drama Killjoys, from Lost Girl creator Michelle Lovretta and following a trio of interplanetary bounty hunters, as well as put in development a miniseries based on Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana graphic novel and a series adaptation of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians fantasy novels.

* And per AdWeek, a green light has already been given to a third Sharknado film, with The Second One now bowing until July 30.

Source

- Starz Orders Seth MacFarlane Comedy Starring Patrick Stewart

a supersized, straight-to-series order at the pay cabler: 20 episodes over two seasons.

Kool. Hope it's good.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Syfy goin' crazy with graphic novel adaptations:



Source






Kool. Hope it's good.

Clone and that Starz thing sound good.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Fox Sets Event Series On Boston Marathon Bombing From Rod Lurie & Basil Iwanyk

Rod Lurie has signed on to write and direct an event series for Fox about the Boston Marathon bombing. The untitled project, which is in development, is based on the best-selling book Long Mile Home, by Boston Globe reporters

Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, members of the paper’s team that won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the bombing. The book, a la The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, focuses on the real-life stories of five people whose lives are changed forever in two deafening blasts at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon. It follows the heartbreak, terror and triumph on Boston’s tragic Marathon day and the week that followed. Basil Iwanyk, producer of We Are Marshall and executive producer of The Expendables franchise, will produce through his Thunder Road production company. He and Kent Kubena, who’s filming Gods Of Egypt, will shepherd the project for Thunder Road.

Don't know how I feel about this project. Too soon?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Spike Lee To Adapt His Feature ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ As Series For Showtime

Showtime has put in development a half-hour series adaptation that updates the film, with Lee set to write and attached to direct. The project is taking a new, contemporary look at the characters and will explore Lee’s unique and provocative points of view about race, gender, sexuality, relationships, and the gentrification in Brooklyn.

Spike TV Greenlights ‘Tut’ Six-Hour Event Series

Spike TV has greenlighted Tut, a six-hour series about Tutankhamun, aka King Tut.

A young Tut is thrust into power after the murder of his father. The neophyte ruler is forced to marry his sister in order to maintain the dynasty. Although Tut rules as Pharaoh, he is controlled like a puppet by three formidable men who plot against him and vie for the throne themselves. Against all odds, Tut grows from an insecure and manipulated prince to a hero on the battlefield, leading his kingdom into war and victory. Just as he takes control of his nation and his destiny, he is betrayed.

 

[TheOddOne]

Spike Lee To Adapt His Feature ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ As Series For Showtime

In Living Color: Spike's Joint.

 

[LNBL]

So which new show has been on top for you guys this season? Aside from SHIELD and Under the dome.

 

[TheOddOne]

So which new show has been on top for you guys this season? Aside from SHIELD and Under the dome.

The What Summer TV shows will you be watching? thread might help you better.

For me Fargo, Sleepy Hollow and Brooklyn 99 are of the better new shows this season.

 

[BluWacky]

Spike TV Greenlights ‘Tut’ Six-Hour Event Series

And lo, everything was Egypt.

Is that three series now in recent weeks (Hieroglyph, the HBO one and this)? Why is Ancient Egypt suddenly in the zeitgeist? I'm not complaining, it's just a huge coincidence.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

And lo, everything was Egypt.

Is that three series now in recent weeks (Hieroglyph, the HBO one and this)? Why is Ancient Egypt suddenly in the zeitgeist? I'm not complaining, it's just a huge coincidence.

Egypt is the new Jesus is the new witches is the new zombies is the new vampires.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Starz Sets ‘Blackbirds’ From John Shiban

Shiban has a drama series in the works at Starz called Blackbirds, based on the novels by Chuck Wendig. The project has set up a writers room, often a pre-cursor to a series pickup at the pay cable network.

Blackbirds follows Miriam Black, a street-smart runaway, hitchhiking through the American Southwest as she struggles with a unique ability when she touches you, she sees how and when you die.

 

[TheOddOne]

It's Starz, so I will at least give it a try. Although that Power series looks dull.

- Sheldon Turner, Walter Kirn To Adapt Kirn’s Book ‘Blood Will Out’ As Series For Sony TV

Four years after Sheldon Turner won an Oscar for adapting with Jason Reitman the Walter Kirn novel Up In the Air, Turner is teaming with Kirn for another book adaptation, this time on TV. Sony Pictures TV has put in development Blood With Out, a limited series based on Kirn’s autobiographical book Blood Will Out: The bloodTrue Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade. Kirn and Turner will write together the adaptation, which Turner and Jennifer Klein will produce through their Sony TV-based company Vendetta Prods. The producers plan to attach talent to the project before pitching it to networks.

 

[beat]

So which new show has been on top for you guys this season? Aside from SHIELD and Under the dome.

Nrw shows for the whole season? Three way tie between Broad City, Review, and Rick and Morty. Brooklyn Nine-Nine in fourth place behind those three.

I hear SHIELD has gotten a lot better lately, but I haven't kept up.

Technically, wasn't Under The Dome the very end of last season?

 

[TheOddOne]

- TNT Orders Dramas Starring Ed Burns, Jennifer Beals

“Proof” is a supernatural vehicle starring Jennifer Beals as a surgeon who investigates reincarnation with the help of funding from a millionaire, played by Matthew Modine. Joe Morton also stars.

“Public Morals,” from Amblin TV, is a detective drama set in 1967 New York City starring Ed Burns as a vice cop struggling to stay honest.

Rob Bragin wrote the pilot for “Proof” and exec produces with Tom Jacobson, Jill Littman, Alex Graves and Kyra Sedgwick.

Burns wrote and directed the pilot for “Public Morals.” He exec produces with Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and Aaron Luben.

Both dramas received 10-episode orders and are slated for premiere next year. TNT will unveil its 2014-15 schedule May 14 in Gotham.

 

[beat]

Andy Greenwald sums up pilot season for Grantland.

Here's the thing, though -- and by "thing," I mean the terror sweats that are keeping NBC's marketing department up at night: There's no getting around the fact that early drafts of [Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, formerly Tooken] were at least loosely inspired by the horrific Ariel Castro kidnappings in Cleveland -- far from anyone's idea of a comedy.

Now that I've seen the fuller description of the show, yeah, I guess I can see that. Before, when it was just "cult escapee", I thought Branch Davidian or something... which I guess has some pretty bad connotations too. The other NBC comedies Greenwald mentions mostly sound interesting to me, esp Old Soul, A-Z, and Mission Control.

On Fox, nothing Greenwald mentions sounds particularly interesting besides Cabot College.

And for ABC, nearly nothing sounds good on the comedy side, besides maybe Far East Orlando.

and on CBS:

Still, I wish there were room [on CBS] for the rough but funny Cuz-Bros, a very un-CBS-like script from Happy Endings's Caspe and Community writer Erik Sommers. The pilot has Enlisted stars Geoff Stults and Parker Young playing a very Odd Couple-esque pair of cousins (one's a stud, one's a dud) as they navigate singlehood in Los Angeles. On a more desperate network, it'd be a no-brainer to make the final cut. But CBS doesn't do desperate. And so, I fear, it also won't do this show. But don't give up hope, cuzheads! Anything is still possible. A week from now, we'll know for sure.

(though if I was going to cast a "stud" and a "dud" out of the three brothers on Enlisted, I feel like I'd go with Chris Lowell for the dud...)

 

[Karu]

So which new show has been on top for you guys this season? Aside from SHIELD and Under the dome.

On networks - Brooklyn99, SHIELD (Though I skipped several episodes in the middle)... um, that's it. I consider this a good outcome honestly.

Fargo, True Detective, Rick and Morty, Masters of Sex, Helix (I don't know if I will ever start watching Season 2 though. What a trainwreck), 19-2

I started The Blacklist, but it's a poor man's PoI with a truly horrible cast besides the fantastic Spader,, so I threw it of my shedule.

 

[TheOddOne]

USA Orders ‘Stanistan’ Pilot, Unveils Projects with Jodie Foster, Carlton Cuse, Peter Tolan

USA Network is keeping its foot on the gas when it comes to scripted series development.

The cabler has given a cast-contingent pilot order to drama “Stanistan,” a dramedy about a group of State Department workers, CIA operatives and journalists working in a fictional Middle Eastern country. Project was developed at Fox earlier this year.

USA has also unveiled a slew of drama, comedy and limited-series development prospects from such producers as Jodie Foster, Carlton Cuse, Peter Tolan, Amy Poehler and Gregory Nava. The development slate reinforces USA’s focus on broadening the scope of its original series, particularly dramas, beyond the blue-sky and action fare that has clicked for the NBCU cabler in the past.

USA’s drama development slate ranges from high-concept thrillers such as “Colony,” revolving around an alien occupation of Los Angeles in the near future, to earthier fare such as “Boom,” about a couple that moves to a boomtown in North Dakota,” and “Brand,” about a small-town minister’s battle with a mega church. Foster is attached to exec produce and direct the pilot of “Brand,” should it get a greenlight.

Full slate @ link.

 

[Famassu]

Is Amy Sherman-Palladino doing anything, tv-wise? Has there been any rumors/news about potential projects?

 

[Norwegian Rudo]

Is Amy Sherman-Palladino doing anything, tv-wise? Has there been any rumors/news about potential projects?

Read an article about her yesterday. Apparently she is involved with a play in NYC.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Is Amy Sherman-Palladino doing anything, tv-wise? Has there been any rumors/news about potential projects?

Poor Bunheads.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Casey Affleck To Star In HBO Miniseries ‘Lewis And Clark’

HBO‘s long-gestating six-hour miniseries Lewis And Clark has taken a big step towards fruition with the casting of Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) as Lewis.

It tells the story of America’s first contact with the land and native tribes of the country west of the Mississippi River. It chronicles the epic journey of the Corps of Discovery and its captains Meriwether Lewis (Affleck) and William Clark traversing uncharted territory on a mission to deliver President Jefferson’s message of sovereignty as they search for his fabled all-water route to the Pacific.

Yes.

 

[anaron]

Is Amy Sherman-Palladino doing anything, tv-wise? Has there been any rumors/news about potential projects?

She's a producer for Sutton Foster's Violet revival that was just nominated for a tony

Deadline reported that she was working on the Rachel Rising adaptation but no news since

 

[Zaph]

Casey Affleck To Star In HBO Miniseries ‘Lewis And Clark’

Yes.

Awesome. He was great in Gone Baby Gone and The Killer Inside Me.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

She's a producer for Sutton Foster's Violet revival that was just nominated for a tony

Deadline reported that she was working on the Rachel Rising adaptation but no news since

What? Woah woah wow!

 

[Cornballer]

- Deadline: Drama Scripts Vie For Series Orders At AMC’s Annual Pilot Script Showcase

Here are descriptions of the projects I hear are competing for pilot orders this year:

Raiders
Writer and Executive Producer: Evan Wright
Executive Producers: David Zucker, Ridley Scott
WWII drama about a rogue U.S. Navy commander who leads an unconventional warfare unit into the heart of Africa on a mission that will bend the arc of history

Ashland
Writers and Executive Producers: Allison Anders (Gas, Food, Lodging, Mi Vida Loca) and Terry Graham;
Co-Executive Producer: Shana Eddy
Set in 1950 in Ashland, a tiny mining town in Kentucky, the Evans family has just relocated from California and the matriarch, Del, must hide her family’s secrets and find a way to support her three children at the height of the Red Scare.

White City
Executive Producer: Tom Freston
Writers and Co-Executive Producers: Nick McDonell, John Dempsey
The drama series follows western diplomats and journalists living in Afghanistan.

Untitled Dahvi Waller Project
Writer and Executive Producer: Dahvi Waller
Set against the New York automobile industry of the 1920s, two brothers struggle to keep their family-run company afloat with a class-hopping Ziegfeld girl and the daughter of an English competitor blurring the line between love and business.

The Sparrow
Writer and Executive Producer: Michael Perry
Based on Mary Doria Russell’s acclaimed science-fiction epic, “The Sparrow” tells the story of a Jesuit-led mission to make first contact with an alien race.

 

[TheOddOne]

All of them sounds pretty decent.

 

[Kevin]

The Sparrow sounds really interesting... of course there isn't much known about it yet but if it's good then hopefully we will learn more soon and it will be ordered to series.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

White City sounds dull. Everything else sounds good though.

 

[Dan]

The Sparrow continues to be something I could be super into. I am an absolute sucker for stories involving first contact, although I also have a high bar to satisfy.

The others don't perk my ears up much based on just those little blurbs. Maybe Ashland, depending on what that's really about.

 

[anaron]

What? Woah woah wow!

I really, *really* hope it's still happening.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Showtime Developing Drama About Business Of Doping Pro Athletes

Showtime has put in development Dope, an hourlong drama about the business of performance-enhancing drugs for athletes and the doctor who popularized it in South Florida.

AMC Greenlights Three Unscripted Series

AMC has ordered eight half-hour episodes of All-Star Celebrity Bowling, adapted from Chris Hardwick’s hit web series. Hosted by twin brothers Randy and Jason Sklar, the talk/game show hybrid features two new celebrity casts from the worlds of TV, movies, sports, music and pop culture who each week face off in a bowling match for charity.

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan stars in the Untitled Billy Corgan Wrestling Project. The eight-episode hourlong series follows Corgan in his latest undertaking as creative director of Resistance Pro, a Chicago-based wrestling league. Corgan goes behind the scenes of this fascinating world, from creating storylines to choreographing fights to managing intense post-match locker room arguments, revealing that the most dramatic stories often take place outside of the ring.

AMC has ordered six half-hour episodes of Visionaries (working title), which follows the employees of Vision Scenery as they design and construct Hollywood sets, props and models for commercials, TV, music videos, films and other productions the “old school” way.

 

[Dan]

- Glen Mazzara Prepping 'Omen' Follow-Up for Lifetime

Glen Mazzara is sticking with the horror genre.

The former Walking Dead showrunner is developing a follow-up to the 1976 horror classic for Lifetime, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Titled Damien, the drama centers on the film's young boy Damien Thorn. Now an adult and haunted by his past, Damien is faced with a series of macabre events and must finally face his true destiny: he is the Antichrist.

Mazzara (The Shield) will pen the script and executive produce via his 44 Strong Productions banner. The sale marks Mazzara's first via his overall deal with Fox Television Studios. Ross Fineman (Lights Out) will also executive produce via his FTVS-based Fineman Entertainment.

Damien marks Mazzara's first TV gig following his season-and-a-half run on The Walking Dead, where he helped propel the zombie drama to then-record ratings. The Lifetime gig also marks his latest movie-to-TV adaptation, joining Starz's Crash follow-up. On the big-screen, Mazzara is writing Overlook Hotel, a prequel to Stephen King's horror classic, The Shining.

The Omen, from writer David Seltzer and director Richard Donner,starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as parents whose son dies at birth and instead secretly adopt an orphan whose mother died at the same time. Only they eventually learn that the child, Damien (played by Harvey Spencer Stephens), is the Antichrist.

Lifetime + The Omen = ???

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Glen Mazzara Prepping 'Omen' Follow-Up for Lifetime



Lifetime + The Omen = ???

The Omen doesn't really seem like it's in Lifetime's wheelhouse.

 

[TheOddOne]

Lifetime is also making that Clarice Starling series. Oh, Lifetime you so cray cray.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Lifetime is also making that Clarice Starling series. Oh, Lifetime you so cray cray.

Is that even still a thing?

 

[TheOddOne]

Is that even still a thing?

This was from an interview with Bryan Fuller in Feb 2014:

Any luck with getting MGM to loosen up the reins on the Clarice Starling character a bit?

I think after we finish this second season and it airs (because Clarice would still be a season or two away), I would be curious to check in with MGM to see if they're still holding fast to that "what's ours is ours and what's yours is yours” approach or if the Clarice Starling series is still happening for them at Lifetime.

We'd have to find out what the status of that is because I think what would have to happen is that MGM would have to come to some sort of agreement with Gaumont in terms of some way that would be mutually beneficial. MGM isn’t just going to let us use the character without them profiting from it in some way. Nor should they, actually. It's just business. But I would love for those two studios to work out some way for us to have "Hannibal" be the all-inclusion, canonical adaptation of the literature. Even though we’ve strayed from canon quite a bit, we're still pure in terms of tone.

Either it is still happening or MGM is still being a prude.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

This was from an interview with Bryan Fuller in Feb 2014:

Either it is still happening or MGM is still being a prude.

I hope it's not still happening and that MGM lets Fuller use those characters.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Chloë Sevigny, Steven Pasquale Join Netflix Drama Series From ‘Damages’ Creators

The 13-episode series is set in the Florida Keys and centers on a close-knit family of four adult siblings (Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz) whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother (Mendelsohn) returns home. Sevigny plays Chelsea, who has a romantic past with Mendelsohn’s character and whose brother Eric (Jamie McShane), out on parole, is living with her in their shack of a home. Pasquale plays a potential romantic interest for Cardellini’s character.

- Showtime Buys Law Firm Comedy From ‘Spy’ Creator, Jason Winer & Peter Chernin

Showtime has put in development Control Alt Delete, a half-hour comedy series from Fox 21, Chernin Entertainment and Jason Winer’s 20th Century Fox TV-based Small Dog Picture Co. Written by Simeon Goulden, creator of the UK comedy series Spy, and to be directed by Winer, Control Alt Delete revolves around four smartass, workaholic associates in a “white shoe” law firm who are feverishly trying to move up the corporate ladder while avoiding becoming the next victim of the office serial killer.

Goulden will executivece alongside Chernin’s Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope and Small Dog Pictures’ Winer and Renate Radford. Goulden, repped by UTA and Curtis Brown Group, adapted his 2011 Sky comedy series Spy for ABC, where it went to pilot during the 2012-13 season with Rob Corddry starring. Winer, repped by ICM Partners and Mosaic, most recently directed and executive produced the CBS/20th TV comedy series The Crazy Ones.

 

[beat]

a half-hour comedy series [...] while avoiding becoming the next victim of the office serial killer.

Who said what now?

 

[TheOddOne]

Who said what now?

Getting lazy people to work!

Comedy of the year.

 

[Jest Chillin]

Who said what now?

I imagine a cross between The Office, Workaholics, and Clue (the movie).

 

[RatskyWatsky]

WE TV Greenlights Thriller Drama ‘South Of Hell’ From Jason Blum and Eli Roth

WE tv has greenlit a second scripted drama, thriller South Of Hell from Sonar Entertainment and Blumhouse Television. The series, given an eight-episode order for a 2015 premiere, comes from two of the top horror producers, Jason Blum and Eli Roth, in their first pairing.

Savannah, GA is an elusive city with many faces and the perfect home for Maria Abascal, a stunning, 30-year-old demon-hunter-for-hire. Alongside her brother, David, she is skilled and fearless in her pursuit of the demons that live in others. Like those that she hunts, Maria is divided within herself, struggling with her own demon, Abigail, who resides inside of her, feeding on the evil Maria exorcises from others. Maria and Abigail share a soul and a destiny, but as Maria desperately tries to overtake Abigail, she will discover how far Abigail will go to remain a part of her.