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TV Pilots |OT| The Season's Dead, But Development Hell is Forever

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RatskyWatsky

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Showtime Developing Series Based On Mary Karr’s Memoirs With Mary-Louise Parker Circling To Star

The pay cable network has put in development a series based on the memoirs of poet/essayist Mary Karr. One of Showtime’s signature stars, Weeds‘ Mary-Louise Parker is eying the lead in the project for a return to network.

Karr drew a lot of attention and praise with her best-selling 1995 memoir Liars’ Club, which chronicled, with some humor, her challenging childhood in East Texas in the 1960s. Her followup memoirs, Cherry and Lit, document her perilous journey into adulthood and her struggles with alcoholism.
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- Deadline: NBC Eyes 10-Episode ‘Manhunt’ Drama Series
Manhunt was a hot spec shopped this summer. It was written by Rice, who works as a Uber driver, and Brayton, a valet. It had talent attached contingent on the project landing at a cable network. But NBC aggressively pursued the property and landed it. It will now begin reaching out to actors for the two leads. Each season of Manhunt will focus on the mounting tension of an entire city on the hunt for a fugitive roaming the streets at large. It will examine the moment an American, or International City becomes a police state, a war zone or a ground zero and the ensuing bloodlust it inspires. Rice and Brayton are expected to write all episodes. I hear NBC already has commissioned five backups scripts, with an option for four additional ones to complete the 10-episode season.
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- IndieWire: David Fincher & James Ellroy Plotting 1950s Crime Noir Series For HBO
David Fincher has wanted to make a classic crime noir for several years now. People tend to forget, but the filmmaker almost directed “The Black Dahlia” (he was attached before Brian De Palma eventually took over), and for several years he tried to make “Torso,” an Eliot Ness crime thriller about the famous detective trying to stop a serial killer in 1930s Cleveland (director David Lowery is making that now).

In fact, when Fincher was attached to the adaptation of James Ellroy’s ‘Dahlia’ novel, he envisioned a five-hour, $80-million miniseries with movie stars (Tom Cruise being the lead). That obviously didn’t happen and the project fell through (and Fincher moved on to “Zodiac”). But it seems that Fincher is circling around a similar idea, once again with Ellroy.

Sources close to the project (the same sources who told us about the new Lonergan project announced this weekend, that we unfortunately slept on because of TIFF) tell us that Fincher and Ellroy are talking to HBO, and planning a noir-ish crime show set in L.A., in a similar 1950s milieu (like Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential”).
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Amazon casting news:

- Deadline: Alexa Davalos Gets Lead In Amazon Pilot ‘The Man In The High Castle’
Alexa Davalos (Clash Of The Titans, Mob City) has landed the lead role in Amazon pilot The Man In The High Castle, from X-Files alum Frank Spotnitz and Scott Free, with David Semel set to direct. Based on Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel, the project is set in 1962 and explores an alternative reality in which Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II and occupy the United States, with the East Coast controlled by the Nazis and the West Coast owned by Japan, and a chunk of the Midwest still up for grabs. Davalos, repped by Anonymous Content, plays Juliana, who lives in Japanese-occupied San Francisco.
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- THR: Steve Zahn, Romany Malco to Star in Amazon's Shawn Ryan Drama
The streaming service has tapped Steve Zahn, Romany Malco and Ben Chaplin to star in Shawn Ryan's adaptation of Mad Dogs, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Mad Dogs, from Sony Pictures Television, centers on four former frat brothers who travel to Belize for a reunion with their wealthy old college friend only to have their luxury vacation interrupted by murder, conspiracy and a psychotic gang lord who is out for their hides.
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TheOddOne

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- Deadline: Roland Emmerich & Keanu Reeves To Produce Virtual Reality Drama Series For Slingshot Global Media
EXCLUSIVE: Feature director Roland Emmerich is set to direct and executive produce New Angeles, a TV series from Slingshot Global Media, the Los Angeles-based company launched in February by former Fremantle Media topper David Ellender. Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel of Company Films brought the project to keanuEmmerich’s Centropolis and will executive produce alongside Emmerich. Best-selling novelist and comic book writer Gregg Hurwitz will write the project and also executive produce. “Gregg is an incredibly imaginative writer, and I’m looking forward to bringing his ideas for the show to life,” Emmerich said. “It’s exciting to get the opportunity bring a massive project like this to the small screen within a rapidly changing television space.”

Set in the future, the series centers on a young man who escapes the mundane reality of his life by entering an exciting virtual reality world called New Angeles. Once down the rabbit hole, he adopts a new identity, becoming the man he was always destined to be, and in the process, unlocking the keys to a mystery that has real-world consequences for him and his family. “We’re thrilled to have Roland and Keanu on board for a project of this magnitude,” said Ellender. “Roland’s masterful vision for this is extraordinary and Keanu’s action work behind and in front of the camera speaks for itself.”
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Televisa USA Acquires Anne Rice’s Steamy ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Novels

Televisa USA (Lifetime’s Devious Maids and ABC Family’s Chasing Life) has acquired the English-language television and digital rights to Anne Rice’s bestselling The Sleeping Beauty series of erotic novels.

The books, which feature very detailed sex scenes, follow a beautiful young princess who is awakened from her long sleep, but in a much more provocative way than the traditional fairytale.
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- EW: Teen Titans return: DC Comics near deal for Nightwing TV pilot
DC Comics is looking to team with TNT for a young super friends live-action series. The cable network is nearing a deal for a Titans pilot, which will star Batman’s sidekick Dick Grayson leading a fledgling band of DC heroes.

In the pilot, Grayson “emerges from the shadow of Batman to become Nightwing, the leader of a fearless band of new Super Heroes including Starfire, Raven and many others. Titans is a dramatic adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book titles ever.”

Fans remember the Cartoon Network and The WB aired a Teen Titans animated series from 2003-06 with the same characters. Now the premise is being resurrected, ditching the “teen” label and taking a more grown-up approach.

Akiva Goldsman (Fringe, I Am Legend) is the writer/executive producer, with Warner Horizon Television producing. If greenlit to series, Titans will add to the DC Comics primetime TV surge, along with The CW’s Arrow and upcoming Flash spin-off, plus the fall dramas Gotham on Fox and Constantine on NBC.
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
AMC To Board Channel 4 Series ‘Humans’

The project, an adaptation of Swedish series Real Humans, was announced in April as a co-production between Channel 4 and Xbox Entertainment Studios, in what was the first greenlighted scripted series for the entertainment arm of Microsoft’s XBox. Three months later, Microsoft announced it was going to shut down XES as part of the company’s plan to cut 18,000 jobs.
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Humans is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a ‘Synth’ – a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences.
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
HBO & Playtone Take On Battle Against Offshoring With ‘Factory Man’ Miniseries

One of U.S.’ biggest economic stories of the 21st century, how to save American jobs in the face of outsourcing, is getting a personal treatments in Factory Man, a miniseries in development at HBO. The project, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone, is based on Beth Macy’s nonfiction book Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save An American Town.
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It tells the story of the Bassett family: Throughout much of the 20th century, generations of the family oversaw the rise of their furniture manufacturing company, Bassett Furniture, the biggest employer in their Virginia hometown. But with the onset of the 21st century, global capitalism threatened the future of the company, and the family scion, John Bassett III, was forced to take on China — as well as his own industry — in order to keep his family’s legacy alive.
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TheOddOne

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- Deadline: NBC Eyes Horror Anthology Series From Jason Blum, Tony Krantz & Endemol
Horror master Jason Blum has teamed with producer-director Tony Krantz (NBC’s Dracula) and Endemol Studios (Hell On Wheels) for a horror/sci-fi/thriller anthology drama. It has been set up at NBC with a script-to-series commitment; upon script approval, the project would receive a 10-episode straight-to-series order. The stories will be inspired by true events, and in the vein of The Twilight Zone, each episode will be stand-alone. Blum and Krantz executive produce; horror-writing quartet Radio Silence (Chad Villella, Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Justin Martinez) are attached to write.
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
The stories will be inspired by true events, and in the vein of The Twilight Zone, each episode will be stand-alone.
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Ugh, stop it with this shit. Do all the supernatural stories you want, but stop packaging it as pseudoscience for the ignorant masses. That tactic drives me absolutely mad.
 
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Cornballer

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- Deadline: Netflix Nabs Judd Apatow Comedy Series With 2-Season Order, Paul Rust & Gillian Jacobs To Star, Legendary TV To Produce
It’s been over a decade since comedy movie mogul Judd Apatow has created a TV series, Fox’s Undeclared. Now he has, and his return vehicle, a relationship comedy starring Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper) and Community’s Gillian Jacobs, is getting a big two-season straight-to-series pickup from Netflix. The streaming service has ordered a 10-epiosode first and 12-episode second season of Love, which Apatow co-created and wrote with Rust and Lesley Arfin (Brooklyn Nine-Nine). Season 1 will debut in 2016, Season 2 the following year. Apatow Prods. and Legendary Television are producing, with Brent Forrester (The Office) joining Apatow, Rust and Afrin as executive producer. Love follows Gus (Rust) and Mickey (Jacobs) as they navigate the exhilaration and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid. “Judd Apatow has a unique comedic voice that manages to be delightful, insightful, and shockingly frank — often at the same time,” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos. “Together with Paul and Lesley, he’s bringing a whole new level of agony and ecstasy to this modern day comedy of manners.” Jacobs also will continue her role on Community, which is returning for a 13-episode sixth season on Yahoo.

A two-season straight-to-series commitment is reserved for top packages from A-list auspices. Netflix gave it to David Fincher and Kevin Spacey for House of Cards, the show that put the digital company on the original series map; Starz recently handed it out to a comedy from Seth MacFarlane starring Patrick Stewart. “I am so excited to get to work with Paul and Lesley on this project,” said Apatow. “Netflix has been supportive in ways I couldn’t create in my wildest fever dreams.”
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- Deadline: CBS Buys Mob Comedy From ‘Big Bang’ Actor Kevin Sussman & Neal Moritz
The Big Bang Theory co-star Kevin Sussman is expanding his relationship with CBS. The network has put in development Wife Of Crime, a multi-camera comedy project written by Sussman. It hails from Neal Moritz’s Original Film banner and CBS TV Studios, where the company is under an overall deal. Wife of Crime centers on a straight-laced guy from Staten Island who marries into an Italian family with ties to the mob and finds himself drawn to the warmth of his new crime family. New York native Sussman, who attended the College of Staten Island for a year, is writing and co-executive producing.
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That sounds very good, but CBS multicam...
 
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- Deadline: Fox Nabs DC Comics’ ‘Lucifer’ Drama From Tom Kapinos With Put Pilot Commitment
As Fox feted the premiere of its new series Gotham last night in New York, the network is betting on another drama based on a DC character from a top series creator. Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Lucifer, from Californication creator/executive producer Tom Kapinos and DC Comics sibling Warner Bros TV, which is behind all DC-themed TV projects.

Lucifer has appeared as a supporting character in comic book series The Sandman and toplined an eponymous spinoff, both for DC’s Vertigo imprint. Based on the Vertigo characters, the TV series, written and executive produced by Kapinos, centers on Lucifer who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the gorgeous, shimmering insanity of Los Angeles, where he opens an exclusive piano bar called Lux. Warner Bros TV is producing with Kapinos’ Aggressive Mediocrity.
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Wife of Crime centers on a straight-laced guy from Staten Island who marries into an Italian family with ties to the mob and finds himself drawn to the warmth of his new crime family.
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With the name "Wife of Crime", why is it a male who marries into a mob family?????

Cornballer said:
- Deadline: Fox Nabs DC Comics’ ‘Lucifer’ Drama From Tom Kapinos With Put Pilot Commitment
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Hmm. Should I expect anything? What's Kapinos' track record like?
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Cornballer said:
- Deadline: Netflix Nabs Judd Apatow Comedy Series With 2-Season Order, Paul Rust & Gillian Jacobs To Star, Legendary TV To Produce
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Could be cool, good for Gillian Jacobs either way. Sounds kind of like You're The Worst from a different angle.

The Big Bang Theory co-star Kevin Sussman is expanding his relationship with CBS. The network has put in development Wife Of Crime, a multi-camera comedy project written by Sussman. It hails from Neal Moritz’s Original Film banner and CBS TV Studios, where the company is under an overall deal. Wife of Crime centers on a straight-laced guy from Staten Island who marries into an Italian family with ties to the mob and finds himself drawn to the warmth of his new crime family. New York native Sussman, who attended the College of Staten Island for a year, is writing and co-executive producing.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure this multi-cam comedy would accurately depict the world of Staten Island mobs, but the creator attended college there for a year. That was a close one.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Dan said:
Thanks, I wasn't sure this multi-cam comedy would accurately depict the world of Staten Island mobs, but the creator attended college there for a year. That was a close one.
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TheOddOne

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ALL OVA MY FACE.

- Variety: Fox Gives DC Comics’ ‘Lucifer’ Adaptation Put Pilot Commitment
Less than a week before Fox’s hotly-anticipated “Gotham” premieres, the network has given a put pilot commitment to another DC Comics-inspired property. “Lucifer,” based on the eponymous Vertigo comic of the same name, centers around the Lord of Hell after he grows bored and unhappy with the position, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the gorgeous, shimmering insanity of Los Angeles, where he opens an exclusive piano bar called Lux.

The one-hour drama pilot hails from “Californication” creator Tom Kapinos, with Aggressive Mediocrity and Warner Bros. Television producing.
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berzeli

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Is the original any good? I think it's on Swedish Netflix.
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Eh, it's pretty good and has some pretty neat concepts. (I haven't seen season 2 though).

If you're into sci-fi or into learning that the weird kid from Let the Right One In grows up to be a pervy teen, then you should give it a spin. Kind of weird that it hasn't been aired in the UK though (the distribution rights have even been picked up IIRC), seeing how many much worse Nordic dramas they are airing.
 
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- Deadline: TNT Orders Cocaine Trade Drama Pilot From Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay & Michelle Ashford
TNT has officially given a pilot order to Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay‘s long-gestating cocaine drama project. It was one of three drama pilots with blinking green light at the network, whose official pickup had been delayed by the regime change at Turner. The other two are Titans and Lumen.

Written by Masters Of Sex creator/executive producer Michelle Ashford, the untitled serialized character drama is set in the wild and unpredictable world of the Florida drug trade in the 1970s. Bruckheimer and Bay, who have worked together on such feature blockbusters as Bad Boys, Armageddon and The Rock, first teamed to develop a drama series inspired by Billy Corben’s 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys, about the rise of the cocaine trade and the resulting crime epidemic that swept Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, back in 2008 when the project was set at HBO with Meredith Stiehm as a writer. Three years later, the drama went through another incarnation at HBO with a new script by Ashford. She got the assignment five months before Showtime picked up her Masters of Sex, also a long-gestating project, to pilot. Given how busy Ashford is with Masters of Sex, which was just renewed for a third season, it is likely that the Cocaine project would bring in a day-to-day showrunner at the pilot or series stage.
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- Deadline: ‘Supergirl’ Drama From Greg Berlanti & Ali Adler Lands CBS Series Commitment
Supergirl, Greg Berlanti and Ali Adler’s drama based on the DC female superhero, has landed at CBS with a series commitment. The deal closed last night, a day after the project was taken out to the broadcast networks on Wednesday. I hear the size of commitment eclipses the series commitment DC Batman drama Gotham got at Fox last fall. Warner Bros. TV is producing with studio-based Berlanti Prods.

The Supergirl character was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959. Of the several women who have assumed the caped girl persona in the comics, the Berlanti-Adler series will feature the most popular one, Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, who shares his super powers and vulnerability to Kryptonite. Unlike WBTV’s long-running Superman series, Smallville, which focused on the superhero’s journey up to acquiring the powers and becoming Superman, Supergirl starts with Kara beginning to use her abilities. Born on the planet Krypton, Kara Zor-El escaped amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she’s been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Berlanti and Adler will write the script and will executive produce with Berlanti Prods.’ Sarah Schechter. Also closely involved in the development of the project has been DC Entertainment’s chief creative officer Geoff Johns.

While CBS may look as a surprising home for a younger-skewing superhero drama, it was the only broadcast network without a comic book series. Additionally, CBS has been making a push in female-lead dramas with Extant, Madam Secretary and CSI: Cyber joining staple The Good Wife.
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- Deadline: Jim Sheridan To Adapt His Movie ‘In America’ As HBO Drama Series With FtvS
Two decades ago, Jim Sheridan took on his most personal project, teaming with his then-teenage daughters Naomi and Kristen to write a movie based on their family’s experience as struggling Irish immigrants living in a shabby Hell’s Kitchen apartment building occupied by artists and junkies. That movie became the 2002 In America, directed by Jim Sheridan, which earned him and his daughters a writing Oscar nominations. Now the trio has signed on to develop a drama series for HBO inspired by the movie, which no doubt will reflect more of their memories from their early years in New York. Fox TV Studios is producing.

Written by the Sheridans, In America centers on an Irish family who, broke and looking for a fresh start, settles in an apartment building in the Bronx where they struggle to befriend their neighbors, also immigrants, and realize they all have one thing in common: a past that continues to haunt them. The project stems from FtvS’s first-look deal with manager and producer Dan Halsted, whose company Manage-ment represents Sheridan. In America was one of the ideas Sheridan and Halsted discussed in creative meetings at FtvS. Everyone loved the prospect of turning the movie into a series. Serendipitously, FtvS already had the rights to the film as it was distributed by Fox Searchlight and thus part of the Fox library.

Jim Sheridan, his daughters Naomi and Kristen Sheridan — both filmmakers in their own right — will executive produce the series with Halsted and FtvS executive-turned-producer Pancho Mansfield via his first-look deal with the studio. Here is a trailed for the movie, which also earned Oscar nominations for actors Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou.

This would marks the TV debut of six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan, whose movies also include My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. The Sheridans are repped by attorney Joe Dapello. Jim Sheridan is also with WME; Naomi Sheridan is with APA; Kirsten Sheridan is with UTA and Anonymous Content.
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