Blood Will Out
Network: TNT
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): TriStar Television, Vendetta Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sheldon Turner, Jennifer Klein
Writer(s): Walter Kirn, Sheldon Turner
Logline: Chronicles the 10-year friendship between Walter Kirn and German con artist Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who went by the name Clark Rockefeller. He became a fixture in Boston high society for more than a decade after he claimed to be an heir to the famous dynasty. Gerhartsreiter’s true identity was only discovered after he kidnapped his daughter in a bitter custody battle.
Details: Based on the book, “Blood Will Out: The True Story Of A Murder, A Mystery, And A Masquerade,” written by Walter Kirn and published by Liveright on March 10, 2014.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series. TNT ordered eight episodes on August 14.
Bumbleberry Lane
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer(s): Gary Janetti
Logline: The show is set behind the scenes of a racially diverse, politically correct public television children’s puppet program where everyone and everything is incredibly, politically incorrect. This group of misfits tries to prevent their messy personal lives from spilling over into their jobs, sometimes resulting in puppets behaving badly.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot on August 14. In addition to co-creating British comedy Vicious Janetti worked on Will & Grace and Family Guy.
Dates
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Writer(s): Bryan Elsley
Logline: Each episode focuses on a first date between two people who meet through an online dating service. The series explores the issues, intricacies, romance, and danger of modern relationships and the thrills, calamities, lies, and truths of first dates.
Details: Based on the half-hour British series, “Dates,” which aired on Channel 4 in the UK from June-July, 2013. The original half-hour British series was acquired by the CW and aired in July-August, 2015.
SSN Insight: Elsley is also in development on a yet untitled series for DNA TV Unlimited.
Debt
Network: WGN
Studio: Endemol Studios
Production Company(s): Assembly Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Ian MacDonald, Vincent Kartheiser, Neil LaBute, Christina Wayne, Bradley Walsh
Writer(s): Ian MacDonald
Logline: A man who has lost everything important to him decides to partner with the head of a somewhat-fraudulent collection agency and get back at the rich who steal from the poor.
SSN Insight: WGN gave an initial commitment with a penalty on August 14 and is planning it as a straight-to-series project.
Friday the 13th
Network: CW Television Network
Production Company(s): Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Crystal Lake Entertainment, Atmosphere Entertainment MM LLC
Executive Producer(s): Sean Cunningham, Randall Emmett, George Furla, Mark Canton, Steve Mitchell
Writer(s): Steve Mitchell, Craig Van Sickle
Logline: A contemporary series focusing on the eclectic characters of Crystal Lake who are forced to confront the return of the killer, as new secrets about his wacky family are revealed.
Details: Based on the film “Friday the 13th,” (1980, USA), directed by Sean S Cunningham.
SSN Insight: Bill Basso and Jordu Schell were previously attached as writers when the project was in development in 2014.
Gateway
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): De Laurentiis Company, Entertainment One
Executive Producer(s): Josh Pate, David Eick, Martha De Laurentiis, Michael Rosenberg, Lorenzo De Maio
Writer(s): Josh Pate, David Eick
Logline: Humanity discovers an asteroid teeming with the long abandoned spaceships of an advanced alien race — the Heechee – setting in motion a gold rush for alien artifacts and technology. The ships are preprogrammed, transporting their voyagers to distant worlds of riches — or certain death. Undaunted by the peril or the odds, prospector Robinette Broadhead gambles everything on a journey to Gateway. After one nightmare mission, he returns to extraordinary wealth and luxury, but is haunted by the loss of his crewmates, including the love of his life.
Details: Based on the novel “Gateway,” written by Frederik Pohl and published by St. Martin’s Press in 1977.
SSN Insight: David Eick is currently the showrunner on Falling Skies and executive produced Battlestar Gallatica.
Harvest
Network: Spike TV
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Executive Producer(s): Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman
Writer(s): Matt Morgan, Ian Sobel
Logline: Centers on a dedicated father, working two jobs to support his teenage daughter and give her the life he never had. By day, he’s a cemetery caretaker, by night he attends nursing school. However, when his own estranged father tracks him down and threatens to expose a terrible secret he is compelled to partner with him in a black-market tissue and body parts trade.
SSN Insight: Project was originally set up at A&E in 2013. Spike TV gave it a straight to series order of ten episodes.
Home
Network: TNT
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Executive Producer(s): Aron Eli Coleite, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Brad Anderson
Writer(s): Aron Eli Coleite
Logline: Rose Altman couldn’t be happier: An accomplished designer with a successful business, the newly pregnant Rose is thriving in a wonderful life with her husband, Joe, a highly regarded prison psychologist, and enjoying being a stepmother to his two sons. But her image of her perfect family is shattered when she discovers long-buried secrets that threaten to destroy the very foundation of her life.
SSN Insight: TNT gave a put pilot order. TNT has also ordered extra scripts and a bible to gear towards a series pick up. Project was previously in development at Fox and Warner Brothers Television.
I’m Dying Up Here
Network: Showtime
Studio: Endemol Studios
Production Company(s): Some Kind of Garden, Assembly Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey, Michael Aguilar, Christina Wayne
Writer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey
Logline: The story takes place at the famous Hollywood comedy clubs of the 1970s and delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the complex business of making an audience laugh. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy’s Golden Era,” written by William Knoedelseder and published by Public Affairs in 2009.
SSN Insight: Showtime ordered a pilot on August 11.
Imaginary Friends
Network: NBC Entertainment
Writer(s): Kassia Miller
Logline: An intelligent yet unmotivated woman discovers a special and unexpected way of dealing with her mediocre life.
SSN Insight: Project originated as a winner of NBC’s grassroots comedy initiative, NBC Playground. Ordered to pilot.
Just Kids
Network: Showtime
Production Company(s): Desert Wolf Productions
Executive Producer(s): Patti Smith, John Logan
Writer(s): Patti Smith, John Logan
Logline: The story chronicles singer Patti Smith’s early, heady days in New York with lover-turned-friend Robert Mapplethorpe, the controversial photographer. It delves into Smith and Mapplethorpe’s carousing with the Andy Warhol crowd, and their encounters with rock luminaries like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Details: Based on the memoir, “Just Kids, ” written by Patti Smith and published by Ecco on January 19, 2010.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series by Showtime on August 11.
Lopez
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): Dakota Pictures, 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): George Lopez, John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Michael Rotenberg, Troy Miller
Writer(s): John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky
Logline: America’s most successful Hispanic American comedian George Lopez playing himself explores how he struggles between his two worlds and crises often of his own making. Too rich to go back to his working class, Latino roots, and too “brown” to feel comfortable in his affluent celebrity life, being George Lopez comes with many problems.
Details: Based on the life of comedian George Lopez. A pilot presentation was shot in March, 2015.
SSN Insight: TV Land gave a straight to series order of 12 episodes on August 11.
Luna: New Moon
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Shane Brennan Productions
Executive Producer(s): Shane Brennan, Grant Anderson, Ian McDonald
Writer(s): Shane Brennan
Logline: In the year 2110 on, the Moon is controlled by five powerful, highly competitive, dynastic corporate families (known as The Five Dragons) who run their various business enterprises with an iron fist in a near feudal society. In the twilight of her life, Adriana Corta finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana’s five children must defend their mother’s empire from her many enemies and each other. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the first novel, “Luna: New Moon,” written by Ian McDonald and to be published by Tor Books on September 22, 2015.
SSN Insight: Brennan is under an overall deal at CBS.
Untitled Tina Fey Robert Carlock Tracey Wigfield Comedy Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Tina Fey, Robert Carlock
Writer(s): Tracey Wigfield
Logline: The show is a workplace comedy.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on August 13.
Overanalyzers
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Echo Kellum, Marc Provissiero, Brooke Pobjoy, Brian Schacter
Writer(s): Brian Schacter
Logline: Follows the misadventures of a diverse group of friends in their mid-twenties, as they navigate the fast-moving technological and cultural changes that make life as a young-ish person such a confusing and hilarious nightmare.
SSN Insight: Comedy Central gave an initial commitment of a script and has now ordered the pilot as of August 13.
Untitled Will Smith/ Fresh Prince Reboot Comedy Project
Production Company(s): Overbrook Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Will Smith, James Lassiter, Caleeb Pinkett, Jada Pinkett Smith
Logline: The series is a new spin on the fish-out-of-water tale about a young man from a rough Philadelphia neighborhood who moves in with his wealthy relatives in Bel Air, California, and must learn to adjust to his new surroundings.
Details: Project is based on the series, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” which starred Will Smith and aired on NBC from 1990-1996.
SSN Insight: In the very early stages of development
Powerless
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): DC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Ben Queen
Writer(s): Ben Queen
Logline: Set at one of the worst insurance companies in America, the show is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of superheroes and villains. The series follows ordinary, “power-less” folk working at the insurance company who often envy the man and women outside their window who make headlines with their supernatural powers.
Details: Based on characters from DC Comics.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a pilot order on August 14.
Quest For Truth: Dunkleman
Network: E!
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Siren Create
Executive Producer(s): James Roday
Writer(s): James Roday, Ben McMillan
Logline: Brian Dunkleman, the man who made a billion dollar mistake, quitting his job as co-host of “American Idol” after its first season, may now be a serial killer.
SSN Insight: Roday will direct and executive produce the show with Siren Create. Additionally, Roday will star in Tom E Brown’s indie film Pushing Dead with Danny Glover.
Red
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Di Bonaventura Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian
Writer(s): Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Logline: A group of REDs (Retired Extremely Dangerous CIA operatives) struggle to survive civilian life as they simultaneously fight for and against the very organization that threw them out. Based on the film and the comic book.
Details: Based on the film, “Red,” (2010), directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. The film and its sequel were based on the comic book “Red” created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner and published by WildStorm/DC Comics.
SSN Insight: The 2010 movie was hit and grossed $200 million worldwide earning a 2013 sequel.
Sesame Street
Network: HBO
Logline: The program features live action, animation, puppets, sketches, and songs designed to help children solve problems, reinforce their reading skills, and assist them in learning the alphabet and counting from one to ten.
SSN Insight: In a deal between Time Warner’s premium cable network and Sesame Workshop, the next five seasons of Sesame Street will be distributed on HBO and HBO GO, HBO On Demand and HBO NOW. After a nine-month window, the show will be available free of charge to PBS and its member stations.
Untitled Lena Waithe Common Drama Project
Network: Showtime
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Aaron Kaplan, Common, Clark Johnson, Lena Waithe
Writer(s): Lena Waithe
Logline: The South Side of a certain Midwestern megalopolis is nicknamed “Chiraq,” because geographically it’s in Chicago, but the violence level is straight out of Baghdad. The show follows a half dozen interrelated lives, all linked by two things: the same skin color and the same omnipresent threat of deadly violence.
SSN Insight: Showtime ordered a pilot.
Sunset PPL
Network: NBC Entertainment
Writer(s): Aaron Colom, Adriano Valentini
Logline: A group of millennial friends struggle with their own made-up rules for personal and professional success.
SSN Insight: Project originated as a winner of NBC’s grassroots comedy initiative, NBC Playground. Ordered to pilot.
The Good Place
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Michael Schur, David Minor
Logline: A woman wrestles with what it means to be good.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a straight to series 13-episode order on August 13.
The Notebook
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Nicholas Sparks Productions
Executive Producer(s): Nicholas Sparks, Theresa Park, Todd Graff
Writer(s): Todd Graff
Logline: This series will follow the romantic journey of Noah and Allie, at the outset of their blossoming relationship as they build their lives and their future together against the backdrop of the racial politics, economic inequities, and social mores of post-World War II of the late 1940s in North Carolina.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Notebook,” written by Nicholas Sparks and published by Warner Books on October 16, 1996. The book was also made into the film, “The Notebook,” (2004), directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
SSN Insight: The 2004 film grossed $115 million worldwide.
Training Day
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Fuqua Films, Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Executive Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, Will Beall, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman
Writer(s): Will Beall
Logline: Set in present day, the story focuses on the relationship between two LAPD officers, one a rookie and the other a corrupt, older cop. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Training Day,” (2001), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
SSN Insight: CBS ordered the pilot on August 13.
Untitled Peter Berg Hour-long Drama
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox TV
Production Company(s): Film 44
Executive Producer(s): Peter Berg, Elwood Reid
Logline: Follows the woman with the most lethal mind in America, a brilliant and ruthless military professor who is recruited by a former student to help a covert branch of the CIA deal with high-priority targets.
SSN Insight: Has received a script commitment with a significant penalty. Reid has an overall deal at 20th TV.