America’s Greatest Makers
Network: TBS
Production Company(s): Intel Corporation, United Artists Media Group
Executive Producer(s): Mark Burnett
Logline: The series will feature inventors trying to develop the next big wearable or smart connected consumer device built on the Intel Curie hardware module.
SSN Insight: The project is an extension of Intel’s 2014 “Make It Wearable” challenge. TBS ordered the reality series on August 18.
Bourbon Kings
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Endemol Studios
Executive Producer(s): David Rambo, Daniel Rappaport, Ben Forkner
Writer(s): David Rambo
Logline: The story follows the Bradfords, heirs to a Kentucky distillery fortune, as well as the downstairs staff of their glamorous estate in bourbon and thoroughbred country.
Details: The project is based on the novel, “The Bourbon Kings,” written by J.R. Ward and published by NAL on July 28, 2015.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.
Cleopatra
Production Company(s): Slingshot Global Media
Writer(s): Shekhar Kapur
Logline: The series will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a pharaoh and a queen, a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better administrator and ruler than the men of her time. It will re-imagine Cleopatra’s history, reinventing her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made hers one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful thrones of all time.
SSN Insight: Slingshot Global will also distribute the series. Currently the producers are looking to cast the lead.
Dream Team
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Kari’s Logo Here, Here Comes Scrappy
Executive Producer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Writer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Logline: Coach Marty Schumacher knows how to win in the world of girls’ club soccer. His last team went to the national championship, and those women are off playing in college, semipro, even the Olympic team. Now Coach Schumacher, who is known as “the star maker” (mostly by himself), has a documentary crew following him around as he assembles his next dynasty from a diverse group of little girls that bring along their diverse families.
SSN Insight: In a competitive situation ABC has nabbed the half-hour comedy and gave an initial commitment of a pilot plus a penalty on August 24. Kari Lizer and Bill Wrubel are both under deals at WB TV.
Ex Isle
Network: WE TV
Production Company(s): 495 Productions
Executive Producer(s): SallyAnn Salsano, Joel Zimmer, Pam LaLima, Lauren Pollack-Gellert, Angela Molloy
Logline: Hosted by Carmen Electra and set in the Dominican Republic at the Casa de Campo Resort, five former couples will go through an intense and emotional journey led by Dr. Ish Major. With his help, the couples will go through a unique, multi-step process designed to help them break free from the past. Then, in an unexpected twist, 10 singles will arrive at the resort, giving the exes a fresh chance at love.
SSN Insight: WE TV has given a series order of 10 episodes as of August 20.
Future Man
Network: Hulu
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Matt Tolmach Productions, Point Grey Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Matt Tolmach
Writer(s): Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir
Logline: A comedy centers on a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night who is tasked with preventing the extinction of humans after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.
SSN Insight: Hulu landed the series in a competitive situation and ordered the pilot on August 20.
House of the Rising Sin
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Judy Smith, Jeremy Miller, Daniel Cohn
Writer(s): Jeremy Miller, Daniel Cohn
Logline: The series follows three generations of an African-American family whose corrupt political machine has controlled New Orleans for decades.
SSN Insight: Miller and Cohn recently sold a comedy pitch, The Fix, to TBS and their Black List original screenplay, The Portland Condition, will rolls cameras in 2015 with ShivHans Pictures and Beau Flynn producing.
Legacy of Kings
Network: No Broadcast Network Available.
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Paper Lantern Lit, Wildline Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Simon Helberg, Jocelyn Towne, Lauren Oliver, Lexa Hillyer
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: A teenage Alexander the Great, before he was a conqueror, sets out on a quest to earn his father’s respect. Accompanied by a band of others driven by their own motivations, Alexander journeys to regain the Blood Magic — the only force capable of driving out an unspeakable evil that has taken root in the kingdom.
Details: Based on the first novel in the “Blood of Gods and Royals” fantasy series, “Legacy of Kings,” written by Eleanor Herman and published by Harlequin Teen on August 18, 2015.
SSN Insight: Simon Helberg has closed an exclusive two-year deal with WB TV, the studio behind The Big Bang Theory. Under the deal, Helberg and his wife, writer-director-actress Jocelyn Towne, will develop series under their new production shingle, Wildline Entertainment. The book rights were won after a bidding war.
Marvel’s Most Wanted
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Marvel Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jeffrey Bell, Paul Zbyszewski, Megan Thomas Bradner, Jeph Loeb
Writer(s): Jeffrey Bell, Paul Zbyszewski
Logline: Based on the Marvel character, Mockingbird.
Details: The project is planned as a spinoff of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” which premiered on ABC in 2013.
SSN Insight: Series was initially rolled from the 2015-2016 pilot season. After renewed interest, ABC has given an initial commitment of a script and ordered a pilot.
Pinky Malinky
Network: Nickelodeon
Production Company(s): Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Executive Producer(s): Scott Kreamer
Logline: Pinky Malinky is an infectiously upbeat hot dog living in a human world and navigating school and life with a unique perspective and his two best friends by his side. Pinky and his friends will talk directly to the camera to share their absurd and silly perspectives on real life.
Details: The project is based on a short that was done for the Cartoon Network.
SSN Insight: The cabler has ordered 20 episodes of the original animated series for premiere in 2016.
Protocol Orphans
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Boom! Studios
Executive Producer(s): Amanda Segel, Ross Richie, Stephen Christy, Josh Levy
Writer(s): Amanda Segel
Logline: A foster family of orphans are trained by the US government as covert operatives, protecting their country during the day and battling each other at night.
Details: Based on the graphic novel, “Protocol Orphans,” created by Peter Facinelli and Rob DeFranco and published by BOOM! Studios in 2013.
SSN Insight: Boom! has a first look deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Under that deal Boom! also developed a drama adaptation of its comic book series Unthinkable last season which earned a put pilot commitment.
Sawyer & Huck
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Brandon Margolis, Brandon Sonnier, Anthony Hemingway, Josh Berman, Marc Taylor
Writer(s): Brandon Margolis, Brandon Sonnier
Logline: The story is a reimagining of the iconic characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults in modern day America. After a murder case brings them together in St. Louis, Tom Sawyer hires his previously estranged boyhood friend Huck Finn as an investigator for his floundering one-man legal firm and together they take on cases for people who don’t have anywhere else to turn.
Details: Based on the characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, from the novels of Mark Twain, including “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884) and “Tom Sawyer, Detective” (1896).
SSN Insight: CBS has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Splitsville
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Shondaland
Executive Producer(s): Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Writer(s): Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins
Logline: In the wake of a wave of divorces, the single residents of a suburban cul-de-sac join forces to raise their kids and get through it together.
SSN Insight: Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins previously created Trophy Wife and Halpern previously wrote on Shondaland’s Private Practice.
Talent
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): The Firm, Prospect Park
Executive Producer(s): Shaun Cassidy, Josh Barry
Writer(s): Shaun Cassidy
Logline: A musical prodigy evolves into a serial killer after the murder of his one true love.
SSN Insight: NBC have given an initial commitment of a script.
The Ambassador’s Wife
Studio: eOne Television
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company
Executive Producer(s): Mark R. Gordon
Logline: A British woman is kidnapped in Yemen, setting off an ordeal for her and her ambassador husband.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Ambassador’s Wife,” written by Jennifer Steil and published by Doubleday on July 28, 2015.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series with Anne Hathaway set to star.
Untitled Cain & Abel Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Imagine Television
Executive Producer(s): Ian Edelman, David Frankel, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Writer(s): Ian Edelman
Logline: Two very different Cuban brothers and their families live in Miami a world where boxers, models, artists, gangsters and billionaires collide in the pursuit of the American dream.
SSN Insight: NBC has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Untitled Chernin Comedy Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin, Oly Obst, Nicholas Frenkel
Writer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin
Logline: A coarse, blue-collar woman moves to affluent Greenwich, Connecticut raise the outrageously spoiled kids of her wealthy sister and brother-in-law, who have fled the country to avoid prosecution for illegal activities.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty. The Chernin brothers currently co-EP FX’s It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Untitled Kentucky Bourbon Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): New Wave Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bruce Romans, Brian Volk-Weiss, Michael Pelmont, Matt Ochacher
Writer(s): Bruce Romans
Logline: The story centers on the self-made patriarch of a Kentucky bourbon empire and his family. When he has a public breakdown, his children must overcome their differences and their father’s sordid past in order to save the family and their business.
SSN Insight: Romans was a co-producer and writer on Falling Skies. New Wave currently produces It Takes a Sister and We’re the Fugawis.
Untitled Nkechi Carroll Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Teakwood Lane Productions
Executive Producer(s): Howard Gordon, Hugh Fitzpatrick, Nkechi Okoro Carroll
Writer(s): Nkechi Okoro Carroll
Logline: Three young and brilliant, yet troubled, doctors who grew up together are reunited at an extraordinary cutting-edge hospital, though their past and shared secrets are never far behind.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.
Untitled Simon Helberg Comedy Project
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Wildline Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Simon Helberg, Jocelyn Towne
Writer(s): Simon Helberg
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Simon Helberg has closed an exclusive two-year deal with WB TV, the studio behind The Big Bang Theory. Under the deal, Helberg and his wife, writer-director-actress Jocelyn Towne, will develop series under their new production shingle, Wildline Entertainment.
Untitled Howard Gordon Drama Project
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox TV
Production Company(s): Teakwood Lane
Executive Producer(s): Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Howard Gordon, Hugh Fitzpatrick
Writer(s): Nkechi Okoro Carroll
Logline: Centers on three brilliant young doctors who grew up together in CompFox Logoton and are reunited at an extraordinary cutting-edge hospital in Beverly Hills. Now the shared secrets from their past force them to straddle the line between the opulence of their new world and the hard streets they came from.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a script commitment with a penalty to the series. Actress-writer Carroll and Teakwood are both under overall deals at 20th TV.
Chefs
Studio: Keshet Studios
Production Company(s): Keshet International
Logline: Le Chef, a monster of French gastronomy who saves a spot in his kitchen each year for an ex-con. Chefs follows ex-con Romain’s struggles to adapt to his demanding, competitive and adrenaline-filled new profession, and ultimately shows his meteoric rise as he discovers his passion for the art of food after a decidedly tricky start.
Details: Based on the French series, Chefs from CALT Production that began airing in February.
SSN Insight: In a highly competitive situation Keshnet has acquired rights to produce a domestic adaptation of the six-part French ensemble drama.