Untitled Alison Schapker/ Shondaland Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Shondaland
Executive Producer(s): Alison Schapker, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Writer(s): Alison Schapker
Logline: Revolves around a group of Catholic nuns fighting the closure of their Bronx-based convent who must suddenly deal with three young novices whose arrival unearths long-buried secrets.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial script commitment on August 25. Alison Schapker previously was a writer and producer on Lost and Fringe.
Untitled Liz Heldens Sue Naegle Ballet Drama Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): TriStar Television
Executive Producer(s): Sue Naegle, Liz Heldens
Writer(s): Liz Heldens
Logline: A flamboyant retired ballet dancer and a reluctant prima ballerina work to assemble a troupe of dancers of all shapes and sizes to perform “Swan Lake.” The show explores the personal and professional lives of a diverse group of characters as they get ready for their big performance and are granted a second chance to realize their dreams. Based on the the British reality format.
Details: Based on the the British reality format, Big Ballet, which aired on Channel 4 in 2014.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty on August 28.
Caesar
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Matt Lopez, John Glenn
Writer(s): Matt Lopez
Logline: In modern-day Los Angeles, the murder of the powerful Hispanic mayor sends shockwaves through the city’s elite circles and launches the search for a killer. Based on the play “Julius Caesar.”
Details: Based on the play, “Julius Caesar,” written by William Shakespeare in approximately 1599.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot on August 27. Both Glenn and Lopez have overall deals at Universal Television.
Untitled Amy Holden Jones Matt Nix Crime Drama Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Amy Holden Jones, Matt Nix
Writer(s): Amy Holden Jones
Logline: An explosive, rule-breaking, fearless female detective with no filter enlists the help of a polite and gentle brainiac who studies the biology of evil to solve cases for the Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit.
SSN Insight: CBS gave an initial commitment of a put pilot plus penalty on August 26. Nix has an overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV and the studio is also where Jones had a premium blind deal.
Cuba
Studio: Facet 4, Source Rock Partners
Production Company(s): Stone Village Productions
Executive Producer(s): Rob Cohen, Scott Steindorff, Dylan Russell, Rob Weiss
Logline: An international real estate mogul returns with his family to the place of his childhood to restore a hotel in hope of capitalizing on Cuba’s emerging tourism business.
SSN Insight: Planned as a twelve episode limited series. Stone Village has joined forces with Quebec-based Facet 4 to distribute the series and co-finance with investment firm Source Rock Partners.
Untitled Elizabeth Beckwith 1970s Las Vegas Comedy Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Davis Entertainment, Thruline Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Elizabeth Beckwith, John Davis, John Fox, Willie Mercer, Chris Henze
Writer(s): Elizabeth Beckwith
Logline: The show is a father-son workplace comedy set in Las Vegas in the 1970s.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial script commitment on August 26.
Galaxy Quest
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios, Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Gran Via Productions
Executive Producer(s): Robert Gordon, Dean Parisot, Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein
Writer(s): Robert Gordon
Logline: Revolves around the cast of a long cancelled space TV show who become reluctant real space heroes when they are accidentally transported to a spaceship and tasked with saving an alien nation.
Details: Based on the film, “Galaxy Quest,” (1999), directed by Dean Parisot and starring Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver.
SSN Insight: Paramount has lined up the Eps from the original feature with Robert Gordon who wrote the original feature, Dean Parisot who directed the film and producer Mark Johnson.
Hypochondriac
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Crossover Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Robin Shorr, Julie Bowen, George Salinas, Jaime Aymerich
Writer(s): Robin Shorr
Logline: A Type A hypochondriac receives a fatal diagnosis. She then sets herself and her friends and family on a path of comedic destruction in pursuit of her authentic self.
Details: Based on the Colombian telenovela, “La Hipocondriaca,” which aired on Caracol TV in 2013.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty as of August 25.
National Treasure
Network: Channel 4
Production Company(s): The Forge
Executive Producer(s): George Ormond, George Faber
Logline: Paul Finchley is one half of a much loved comedy double act a cherished household name with a career that spans several decades.Faced suddenly with an accusation of rape from the 1970s, his life begins to unravel as he and all those closest to him are put under the intense pressure of the investigation and the merciless media circus that accompanies it. And, of course, his accuser, now in her 50s, must run the same gauntlet in parallel. The series will trace the investigation and criminal trial.
SSN Insight: UK Channel 4 gave a series order of four episodes for the limited series as of August 28.
Oh Mama
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Keshet Media Group
Executive Producer(s): Claudia Lonow, Peter Traugott
Writer(s): Claudia Lonow
Logline: An engaged couple, Daniel and Marjorie, struggle to save their relationships when their mothers start having an affair with each other.
Details: Based on a Keshet short story.
SSN Insight: Lonow is under an overall deal with Universal Television. This project is the first sale under the first-look deal with Keshet Studios, the U.S.-based scripted studio under Keshet International, inked with Universal TV.
Spartan Race
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): A. Smith & Co. Productions, Spartan Race
Executive Producer(s): Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Anthony Storm
Logline: Friends, families and co-workers work together and push each other to their mental and physical limits as they race across specially designed Spartan courses engineered to test their determination, endurance, and will. Teams of five comprised of two men, two women, and an elite Spartan athlete will battle over mud, water, and fire for a chance to win a large cash prize.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the series on August 26. A. Smith & Co Prods also produce NBC’s summer hit American Ninja Warrior.
The Jury
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Carol Mendelsohn Productions
Executive Producer(s): V.J. Boyd, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz
Writer(s): V.J. Boyd, Mark Bianculli
Logline: Follows a single murder trial a season as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence the jurors’ judgment, and how their preconceptions change along the way.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a pilot plus significant penalty as of August 28.
The Trail
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Writer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Logline: The show follows the arrest and trial of a beloved poetry professor from a small town in South Carolina, who is accused of brutally murdering his wife, and the young “Northeastern” lawyer hired to defend him.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot as of August 28. Miller previously created the half-hour comedy, Grown Ups, and executive produced Chuck.
Time
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Davis Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan, John Davis, John Fox
Writer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
Logline: An unlikely trio travel through time to battle unknown criminals in order to protect history as we know it.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on August 26. This is the third drama sale to NBC for Davis and Sony TV with series orders for The Blacklist and the upcoming Las Vegas action series, The Player. Davis also sold the comedy series Dr. Ken to ABC and sold a 1970s Vegas comedy to Fox.
Truck’d Up
Studio: Radar Pictures
Production Company(s): Coquette Productions, New Artists Alliance
Executive Producer(s): David Arquette, Gabriel Cowan, Larry Nealy, Steven Swalding, Michael Lawrence
Logline: A rag tag group of misfits who attempt to get a food truck up and running but find that they need a budding chef with an out-of-the box menu concept to outsell their competitors.
SSN Insight: The pilot was financed by Radar Pictures. The series is directed by Arquette and Gabriel Cowan of New Artists Alliance who will also be showrunners. Coquette is currently in production on Celebrity Name Game.
Versailles
Network: BBC 2
Production Company(s): Canal Plus, Incendo Media, Capa Drama, Zodiak Media
Executive Producer(s): Simon Mirren, David Wolstencroft, Claude Chelli
Logline: The year is 1667 and King Louis XIV is a 28-year-old monarch on the cusp of greatness. A ruthless leader, he will stop at nothing to achieve his vision of creating the most beautiful palace in Europe and seizing absolute control of France and his enemies.
Details: Based on actual events.)
SSN Insight: BBC 2 has given a series order of ten episodes as of August 28.
Talk Nerdy to Me
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. TV
Production Company(s): Jerry Bruckheimer TV
Executive Producer(s): Morgan Murphy, Bill Wrubel, Jonathan Littman
Writer(s): Morgan Murphy
Logline: About four smart, ambitious, twenty-something women — two computer programmers, a musician and a doctor — who share a house on the canals in Venice, CA, and support one another as they reach for their dreams professionally and personally.
Details: Inspired by the blog Talk Nerdy to Me, Lover, edited by Jen Friel.
SSN Insight: CBS has given an initial commitment of a put pilot. Wrubel previously received a put pilot commitment this season for Dream Team at ABC. Wrubel is currently under an overall deal at WBTV.