Bruce Campbell’s Horrified
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): 5×5 Media
Executive Producer(s): Bruce Campbell, Craig Armstrong, Rick Ringbakk, Charles Wachter
Logline: Bruce Campbell hosts this show in which contestants live together, possibly in a haunted house-type of residence, and compete in a series of team and individual challenges, with each episode themed around a horror sub-genre, like monster, sci-fi, psychological, zombie, etc., complete with decors, costumes and visual effects associated with that genre.
SSN Insight: 5X5 is currently under a deal with Warner Horizon TV. Series currently being shopped to networks.
Canary
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): MomentumTV
Executive Producer(s): Zack Estrin, Nick Hamm, Sabrina Eisenstadt
Writer(s): Zack Estrin
Logline: A woman risks everything to help a whistleblower come forward with secret information that will impact the lives of millions.
SSN Insight: Zack Estrin sold the series to ABC. He is currently under an overall deal at ABC Studios.
Champion: The Jeff Beekman Story
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Orchard Farm Productions
Executive Producer(s): Michael Colton, John Aboud, Mila Kunis, Susan Curtis, Cami Curtis
Writer(s): Michael Colton, John Aboud
Logline: The story chronicles the everyday experiences of a hyper-competitive but perpetual underdog dad, presented like a sports documentary, with commentary and analysis.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of a put pilot on September 9.
Close To The Enemy
Network: BBC 2, Starz
Production Company(s): All3 Media, Endor Productions, Playground Entertainment, Little Island Productions
Executive Producer(s): Helen Flint, Hilary Bevan Jones, Colin Callender
Writer(s): Stephen Poliakoff
Logline: Set in London in 1946, a beautiful and sophisticated American woman arrives in England after the second world war with her British diplomat husband. Upon meeting a military intelligence operative, she embarks on an affair with him.
SSN Insight: Starz has acquired exclusive U.S. premium rights to the six-episode original miniseries. It’s scheduled to premiere on BBC Two in the UK and Starz in the U.S. in 2016.
Downward Dog
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Legendary Entertainment, Mosaic, Animal
Executive Producer(s): Samm Hodges, Michael Killen, Kathy Dziubek, Jimmy Miller, Sam Hansen
Writer(s): Samm Hodges, Michael Killen
Logline: The story centers on a woman and her dog. The twist is that it features a confessional device for the dog.
Details: Based on the web series, “Downward Dog,” created by Samm Hodges and Michael Killen.
SSN Insight: ABC ordered the pilot on September 10. This is Legendary TV’s third pilot order with USA drama Colony that went to series and Poor Richard’s Almanack, which is currently casting. They also have the Netflix straight-to-series comedy Love.
Gods of War
Production Company(s): Pacific Coast Entertainment
Writer(s): Neil Johnson
Logline: Set in the distant future, the story depicts the struggles of humanity forced to merge with machine intelligence.
Details: Based on the upcoming film, “Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter.”
SSN Insight: Planned as a six to eight episode series by Pacific Coast and will be shopped to networks. Tracey Birdsall will reprise her role from the feature.
Ladylike
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Bird Brain Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ryan Ling
Logline: The cast challenges social norms and unleashes uncompromising and ridiculous situations on the unsuspecting public.
SSN Insight: MTV ordered the series on September 8.
Little Darlings
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Shiny Penny
Executive Producer(s): Stacey Sher, Emily Levitan
Writer(s): Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Logline: College student Ophelia is an edgy, hip young trouble magnet: she works in a vintage record store, sells weed on the side, and is on a first-name basis with Campus Security. Jules is a sweet, small-town girl who is a member of the one of the best sororities on campus — but she has a secret identity as a masked super-heroine who dishes out rough justice to those getting away with sexual assault and bullying on campus. When Ophelia learns all about Jules and her clandestine operation, she insists on playing Batgirl to, well, to Batgirl.
SSN Insight: MTV gave a pilot order. Shiny Penny is also behind features The Hateful Eight and Burnt, both currently awaiting release.
Paradiso
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Cirque du Soleil
Executive Producer(s): Yaniv Raz, Jacques Methe, Gillian Ferrabee
Writer(s): Yaniv Raz
Logline: A girl pursues her dream of performing at the Paradiso, the most glamorous nightclub in San Lorenzo. Once there, her bold personality will win her both friends and enemies in this politically charged world.
Details: Inspired by the dreamlike style of Cirque du Soleil’s live shows.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty as of September 8.
Preacher
Network: AMC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Original Film, Point Grey Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin, Neal H. Moritz, Vivian Cannon
Writer(s): Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Logline: Reverend Jesse Custer, a tough Texas preacher who has lost his faith, has learned that God has left Heaven and abandoned His responsibilities. He finds himself the only person capable of tracking God down, demanding answers, and making Him answer for His dereliction of duty.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “Preacher,” written by Garth Ennis, illustrated by Steve Dillon and first published April 1995 by DC Comics imprint, Vertigo Comics.
SSN Insight: Ordered to pilot in December and AMC gave a series order on September 9.
Reg
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): LA Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jimmy McGovern
Logline: After Tom Keys was one of six Royal Military Policemen murdered in Al Majar, Iraq, questions began to arise around the events that led to his death. Reg Keys and his wife also began to question the legitimacy of the war as a whole. With the New Labour government and Prime Minister Tony Blair refusing to answer, Reg decided to stand as an independent candidate in Blair’s own constituency.
Details: Based on the true story of an ambulance paramedic who ran in the UK’s 2005 election, opposing Tony Blair on an anti-war ticket.
SSN Insight: Tim Roth, who can next be seen in The Hateful Eight, will play Reg Keys and Anna Maxwell Martin (Philomena) will play his wife.
Roadside Picnic
Network: WGN America
Studio: Tribune Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Neal H. Moritz, Vivian Cannon, Jack Paglen, Alan Taylor
Writer(s): Jack Paglen
Logline: Centers on an alien visit to planet Earth, whose aftermath has led to the creation of “Zones” in the areas where the aliens had possibly landed. Such zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artifacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties.
Details: Based on the novel “Roadside Picnic,” written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and published in Russia in 1972. Novel was also adapted for the 1979 film “Stalker,” directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
SSN Insight: WGN gave an initial commitment of a script on September 11. Alan Taylor previously helmed Terminator Genisys and Game of Thrones.
Sugarland
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson
Logline: Centers on two friends who try and fail to keep work life and personal life separate while working for two difficult bosses.
Details: Loosely based on Matt Fusfeld and Alex Cuthbertson’s real-life experiences.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of a put pilot. Fusfeld and Cuthbertson are under their first overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV.
The Crusaders
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Legendary Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures Television, Green Door Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Idris Elba, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Daniel McDermott, Thomas Ikimi
Writer(s): Thomas Ikimi
Logline: A dynamic crew of young men and women risk life and limb to recover artifacts stolen from the African continent during colonial occupation and return them to their proper place.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of a script. Ikimi’s short film Nostradamus recently premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
The Drop
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company
Executive Producer(s): R.J. Cutler, Kyle Jarrow, Frank Marshall, Robert D. Zotnowski, Steve Angello
Writer(s): Kyle Jarrow
Logline: Set in the world of Miami’s Electronic Dance Music scene, a DJ teetering on the edge of ruin finds hope and more in a gifted protege who is female and African-American, both rarities in the EDM world.
SSN Insight: Jarrow previously wrote on CW dramas Trigger and Ze.
The Searcher
Studio: eOne Television
Production Company(s): Appian Way
Logline: When the townspeople gather at a cemetery to bury a local man, they are suddenly interrupted by a loud plane crash in the desert. As the sheriff speeds toward the crash-site, he almost hits a man running down the road. He has no shoes, no memory and no ID. The only clue to who he is is a label in his jacket and a book that’s been inscribed to him: both giving him the name Solomon Creed. When he learns of the name of the Arizona town, he thinks he is there to save a man who was buried that morning.
Details: Based on the novel “The Searcher,” written by Simon Toyne and published by Harper Collins on October 6th, 2015.
SSN Insight: The option on the book is the first deal between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and eOne.
Time After Time
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Williamson
Writer(s): Kevin Williamson
Logline: When young H.G. Wells shows his time machine to his friends, he is oblivious to the fact that one of them, surgeon Leslie John Stephenson, is in fact the infamous Jack the Ripper. When Scotland Yard detectives get on Stevenson’s trail, the murderer uses the time machine to flee to the future, getting transported to 1979 San Francisco. He is quickly followed by Wells who is trying to bring him to justice.
Details: Based on the novel “Time After Time,” written by Karl Alexander and published by The Delacorte Press on March 28, 1979.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script. Kevin Williamson is currently under a deal at Warner Bros. TV.
Trapped
Network: Danish Broadcasting Corporation, RUV, Sveriges Television (SVT), YLE – Finnish Broadcasting Company, France Televisions, BBC 4
Production Company(s): RVK Studios, ZDF Enterprises, Dynamic Television
Executive Producer(s): Daniel March, Klaus Zimmermann
Writer(s): Sigurjon Kjartansson, Clive Bradley
Logline: As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes. A mutilated body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The local police chief, Andri Olafssun, whose personal life has been shattered, realizes a killer has descended into his town.
Details: Based on an idea by Baltasar Kormakur.
SSN Insight: The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to the crime drama and the debut episode premiered at TIFF.
Untitled Dan Fogelman Rick Singer Baseball Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Barnstorm Films, Rhode Island Ave. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer, Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett
Writer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer
Logline: A young female pitcher defies the odds to become the first woman to compete in professional baseball.
Details: Based on an idea by Rick Singer Initial Commitment: Put pilot (9/8/2015)
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial put pilot commitment on September 8.
Untitled Eva Longoria Texas Rangers Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): UnbeliEVAble Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eva Longoria, Ben Spector
Writer(s): Robert W Sudduth
Logline: The story follows train wreck Texas Ranger Cathy Cruz, who after inadvertently catching a serial killer, is recruited by the rough-and-tumble Texas Rangers. Cruz butts heads with her straight-laced macho partner at work as well as her judgmental Mexican family at home, and the biggest question that remains is: which world does she fit into less?
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial script commitment on September 11.
Untitled Kat Coiro Family Comedy Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Kat Coiro, Julie Anne Robinson, David Miner, Tom Lassally, Oly Obst
Writer(s): Kat Coiro
Logline: A family comedy set in a South Beach Haitian restaurant.
Details: Loosely based on Kat Coiro’s childhood.
SSN Insight: Coiro is currently attached as a director to features Cornered, Here Lies Bridget and Which Brings Me to You, all in development.
Untitled Nicole Byer Comedy Project
Network: MTV Networks
Executive Producer(s): Avi Gilbert, Christian Lander
Writer(s): Christian Lander
Logline: Out of money, luck and options, myopically self-serving Nicole is forced to move in with her sister and her sister’s four kids.
SSN Insight: MTV ordered a pilot. Nicole Byer is known for MTV’s Female-driven comedy series, Girl Code.
Warrior
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation
Executive Producer(s): David DiGilio, Walter F Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Owen Shiflett
Writer(s): David DiGilio
Logline: A broken woman works undercover, with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master, to bring down an international crime lord.
SSN Insight: The project was originally in development at NBC for the 2015-2016 season, where it went to pilot but was not ultimately ordered to series. Fox has now ordered a new script, as of September 11.