Crashing
Network: HBO
Executive Producer(s): Pete Holmes, Judd Apatow, Dave Rath
Writer(s): Pete Holmes
Logline: After his wife leaves him, a sweet, wholesome comedian has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics.
Details: Based loosely on the real life experiences of Pete Holmes.
SSN Insight: HBO ordered the pilot on September 16. Judd Apatow is set to direct.
Doctor Thorne
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Production Company(s): Hat Trick Productions
Executive Producer(s): Julian Fellowes, Mark Redhead, Ted Childs, Chris Kelly, Harvey Weinstein
Writer(s): Julian Fellowes
Logline: The story centers on Dr.Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of Greshamsbury with his beautiful niece, Mary, a girl blessed with every gift except money. Her husband has frittered away the family fortune and is only being kept afloat by very favorable loans that Dr Thorne has secured from a railway millionaire, Sir Roger Scatcherd. However, Sir Roger’s financial future is uncertain, so Lady Arabella believes it is her son’s duty to make a rich marriage to save the family estate.
Details: Based on the novel, “Doctor Thorne,” written by Anthony Trollope and published in 1858.
SSN Insight: Tom Hollander (The Night Manager, Pirates Of The Caribbean) will play the title role of Dr Thomas Thorne. Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) is playing Miss Martha Dunstable. TWC snagged the U.S. rights to the ITV series at TIFF.
Dumb Prince
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Paper Kite Productions
Executive Producer(s): Charlie Grandy, Amy Poehler, Brooke Posch, Dave Becky
Writer(s): Charlie Grandy
Logline: A reluctant Crown Prince attempts to run the family business his way, thereby throwing his highly publicized and dysfunctional family into chaos.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on September 17.
Fix My Mom
Network: Oxygen
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions
Executive Producer(s): Gil Goldschein, Julie Pizzi, Sean Rankine, Dave Rupel, Mark Seliga
Logline: Mother-daughter pairs undergo a series of physical and emotional challenges in hopes of mending their rocky relationships. Under the guidance of life coach Laura Baron, the women will be tested by specifically designed exercises to get to the root of their issues and fix what they hold most dear.
SSN Insight: Oxygen gave a series order on September 17.
Front Man
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Brownstone Productions, Piece of Pie Productions
Executive Producer(s): Emily Kapnek, Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman
Writer(s): Emily Kapnek
Logline: Paul was an overindulged only child, born to two doting helicopter parents. Now approaching 30, he is forced to acknowledge that his dream of becoming a famous singer/songwriter isn’t happening. Wrenched from the comfort of his family home, Paul must learn to stand on his own. He takes the gig of front man for a local wedding band and learns more than wedding reception staples in the process.
SSN Insight: Fox ordered the pilot on September 17.
Hart To Hart
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Carol Mendelsohn Productions
Executive Producer(s): Christopher Fife, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz
Writer(s): Christopher Fife
Logline: “By the book” attorney Jonathan Hart and free-spirited investigator Dan Hartman must balance the two sides of their life: action-packed crime-solving in the midst of newly found domesticity.
Details: Based on the series, “Hart To Hart,” which aired on ABC from 1979-1984.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty on September 15.
House Of Thieves
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company, Entertainment One
Executive Producer(s): Francis Lawrence, Mark R. Gordon, Erwin Stoff
Logline: In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn’t have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross’ son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent’s Gents, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won’t solve. Soon Cross becomes invaluable to the gang and with that his entire life becomes a balancing act, and it will only take one mistake for it all to come crashing down, and for his family to go down too.
Details: Based on the novel, “House of Thieves,” written by Charles Belfoure and published by Sourcebooks Landmark on September 15, 2015.
SSN Insight: Mark Gordon Company, backed by Entertainment One, will finance the development of the project and will deficit finance if it goes to series. Francis Lawrence is set to direct.
In The Line Of Fire
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Carol Mendelsohn Productions
Executive Producer(s): Josh Berman, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz, Gail Katz
Writer(s): Carol Mendelsohn, Josh Berman
Logline: A Secret Service agent, after a fall from grace, gets the chance to redeem himself when a rogue CIA hitman threatens to assassinate the president. The agent and his female partner will investigate cases while engaged simultaneously in a twisted cat-and-mouse with the would-be assassin, who will upend their lives, forcing them to question their loyalties both professional and personal.
Details: Based on the film, “In The Line Of Fire,” (1993), directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich.
SSN Insight: NBC has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty as of September 18.
Jermaine Fowler: Give ‘Em Hell Kid
Network: Showtime
Executive Producer(s): Jermaine Fowler
Logline: The show includes a mix of stand-up and first-person interviews from those who know Jermaine Fowler best.
SSN Insight: To debut on December 11. CBS landed an untitled series from Jermaine Fowler in a competitive situation and this project was also a part of that deal.
Join or Die With Craig Ferguson
Network: History Channel
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Green Mountain West Inc., Comedy Dynamics
Executive Producer(s): Craig Ferguson, Phil Cottone, Brian Volk-Weiss, Jim Biederman, Tim Healy
Logline: Host Craig Ferguson debates provocative and timely topics with a panel of guests which will include celebrities and history experts, as well as the American public through social media. In addition to the debate, the show will also produce extensive digital pieces.
SSN Insight: History gave a series order of 16 episodes as of September 17.
Law & Order: You The Jury
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): Wolf Films, Inc., Magical Elves
Executive Producer(s): Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz
Logline: The show puts the power of the law directly into viewers’ hands with real life legal cases. The audience serves as the jury and will not only determine the verdict, but will also be able to vote throughout the trial on the veracity of witnesses and persuasiveness of evidence.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the series. Marks Wolf’s fifth spinoff for NBC, others include Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med.
Moreau
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company
Executive Producer(s): Phillip Iscove, Frank Marshall, Robert D. Zotnowski
Writer(s): Phillip Iscove
Logline: Fiercely intelligent and fearless, Dr. Katherine Moreau expands the boundaries of medicine through bold and revolutionary scientific experimentation and treatments in her privately funded island hospital.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” written by H.G. Wells and published by Heinemann, Stone & Kimball in 1896.
SSN Insight: CBS gave an initial script commitment on September 18.
Neverwhere
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company, Entertainment One
Executive Producer(s): Francis Lawrence, Mark R. Gordon, Erwin Stoff
Logline: When Richard Mayhew encounters an injured girl named Door on the street one night, he decides to help her despite his fiancée’s protests. Upon doing so he ceases to exist on Earth and becomes real only to the denizens of ‘London Below’, whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of ‘London Above’. He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all, find a way back, and help Door survive as she is hunted down by hired assassins. Based on the miniseries and novel.
Details: Based on the British miniseries, “Neverwhere,” created by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, which premiered on BBC 2 in 1996. It was subsequently turned into a novel written by Gaiman.
SSN Insight: Mark Gordon Company, backed by Entertainment One, will finance the development of the project and will deficit finance if it goes to series. Francis Lawrence is set to direct.
Ordinary People
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Principato-Young Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, Get Lifted Film Co.
Executive Producer(s): John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorius, Chrissy Teigen, Kenya Barris
Writer(s): Tracy Oliver
Logline: The show explores an interracial couple with very different personalities and big ambitions.
Details: Loosely inspired by the relationship between John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a put pilot commitment on September 17.
Outnumbered
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Industry Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dianne Fraser, Helena Heyman, Julia Franz
Writer(s): Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
Logline: The story centers on a woman in a male-dominated workplace.
SSN Insight: Cherry ‘Cheva’ also wrote two YA novels, She’s So Money and DupliKate, and formerly developed a comedy for Fox.
Sleepless
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): Tall Girls Productions
Executive Producer(s): Melissa Rosenberg, Kate Schumaecker
Writer(s): Mike Cahill
Logline: Surrounds the outbreak of an insomnia epidemic, with the story told intimately through the eyes of an ensemble of rich and complicated characters.
SSN Insight: Tall Girls is currently under a deal with ABC Signature. Planned as a ten-episode continuing series, with Cahill writing and directing all or most of the episodes in the first season.
Taken
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): EuropaCorp
Executive Producer(s): Luc Besson, Matt Gross, Edouard de Vesinne, Thomas Anargyros
Logline: Bryan Mills is a young man with no wife and kids. What he does have is a very particular set of skills, skills he has acquired over a very long career. The series will focus on how Mills acquired those skills. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Taken” (2008), directed by Pierre Morel and starring Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a straight to series order on September 17.
The Mensch On a Bench
Production Company(s): Pilgrim Studios
Executive Producer(s): Craig Piligian
Logline: Moshe the Mensch watches over the Jewish people during the great miracle of Hanukkah. Moshe tells the story of the Jewish holiday through adventures that always circle back to values of kindness, gratitude, humor and an independent spirit. Moshe introduces children to the traditions of Hanukkah and teaches them to be good and honorable people, also known as Mensches. Based on the toy property.
Details: Based on the toy and book properties created by Neal Hoffman.
SSN Insight: In 2014, Hoffman pitched the product on ABC’s Shark Tank, where he struck a deal with Sharks Robert Herjavec and Lori Greiner. The products is now in major retailers such as Target, Michael’s and Bed, Bath & Beyond.
The Mist
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Writer(s): Christian Torpe
Logline: A seemingly innocuous mist seeps into a small town but contains limitless havoc. From psychological terrors to otherworldly creatures, the mist causes the town residents’ darkest demons to appear forcing them to battle the supernatural event and, more importantly, each other.
Details: Based on the novella, “The Mist,” written by Stephen King and first published as part of the horror anthology, “Dark Forces” by Viking Press in 1980. The novella was also adapted into the film, “The Mist,” (2007), directed by Frank Darabont and starri
SSN Insight: TWC recently picked up the U.S. rights to TIFF screened crime drama Trapped, an Icelandic TV series created by Baltasar Kormakur and Doctor Thorne, created by Julian Fellowes.
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Sarah Dunn, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Sarah Dunn
Logline: Katie, our narrator, is a (slightly) larger wife and mother raising her flawed family of three in a wealthy town filled with “perfect” wives and their “perfect” offspring.
SSN Insight: At ABC, Kaplan also has a put pilot with the genre-themed drama Monstropolis along with Dana Klein’s comedy project Bad News and returning drama series Secrets & Lies.
Under Her Thumb
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Will Packer Productions
Executive Producer(s): Alison McDonald, Will Packer
Writer(s): Alison McDonald
Logline: A campy cautionary tale set in the morally bankrupt world of high-end New York City real estate.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot on September 21.
Untitled Jermaine Fowler Family Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jermaine Fowler, Michael Rotenberg, Josh Lieberman
Writer(s): Jermaine Fowler
Logline: A 27-year-old man brings up children who are around 10. Kids raising kids.
Details: Inspired by the real life of Jermaine Fowler.
SSN Insight: CBS landed the project in a competitive situation, as part of the deal, Showtime will air a Jermaine Fowler special.
Untitled Leonardo DiCaprio 1980s Mafia Drama Project
Network: Showtime
Production Company(s): Appian Way
Executive Producer(s): Brett L Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Bryan Zuriff, Chuck Pacheco
Writer(s): Brett L Johnson
Logline: The story traces a decade-long relationship between an unstable mafia captain and a rogue federal agent, each violating the strict codes of their respective organizations. Set in 1980s Brooklyn, the series examines the corrosive power the Wall Street era had on both the mafia and the FBI.
SSN Insight: Johnson previously moved up from script coordinator to co-writer of an episode on Mad Men entitled, The Grown-ups. He followed that position up by writing and producing on Showtime’s Ray Donovan for three seasons.
Untitled Marlon Wayans Comedy Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Unnamed Marlon Wayans Company
Executive Producer(s): Marlon Wayans, Christopher Moynihan, Rick Alvarez, Michael Rotenberg
Logline: An inappropriate but loving father is committed to successfully co-parenting with his polar opposite ex-wife.
Details: Loosely inspired by the real life of Marlon Wayans.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot on September 18. Marlon Wayans just inked an overall deal with Universal TV.
Untitled Rick Cleveland Drama Project
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment, StoryBy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Rick Cleveland
Writer(s): Rick Cleveland
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Details: Based on real-life events.
SSN Insight: Sonar Entertainment has inked an exclusive first-look deal with indie production company StoryBy Entertainment with the goal of packaging underlying literary material.
Virtually In Love
Network: Oxygen
Production Company(s): Fly on the Wall Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Allison Grodner, Rich Meehan, Dena Waxman
Logline: Women get the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the person they’ve been dating online. Each episode features real couples who have so far only interacted online. The couples will get a personal look at life with one another, traveling to their hometowns and meeting family and friends. After doing so, they’ll decide if they still click or if they want to break things off.
SSN Insight: Oxygen gave a series order on September 17.
Viva La Madness
Studio: Gaumont International Television
Production Company(s): SJ Pictures
Executive Producer(s): J.J. Connolly, Jason Statham, Steve Chasman
Writer(s): J.J. Connolly
Logline: An anonymous hero is stranded in the Caribbean itching for the criminal life he left behind — but he is still a wanted man back home. He soon joins forces with two robust London gangsters: the menacing Sonny King and his paranoid partner Roy “Twitchy” Burns.
Details: Based on the novel, “Viva La Madness,” written by J.J. Connolly and published by The Overlook Press on May 10, 2012.
SSN Insight: Marks Statham’s first starring TV role. Viva La Madness is the follow-up to Connolly’s novel Layer Cake, which was adapted into a film in 2004. Statham and Steven Chasman co-own the rights to the project.