Deja Vu
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Mandeville Films/TV
Executive Producer(s): Eric C Charmelo, Nicole Snyder, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks
Writer(s): Eric C Charmelo, Nicole Snyder
Logline: A woman who gets a second chance at love after losing her husband and soul mate twenty-two years ago. But things get complicated when she meets a man believed to be the reincarnated version of her dead husband, who also happens to be dating her daughter.
SSN Insight: ABC has given an initial script commitment.
Fantasy Island
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Vendetta Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sheldon Turner, Jennifer Klein, Josh Berman
Writer(s): Sheldon Turner
Logline: Centers on a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his or her most intimate, dark or outlandish fantasy.
Details: Based on the series, “Fantasy Island,” which aired on ABC from 1977-1984 and then again in 1998-1999.
SSN Insight: Turner and Jennifer Klein are based at Sony TV with their Vendetta Productions. They previously produced the pilot, The Advocate last season for ABC.
House Of Moore
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment, We’re Not Brothers
Executive Producer(s): Felicity Huffman, Ben Barnz, Daniel Barnz, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Daniel Barnz
Logline: Centers on the sexy, twisted lives of an iconic fashion family, looking at our beauty-obsessed culture through a darkly comedic lens.
SSN Insight: ABC has given an initial commitment of a put pilot as of October 12.
Imaginary Friend
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Happy Madison Productions
Executive Producer(s): Patrick Osborne, Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio
Writer(s): Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio
Logline: A thirtysomething bachelor’s life is turned upside-down when he finally meets the love of his life – a divorced working mom with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend he created as an only child suddenly reappears in his life to help him navigate the transition from single guy to family man.
SSN Insight: ABC has ordered the pilot with a series penalty.
Negotiations
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Paul Lieberstein, Howard Klein
Writer(s): Paul Lieberstein
Logline: The series looks at life, politics and romance in one of the world’s largest law firms.
SSN Insight: This project is the second consecutive hourlong series for Lieberstein, who recently was an executive producer on HBO’s The Newsroom.
The Homefront
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Dark Toy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Colleen McGuinness, Todd Holland
Writer(s): Colleen McGuinness
Logline: A retired Green Beret comes back to the U.S. and moves near his grown daughter and grandchildren, only to find that it’s easier to face death every day than to live in the suburbs.
Details: Loosely based on the life of Colleen McGuinness, whose father is a retired Green Beret.
SSN Insight: Dark Toy is under a deal at ABC Studios.
The Invaders
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Mandeville Films/TV
Executive Producer(s): Ellen Fairey, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks
Writer(s): Ellen Fairey
Logline: The show examines the dark underbelly of an exclusive beach front community by following its inhabitants as they fight to belong while keeping their secrets hidden from from view.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Invaders,” written by Karolina Waclawiak and published by Regan Arts on July 7, 2015.
SSN Insight: Ellen Fairey was previously a supervising producer and writer on Nurse Jackie for Showtime.
The Romeos (Retired Older Men Eating Out)
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Ian Roberts, Jay Martel
Writer(s): Ian Roberts, Jay Martel
Logline: Revolves around two completely dissimilar 65-year-old neighbors who join forces to take full advantage of their second acts – driving each other, and everyone around them, crazy in the process.
SSN Insight: Roberts is a founding member of Upright Citizens Brigade. Both he and Martel were executive producers & showrunners on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele for five seasons.
Untitled Eva Longoria Bobby Bowman Comedy Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): UnbeliEVAble Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bobby Bowman, Eva Longoria, Ben Spector
Writer(s): Bobby Bowman
Logline: An ambitious and meticulous Latino chef runs a cafe with his unpredictable white father-in-law.
SSN Insight: UnbeliEVAble is currently in development on Bonita & Mechelle at NBC with Will Packer Prods. as well as projects at HBO Films and NBC International.
Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet
Network: Animal Planet
Production Company(s): High Noon Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jim Berger, Scott Feeley, Sarah Presta, Dawn Sinsel
Logline: Veterinarian Dr. Dee Thornell cares for the wild and domestic animals of America’s largest state- even if she needs to learn how to fly a plane to reach them.
SSN Insight: Animal Planet has given a series order of eight episodes.
Workplace
Network: CBS
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Paul Corrigan, Brad Walsh
Logline: Set in a three-story building with three seemingly separate businesses: a one-hit-wonder app developer, a real estate company grudgingly shared by a divorced couple, and a cafe run by two sisters, one of whom hasn’t worked a day in her life.
SSN Insight: CBS has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Bathory
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Silver Pictures
Executive Producer(s): David Eick, Joel Silver
Writer(s): David Eick
Logline: The project tells the story of woman nicknamed the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula. Considered the world’s most prolific serial killer, Bathory is believed to have tortured and murdered more than 600 girls. She was also rumored to have vampire-like tendencies, including drinking the girls’ blood. Bathory eventually was arrested, tried and convicted, spending her last days in solitary confinement.
Details: Based on the true story of infamous 16th century serial killer countess Elizabeth Bathory.
SSN Insight: Eick is also developing Gateway for Syfy, Entertainment One TV and Universal Cable Prods. He recently was an executive producer/showrunner on TNT’s Falling Skies and previously co-developed and executive produced Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica and executive produced spinoff Caprica.
Legalease
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): 606 Films
Executive Producer(s): Steve Lichtman, Halle Berry, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Daniel A Thomas
Writer(s): Steve Lichtman
Logline: A biracial lawyer from Chicago follows a case to New Orleans, where she finds herself partnering with a good ol’ boy white attorney while working in a very particular justice system that will ultimately expose the biases we all harbor.
SSN Insight: Berry recently finished a two season run on the CBS summer sci-fi drama series Extant. She will star in this project.
Marple
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Agatha Christie, Ltd.
Executive Producer(s): David Wolstencroft, Mathew Prichard, Hilary Strong
Writer(s): David Wolstencroft
Logline: After inheriting her grandmother’s bookstore and realizing that things in this small California town aren’t what they seem, a young woman begins working as a private investigator to get to the bottom of the town’s mysteries. Inspired by the novels and short stories.
Details: Based on the Miss Marple novels and short stories written by Agatha Christie.
SSN Insight: David Wolstencroft is the creator of the long-running British spy series Spooks aka MI-5.
Out of Body
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Berlanti Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jennifer Johnson, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Todd Garner
Writer(s): Jennifer Johnson
Logline: Centers on a former criminal who inexplicably begins to jump into bodies of people in danger and has to use his skills to prevent them from being murdered or he could end up in a body bag himself.
SSN Insight: CBS has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Untitled Chris Fedak Tech Genius Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Berlanti Productions
Executive Producer(s): Chris Fedak, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
Writer(s): Chris Fedak
Logline: Centers on a young tech genius billionaire who utilizes his cutting-edge technology and resources to partner with a street-smart but old-school San Francisco police detective to solve crimes committed by 21st century criminals.
SSN Insight: CBS has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Untitled Kevin James Rock Reuben Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Hey Eddie Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kevin James, Jeff Sussman, Rock Reuben, Bruce Helford
Writer(s): Kevin James, Rock Reuben, Bruce Helford
Logline: A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
SSN Insight: CBS has given a straight to series order of 13 episodes.
Team Ninja Warrior
Network: Esquire Network
Production Company(s): A. Smith & Co. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Brian Richardson
Logline: For the first time ever, ninjas will form teams and race head to head through the world’s toughest obstacle course. And, the stakes are raised in the final match up of each episode with a ‘relay’ element, as ninjas race through one section of the course, then tag a teammate who continues through the next section. It’ll be an all-out sprint to the finish, creating a new level of pressure for the competitors.
Details: The project is based on the series, “American Ninja Warrior,” which premiered on G4 in 2009. That series was based on the series “Sasuke,” which first aired in Japan on Tokyo Broadcasting System in 1997..
SSN Insight: Esquire has given a series order of eight episodes.
Belles & Whistles
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Electric Dynamite
Executive Producer(s): Alex McAulay, Jack Black, Spencer Berman, Dwight Yoakam
Writer(s): Alex McAulay
Logline: An unfulfilled father, when fired from his comfortable tech job in Silicon Valley, decides to move his dysfunctional family to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his lifelong dream of music stardom.
SSN Insight: McAulay wrote the Black List script Flower, which is set up at Rough House.
Untitled Key and Peele and King Bach Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Alex Rubens, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele
Writer(s): Alex Rubens
Logline: Centers on an undercover cop who grew up on the streets and goes back to his old neighborhood to take down the bad guys who bullied him when they were kids.
Details: Loosely based on a King Bach Vine.
SSN Insight: The project was won in a competitive situation by Fox with a significant penalty. Viner King Bach has 14 million followers and 5.1 billion loops.
Braunschlag
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Principato-Young Entertainment, Intrigue
Executive Producer(s): Rob Riggle, Steve Hely, Tariq Jalil, Peter Principato, Paul Young
Logline: The story follows the quirky inhabitants of a small struggling town whose mayor is prepared to do anything to save his community. Seriously. Anything.
Details: Based on the Austrian series “Braunschlag,” which aired on the ORF Network in 2012.
SSN Insight: ABC has given a script commitment plus significant penalty.
Untitled Bruno Mars Comedy Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): Imagine Television
Executive Producer(s): Bruno Mars, Brandon Creed, Prentice Penny, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Writer(s): Prentice Penny
Logline: The story follows a loud, boisterous, and quarrelsome family from the Bronx and what happens when they take in their wide-eyed, hopelessly optimistic ten- year-old nephew.
Details: Based on a concept by Bruno Mars and Prentice Penny.
SSN Insight: NBC has given a commitment of a put pilot.
Untitled Josh Rabinowitz Kevin Barnett Comedy Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Josh Rabinowitz, Kevin Barnett, Howard Klein, Avi Gilbert
Writer(s): Josh Rabinowitz, Kevin Barnett
Logline: Two best friends have worked hard their entire lives to reach the careers they’ve always wanted, and then realize everything sucks and they hate it. So they quit their jobs to figure out what they really want and care about.
SSN Insight: Josh Rabinowitz and Kevin Barnett were credited as executive producers, head writers, and actors on the Tru TV sketch series Friends of the People, which just wrapped its second season.
Untitled Wendy Davis Jennifer Cecil Political Dramedy Drama Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Naegle Ink
Executive Producer(s): Jennifer Cecil, Wendy Davis, Sue Naegle
Writer(s): Jennifer Cecil
Logline: A female Democratic Senator, after losing the Texas governor’s race, gets her world turned upside down. while she pieces her pride back together, she goes to work in the law firm of her best friend, a black, male Republican and discovers that with no political future to protect, she can unshackle her inner badass.
Details: Inspired by the real life of Wendy Davis.
SSN Insight: Jennifer Cecil previously served as the executive producer, co-head writer on Private Practice and is an executive producer on NBC’s upcoming medical drama Heartbreaker.
Code To Zero
Production Company(s): Tandem Communications GmbH
Logline: Set in the present day, a man awakens to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station with no memory of how he got there or even his own name. Slowly, he rediscovers his entire life through detective work, uncovering secrets of a conspiracy which is set against the battle for global space supremacy between the U.S. and China.
Details: Based on the novel, “Code To Zero,” written by Ken Follett and published by Dutton on December 1, 2000.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series.
Darkness Falls
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company, ProSiebenSat.1
Executive Producer(s): Mark R. Gordon, Nicholas Pepper
Logline: An elite two-person FBI team enters small, isolated communities to solve the darkest, most twisted murders imaginable. Having spent countless years at understanding the nuances and complexities of small towns and homicide, these heroes are the best at finding the worst.
Details: The project was previously in development at CBS for the 2013-2014 season.
SSN Insight: EOne Television will distribute internationally.
Poison Princess
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Offspring Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Seamus Kevin Fahey, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot
Writer(s): Seamus Kevin Fahey
Logline: In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself–embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle.
Details: Based on the novel, “Poison Princess,” written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on October 2, 2012. It is the first book in The Arcana Chronicles.
SSN Insight: The rights were won by Warner Bros. in a competitive situation.
Skin Trade
Executive Producer(s): Kalinda Vasquez, George R.R. Martin, Vince Gerardis, Rich Angell, Mark B. Newbauer
Writer(s): Kalinda Vasquez
Logline: Centers on Willie Flambeaux, a collections agent who happens to be a werewolf, and his friend, Randi Wade, a private investigator, who discover a dark secret behind a series of grisly murders in their decaying industrial city.
Details: Based on the novel “The Skin Trade,” written by George R.R. Martin and Daniel Abraham and published by Avatar Press on July 24, 2014.
SSN Insight: Previously Newbauer’s Mike the Pike Prods. acquired the rights to the novel and attempted to develop it as a feature.
The Call Of The Stryx
Production Company(s): Grid VFX, Element 8 Entertainment
Writer(s): John Harrison
Logline: An American secret agent, disgraced and on the run, teams up with a mysterious female mercenary in his effort to clear his name. What they uncover along the way is a web of powerful interests that transcend governments, and a race of super creatures that have long inhabited the Earth.
Details: Based on the French graphic novel, “The Call of the Stryx,” first published by Delcourt Group in France.
SSN Insight: The Stryx series is one of the most popular adult graphic novels in France, and has been for nearly two decades with millions of copies sold.
Easiest Game Show Ever
Network: Pop
Production Company(s): Nigel Lythgoe Productions, The Jackal Group
Executive Producer(s): Nigel Lythgoe, Gail Berman, Barry Poznick, Eric Levy
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: A new twist on “True or False?” that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $100,000 cash per episode. In each episode, a pair of contestants work together to answer true or false to 20 pop culture facts, which test their instinctual knowledge of entertainment, food, fashion and culture.
SSN Insight: Pop has given a series order of 20 episodes.
Super Into
Network: TruTV
Production Company(s): Matador Content, Casey Patterson Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jay Peterson, Casey Patterson, Jerry Carita, Elaine Kavanagh
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: Celebrities take us inside their private passions. The show lets viewers see how each celeb geeks out on everything from sneakers to marijuana to motorcycles. Each episode is packed with short animations and stylized videos that will dive even deeper into the cool history, science and psychology behind each topic.
SSN Insight: TruTV has given a series order of 12 episodes.
Selling It: In the ATL
Network: WE TV
Production Company(s): World of Wonder Productions, Kingdom Eight Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Tom Campbell, Carlos King, Lauren Pollack-Gellert
Logline: Seven diverse female professionals are changing the face of Atlanta real estate. In an industry once dominated by men, these women use their business acumen and large-than-life personalities to close major deals amidst the booming Atlanta housing economy.
SSN Insight: WE TV has given a series order of six episodes.