Untitled Star Trek Series
Network: CBS All Access
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Secret Hideout
Executive Producer(s): Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin
Logline: New explorers will seek imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966
Details: Based on Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek.
SSN Insight: The series will premiere in January 2017 with a preview broadcast on CBS followed by an exclusive run via CBS All Access. The new Star Trek series will run concurrently with the feature franchise, but will not be related.
13 Reasons Why
Network: Netflix
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey, Kristel Laiblin, Joy Gorman, Michael Sugar
Writer(s): Brian Yorkey
Logline: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.
Details: Based on the novel “13 Reasons Why” written by Jay Asher and published by RazorBill in 2007.
SSN Insight: Originally in development as a feature film at Universal. Netflix has given a straight to series order.
Untitled Bess Wohl Nanny Comedic Drama Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Shondaland
Executive Producer(s): Bess Wohl, Kerry Washington, Katie Lowes, Adam Shapiro, Shonda Rhimes
Writer(s): Bess Wohl
Logline: The story focuses on a clique of young nannies, a trio of interconnected families and their various support staffs, all trying to help the kids grow up when they haven’t quite grown up themselves.
SSN Insight: Wohl wrote another drama project for ABC during last year’s season- Broad Squad, which went to pilot.
Untitled Spencer Porter Ryan Reynolds Comedy Project
Network: ABC
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Dark Trick Films
Executive Producer(s): Ryan Reynolds
Writer(s): Spencer Porter
Logline: A family and relationship comedy.
Details: Loosely based on Spencer Porter’s personal life.
SSN Insight: Porter began his career as Seth MacFarlane’s assistant before being a staff writer on MacFarlane’s Family Guy. He later developed projects to ABC Family and Cartoon Network.
Botched By Nature
Network: E!
Production Company(s): Evolution Media
Executive Producer(s): Dr. Terry Dubrow, Paul Nassif, Douglas Ross, Greg Stewart, Alex Baskin
Writer(s):
Logline: Plastic surgeons look for prospective patients via the “ultimate house call.” Their plan is to embed themselves in the lives of their patients as they understand the physical and psychological scope of their situations. Whether it involves surgery on “disproportionate body parts” or “birth defects to major life accidents,” the doctors will invite their would-be patients back to Los Angeles for the ultimate transformation.
Details: The project is a spinoff of the series, “Botched,” which premiered on E! on June 24, 2014.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of eight episodes.
Butterfly
Network: Channel 4
Production Company(s): Boom! Studios, 42, Automatik
Executive Producer(s): Arash Amel, Benjamin Pugh, Rory Aitken, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Stephen Christy
Writer(s): Arash Amel
Logline: Rebecca Faulkner, codenamed Butterfly, is a deep cover US intelligence operative who is set up for a murder that she didn’t commit. Caught in a deadly global manhunt, and disavowed by her own handlers, her attempts to get home from foreign soil unwittingly lead her to a man she thought died twenty years ago – her own father, David Faulkner, a former Cold War spy codenamed Nightingale, now living under an assumed identity and with a new family. Father and daughter, two spies spanning two very different eras, have to pool their resources and trust each other through decades of hurt, secrets and lies to unravel the conspiracy behind her predicament: a conspiracy which may have its roots in his sinister past.
Details: Based on the comic book, “Butterfly,” written by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett and published by BOOM! Studios.
SSN Insight: Channel 4 has given a series order.
Untitled Elizabeth Kruger Craig Shapiro Spy Couple Drama Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amblin Television
Executive Producer(s): Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Writer(s): Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro
Logline: Divorced ex-CIA spies end up having to work with their biggest enemy, each other, when they’re tasked with solving the mysterious murder of a mutual friend.
SSN Insight: Kruger and Shapiro previously were EPs and showrunners on CBS’ Extant and previous to that created the USA show Necessary Roughness.
Untitled Jim Parsons Marisa Coughlan Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): That’s Wonderful Productions
Executive Producer(s): Marisa Coughlan, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak
Writer(s): Marisa Coughlan
Logline: An optimistic and independent woman nearing 40 with an eccentric and supportive family (all of whom live in her building), decides to become a single mother and in the process learns that sometimes raising a child takes a village.
Details: Based on the life of writer and columnist Alyssa Shelasky.
SSN Insight: Parsons’ That’s Wonderful Productions currently has a deal with WB TV.
Untitled Tom Hertz Will Arnett Workplace Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Principato-Young Entertainment, Electric Avenue
Executive Producer(s): Tom Hertz, Peter Principato, Gerry Dee, Mike Volpe, Will Arnett
Writer(s): Tom Hertz
Logline: A workplace ensemble comedy set at a public high school.
SSN Insight: Arnett just wrapped the first season of Flaked for Netflix, which he stars in and produces via Electric Avenue and Principato Young.
Collision
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: TriStar Television
Production Company(s): Carol Mendelsohn Productions, Eleventh Hour Films Limited
Executive Producer(s): Anthony Horowitz, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz, Nicole Finnan
Writer(s): Anthony Horowitz
Logline: The lives of a group of strangers are forever changed following a major road accident. When the police start their investigation they find themselves drawn into many different and dangerous worlds including government cover-ups, smuggling, torn relationships and murder.
Details: Based on the British series, “Collision,” which aired on ITV in November, 2009.
SSN Insight: NBC has given a straight to series order of ten episodes.
Driven to Love
Network: WE TV
Production Company(s): Zig Zag Productions, Lion Television Ltd., DWE Talent, Matar Productions, Knockout Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Ray J, Tony Tackaberry, Allison Corn, Danny Fenton, Matt Graff
Logline: In each episode, one hopeful single will hop inside a tricked out SUV alongside Ray J, who will serve as their personal driver and wingman and provide insightful dating advice as they cruise around town meeting potential mates. Along the ride, Ray J will present a handful of carefully selected prospects and supervise dates that take place both inside and outside the vehicle. At the end of the day they’ll choose one match to join them for a romantic weekend getaway in the hopes of building a new relationship.
Details: Based on a format created by Matar Productions and Zig Zag Productions.
SSN Insight: WE TV has given a series order of eight episodes.
Untitled Chris Case Comedy Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Management 360
Executive Producer(s): Christopher Case, Evan Silverberg, Daniel Rappaport, Chris Spencer
Writer(s): Christopher Case
Logline: An African-American ex-NFL player with an old-school take on parenthood quickly marries his white Bohemian psychologist girlfriend and is forced to adjust to domestic life with her and her entitled, difficult children.
Details: Based on Chris Case’s experience as a teenager growing up with a black stepdad, an ex-football player, who married his white mom.
SSN Insight: Case co-created and executive produces the basketball-themed Sin City Saints for Yahoo, and is also developing a new cable series with Jim Jeffries.
Untitled Eli Attie Scott Rudin Family Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Eli Attie, Scott Rudin, Garrett Basch, Eli Bush
Writer(s): Eli Attie
Logline: A family saga about class, power, and the price of ambition.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial script plus penalty commitment.
Untitled Julian Breece Megachurch Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Writer(s): Julian Breece
Logline: When a celebrity televangelist dies mysteriously, his family fights to salvage their Houston-based megachurch and “inspirational” media enterprise. Their cause is disrupted when the pastor’s illegitimate son (with a criminal past) returns to stake his claim on his father’s legacy.
SSN Insight: Breece is a grad of Harvard and USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. His first screenplay Ball was a top 10 finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Heaven Changes Everything
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Randy Brown, Joe Roth, T.D. Jakes
Writer(s): Randy Brown
Logline: A small-town pastor must find the courage and faith to lead his parishioners after the news of his son’s visit to Heaven due to a near-death experience begins to capture worldwide attention.
Details: Based on the book, “Heaven Changes Everything,” written by Todd and Sonja Burpo and published by Thomas Nelson on October 9, 2012. That book was a sequel to “Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back.”
SSN Insight: Heaven Is For Real, the 2014 faith-based movie based on the book grossed more than $100 million on a $12 million budget.
Love, Sex and Neighbors
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Offspring Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Gail Gilchriest, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot
Writer(s): Gail Gilchriest
Logline: When a fresh-faced, traditional values couple moves to Orange County, they discover that the parents at their kids’ school are experimenting with polyamory.
SSN Insight: Director-producer Adam Shankman will also produce a two-hour TV movie for NBC titled The Nutcracker.
Untitled Silvio Horta Rupert Grint Comic Book Drama Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Silent H Productions, Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Silvio Horta, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Silvio Horta
Logline: Rupert is a low-level New York office drone obsessed with Imperial City, a comic book series his father created before his death. Rupert has spent his whole life believing he owned all nine issues. But when a mysterious comic book collector reveals the existence of a tenth issue, Rupert discovers that the world of Imperial City is real, and he is the one person who can save it.
Details: Based on an idea by Aaron Kaplan.
SSN Insight: NBC has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Recall
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Timberman/Beverly Productions
Executive Producer(s): Mark Goffman, Bret VandenBos, Brandon Willer, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly
Writer(s): Mark Goffman, Bret VandenBos, Brandon Willer
Logline: When a brilliant inventor discovers a way to travel back in time 24 hours, he and his team join forces with the CIA, going into the past to prevent crimes and other disastrous events from happening.
SSN Insight: Goffman is under an overall deal with CBS TV Studios he signed earlier this year following two-years as executive producer/showrunner on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow.
Ride With Norman Reedus
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): Left/Right Films
Executive Producer(s): Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: Biker-enthusiast Norman Reedus explores local motorcycle culture in cities around the country. Each week in a different city, Reedus and his riding companion, a fellow actor, musician, friend, or local chopper fanatic who shares his passion for motorcycles, will stop at various locales such as custom bike shops, tattoo parlors, collector’s warehouses, or a roadside smokehouse.
SSN Insight: AMC has given a series order of six episodes.
Search Party
Network: TBS
Production Company(s): Jax Media
Executive Producer(s): Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns
Writer(s): Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter
Logline: Four self-absorbed 20-somethings come together when a former college acquaintance mysteriously disappears.
SSN Insight: TBS has given a series order.
Smoke & Mirrors
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Marc Webb, Dave Kalstein, Bard Dorros, Michael Sugar, Alex Goldstone
Writer(s): Dave Kalstein
Logline: A mysterious detective in the LAPD Robbery Homicide Division is a contemporary Houdini-like character who uses her knowledge of deception and misdirection to solve seemingly impossible crimes committed by criminal masterminds.
SSN Insight: Webb is currently an executive producer on Limitless, that was just given a full-season order, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which received a pickup for backup scripts.
Tempest
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Rob Thomas Productions
Executive Producer(s): Graham Norris, Deirdre Mangan, Rob Thomas, Danielle Stokdyk
Writer(s): Graham Norris, Deirdre Mangan
Logline: A young woman lives on a utopian spaceship. When she finds out the ship is secretly powered by slaves, she becomes enmeshed romantically and politically in the dangerous rebellion brewing below the decks.
SSN Insight: Graham Norris and Deirdre Mangan’s writing credits include the CW series iZombie.
The Greatest American Hero
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Lord Miller
Executive Producer(s): Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Seth Cohen, Tawnia McKiernan
Writer(s): Rick Famuyiwa
Logline: An ordinary man, completely content with being average, wakes up with a superpower suit he never asked for and has to deal with the complications it brings his life.
Details: The project is inspired by the series, “The Greatest American Hero,” starring William Katt and Robert Culp, which aired on ABC from 1981-1983.
SSN Insight: The project was previously in development at Fox for the 2015-2016 season with a different writer. It received a put pilot commitment but did not proceed to pilot. Fox has now ordered a pilot, as of November 2.
The Leeches
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): B Story
Executive Producer(s): Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Kevin J Walsh
Writer(s): Jim Rash, Nat Faxon
Logline: Jess is a young woman who, in an act of desperation to separate herself from her Pittsburgh family and be labeled a “success,” steals her mom’s idea and lands on a home shopping channel with an instant top seller. Caught in the act and her new-found success threatened, Jess is forced to make her nurturing, but no-nonsense mom, Joan, a partner and subsequently go into business with the family she was so desperately trying to escape.
SSN Insight: NBC has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): The Jackal Group
Executive Producer(s): Erica Oyama, Gregory S. Malins, Gail Berman
Writer(s): Erica Oyama, Gregory S. Malins
Logline: A young woman in a moment of crisis attempts to get her messy life in order.
Details: Based on the book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,” written by Marie Kondo and published by Ten Speed Press on October 14, 2014.
SSN Insight: Erica Oyama previously created the series Burning Love.
The Nutcracker
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Offspring Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot
Writer(s): Todd Graff
Logline: A contemporary reimagining of the holiday ballet staple set in a magical New York City, with high school outcast Clara and Nutcracker-turned-Prince battling assassins across the Big Apple.
Details: Based on the classic ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
SSN Insight: Director-producer Adam Shankman will also produce a series for NBC titled Love, Sex and Neighbors.
The Party
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Writer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Logline: The story follows a murder investigation told over the course of 24 hours. The case begins at a celebration that is interrupted when a body is found floating in the pool. Through flashbacks, the mystery paints every guest as a possible suspect.
Details: Based on the Brazilian format.
SSN Insight: This project marks the first writing collaboration for Schwartz and Savage since creating Gossip Girl nine years ago.
The Wall
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): CORE Media Group, Inc., Glassman Media, Springhill Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Chris Hardwick, LeBron James, Maverick Carter
Writer(s):
Logline: Two-person teams vie for a life-changing amounts of cash that will either be won or lost based on answers to trivia questions – and the bounce of a ball. The ball element comes into play on a wall made up of a field of pegs with the game pieces careening towards slots marked with different monetary values.
SSN Insight: NBC has given a series order of ten episodes.
Van Helsing
Network: SyFy
Production Company(s): Echo Lake Entertainment, Nomadic Pictures, Industry Works, Dynamic Television
Executive Producer(s): Neil LaBute, Chad Oakes, Michael Frislev, Simon Davis Barry, Evan Tyler
Writer(s): Neil LaBute
Logline: Vanessa Helsing is the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing. She is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.
Details: Inspired by the novel, “Dracula,” written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897 by A. Constable & Co.
SSN Insight: SyFy has given a series order of 13 episodes.
Untitled Phil Lord/Chris Miller Action Workplace Comedy
Network: NBC
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company(s): Lord Miller
Executive Producer(s): Phil Lord, Chris Miller, John Phillips
Writer(s): John Phillips
Logline: Desperate to pay off their student loans and start their “real” lives, a brother and sister illegally use their access to law enforcement information at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to start a private detective agency right under the noses of their bosses and solve the cases that fall in between the cracks.
SSN Insight: NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty.
His Dark Materials
Network: BBC One
Studio: New Line Cinema
Production Company(s): Bad Wolf
Executive Producer(s): Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner, Philip Pullman, Toby Emmerich, Carolyn Blackwood, Deborah Forte
Logline: The novels feature orphan Lyra who lives in a parallel universe, in which science, theology and magic are entwined. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
Details: Based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials. The first book, Northern Lights, was turned into a feature titled The Golden Compass in 2007. New Line released that picture starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman.
SSN Insight: The drama was greenlit by BBC One controller Charlotte Moore and BBC Drama Commissioning controller Polly Hill. The series will be made in Wales. This is New Line’s first TV project.