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Network: TBS
Writer(s): Angela Kinsey
Logline: A workplace comedy set at a call center.
Details: Loosely based on Angela Kinsey’s early work experiences.
SSN Insight: Angela Kinsey previously recurred on the hit series The Office and had a recurring role on the TBS show, Your Family or Mine.
Andiland
Network: Disney Channel
Executive Producer(s): Terri Minsky, Michelle Manning
Writer(s): Terri Minsky
Logline: It’s Andi Marcus’ 13th birthday. She’s officially a teenager, ready to have a little fun, a little adventure. Just a little. But that’s never going to happen because Andi’s mother is doing everything in her power to keep Andi from turning out like her wild older sister, Bex. As a teenager, Bex dropped out of school, left home, and now, in her late 20s, still doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life. But that’s going to change. Bex shows up on the eve of Andi’s birthday, swearing she is ready to get her life together. The only problem is that means tearing Andi’s life apart.
SSN Insight: Disney has ordered the pilot.
Attention Deficit Theater
Network: CW Seed (Digital)
Executive Producer(s): Jaime King, John R. Montgomery, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mark Teitelbaum, Amy Laslett
Writer(s): Dan Van Kirk
Logline: A sketch comedy that offers insight through personal stories on how to navigate the attention deficit disorder world.
SSN Insight: CW Seed has given a series order of 10 episodes.
Untitled Jenny Bicks Doug Ellin Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Halyard Park
Executive Producer(s): Doug Ellin, Jenny Bicks, Teri Weinberg
Logline: A successful young couple find themselves starting an unconventional family when a threesome leads to a pregnancy.
Details: Based on an idea by Doug Ellin and Joey Boukadakis.
SSN Insight: Doug Ellin previously created Entourage and is currently developing an Untitled Harriet Tubman Project as a TV movie and Wish for HBO.
Crooked
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Robert Specland, Peter Horton
Writer(s): Robert Specland
Logline: A longtime corrupt detective is busted, his cases overturned and a thousand of the city’s worst criminals are released back onto the streets, one case at a time. A mysterious outsider is brought in to lead a new task force with one goal: to clean up the streets.
Details: Inspired by a true story.
SSN Insight: This marks Robert Specland’s first network series. He was previously an assistant on the WB film, Orphan.
Dream Corp LLC
Network: Cartoon Network
Production Company(s): Sunday Night Productions
Executive Producer(s): John Krasinski, Daniel Stessen, Allyson Seeger, Stephen Merchant
Logline: Dream Corp LLC is an experimental therapy facility that creates a virtual reality for patients to confront issues in their waking life by simulating their wildest dreams. Guided by the eccentric Dr. Roberts, a team of unique scientists document and conduct their research that hasn’t been funded since 1992. Like a poorly maintained carnival ride, the program has developed some questionable kinks throughout the years. The patients change from week to week, but despite the advice of their loved ones and their own instincts, they keep coming back.
SSN Insight: Cartoon Network has given a series order.
Frontier
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Take the Shot Productions, Factory Backwards
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Fierson, Brad Peyton, John Vatcher, Peter Blackie, Rob Blackie
Writer(s): Rob Blackie, Peter Blackie, Perry Chafe
Logline: Follows the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between Native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.
SSN Insight: Netflix has acquired this six episode series, which was commissioned by Discovery Canada as the channel’s first original scripted series.
Untitled Laura Dern Drama Project
Network: HBO Network
Executive Producer(s): Laura Dern, Jayme Lemons, Annie Mumolo, Tim Lovestedt
Writer(s): Annie Mumolo, Tim Lovestedt
Logline: The story of a pioneering American saleswoman largely responsible for the development of the home party system of marketing. It reveals how she impacted people globally, on a subversive level, in profound and even shocking ways.
SSN Insight: Annie Mumolo executive produced and wrote the story for the upcoming film, Joy and is credited with a screenplay rewrite on the Megan Leavey film in production.
Jon Benjamin’s 100 Erotic Nights
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): PFFR
Executive Producer(s): H. Jon Benjamin, Leo Allen, Alyson Levy, John Lee, Vernon Chatman
Writer(s): Leo Allen, H. Jon Benjamin
Logline: 100 very personal, lurid tales of secret passion, burning desire and ruthless betrayal. The narrator is overcome with confessions of love, lust, romance and sex, from the local waitress to a church nun, to a lover who’s revealed to be a robot. However, the narrator exists solely to “bare” witness to all the passion in the world around us, while never benefiting from it himself.
SSN Insight: IFC has ordered a pilot presentation for the scripted comedy.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Gotham/Principal, Temple Hill Entertainment, Gifted and Talented Camp
Executive Producer(s): Hilary Winston, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen
Writer(s): Hilary Winston
Logline: A few years ago, Jenny left her small Texas town and eccentric family in search of a normal life. But when a death in the family brings her back home, she’s forced to face the fact that she will never be “normal”. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the memoir, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened,” written by Jenny Lawson and published by Putnam Adult on April 17, 2012.
SSN Insight: The project was previously in development at ABC with different writers for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons.
My Time/Your Time
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Bays Thomas , Gifted and Talented Camp
Executive Producer(s): Hilary Winston, Carter L. Bays, Craig Thomas
Writer(s): Hilary Winston
Logline: The series chronicles the relationship of a young couple as they begin dating long distance. Based on the web series.
Details: Based on the 5-part web series “7P/10E,” which was released in 2014.
SSN Insight: Winston will write and executive produce this series and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened through her overall deal at Sony Pictures TV, where she has been based for the past eight years.
Untitled Matt Zinman Comedy Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Le Train Train Productions
Executive Producer(s): Matthew Zinman, Craig Gerard, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
Writer(s): Matthew Zinman, Craig Gerard
Logline: A girl, after becoming convinced she’s going to die, leans on her best friends to help her live the rest of her life with no regrets.
SSN Insight: Matt Zinman is also the supervising producer on NBC’s upcoming series, Telenovela.
New York Mythological
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Bays Thomas
Executive Producer(s): Craig Thomas, Carter L. Bays, Brian Bockrath
Writer(s): Craig Thomas, Carter L. Bays
Logline: Centers on a Midwestern girl who moves to Manhattan and experiences firsthand the magic of New York.
SSN Insight: Bays Thomas is also behind the My Time/Your Time series. Past TV includes How I Met Your Mother.
Picante
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Pacific Electric Picture Co.
Executive Producer(s): Ed Helms, Michael Falbo
Writer(s): Lindy Jamil Gomez
Logline: The owner of a food manufacturing and distribution plant juggles running a business with the obligation of employing his entire Mexican-American family.
SSN Insight: Ed Helms is currently in the cast for Starz’ upcoming series, The One Percent.
Protect & Serve
Network: CBS Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Leonard Goldberg, David M. Barrett, Elizabeth Davis Beall
Writer(s): Elizabeth Davis Beall
Logline: The multi-generational members of a Mexican-American family with deep roots in Los Angeles intertwine personally and professionally due to their powerful careers in law enforcement, local politics and journalism- each dedicated to serving and protecting the people of their city.
SSN Insight: Elizabeth Davis Beall is credited as a co-executive producer on Scorpion and was previously a writer on Castle.
Relative Success
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Silent Machine Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Krysten Ritter
Writer(s): Max Silvestri
Logline: Two overachieving brothers- one a successful book editor, the other a well-known author are forced to work together to keep their careers on track. They soon find their childish family disagreements are spilling over into their work lives.
SSN Insight: Max Silvestri is also the host of Bravo’s upcoming series Recipe for Deception.
Soar
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Silver Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer, Joel Silver, Rodney Ferrell
Writer(s): Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer
Logline: A former NBA prodigy turned felon, once released from prison, is recruited as the head basketball coach at an upscale high school.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
Starters
Network: FX Network
Production Company(s): Pacific Electric Picture Co.
Executive Producer(s): Ed Helms, Michael Falbo, Will Graham
Writer(s): Dan Kennedy
Logline: The story is set in America’s true underbelly of chemical addiction and appetizers: corporate theme restaurant chains.
SSN Insight: Ed Helms is currently executive producing several series in development including the TBS series Good Bread, Picante for ABC, Weird Like Us for Fox, Jake & Amir for truTV and The Gorburger Show for HBO.
The Internet Ruined My Life
Network: Syfy
Production Company(s): Left/Right Films, Atomic Entertainment Group
Executive Producer(s): Jerry Kolber, Adam Davis, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman
Logline: The series sets out to expose the unexpected perils of living in a social media-obsessed world. Each episode tells the real-life stories through first-person accounts of those who had posts, tweets or status updates backfire.
SSN Insight: SyFy has given a series order of six episodes.
When I’m Sixty-Four
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): HRD Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Roda, Howard Deutch
Writer(s): Jeff Roda
Logline: Paul Beaumont, a narcissistic New Yorker, is given an unexpected reprieve from terminal cancer and now faces an existential reckoning with himself as well as the family, friends and career wreckage he had hoped to leave behind.
SSN Insight: Jeff Roda has also written the adapted screenplay for the film The Siege of Fulton Avenue, currently in development.
Work Married
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Principato-Young Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Michael Showalter, Christina Lee, Peter Principato
Writer(s): Michael Showalter, Christina Lee
Logline: The lives of unconventional Vermont state senator Michael Sherman and his type-A overachieving chief of staff Christina Kim are turned upside down when they realize their work marriage is the only relationship they’ve got left.
SSN Insight: Michael Showalter is also the executive producer and writer on the upcoming TBS show, Search Party as well as credited as a writer on Children’s Hospital and was behind Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp.
Untitled Snowpiercer Series
Production Company(s): Tomorrow Studios, CJ Entertainment & Media
Executive Producer(s): Marty Adelstein
Writer(s): Josh Friedman
Logline: Series set in a post apocalyptic ice age where the only remaining life on the planet survives aboard a train that travels around the globe.
Details: Based on the 2013 Korean film, Snowpiercer.
SSN Insight: Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios has optioned the rights to the film. Tomorrow Studios is a partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios and currently produces Last Man Standing and Aquarius.