Basketball Moms
Network: WETV
Production Company(s): A. Smith & Co. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Frank Sinton, Christmas Rini
Logline: An unscripted series based on five Houston-area mothers whose sons play on rival youth teams and dream of making it to the NBA
SSN Insight: A. Smith & Co. Productions also produce the hit, Hell’s Kitchen. The company’s upcoming shows include Team Ninja Warrior for Esquire and Spartan Race for NBC.
Bastards
Network: HBO
Production Company(s): Happy Madison, Boku Films
Executive Producer(s): Alan Poul, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Doug Robinson, Mirit Toovi, Yoran Mokady, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein
Writer(s): Branden Jacobs Jenkins
Logline: Follows two elderly Vietnam vets in contemporary Miami, whose resentment of today’s entitled youth causes a small act of self-defense to snowball into something much bigger.
Details: Based on the Israeli series Nevelot created by Dror Sabo, Daphna Levin, Lee Yardeni and Aviram Buchris and produced by MYtv for the HOT network.
SSN Insight: Poul is attached to direct under his overall deal at HBO. Happy Madison also produces The Goldbergs, now in season 3.
Cat’s Cradle
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Production Company(s): Elkins Entertainment, IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Noah Hawley
Writer(s): Noah Hawley
Logline: An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, featuring a little person as the protagonist and a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Cat’s Cradle,” written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Holt, Rinehardt and Winston in 1963.
SSN Insight: In addition to creating the series Fargo, Noah Hawley is also the executive producer and writer of Legion, the series picked up by FX.
Channel Zero
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Executive Producer(s): Max Landis, Nick Antosca
Writer(s): Nick Antosca
Logline: Each season of this horror anthology will feature new storylines. In the first season, it tells the story of a mysterious children’s television show from the 1980s and the show’s role in a series of murders and one man’s dark secret.
Details: Based on Kris Straub’s “Candle Cove,” a short story that originated from the user-generated Internet horror phenomenon known as creepypasta.
SSN Insight: SyFy has given a straight to series order for two seasons.
Cold Feet
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Big Talk Productions
Executive Producer(s): Mike Bullen, Kenton Allen
Writer(s): Mike Bullen
Logline: Thirteen years after the death of Rachel, the series revival explores how Adam has coped without his soulmate, raising their son on his own and answers questions about how the other members of the gang have fared.
Details: The project is a revival of the British series “Cold Feet,” which aired on ITV from 1998-2003. It picks up 13 years after the events of the prior series.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order. Stateside, the original series, Cold Feet aired on Bravo and BBC America.
Corporate
Network: Comedy Central
Writer(s): Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, Pat Bishop
Logline: A dark, satirical workplace comedy that follows Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, two junior executives-in-training who are forced to do the dirty work of the higher-ups at one of the world’s largest corporations, Hampton DeVille.
SSN Insight: Comedy Central has given a pilot order. WOMEN sketch group members Jake Weisman and Pat Bishop will also direct.
Cry
Network: The CW
Studio: CBS TV Studios
Production Company(s): Paulist Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar, Chris Donahue and Marybeth Sprows
Writer(s): Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar
Logline: The story of a doctor who makes the astonishing medical breakthrough to bring cryogenically preserved people back to life, starting with the unfreezing of his own father — but he never expects that restoring life will have both glorious and devastating consequences.
SSN Insight: Begun in 1960, Paulist Productions has produced film and television projects with writers such as John Wells, Michael Crichton, Rod Serling and Tom Fontana. Paulist Productions also formed the Humanitas Prize to celebrate writers who affirm human dignity and explore the meaning of life.
Dead of Summer
Network: ABC Family
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kitsis/Horowitz
Executive Producer(s): Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Ian Goldberg
Writer(s): Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Ian Goldberg
Logline: Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.
SSN Insight: ABC Family gave an initial commitment of multiple scripts plus penalty and has since given a straight to series order.
Haunted
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Chris Morgan Productions
Executive Producer(s): William Brent Bell, Chris Morgan, Ainsley Davies
Writer(s): William Brent Bell
Logline: A military agent is partnered with her ex-boyfriend, now a rogue demonologist, to help a family overcome a deadly demonic infestation of their home. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The Demon of Brownsville Road: A Pittsburgh Family’s Battle with Evil in Their Home,” written by Bob Cranmer and published by Berkley Books on August 5, 2014.
SSN Insight: William Brent Bell is the director of STX’s upcoming film, The Boy and he previously was the filmmaker behind the horror films Stay Alive, The Devil Inside and Wer.
Hawaiian Dick
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Johnny Knoxville, David Janollari, Eric Gitter, Michael Rotenberg
Writer(s): Paul Lovett, David Elliot
Logline: Stateside cop, Byrd, is exiled to Hawaii in the early 1950’s and finds himself immersed in a dark and dangerous paradise. Based on a graphic novel.
Details: Based on the graphic novel “Hawaiian Dick,” written by B. Clay Moore, illustrated by Steven Griffin and published by Image Comics January 10, 2008.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development with New Line Cinema as a feature film in 2004.
Him
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Mainstreet Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Laura Mackie, Sally Haynes
Writer(s): Paula Milne
Logline: The story of a 17-year-old boy — known only as “Him” — who is caught in the limbo between childhood and adulthood and the homes of his divorced parents. The teenager tends to act out, but his behavior also is triggered by something else: He’s engaged in a primal struggle to contain the terrifying secret of a supernatural power he inherited from his grandfather — a power that only his aging grandmother understands.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order for the three-part horror drama. Shooting starts in London in January.
Hype
Network: TBS
Production Company(s): Underground, Five All in the Fifth Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Irvine Welsh, Trevor Engelson, Doug Banker
Writer(s): Irvine Welsh
Logline: Set in the world of the Miami art scene.
SSN Insight: A number of novels by Welsh have been adapted to the screen including Filth with James McAvoy. His novel, Porno, a sequel to Trainspotting, will be adapted for film with Boyle and the original cast expected to return.
Lost In Space
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Synthesis Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, Applebox Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Marc Helwig, Neil Marshall, Kevin Burns
Writer(s): Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
Logline: This is an update of the series about an attempt by the U.S. to colonize deep space by sending a single family, the Robinsons, on a 5 1/2-year journey to another planet. But a foreign secret agent, Dr. Zachary Smith, sabotages the mission, causing the ship to veer off course and become lost in space.
Details: Based on the series, “Lost In Space,” which aired on CBS from 1965-1968.
SSN Insight: Lost in Space was also adapted for the 1998 film starring William Hurt and Mimi Rogers which grossed $135 million worldwide.
Nicole & Jionni’s Shore Flip
Network: FYI
Studio: eOne Television
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jionni Lavalle, John Morayniss, Tara Long, Mark Herwick
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: Reality TV personality turned interior design maven and entrepreneur Nicole Polizzi and her husband, Jionni Lavalle, start a new business together flipping homes on the New Jersey shore.
SSN Insight: FYI has given a series order of 8 episodes.
Read Bottom Up
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Ben Karlin, Neel Shah, Sloane Crosley
Writer(s): Neel Shah, Sloane Crosley
Logline: Follows young New Yorker’s Madeline and Elliot, who meet then embark on a relationship. Much of it plays out online, under the scrutiny and well-intentioned interference of their respective best friends and confidants Emily and David.
Details: Based on the novel “Read Bottom Up: A Novel,” written by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham and published by Dey Street Books on April 7, 2015.
SSN Insight: ABC has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Baer Bones, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Alexandra McNally, Neal Baer
Writer(s): Alexandra McNally
Logline: When a young woman gets a data entry job at a mysterious corporation, she discovers that the information she is logging is building a database that has the power to affect fate – including her own.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Beautiful Bureaucrat,” written by Helen Phillips and published by Henry Holt and Co. on August 11, 2015.
SSN Insight: Last season Baer joined with Marc Cherry for prep school spy drama Cheerleader Death Squad, which went to pilot at the CW.
The Good Karma Hospital
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Tiger Aspect
Executive Producer(s): Will Gould, Frith Tiplady, and Iona Vrolyk
Writer(s): Dan Sefton
Logline: it’s set in the tropical paradise of Goa and follows a team of British and Indian medics as they cope with work, life and love at a cottage hospital. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, the Good Karma turns no one away.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order of six episodes of this series by Peaky Blinders maker Tiger Aspect.
Toward the Light
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Michael Rauch, Jonathan Levin, Jason Egenberg
Writer(s): Michael Rauch
Logline: Based on the book that acts a guide dedicated solely to spirit rescue and its role in saving earthbound spirits from their self-imposed exile on earth.
Details: Based on the book, “Toward the Light: Rescuing Spirits, Trapped Souls, and Earthbound Ghosts,” written by Amy Major and published by New Page Books on May 18, 2015.
SSN Insight: Falls under the two-year overall deal at CBS Television Studios with Royal Pains executive producer/co-showrunner Michael Rauch.
Untitled Eve Babitz Project
Studio: TriStar Television
Production Company(s): The Cantillon Co., Pascal Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs
Logline: Based on the books of Eve Babitz, about her life as a writer, artist, party girl and muse in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, romancing the likes of Jim Morrison, Steve Martin and Harrison Ford. She became an icon of sexual liberation when at the age of 20 she was photographed playing chess in the nude with the artist Marcel Duchamp.
Details: Based on four books by Eve Babitz: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Sex And Rage, and LA Woman.
SSN Insight: Sony-based producers Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon are currently collaborating on the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl In The Spider Web.
Winsanity
Network: Game Show Network
Production Company(s): Electus, Barracuda Television Productions
Executive Producer(s): Christopher Grant, Barry Poznick
Logline: Each episode features a contestant attempting to rank ten compelling and surprising facts in numerical order, from lowest to highest (i.e.: Which is greater: the number of times a man thinks about sex in a day, or the number of words a woman speaks in a day?). Every time a contestant is correct and wins a prize, so does a randomly selected portion of the studio audience. However, if a contestant gives a wrong answer at any point, they, and the audience lose everything, and a new contestant takes his or her place and continues the game, trying to win prizes that increase in value with each round.
SSN Insight: GSN has given a series order of 40 episodes. Donald Faison of Scrubs and Clueless fame is set to host.