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Black Box
Network: TNT
Production Company: Amblin Television
Executive Producers: Jason Fuchs, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Writer: Jason Fuchs
Logline: Three strangers' lives are forever changed after the accidental crash of a civilian airliner over the Long Island Sound when clues begin to emerge that the crash may not have been accidental.
SSN Insight: Fuchs, known as a feature writer, returns to TV after developing
Big Thunder last season for ABC.
Red Oaks
Digital Platform: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh, David Gordon Green, Greg Jacobs, Joe Gangemi
Writers: Greg Jacobs, Joe Gangemi
Logline: A coming-of-age comedy set at a country club that focuses on the employees and their high-end clientele.
Details: Ordered to pilot.
SSN Insight: Amazon has recently green lit a few new pilots, which include,
Cosmopolitan,
Hand Of God,
Hysteria and
Cocked.
Billions
Network: Showtime
Executive Producers/Writers: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Logline: The collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in New York and some of the richest hedge fund billionaires in the country.
Ascension
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Companies: Blumhouse Productions, Sea to Sky Studios
Executive Producers: Philip Levens, Jason Blum, Mark Stern, Ivan Fecan, Tim Gamble, Brett Burlock
Writer: Philip Levens
Logline: Takes place on a century-long space shuttle journey, where hundreds of men, women and children left Earth behind at the start of the Cold War. Nearly 50 years after their covert 1963 mission launched with the intention of colonizing a new world, a young woman is mysteriously murdered, prompting the population to question the nature of the mission as they near the point of no return.
Details: Planned as a 6 episode event miniseries to air in November.
SSN Insight: This will be Syfy’s first miniseries to air in five years, since 2009’s
Alice.
Young Money
Network: TBD
Studio: FOX Television Studios
Production Companies: Veritas Entertainment, Shuman Company
Executive Producers: Alfredo Barrios Jr., Alan Gasmer, Peter Jaysen, Larry Shuman, David Wolthoff
Writer: Alfredo Barrios Jr.
Logline: Chronicles the lives and exploits of young Wall Street bankers after the crash of 2008.
Details: Based on the book
Young Money: Inside The Hidden World Of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits, written by Kevin Roose.
SSN Insight: Project will be shopped to networks soon.
