24: Legacy
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Imagine Television, Teakwood Lane Productions
Executive Producer(s): Howard Gordon, Manny Coto, Evan Katz, Kiefer Sutherland, Brian Grazer
Writer(s): Manny Coto, Evan Katz
Logline: Revolves around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him toask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Details: Project is a spinoff of the series, “24,” which aired on Fox from 2001-2010 and as a limited series called “24: Live Another Day,” in 2014.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series, Fox ordered the pilot on January 15. The series will feature an all-new cast of characters and Kiefer Sutherland will not be returning. Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who co-created the project, Hellfire, an X-Men spin-off series for Fox, left that project to join 24: Legacy.
America Divided (Documentary)
Network: Epix
Production Company(s): Shondaland, RadicalMedia, Freedom Road Productions
Executive Producer(s): Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, Common, Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read, Richard Rowley, Jon Kamen, Justin Wilkes, Dave O’Connor, Nicole Dow (co-EP), Derek Dudley (co-EP)
Writer(s): Common, Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read and Richard Rowley.
Logline: A nonpartisan investigation of the key issues shaping the presidential campaign, and we are confident our viewers will find each episode compelling and accessible.
SSN Insight: The series is set to debut in the fall. Lear will front one piece for the series, surrounding the housing crisis in New York and the inequality at play. Rebecca Teitel and Jesse Williams are signed on as senior producers with producers Abby Ellis and Leah Thomas.
Blue Demon
Studio: Sony Pictures TV, Televisa
Executive Producer(s): Daniel Ucros, Juan Pablo Posada
Writer(s): Carlos Algara, Alejandro Martínez, Fernando Abrego, Luis Guerrero, Larissa Andrade and Rodrigo Ordoñez
Logline: Blue Demon is inspired by the real-life story of Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, who overcame enormous odds to become the World Wrestling Champion under the name Blue Demon.
SSN Insight: The 65-episode, hour-long drama will air throughout Latin America on numerous Televisa platforms. SPT and Televisa will cooperatively distribute the series globally. Production is scheduled to start in April in and around Mexico City.
Darktown
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Pascal Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Jamie Foxx, Amy Pascal
Logline: Set in Atlanta in 1948, the story centers on the city’s first black police officers — whose hire in the department as a result from pressure on high is met with vitriol from their white counterparts and distrust within their own African American community. In a culture and time when blacks were still relegated to the back of the bus, the officers are treated as second class. They can only patrol in black neighborhoods, are not allowed to arrest white suspects, cannot drive squad cars and cannot use the police headquarters, forced to operate out of the basement of a gym. When a black woman turns up fatally beaten after last seen in a car driven by a white man, it deepens the divide in the police department.
Details: Based on the novel, “Darktown,” written by Thomas Mullen and to be publsiehd by Simon & Schuster in September of 2016.
SSN Insight: The series falls under Pascal Pictures’ first-look deal with Sony TV. Sony TV won the series in a competitive bidding war with five TV studios pursuing the project.
Eyewitness
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Adi Hasak, Jarl Emsell Larsen
Writer(s): Adi Hasak
Logline: When two innocent teenage boys secretly meet up in the forest, they bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen and when you witness a horrible event it changes everything, forever. Based on the Norwegian miniseries “Øyevitne.”
Details: Based on the Norwegian miniseries, “Øyevitne (Eyewitness,)” created by by Jarl Emsell Larsen. It premiered on NRK in 2014.
SSN Insight: USA has given a series order of ten episodes. The project originated from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak.
Falling Water
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Valhalla Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Henry Bromell, Blake Masters, Gale Anne Hurd, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer(s): Henry Bromell, Blake Masters
Logline: Three unrelated people slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious — a missing girlfriend, a son, a way to communicate with a catatonic mother. However, the more they begin to use the dream world as a tool to advance their hidden agendas, they realize that their visions are trying to tell them something and that their very real lives are at stake.
SSN Insight: USA initially ordered the pilot back in March of 2015. USA has given a series order of ten episodes.
Foreign Bodies
Network: E4 (UK)
Production Company(s): Entertainment One, Eleven Film
Executive Producer(s): Tom Basden, Jamie Campbell, Joel Wilson
Writer(s): James Wood, Tony Roche, Rob Delaney, Charlie Covell, Tim Key
Logline: Five young travelers go on a three month quest around Asia to find paradise, while also trying to find themselves.
SSN Insight: E4 gave a series order. This is the second E4 order for Eleven, who previously produced Glue, which aired on E4 in 2014 and The Enfield Haunting for Sky in 2015.
Hairspray Live!
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Logline: Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion–dancing. Her dream is to appear on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s hippest dance party on TV. But when her dream comes true, Tracy’s eyes are opened to a bigger issue than the latest dance craze or the coolest hairdo–racial inequality.
Details: Based on the musical “Hairspray,” starring Harvey Fierstein and Marisa Jaret Winokur, which premiered on Broadway in 2002. The musical was based on the feature film “Hairspray” (1988), written and directed by John Waters and starring Ricki Lake and Divine.
SSN Insight: This will be NBC’s fourth produced live musical, following the success of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz. Hairspray will include a Tony-winning score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
Haters Back Off
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): The Firm, Brightlight Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Colleen Ballinger, Chris Ballinger, Perry Rein, Gigi McCreery, Jeff Kwatinetz
Logline: Based on the YouTube popular character, Miranda Sings, Haters Back Off delves into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.
Details: Based on YouTube character “Miranda Sings,” which aired on YouTube from 2008 – present.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of eight episodes. The “Miranda Sings” YouTube channel currently has over 5.8 million subscribers and has produced 502 videos.
I’m Dying Up Here
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: Endemol Shine Studios
Production Company(s): Some Kind of Garden, Assembly Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey, Michael Aguilar, Christina Wayne
Writer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey
Logline: The story takes place at the famous Hollywood comedy clubs of the 1970s and delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the complex business of making an audience laugh. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy’s Golden Era,” written by William Knoedelseder and published by Public Affairs in 2009.
SSN Insight: Showtime ordered the pilot back in August and picked up the series on January 12.
Kiss Me First
Network: E4 (UK), Netflix
Production Company(s): Kindle Entertainment, Balloon Entertainment, Ltd.
Executive Producer(s): Bryan Elsley, Melanie Stokes
Logline: Leila is a lonely 17 year old girl addicted to a fictional online gaming site called Agora. While playing on the platform, Leila meets Tess, a cool and confident party girl who harbors a dark secret. In the real world, the two girls become friends, but after Tess disappears Leila decides to assume her friend’s identity and in doing so is quickly drawn into unraveling the mystery behind her disappearance.
Details: Based on the novel, “Kiss Me First,” written by Lottie Moggach and published by Doubleday on July 9, 2013.
SSN Insight: E4 gave a series order of six episodes. The series is a collaboration between E4 and Netflix and will air on E4 in the UK and Netflix globally.
Loaded
Network: Channel 4 (UK)
Production Company(s): Keshet Media Group, Hillbilly Films
Executive Producer(s): Jon Brown, Muli Segev, Assaf Harel, Sara Johnson, Avi Nir
Writer(s): Jon Brown
Logline: Four life-long friends become multi-millionaires overnight after selling their start-up videogame company.
Details: Based on the Israeli series, “Mesudarim,” which premiered on Keshet in 2007.
SSN Insight: Channel 4 has given a series order of eight episodes.
Pitch
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Barnstorm Films, Rhode Island Ave. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer, Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett, Jess Rosenthal
Writer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer
Logline: A young female pitcher defies the odds to become the first woman to compete in professional baseball.
Details: Based on an idea by Rick Singer
SSN Insight: Fox initially gave a put pilot commitment back in September and has since officially ordered the pilot. The pilot received tax credit approval by the California Film Commission.
Untitled Chuck Lorre Marijuana Comedy Project
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Life’s Too Short
Writer(s): Chuck Lorre, David Javerbaum
Logline: Set at a legal marijuana dispensary in Colorado, the story revolves around an ensemble of potheads.
SSN Insight: The project is being shopped to networks. Chuck Lorre is currently an overall deal at WBTV. Javerbaum has produced The Late Late Show With James Corden and runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which was adapted for a book and a play starring Big Bang‘s Jim Parsons.
Untitled Mark Burnett Reality Dating Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): MGM Television Entertainment, Grandma’s House Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Mark Burnett, Ben Newmark, Dan Newmark, Larry Barron
Logline: Set in the Caribbean Islands, the series features single men and women. After face-to-face meetings, a participant picks a mate based on instant chemistry. Then these budding couples discover whether or not they have the compatibility to make their relationships last.
Details: Ordered to series. Network has ordered 10 episodes. (1/14/2016)
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of ten episodes. This marks the first dating series for Burnett, the creator behind such hits as The Voice, Survivor, Shark Tank and Celebrity Apprentice.
Untitled Matt Groening Project (Animated)
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Matt Groening
Writer(s): Matt Groening
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Details are being kept under wraps. Netflix’s animated series include BoJack Horseman, F Is for Family and the upcoming Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. Groening will continue as EP on The Simpsons, now in its 27th season.
Untitled Prison Break Limited Series
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Paul T. Scheuring, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse Olmstead, Neal H. Moritz
Writer(s): Paul T. Scheuring
Logline: Storyline under wraps.
Details: Based on the TV series, “Prison Break,” starring Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, which aired on Fox from 2005-2009.
SSN Insight: Fox has given the formal straight-to-series order for the limited series, expected to be in the eight to ten episode range. Original Prison Break stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell will reprise their roles.
Untitled Tracy Morgan/Jordan Peele Ex-Con Project
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Executive Producer(s): Tracy Morgan, Jordan Peele, John Carcieri, Eric Tannenbaum, Joel Zadak
Writer(s): Jordan Peele, John Carcieri
Logline: A career criminal is released from prison after 15 long years, hoping to reintegrate into a society that long ago left him behind. Now a man whose only expertise is making grilled cheese with an iron must navigate a modern world of political correctness, the Internet, and self-driving cars.
Details: Ordered to pilot.
SSN Insight: FX ordered the pilot which is tentatively slated to begin production this summer. Morgan is currently headlining a nationwide stand-up tour titled Picking Up the Pieces. He can next be seen in the Weinstein Co.’s Richard Pryor biopic Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? and Fist Fight alongside Ice Cube and Charlie Day.