A.P.B.
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Sketch Films, Storied Media Group
Executive Producer(s): David Slack, Len Wiseman, David Bernardi, Dennis Kim, Todd Hoffman
Writer(s): David Slack
Logline: Explores what happens when an enigmatic tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder. Can this eccentric and enigmatic figure’s cutting-edge approach fix the broken ways of these blue-blooded veterans?
Details: Inspired by the article, “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans,” written by David Amsden and published in the New York Times Magazine on July 30, 2015.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial script commitment in October and ordered the pilot on January 25.
Altered Carbon
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Skydance Productions
Executive Producer(s): Laeta Kalogridis, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross
Writer(s): Laeta Kalogridis
Logline: Set in the 25th century, the human mind has been digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he’ll get a chance at a new life on Earth.
Details: Based on the novel “Altered Carbon” written by Richard Morgan; published by Gollancz February 28, 2002.
SSN Insight: Netflix has picked up the series. Previously in development with Warner Bros. who paid mid-six against seven figures for feature film rights. Previous writers hired to adapt were John Pogue, Albert Torres, and Joshua Marston. Previously in development with Silver Pictures.
Bunker Hill
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): True Jack Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jason Katims, Michelle Lee
Writer(s): Jason Katims
Logline: Follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, “new school” approach to medicine.
SSN Insight: CBS initially gave a commitment of a put pilot on August 21, 2014. Rolled from 2015-2016. CBS has now given a pilot order. Sarah Watson was previously attached to write and Executive Produce.
Chunk & Bean
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Ed Herro, Brian Donovan, David Hemingson
Writer(s): Ed Herro, Brian Donovan
Logline: Centers on the unlikely friendship of two misfits, Chunk and Bean, who benefit from having two very different sets of parents living next door to each other.
Details: Inspired by the childhoods of Ed Herro and Brian Donovan.
SSN Insight: ABC ordered the pilot on January 25.
Citizen
Network: Hulu
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Josh Pate, Nick Schutt, David Kanter, Matt DeRossand
Writer(s): Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Josh Pate, Nick Schutt
Logline: A fresh take on the hero origin story blending elements of magical realism and gritty vigilantism set against the backdrop of a vibrant, “supernaturalized” Los Angeles.
SSN Insight: Hulu is finalizing the deal for a pilot order. Anonymous Content has a first look deal with Paramount TV.
Crashing
Network: HBO
Executive Producer(s): Pete Holmes, Judd Apatow, Dave Rath
Writer(s): Pete Holmes
Logline: After his wife leaves him, a sweet, wholesome comedian has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics.
Details: Based loosely on the real life experiences of Pete Holmes.
SSN Insight: HBO ordered the pilot on September and gave a series order on January 21.
Drew
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Joan Rater, Tony Phelan, Dan Jinks
Writer(s): Joan Rater, Tony Phelan
Logline: Nancy Drew is now a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.
Details: Based on the character, Nancy Drew, originally created in 1930 and on the mystery book series.
SSN Insight: Planned as a contemporary update on the Nancy Drew character. CBS ordered the pilot on January 19.
Good Fortune
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: Follows a hyper-structured young woman whose life is upended when she starts taking advice from a mysterious fortune teller.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.
I Am Frankie
Network: Nickelodeon
Writer(s): Catharina Ledeboer
Logline: An experimental android navigates the perils and wonders of being a teenager. Frankie looks like any other girl, but functions like the newest computer: complete with Internet access, extensive memory and a hard disk. Frankie goes to school and no one but the members of her family know her secret. She adapts to the real world quite well, despite having no feelings or emotions, but all that changes when she begins to experience family life, make friends and have a boyfriend. Her biggest challenge will be to fall in-love without her operating system malfunctioning.
Details: Based on the Colombian series, “Yo Soy Franky,” which premiered on Nickelodeon Latin America in 2015.
SSN Insight: Nickelodeon gave a series order of 20 episodes on January 20. The series will be the first global series to be produced at the new Viacom International Studios in Miami, which has two 15,000 square foot stages and will be a multiplatform production hub for all of Viacom’s brands.
I Do Crew
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Little Engine
Executive Producer(s): Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith, Gina Matthews, Grant Scharbo
Writer(s): Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith
Logline: The series focuses on the events leading up to a destination wedding from the point of view of the friends of the bride and groom.
SSN Insight: The series is in development at the CW, but no pilot order has been given.
Imaginary Gary
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Happy Madison Productions
Executive Producer(s): Patrick Osborne, Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio, Doug Robinson
Writer(s): Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio
Logline: A thirtysomething bachelor’s life is turned upside-down when he finally meets the love of his life — a divorced working mom with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend he created as an only child suddenly reappears in his life to help him navigate the transition from single guy to family man.
SSN Insight: ABC secured the project back in October after a bidding war by giving it a pilot production order with a series penalty attached. ABC gave a formal pilot order on January 21.
Kicking & Screaming
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Pulse Creative
Executive Producer(s): Matt Kunitz, Anthony Dominici
Logline: Ten expert survivalists are teamed with pampered partners. The 10 teams are dropped in a forbidding wilderness where they must overcome dangerous animals, raging rivers, hunger and extreme weather. To win the competition, the survivalist experts will have to drag their privileged partners — who think roughing it is going a week without a massage — kicking and screaming, to the finish line.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of eight episodes as of January 19.
Midnight, Texas
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): David Janollari Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David Janollari, Monica Breen
Writer(s): David Janollari, Monica Breen
Logline: The story focuses on a fictitious and very creepy town in Texas filled with secrets and romantic entanglements
Details: Based on the Midnight, Texas novel series, which includes the novels, “Midnight Crossroad,” “Day Shift,” “Night Shift.” The novels are written by Charlaine Harris and published by Ace.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.
Miranda’s Rights
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Katie Lovejoy, John Glenn
Writer(s): Katie Lovejoy
Logline: Six years after a sex scandal upended her life, 28-year-old Miranda Coale gets a shot at redemption when she’s hired by a group of millennials living and lawyering together in a start-up law firm.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial script commitment back in August and ordered the pilot on January 22.
Monger
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Groundswell Productions
Executive Producer(s): Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie, Michael London
Writer(s): Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie
Logline: Centers on two adult brothers and their relationship with their father who is a New York City fishmonger.
Details: Loosely based on the Safdie brothers’ relationship with their father.
SSN Insight: This is the first sale under the multi-year first-look non-exclusive deal with CBS TV and Oscar-nominated producer Michael London and his production company, Groundswell Productions.
Mortal Kombat X: Machinima’s Chasing The Cup Finale
Network: CW Television Network
Production Company(s): Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Logline: The final episode of the e-sports docu-series that streams on CW Seed, that follows five of the world’s top-ranked players of the acclaimed fighting game Mortal Kombat X, vying to achieve their dream of being crowned the best in the world at the ESL Mortal Kombat X Pro League Finals.
SSN Insight: The full five episode series streams on CW Seed. The finale will be broadcast on the CW.
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: CBS gave a pilot order on January 19.
Recon
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Caroline Dries, Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
Writer(s): Caroline Dries
Logline: A rookie FBI agent embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on January 25. Julie Plec executive produces The Originals and The Vampire Diaries.
Square Roots
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Vijal Patel
Writer(s): Vijal Patel
Logline: A man from a family of logic-driven engineers is determined to use his “gift” to help the people he loves with their everyday issues. . .whether they like it or not.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial script commitment. Previously in development for the 2013-2014 season at ABC. ABC gave a pilot order on January 25.
Still Star-Crossed
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Shondaland, The MrG Production Company
Executive Producer(s): Heather Mitchell, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Michael R. Goldstein
Writer(s): Heather Mitchell
Logline: Set in 16th century Verona after the events in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, the story follows the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues in the wake of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.
Details: Inspired by the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” written by William Shakespeare and believed to be published sometime in the 1590s.
SSN Insight: ABC ordered the pilot on January 21. Still Star-Crossed joins ABC drama pilots The Jury, Marvel’s Most Wanted, John Ridley’s Presence, and Kiefer Sutherland series Designated Survivor.
Storyville
Production Company(s): Mission Control
Executive Producer(s): William J MacDonald, Walt Becker
Writer(s): William J MacDonald, Walt Becker
Logline: Set against the backdrop of the birth of jazz music, which originated in New Orleans as a way to lure clients into high-end bordellos, the story delves into the turbulent, colorful world of the city’s notorious red-light district at the turn of the century. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans,” written by Gary Krist and published by Crown on October 28, 2014.
SSN Insight: Mission Control is in discussions with a network but this might go the indie route as it has received private-equity financing. A pilot will be shot and scouting has started in Louisiana for a mid-2016 start date.
Superior Donuts
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Bob Daily, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Mark Teitelbaum, John R. Montgomery
Writer(s): Bob Daily, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan
Logline: The story follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, his new young employee and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago.
Details: Based on the play by Tracy Letts, which was first staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2008 and premiered on Broadway in 2009.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 22.
The Deuce
Network: HBO
Executive Producer(s): David Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina Kostroff Noble, Michelle MacLaren, Richard Price
Writer(s): David Simon, George Pelecanos
Logline: The story chronicles the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Also explored: the rough-and-tumble world that existed in midtown Manhattan until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and a rejuvenated real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence.
SSN Insight: HBO gave a series order on January 19. The series will star James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The Exorcist
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Morgan Creek Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jeremy Slater, Barbara Wall, James G. Robinson, David C. Robinson
Writer(s): Jeremy Slater
Logline: A propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession, and confronting the face of true evil.
Details: Based on the novel “The Exorcist,” written by William Peter Blatty and published by Harper in 1971.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on January 22. Morgan Creek originally began pitching the series in summer of 2013.
The Trail
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Barge Productions, Good Session Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Writer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Logline: Follows a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high profile murder trial in a small southern town.
SSN Insight: NBC initially gave a put pilot commitment back in August. NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.
Time
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Davis Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan, John Davis, John Fox, Marney Hochman Nash
Writer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
Logline: An unlikely trio travel through time to battle unknown criminals in order to protect history as we know it.
SSN Insight: The series landed at NBC in August after a bidding war, with a pilot production commitment. NBC gave a formal order for a pilot on January 21.
Untitled Butler/Hope/O’Shannon Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Dark Toy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan O’Shannon, Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope, Todd Holland
Writer(s): Dan O’Shannon, Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope
Logline: A wife and mother learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers.
Details: Based on the Australian series, “Upper Middle Bogan,” which premiered on ABC 1 in 2013.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 19.
Watergate
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Storyscape Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bob Cooper, Dan Halsted, Eric Hamburg, Jeff Floyd, Jon Maas
Writer(s): Jon Maas
Logline: A Faustian, cautionary thriller about a man who thinks he’s getting the job of a lifetime as he walks into the Oval Office of the White House, only to discover that it’s a snake pit and he’s being set up to be the fall guy for the most powerful man in the country, if not the world.
Details: Based on the book “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew And When He Knew It,” written by John Dean and published by Viking in 2014. Based on the book “The Women of Watergate,” written by Alden Duer Cohen and published by Stein and Day in 1975. Based on a treatment “The System,” written by Jason Grote.
SSN Insight: ABC is in early stages of developing the series. eOne will distribute the series internationally.
When the Street Lights Go On
Network: Hulu
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous
Executive Producer(s): Brett Morgen, Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton, Chad Hamilton, Tariq Merhab
Writer(s): Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton
Logline: A coming-of-age thriller about a sleepy, suburban town that is rocked by the brutal murder of a high school girl and her teacher in the summer of 1983.
SSN Insight: Project was included on the 2011 Black List. Previously in development at Imagine Entertainment. Hulu gave a pilot order on January 25. Anonymous Content has a first look deal with Paramount TV.