Catching Kelce
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Current Entertainment, Grandma’s House Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Scott Langerman, Lauren Stevens, Ben Newmark, Dan Newmark
Logline: Fifty eligible women, one from each state in the U.S. will be invited to Los Angeles as Travis Kelce searches for that special someone to become his lifelong “teammate.” Kelce will be joined by famous friends and family to help him along his journey, but in the series finale, only he can decide who is the right woman for him.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of eight episodes as of January 28.
Gilmore Girls
Network: Netflix
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer(s): Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
Writer(s): Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
Logline: The continuing story of the relationship between Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory.
Details: Based on the series “Gilmore Girls,” which aired on The WB from 2000-2005 and The CW from 2006-2007.
SSN Insight: Ordered as four 90-minute episodes in October, but given the official greenlight with the sign-on of stars Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn (Kirk) and Keiko Agena (Lane).
Horace and Pete
Network: Louisck.net
Production Company(s): Pig Newton, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Louis C.K., Blair Breard, Dave Becky, Vernon Chatman
Writer(s): Louis C.K.
Logline: A digital series that follows the patrons and employees of an Irish bar in Brooklyn.
SSN Insight: The show features Edie Falco, Rebecca Hall, Jessica Lange, Kurt Metzger, Steven Wright among others. Episodes are available for $5 through C.K.’s website.
Justice League Action (Animated)
Network: Cartoon Network
Production Company(s): Warner Bros. Animation
Executive Producer(s): Sam Register
Logline: DC Comics heroes will battle everything from threats in space to the bizarre forces of magic.
SSN Insight: Cartoon Network has officially greenlighted the series which will air 11-minute episodes. A premiere date has not yet been set.
MECH-X4
Network: Disney XD
Production Company(s): Omnifilm Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steve Marmel, Anupam Nigam
Logline: Ryan Walker, a freshman at Bay City High who has technopathy – the extraordinary ability to control technology with his mind. His talent mysteriously awakens MECH-X4, a giant 120-foot robot built by an elusive genius-in-hiding to defend their town against impending doom.
SSN Insight: Disney XD gave a series order on January 29.
Start Up
Network: Crackle
Production Company(s): Hollywood Gang Productions, Critical Content
Executive Producer(s): Tom Forman, Shannon Gaulding, Andrew Marcus, Gianni Nunnari, Raymond Ricord
Writer(s): Ben Ketai, Ben Dubash
Logline: A Cuban-American hacker, a Haitian-American gangster, and the son of a corrupt banker, come together in modern day Miami to launch a revolutionary new cryptocurrency; however, when their unorthodox methods garner the attention of a nefarious FBI Agent, as well as various other criminals in South Florida, the group’s subversive new startup unexpectedly becomes a new criminal enterprise for the 21st Century.
SSN Insight: Crackle has given a series order of ten episodes.
Stretch Armstrong (Animated)
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Hasbro, Inc.
Logline: An over scheduled teenager named Jake Armstrong and his two best friends, are accidentally exposed to an experimental chemical, they become Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, a team of unlikely stretchable superheroes who expand beyond the confines of their lives and embark on a series of adventures.
Details: Based on the Stretch Armstrong line of toys and merchandise sold by Hasbro.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of 26 episodes as of January 28. Netflix is partnering with Hasbro Studios on the series for premiere in 2017.
The Arrangement
Network: E! Networks
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Objective Productions, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Jonathan Abrahams, Jimmy Fox, Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman
Writer(s): Jonathan Abrahams
Logline: Megan Morrison is a beautiful young actress who auditions for the female lead in a summer blockbuster playing opposite Kyle West, the hottest actor of the moment. After an amazing audition segues into a dream-like first date, Megan’s Cinderella story takes a turn to the bizarre when she is presented with a contract that details an entire relationship with Kyle. Megan must weigh her options and the benefits and consequences to her career and her life overall and decide whether or not she will accept “the arrangement.”
SSN Insight: E! ordered the pilot back in April. E! gave a series order of ten episodes on January 29.
The Baxter Family
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Production Company(s): LightWorkers Media
Executive Producer(s): Roma Downey
Logline: The story of how John and Elizabeth Baxter and their six adult children come together over love, loss, laughter, and life in an epic drama that proves the strength of faith and family.
Details: Based on the Baxter Family novel series, also known as the Redemption series, which began with the novel, “Redemption, “written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Thorndike Press in 2005.
SSN Insight: The 22 book series has sold upwards of 20 million copies worldwide. No network has been set.
The Characters
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Andrew Gaynord, Tony Hernandez
Logline: Features eight up-and-coming comedians who get the opportunity to create their own 30-minute episodes and do whatever they want. No rules. No limits. Each comedian writes and appears in his/her episode.
SSN Insight: The series will feature Lauren Lapkus, Kate Berlant, Dr. Brown, Paul W. Downs, John Early, Tim Robinson, Natasha Rothwell and Henry Zebrowski. It will premiere March 11.
The Mick
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin, Oly Obst, Nicholas Frenkel, Randall Einhorn
Writer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin
Logline: A coarse, blue-collar woman moves to affluent Greenwich, Connecticut raise the outrageously spoiled kids of her wealthy sister and brother-in-law, who have fled the country to avoid prosecution for illegal activities.
SSN Insight: Fox initially gave a commitment of a script plus penalty back in August and ordered the pilot on February 2.
Untitled American Girls Series
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Logline: Storyline under wraps.
Details: Based on the American Girl line of dolls created in 1986 by Pleasant Company and purchased by Mattel in 1998.
SSN Insight: Amazon has signed a multi-year, multimillion dollar production deal with Mattel subsidiary American Girl to produce four live-action specials, with the option to produce multiple seasons worth of episodic content.
Untitled La La Anthony Timbaland Hip-Hop Docuseries Project
Production Company(s): Leftfield Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Alani “La La” Anthony, David George, Will Nothacker, Derek Gordon
Logline: Jeff Janvier and Session Cruz run Face Time Agency, the industry’s premiere casting agency for booking music video and hip-hop fashion models. Set inside the New York City nightlife scene – the series exposes the cutthroat entrepreneurial side of hip-hop, with models, DJs and social media stars hustling to break through as fashion, music and media moguls.
SSN Insight: No network has been set as project is in the early stages. La La has also joined the producing team of Eclipsed, which will mark the Broadway debut of Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o.
Zoobiquity
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier, Spencer Medof
Writer(s): Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier
Logline: Follows the unlikely pairing of a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with a socially-challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. They try to put aside their competitive natures to cure the incurable using a unique blend of cross-species medicine that’s never been tried before.
Details: Based on the book, “Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing,” written by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers and published by Knopf on June 12, 2012.
SSN Insight: Rolled from the 2015-2016 season. Fox gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty back in October. Fox gave the official pilot order on January 26.
ABC
Conviction
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company
Executive Producer(s): Liz Friedman, Liz Friedlander, Mark R. Gordon, Nicholas Pepper
Writer(s): Liz Friedman
Logline: Carter Morrison, the brilliant but rebellious daughter of a Clinton-like political family, is forced into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, has two weeks to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October. ABC gave a pilot order on January 27.
Dream Team
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Kari’s Logo Here, Here Comes Scrappy
Executive Producer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Writer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Logline: Coach Marty Schumacher knows how to win in the world of girls’ club soccer. His last team went to the national championship, and those women are off playing in college, semipro, even the Olympic team. Now Coach Schumacher, who is known as “the star maker” (mostly by himself), has a documentary crew following him around as he assembles his next dynasty from a diverse group of little girls that bring along their diverse families.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty back in August. They ordered the pilot on January 26.
Hail Mary
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Intrigue
Executive Producer(s): Brian Gallivan, Seth Gordon, Tariq Jalil
Writer(s): Brian Gallivan
Logline: A young small-town mayor named Mary Wolf has dysfunctional siblings, a dying father, disgruntled citizens, a nearly bankrupt town and the mafia breathing down her neck. Only a miracle can help her. So … she fakes one.
Details: Based on the Austrian series “Braunschlag” which aired eight-episodes on the ORF Network in 2012.
SSN Insight: Previously in development with Fox and 20th Century Fox TV in 2015 with Rob Riggle set as the lead and written by Steve Hely. ABC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty and ordered the pilot on January 28. The Austrian series had a male lead. Another adaptation was set up at Fox last year with Rob Riggle attached to star.
Model Woman
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: TriStar Television, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Rosalie Swedlin, Helen Childress, Scarlett Lacey
Writer(s): Helen Childress
Logline: Set in the late 1970’s during the notorious Model Wars, Bertie Geiss is a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency.
Details: Based on the book, “Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty,” written by Robert Lacey and published by Harper on June 16, 2015.
SSN Insight: Rolled from the 2015-2016 season. ABC ordered the pilot on January 27.
Notorious
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): The Firm
Executive Producer(s): Josh Berman, Jeff Kwatinetz, Josh Barry, Mark Geragos, Wendy Walker Whitworth
Writer(s): Josh Berman, Allie Hagan
Logline: The story follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately – each other.
Details: Inspired by the relationship between criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and long-time “Larry King Live” executive producer Wendy Walker.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October and ordered the pilot on January 28. Josh Berman previously created Drop Dead Diva and Allie Hagan is known for her blog Suri’s Burn Book.
Spark
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Sander/Moses Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Michael G. Cooney
Writer(s): Michael G. Cooney
Logline: The story is set in the alternate reality of Steampunk – circa 2016 – where gas and coal fuel the world. Two rival families battle for power as a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention could level both their empires.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Cooney and Sander/Moses previously collaborated on Runner which went to pilot at ABC last year, to star Paula Patton.
The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fazekas & Butters
Executive Producer(s): Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, Charise Castro Smith
Writer(s): Charise Castro Smith
Logline: Eva Sofia Valdez is an immigrant who rose from rags to riches and is a celebrated Miami entrepreneur and a champion for immigrant rights. But her success is fueled by an insatiable ambition that could destroy her family, a vendetta against the lover who betrayed her, and ghosts from the past who threaten to reveal the dark sacrifices Eva Sofia made to attain the American Dream.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters are also executive producers/showrunners on Marvel’s Agent Carter.
The Fluffy Shop
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Tomorrow Studios
Executive Producer(s): Tim Doyle, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Joe Meloche
Writer(s): Gabriel Iglesias, Jay Lavender, Tim Doyle
Logline: A comedian deal with the challenges of managing a home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.
Details: Inspired by the life experience of comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October and gave a pilot order on January 28. Iglesias previously had a recurring role on ABC’s Cristela.
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Sarah Dunn, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Sarah Dunn
Logline: Katie, our narrator, is a (slightly) larger wife and mother raising her flawed family of three in a wealthy town filled with “perfect” wives and their “perfect” offspring.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28.
Time After Time
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Williamson
Writer(s): Kevin Williamson
Logline: When young H.G. Wells shows his time machine to his friends, he is oblivious to the fact that one of them, surgeon Leslie John Stephenson, is in fact the infamous Jack the Ripper. When Scotland Yard detectives get on Stevenson’s trail, the murderer uses the time machine to flee to the future, getting transported to 1979 San Francisco. He is quickly followed by Wells who is trying to bring him to justice.
Details: Based on the novel “Time After Time,” written by Karl Alexander and published by The Delacorte Press on March 28, 1979.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script and ordered the pilot on January 28.
Toast
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Shondaland
Executive Producer(s): Scott Foley, Greg Grunberg, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Logline: Engaged couple Max and Paige, over their wedding rehearsal dinner, have their eclectic family and friends give toasts recalling anecdotes about the couple — but flashbacks reveal that the toasts don’t always get it right.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2015-2016. ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Toast marks the first half-hour pilot order for Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ Shondaland.
Untitled Ed Weeks Hannah Mackay Comedy Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kindle Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Anne Brogan, Melanie Stokes, Siobhan Bachman, Valerie Ames, Andrew Reich
Writer(s): Ed Weeks, Hannah Mackay
Logline: An unapologetic lesbian and her best friend, a neurotic straight male, navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. This marks Reich’s second pilot order, his first of the season was for Pearl, also at ABC.
Untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer Drama Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Pacific Standard
Executive Producer(s): Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Meaghan Oppenheimer
Writer(s): Meaghan Oppenheimer
Logline: The story follows the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas. Raised in the trailer parks of Texas, she has left behind a life of struggle amid squalor, working her way into a corner office and mansion in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhood. But beneath her facade of togetherness, she’s plagued by self-destructive tendencies and long hidden family secrets that begin to unravel her life.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Oppenheimer previously wrote the screenplay for the film We Are Your Friends.
CBS
The Great Indoors
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Mike Gibbons
Writer(s): Mike Gibbons
Logline: An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 29. This is the second consecutive CBS pilot order for Gibbons who wrote and executive produced The Half Of It for CBS last year.
The Kicker
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Little Stranger, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Jack Burditt, David Miner
Writer(s): Jack Burditt
Logline: Centers on an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers insane after he unexpectedly finds himself cut from his professional football team.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 28. This marks the second sale for Fey’s Little Stranger, with the first order given by NBC to a pilot written by another 30 Rock alum, Tracey Wigfield.
Training Day
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Fuqua Films, Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Executive Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, Will Beall, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman
Writer(s): Will Beall
Logline: Set in present day, the story focuses on the relationship between two LAPD officers, one a rookie and the other a corrupt, older cop. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Training Day,” (2001), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot production commitment back in August. The network officially ordered the pilot on February 1.
What Goes Around Comes Around
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan Kopelman, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Dan Kopelman
Logline: Two forty-something parents who were wild and reckless teenagers now face their worst nightmare—raising three teenagers of their own.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 1. Kopelman’s previous credits include Rules Of Engagement and Malcolm In The Middle.
The CW
Frequency
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Rickard Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Jeremy Carver, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz, Toby Emmerich, John Rickard
Writer(s): Jeremy Carver
Logline: A female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day.
Details: A re-imagining of the film, “Frequency” (2000) directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Dennis Quaid.
SSN Insight: CW gave a pilot order. Project was previously in development at at NBC for the 2015-2016 season with a script + penalty commitment.
No Tomorrow
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Electus
Executive Producer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ben Silverman, Sean Canino
Writer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Scott McCabe, Tory Stanton
Logline: Sarah is a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier, only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.
Details: Based on the Brazilian format, “How To Enjoy The End Of the World.”
SSN Insight: The CW gave a pilot order on January 29.
Riverdale
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Berlanti Productions, Archie Comics Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater
Writer(s): Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Logline: Set in the present, the series offers a subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.
Details: Based on the characters from the Archie comics.
SSN Insight: The CW ordered the pilot. The CW initially gave a commitment of a script plus penalty back in October. Project was previously in development at Fox.
Transylvania
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Midnight Radio
Executive Producer(s): Hugh Sterbakov, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Scott Rosenberg
Writer(s): Hugh Sterbakov
Logline: Set in 1880, a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father ventures from New York City to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard detective. Together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.
SSN Insight: The CW gave a pilot order on January 29.
Untitled Mars Project (Previously Titled Colony)
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company
Executive Producer(s): Robert D. Zotnowski, Frank Marshall
Writer(s): Doris Egan
Logline: About a group of explorers sent to colonize Mars, willing to leave their lives behind to brave the dangers of another planet, and the terrifying reality they discover.
Details: Inspired by the story of The Lost Colony, the 16th century British settlement on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, whose inhabitants vanished without a trace, sparking a slew of theories about their fate.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2013-2014. The CW has ordered the pilot. Ian Goldberg was previously attached as an Executive Producer and writer.