A Darker Shade Of Magic
Production Company(s): G-BASE productions
Executive Producer(s): Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Danielle Robinson
Writer(s): V.E. Schwab’s
Logline: The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. Grey London, where the people have been told that magic is a myth; Red London, where magic is embraced and thrives; White London, where magic is used by the rulers against it’s people; and Black London, where magic has overpowered the people and corrupted the world beyond repair.
Details: Based on the novel of the same name by V.E. Schwab.
SSN Insight: The project is being developed as a limited series. Schwab also wrote Vicious, which is set up at Story Mining with Scott Free producing.
A Discovery of Witches
Production Company(s): Bad Wolf
Executive Producer(s): Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner
Writer(s): Deborah Harkness, Ashley Pharoah
Logline: Diana Bishop is a young scholar at Oxford who is a descendant of the Salem witches. When she accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript, she is compelled to embrace the magic in her blood and enters a forbidden romance with charming 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont.
Details: Based on the novel, “A Discovery of Witches,” which is the first installment of the All Souls Trilogy. It was written by Deborah Harkness and published by Viking on February 8, 2011.
SSN Insight: Series in development. A network has not been signed on. The project is also in development as a feature at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Battle Ready
Executive Producer(s): Joe Carnahan, Tracy Falco, Greg Harris, Chris George
Writer(s): Joe Carnahan
Logline: Battle Ready tells the story of retired Navy SEAL Mark L. Donald, former Marine, combat medic, and physician’s assistant who served his country for nearly 25 years and survived a number of harrowing and dangerous combat missions. The series will focus on Donald’s time in both Iraq and Afghanistan and the extensive, often clandestine combat missions he was engaged in.
Details: Based on Mark Donald’s memoir Battle Ready: Memoir Of A Seal Warrior Medic.
SSN Insight: Joe Carnahan will also direct the pilot. His credits include The Blacklist and State of Affairs.
Big Fan
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Banijay Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jimmy Kimmel, David Goldberg, Caroline Baumgard
Logline: Each episode of the game show will feature one celebrity and three of his or her biggest super fans. The super fans will go head-to-head to see who knows more about the episode’s featured celebrity. The succeeding super fan will move on to the final round in an ultimate showdown, celebrity vs. super fan, to see who knows most about the celebrity. If the super fan wins, their prize is a priceless experience with the celebrity they admire most.
Details: Based on the “Who Knows…?” celebrity vs. super-fan game segment that originally aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
SSN Insight: ABC gave a series order on February 8.
Bull
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amblin Television, Stage 29 Productions
Executive Producer(s): Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Writer(s): Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phil McGraw
Logline: Based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s early days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time.
Details: Based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s early days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 2.
Cruel Intentions
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Original Film, AMBI
Executive Producer(s): Roger Kumble, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty
Writer(s): Roger Kumble, Lindsey Rosin, Jordan Ross
Logline: The story follows the rags-to-riches story of 16-year-old Bash Casey, the son of the late Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove. Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed. In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power, and corruption he never could have imagined.
Details: Based on the film, “Cruel Intentions,” (1999), written and directed by Roger Kumble and starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. The original source material for the 1999 film was the novel, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and published in 1782.
SSN Insight: NBC initially committed to a script plus penalty in October. A pilot order has been given and Sarah Michelle Geller has been approached to reprise her role.
Four Stars
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Timberman/Beverly Productions
Executive Producer(s): Becky Mode, R.J. Cutler, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman
Writer(s): Becky Mode
Logline: Centers on two powerful rival families in the military community of Tampa, Florida who make decisions at the highest levels in the interest of national security.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 pilot season. CBS gave a pilot order on February 4.
I’m Not Your Friend
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo, Michael Rotenberg, Matt LeBlanc, Troy Zien
Writer(s): Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo
Logline: A contractor learns that raising his kids is more challenging than expected when his wife goes back to work.
SSN Insight: The series has a commitment penalty attached. A pilot order was given on February 8.
Incorporated
Network: Syfy
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Pearl Street Films
Executive Producer(s): Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jennifer Todd, Ted Humphrey, Alex Pastor
Writer(s): David Pastor, Alex Pastor
Logline: The futuristic espionage thriller is set in a future where companies have unlimited power and tells the story of executive Ben Larson, who is forced to change his identity in order to infiltrate a cut-throat corporate world to save the woman he loves. In the process, he’ll take on the entire system — with deadly consequences.
SSN Insight: Pilot order given back in April. Georgina Haig was previously attached as Laura. Syfy has given a series order of 13 episodes.
MacGyver
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Atomic Monster
Executive Producer(s): James Wan, Michael Clear, Henry Winkler, Paul Downs Colaizzo
Writer(s): Paul Downs Colaizzo
Logline: Twenty-something Angus MacGyver gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Details: Based on the television series, “MacGyver,” starring Richard Dean Anderson, which aired on ABC from 1985-1992.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 2. R. Scott Gemmill was previously attached to write and executive produce, but was replaced by Paul Downs Colaizzo whose script got the pilot picked up.
Me & Mean Margaret
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Chernin Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Adam Barr, Peter Chernin
Writer(s): Adam Barr
Logline: The series follows a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress and the ambitious 27-year-old lawyer forced to babysit her.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a pilot order on February 2.
Million Dollar Quartet
Network: CMT
Production Company(s): Thinkfactory Media
Executive Producer(s): Leslie Greif, Gil Grant, Jayson Dinsmore, Julia Silverton
Logline: The story of nothing less than the creation of rock ‘n’ roll. Set in Memphis, Tennessee, it’s the story of Sam Phillips, a struggling audio engineer who has a dream of starting his own record label. His first goal was to record blues singers, and he discovered B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and others. Seeing that white kids secretly enjoyed this music on the radio but wouldn’t buy it, he began to think that a white teen who had a feel for blues could change everything. Enter Elvis Presley. Ultimately, on On December 4, 1956, Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins joined at the Sun Record Studios for an impromptu recording session. Based on the stage musical.
Details: Based on the stage musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2010.
SSN Insight: CMT has given a series order of 8 one-hour episodes for the drama miniseries.
Party Over Here
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Party Over Here, Kablamo!
Executive Producer(s): Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Billy Rosenberg, Paul Scheer
Writer(s):
Logline: Skewering everything from pop culture to politics, the show will feature sketch comedy shorts, along with in-studio segments filmed in front of a live audience at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order.
Penn Vet
Network: Animal Planet
Production Company(s): High Noon Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jim Berger, Scott Feeley, Sarah Presta, Michael Call, Dawn Sinsel
Writer(s):
Logline: The series will document select fourth-year students at the University of Pennsylvania’s highly competitive veterinary school as they complete the program, handing a wide range of cases.
SSN Insight: Animal Planet gave a series order on February 3.
Rillington Place
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): BBC In House Productions, Bandit Television
Executive Producer(s): Phillippa Giles, Hilary Salmon
Writer(s): Ed Whitmore, Tracey Whitmore
Logline: The true story of murderer John Christie, his wife Ethel, and their neighbor Timothy Evans, who all lived in the same London apartment complex. Christie murdered at least eight women, including Ethel, strangling them in his apartment. He was eventually arrested and convicted of his wife’s murder, and hanged. But not before Evans was charged with the murders of his own wife, Beryl, and daughter Geraldine, who were also tenants of the house. Evans was hanged in 1950. Christie later admitted killing Beryl Evans, but not Geraldine.
Details: Based on a series of murders that took place in the 1940s and 1950s in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood.
SSN Insight: BBC has given a series order for 3 episodes for the drama miniseries.
Sebastian
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions
Executive Producer(s): Austen Earl, Sebastian Maniscalco, Greg Garcia, Alix Jaffe, Judi Brown-Marmel
Writer(s): Austen Earl
Logline: Newly married Sebastian tries to stay true to his blue collar roots while adjusting to life with his wealthy bride.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2015-2016. NBC gave a pilot order on February 2.
Sensory
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Ridley Scott Films
Executive Producer(s): David Zabel, Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Roger Freet
Writer(s): David Zabel
Logline: A medical student is diagnosed with mirror-touch synesthesia, a condition whereby he is able to vividly feel—or “mirror”—the physical and emotional sensations of other people. He has to navigate through the ways in which his condition could be both an asset and a liability.
Details: Based on the true story of Dr. Joel Salinas.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 5.
The Enforcers
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Gavin&Roxie&Hap Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sherry Bilsing, Ellen Plummer, Gail Mancuso
Writer(s): Sherry Bilsing, Ellen Plummer
Logline: Two wildly different single mothers with dreams of being police officers find themselves partnered as inspectors in the Code Enforcement Department. Instead of fighting crime, they have been relegated to handling petty code breaking, like noise complaints, tree trimming and water misuse.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on February 5.
The Rook
Network: Hulu
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Character Seven, Fickle Fish
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Garrett
Logline: Storyline under wraps, but it will be a London-set supernatural series.
SSN Insight: One of the UK’s most-respected TV execs and former Kudos founder and exec chairman Stephen Garrett has just launched Character Seven and this is the first project out of the gate.
Untitled Laura Steinel Workplace Comedy Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Sue Naegle, Jeff Schaffer
Writer(s): Laura Steinel
Logline: Jane is caught between trying to manage her charmingly incompetent human resources department and a new eccentric CEO who dreams of bringing the New Jersey plastics plant into the future.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on February 4.
Untitled Stephnie Weir Greg Garcia Family Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions
Executive Producer(s): Stephnie Weir, Greg Garcia
Writer(s): Stephnie Weir
Logline: Set in Texas, the story centers on a conservative, small town family who is forced to reconcile their family values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 8.
Vlad
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Doozer Productions
Executive Producer(s): Adam Sztykiel, Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold
Writer(s): Adam Sztykiel, Vladimir Caamaño
Logline: A family comedy inspired by Caamaño’s real-life family dynamic living with his Dominican father and older brother in the Bronx.
Details: Inspired by the life of Vladimir Caamano.
SSN Insight: NBC initially committed to a put pilot in November and ordered the pilot on February 2.