60 Days In
Network: A+E Networks
Production Company(s): Lucky 8 TV
Executive Producer(s): Gregory Henry, Kimberly Woodard, Jeff Grogan, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Shelly Tatro, Drew Tappon, Brad Holcman
Logline: In an effort to expose internal issues and what really happens behind bars at a corruption-plagued facility, Sheriff Jamey Noel devised a program where seven participants would live among the general population for 60 days without officers, fellow inmates or staff knowing their secret agenda, while around-the-clock cameras captured the “prisoners” as they adapted to unfamiliar and terrifying surroundings.
SSN Insight: A+E Networks has given a series order of 12 episodes. Starting March 17th, episodes will air weekly at 10 PM. produced by for A&E Network.
99 Days
Network: MTV Networks
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Alloy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo
Writer(s): Lila Feinberg
Logline: Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer – 99 days — with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for- his brother.
Details: Based on the novel, “99 Days,” written by Katie Cotugno and published by Balzer + Bray on April 21, 2015.
SSN Insight: Feinberg is also writing the semi-autobiographical drama Pulse for Legendary TV and adapting her play Blood Moon with novelist Jonathan Tropper for a TV series. She also has Songbird in development as a film with Anthony Bregman and Robert D. Siegel.
Beat Bugs
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Thunderbird, Atomic Cartoons, Grace: A Storytelling Company, Beyond Screen Production
Executive Producer(s): Josh Wakely, Trevor Roy
Writer(s): Josh Wakely
Logline: An animated kids series inspired by the songs of the Beatles. The Beat Bugs are charming, funny, adventurous, and have a knack for getting themselves into mischief and mayhem. Each of the five friends (Jay, Kumi, Crick, Buzz, and Walter) has a distinctive personality, and they display the charm and energy of five knockabout, lovable kids. They are best friends who band together to explore and learn in an overgrown suburban backyard, which to them is their entire universe.
SSN Insight: Netflix has ordered 2 seasons. In Australia, Netflix will obtain streaming rights to the series after its premiere on Seven Network.
Betty Boop
Production Company(s): Normaal Animation, Fleischer Studios, King Features
Logline: The series recounts the daily struggles, joys and victories of young Betty Boop, who has every intention of being on stage and becoming a superstar.
Details: Based on Max Fleischer’s iconic cartoon character Betty Boop.
SSN Insight: No network has been set. France-based Normaal International will handle worldwide financing and all future global distribution.
Chad: An American Boy
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Nasim Pedrad, Jason Winer, Rob Rosell, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky
Writer(s): Nasim Pedrad, Rob Rosell
Logline: Centers on a 14-year-old boy in the throes of adolescence who is tasked with being the man of the house, which leaves him with all the responsibilities of being an adult without any of the perks.
SSN Insight: Fox ordered a pilot. SNL alumna Pedrad signed a deal with Fox and 20th TV last year with the goal to create and topline her own comedy series.
Charity Case
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: ABC Studios, 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Fee-Fi-Fo Films, Coquette Productions
Executive Producer(s): Courteney Cox, Thea Mann, Robert Padnick, James Griffiths
Writer(s): Robert Padnick
Logline: Hailey inherits her late billionaire husband’s charity and quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.
SSN Insight: Fox ordered the pilot.
Dimension 404
Network: Hulu
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): RocketJump Studios
Executive Producer(s): Freddie Wong, Matthew Arnold, Dez Dolly
Writer(s):
Logline: This series explores the wonders and horrors of our digital age.
Details: Ordered to Series. Hulu has ordered 6 episodes. (2/10/2016)
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a series order of six episodes.
Geeking Out
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): The Weinstein Company , Matador Content, Bandwagon Media
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Smith, Greg Grunberg, Jay Peterson, Patrick Reardon
Logline: The series takes a timely look at pop culture through a fanboy lens and features talk, clips, celebrity interviews and out-of-the-studio segments.
SSN Insight: AMC gave a series order of nine episodes.
Lawrence In Arabia
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): The Linson Company
Executive Producer(s): Art Linson, John Linson, Anthony McCarten
Writer(s): Anthony McCarten
Logline: The story chronicles the adventure of T.E. Lawrence, David Hogarth, William Yale, and Rudolph McGovern as they dangerously navigate the burgeoning Arab Revolt in the Middle East in the years leading up to World War One.
Details: Based on the book, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East,” written by Scott Anderson and published by Doubleday in 2013.
SSN Insight: The Linsons have a first-look deal with HBO. They have also developed Yellowstone, a drama about a ranching family and Vietnam War drama The Long Gray Line.
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (Animated)
Network: Disney XD
Production Company(s): Lucasfilm, Ltd., LEGO Group
Executive Producer(s): Bill Motz, Bob Roth, Torsten Jacobsen, Jill Wilfert
Logline: The Freemakers are a family of scavengers who build and sell starships from the scoured debris of space battles strewn throughout the galaxy. When their youngest discovers a natural connection with the Force through an ancient artifact – the Kyber Saber – his world is turned upside down, and he and his family are thrown into an epic struggle against the Empire to restore peace and freedom to the galaxy. Throughout their adventures, the Freemakers explore new worlds, meet new and familiar characters, and learn the true value of what it means to be a family.
Details: The project is based on the Star Wars franchise, which began with “Star Wars: A New Hope” (1977), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
SSN Insight: Disney XD has given a series order.
Lethal Weapon
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Lin Pictures, Good Session Productions
Executive Producer(s): Matthew Miller, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz, McG
Writer(s): Matthew Miller
Logline: When Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh, who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid any stress in his life.
Details: Based on the “Lethal Weapon” film series, directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The film and its three sequels were released, respectively, in 1987, 1989, 1992 and 1998.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a pilot order. Damon Wayans Sr. is set as Murtaugh with McG set to direct the pilot. The Riggs role has not been cast.
Likely Stories
Network: Sky Arts
Production Company(s): Sid Gentle Films
Executive Producer(s): Neil Gaiman, Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris
Writer(s): Kevin Lehane, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Logline: Set in London, the dark and strange stories center on the act of storytelling in a world that shifts between reality and fantasy with common themes of human consumption, destructive obsession and psychological cannibalism. Based on short stories by Neil Gaiman.
Details: Based on short stories by Neil Gaiman.
SSN Insight: Art-oriented TV channel Sky Arts has given a series order of four episodes. Sky Vision will handle international distribution.
Maya and Marty in Manhattan
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Lorne Michaels
Logline: A weekly variety show starring Maya Rudolph and Martin Short.
Details: Inspired in part by Maya Rudolph and Martin Short‘s comedic duet during Saturday Night Live‘s 40th anniversary special, which aired on NBC on February 15, 2015.
SSN Insight: NBC has ordered the series. Idea for the show stemmed from the primetime special The Maya Rudolph Show that was aired back in May 2014.
Prototype
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Escape Artists
Executive Producer(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Anthony Basgallop
Writer(s): Anthony Basgallop
Logline: Three people, from different backgrounds, each brilliant and driven, form a partnership in their development of a machine that will have the potential to reshape the future.
SSN Insight: SyFy has ordered the pilot. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, nominated for an Oscar for his short Esposados, will direct the pilot.
Purity
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Scott Rudin
Writer(s): Jonathan Franzen, Todd Field
Logline: Pip is a young American woman who does not know who she is. Andreas is a charismatic German provocateur who heads a South America-based organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world. Pip gets an internship there in search of her identity.
Details: Based on the novel, “Purity,” written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 1, 2015.
SSN Insight: Daniel Craig is attached to star. No network set, but planned as a 20 episode limited series with Todd Fields onboard to direct all 20 episodes.
Shooter
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions, Paramount Television
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, John Hlavin
Writer(s): John Hlavin
Logline: Based on the film about a marksman and former U.S. Marine scout sniper who is coaxed back into action, only to be framed for murder and have to go on the run.
Details: Based on the film, “Shooter,” (2007) directed by Antoine Fuqua, which was based on the novel “Point of Impact,” written by Stephen Hunter and published by Bantam on November 1, 1993.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at TNT. USA has given a series order.
Talking Saul
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Embassy Row, LLC
Executive Producer(s): Michael Davies, Jen Patton, Brandon Monk, Chris Hardwick
Writer(s):
Logline: The show features series cast, producers, celebrity fans and more reacting to and discussing the twists and turns of Better Call Saul and taking questions and comments from viewers.
Details: The series is a talk show spinoff of the TV series, “Better Call Saul,” starring Bob Odenkirk, which premiered on AMC in 2015
SSN Insight: AMC will air the aftershow, to be hosted by Talking Dead‘s Chris Hardwick, following Better Call Saul‘s Season 2 premiere on February 15 and season finale on April 18.
The Breaks
Network: VH1 Network
Executive Producer(s): DJ Premier, Susan Levinson Bixby, Darren Goldberg, Bill Flanagan, Maggie Malina
Logline: Centers around Nikki Jones, a brilliant recent grad who abandoned a scholarship to law school to pursue her dream of becoming a record exec. Nikki fast talks her way into an internship at the premier hip-hop company, Fouray Entertainment, and catches the eye of the label’s infamous founder.
Details: Based on the book, “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop,” written by Dan Charnas and published by New American Library (NAL) on December 7, 2010. The book was adapted for a TV movie for VH1.
SSN Insight: The TV Movie was planned as a backdoor pilot. According to VH1 and Nielsen, The Breaks TV movie ranked as the #2 cable original movie of 2016 among adults 18-49, adults 18-34, women 18-49 and women 18-34.
The White Princess
Network: Starz
Production Company(s): Company Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Emma Frost, Philippa Gregory, Colin Callender, Michele Buck
Logline: Concludes the story of England’s War of the Roses and charts the rise of the House of Tudor through the tortuous marriage between Princess Elizabeth of York and King Henry Tudor
Details: A sequel to the series “The White Queen,” which aired on Starz in 2013.
SSN Insight: Starz has given a series order of eight episodes.
Thunderbirds Are Go (Animated)
Network: ITV
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Pukeko Pictures, Weta Workshop, ITV Studios
Executive Producer(s): Estelle Hughes, Giles Ridge, Richard Taylor, Andrew Smith
Writer(s): Rob Hoegee
Logline: The five Tracy brothers of the International Rescue squad go on missions spanning the globe and into outer space.
Details: Based on series “Thunderbirds,” which ran for 2 seasons on ITV Network from 1965-1966.
SSN Insight: Amazon has ordered four 13-episode seasons. A 26-episode first season of “Thunderbirds Are Go” aired on ITV and CITV in Britain and Australia. Rosamund Pike stars as the voice of Lady Penelope.
Untitled Alex Gibney/Laura Dern Drama
Network: HBO Network
Executive Producer(s): Alex Gibney, Laura Dern
Writer(s): Alex Gibney
Logline: Centers on a court-appointed psychiatrist who must determine from her twisted yet humanizing diagnostic exchanges with death row inmates if they are sane enough to be killed by the state.
SSN Insight: Emmy winner Gibney is most known as a documentary filmmaker. His credits include Death Row Stories, Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Sinatra: All or Nothing at All.
Untitled Rolling Stone Docuseries
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Left/Right Films
Executive Producer(s): Gus Wenner, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman
Logline: A pop culture-focused docuseries in the vein of Rolling Stone, based on articles from the music and pop culture magazine.
Details: Based on articles from Rolling Stone Magazine.
SSN Insight: Showtime has given a pilot order. The magazine markd its 50th anniversary next year. Left/Right also produced Starz’s political docuseries The Circus: Inside The Greatest Political Show On Earth.