America’s Next Top Model (Reboot)
Network: VH1
Production Company(s): Bankable Productions, Tyra Banks Company
Executive Producer(s): Tyra Banks, Ken Mok
Logline: Reality series in which selected modeling contestants will live together and compete in weekly tasks for the grand prize of a modeling contract with a modeling agency.
Details: A reboot of the series Top Model that premiered May 20, 2003 on UPN, and was the first series to debut on The CW on Sept 20, 2006.
SSN Insight: The original series ended a 22-cycle run on CW in 2015. CBS Television Distribution then shopped the “reinvented” series to cable and SVOD outlets last fall after receiving incoming interest. Banks will not host, rather there will be a new host and judges. The show’s format has been produced in over 30 countries.
Brockmire
Network: IFC
Executive Producer(s): Azaria, Church-Cooper, Tim Kirkby, Joe Farrell.
Writer(s): Joel Church-Cooper
Logline: Centers on a famed Major League Baseball announcer (Azaria) who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity. A decade later, Jim Brockmire decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town, calling minor league ball for the Morristown Frackers.
Details: Based on a Funny or Die short.
SSN Insight: Set to premiere early next year, to be directed by Tim Kirkby. Series will star Hank Azaria.
Crossroads of History
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Mark Koops, Eric Day, Anthony Samandani, Bonnie Pan
Writer(s): Elizabeth Wright Shapiro
Logline: Created and written by Elizabeth Shapiro, the scripted short form series examines the fascinating and largely unknown moments in history that have shaped the world. “Crossroads of History” will lift the veil on famous events and expose little known but historically accurate facts of the story, such as: how President Lincoln’s alcoholic bodyguard, John Parker, chose the wrong night to leave his post at the Ford Theatre and how rejection from art school set a young artist, Adolf Hitler, on a very different career path.
SSN Insight: 8 short form episodes will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting on February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations beginning February 27.
Great Minds with Dan Harmon
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan Harmon, Richard Korson, Jay Peterson, Tim Healy, Paul Cabana
Logline: The series follows Dan Harmon who invests in a time machine and is subsequently visited by history’s greatest minds. Harmon discusses his visitors’ lives and brings them out into the modern world, embarking on an adventure that drops these famous historical figures right into today’s advanced society.
SSN Insight: Will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations.
How to Lose the Presidency
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Logline: This series showcases real clips of embarrassing moments and mistakes from Howard Dean’s scream heard round the world and Rick Perry’s time of forgetfulness to outrageous moments in the current presidential campaign.
SSN Insight: Will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations on February 27.
I Love Dick
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Topple Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jill Soloway, Andrea Sperling
Writer(s): Sarah Gubbins
Logline: Chris and Sylvere are about a struggling married couple who have a mutual obsession with an off-putting — but charismatic — professor named Dick. The story is set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas and told in a Rashomon-style shifting points of view.
Details: Based on the novel, “I Love Dick,” written by Chris Kraus and published by Semiotext(e) in 1997.
SSN Insight: Amazon ordered the pilot on February 18. Soloway is the creator behind the award-winning series, Transparent.
Lip Sync Battle Jr.
Network: Spike TV, Nickelodeon
Production Company(s): Matador Content, Casey Patterson Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Casey Patterson, Jay Peterson
Logline: Celebrate kids’ love of music and comedy featuring the battles viewers have come to know and love with new variety elements designed to let the little ones shine.
Details: Spin-off of “Lip Sync Battle” (Spike/2015)
SSN Insight: Lip Sync Battle is the most-watched original series in Spike’s history with an average of four million viewers and more than 500 million views online. This special will air later this year on both Spike and Nickelodeon. Various Viacom brands are also developing special editions of Lip Sync Battle events.
Satan’s Sisters
Network: VH1 Network
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): De Passe Jones Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Josh Berman, Amy Engelberg, Wendy Engelberg, Star Jones, Susan Levison
Writer(s): Amy Engelberg, Wendy Engelberg
Logline: The series goes behind the scenes of the daytime talk show, “The Lunch Club,” detailing all the sisterhood, sex, betrayal and drama. It delves into the underworld of each of the five co-hosts, exposing hidden addictions, forbidden lovers, shocking family secrets and false accusations.
SSN Insight: VH1 gave a series order. Star Jones was a co-host of the morning talk show The View.
Sharp Objects
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions, Entertainment One (eOne)
Executive Producer(s): Gillian Flynn, Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Charles Layton
Writer(s): Marti Noxon
Logline: Centers on reporter Camille Preaker, who after a short stay at a psych hospital must return to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls — and deal with her neurotic, hypochondriac mother and the half-sister she barely knows. She must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story and survive the homecoming. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
Details: Based on the novel, “Sharp Objects,” written by Gillian Flynn and published by Shaye Areheart Books on September 26, 2006.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development as a feature film. Series will star Amy Adams. eOne is shopping the project to cable and streaming networks currently.
Stan Against Evil
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): @radical.media
Executive Producer(s): Dana Gould, Tom Lassally, Frank Scherma, Justin Wilkes
Writer(s): Dana Gould, Susan Burke, Jessica Conrad
Logline: Stan has trouble relinquishing his authority to Evie, the tough and beautiful new sheriff in town, but they form an unlikely alliance when both begin to realize things are not quite right. Together, they valiantly fight a plague of unleashed demons that have been haunting the town, which just happens to be built on the site of a massive 17th century witch burning.
SSN Insight: IFC has given a straight to series order of eight episodes as of February 22.
Untitled Kelly Oxford/Molly McNearney Comedy
Network: TV Land
Writer(s): Kelly Oxford, Molly McNearney
Logline: The story revolves around female best friends and their families.
Details: Based on the real-life friendship of Kelly Oxford and Molly McNearney.
SSN Insight: Oxford wrote the best-selling author of Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar and is underway on a second book with HarperCollins. She is also writing the feature All the Way for Point Grey and Sony.