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Yellowstone
Network: HBO
Production Company: Linson Entertainment
Executive Producers: Art Linson, John Linson, Taylor Sheridan
Writer: Taylor Sheridan
Logline: One family’s violent struggle against encroachment in southwest Montana.
SSN Insight: Project falls under the two-year exclusive television deal the Linson’s have with HBO.
Z Nation
Network: Syfy
Production Company: The Asylum
Executive Producer: Karl Schaefer
Logline: Three years have passed since the zombie virus has gutted the country as a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague, from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Details: The network has ordered 13 episodes.
Untitled Tracy Morgan Project
Network: FXX
Production Companies: RCG, Tannenbaum Company
Executive Producers: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howeton, Luvh Rakhe, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Nicholas Frenkel
Cast: Tracy Morgan
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Details: Ordered straight to series; network has ordered 10 episodes.
SSN Insight: FX has also ordered a blind comedy pilot and script deals for Scott Marder and Glenn Howerton, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Artemis Pebdani and Charlie Day, and Sarah Solemani.
Breed
Network: TNT
Production Company: Invention Films
Executive Producers: Scott Winant, Nicky Weinstock
Writer: John Scott Shepherd
Logline: Focuses on two newcomers to Washington and a fallen FBI profiler.
SSN Insight: Shepherd and Winant reunite after working together on NBC’s
Save Me.
Women In Space
Network: HBO
Executive Producers: Jay Roach, Kristin Gore
Writers: Jay Roach, Kristin Gore
Logline: Follows a group of women exploring the final frontier on a mission to colonize another planet.
SSN Insight: Roach is also an executive producer of HBO’s
The Brink which has been ordered to series.
Humans
Digital Platform: XBox
Production Companies: Kudos Film & Television, Matador Films, Channel 4
Executive Producers: Jane Featherstone, Derek Wax, Lars Lundstrom, Henrik Wildman
Producer: Chris Fry
Writer: Sam Vincent, Jonathan Brackley
Logline: Set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a ‘Synth’ – a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences.
Details: Based on the Swedish series
Real Humans. Xbox has ordered 8 episodes.
SSN Insight: This is the first official green lit series for Xbox.
Halo, which was ordered almost a year ago is still in development.
Backpackers
Network: CW
Production Company: Smokebomb Entertainment
Cast: Dillon Casey, Noah Reid, Giacomo Gianniotti
Logline: Two friends backpack across Europe after one of them is dumped by his girlfriend.
Details: This is a re-purposed and expanded version of the digital series,
Backpackers, which airs on CW Seed. The network has ordered 10 episodes
SSN Insight: This is the first digital series to be brought over to the network.
Olympus
Network: Syfy
Production Companies: Reunion Pictures, Olympus TV (London) Limited, Great Point Media, The Halmi Company
Executive Producers: Robert Halmi Sr., Robert Halmi Jr., Jim Reeve, Matthew O’Connor, Lisa Richardson
Writer: Nick Willing
Director: Nick Willing
Logline: Follows the protagonist on his journey as he gradually transforms from a fresh-faced and raw young man through the dramatic experiences of betrayal, love, disappointment, empowerment and exile, until he emerges a ruthless leader of men, and a match for the Gods themselves.
Details: Network has ordered 13 episodes.
