Calendar Girl
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Logline: Mia Saunders becomes a high-priced adult escort in order to pay off the gambling debts of her father. Based on the novel series.
Details: Based on the 12-book “Calendar Girl” novel series, written by Audrey Carlan and first published by Waterhouse Press in 2015.
SSN Insight: The project is currently out to writers, no network has been set. Savage previously developed Gossip Girl with Schwartz, and also adapted the Astronaut Wives Club as an event series for ABC.
Curious George
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): Universal 1440 Entertainment, WGBH Boston, Imagine Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Joe Fallon
Writer(s): Joe Fallon
Logline: Based on the adventures of Curious George the monkey and his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Each episode has two short cartoons per half-hour episode and a live-action segment after each story.
Details: Based on the children’s book series of the same name, written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey.
SSN Insight: Hulu has acquired exclusive subscription streaming rights in a multi-year deal to Curious George, forged by the NBCU Television & New Media Distribution group. The past nine seasons that aired on PBS Kids along with TV specials will be stream on Hulu along with future seasons.
Heathers
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): Lakeshore Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Writer(s): Jason Micallef
Logline: Set in the present day, the series follows the trials and tribulations of dealing with the social order in high school. A new set of popular-yet-evil Heathers emerges- only this time the outcasts have become high school royalty. Heather McNamara is a black lesbian; Heather Duke is a male who identifies as gender-queer whose real name is Heath; and Heather Chandler has a body like Martha Dumptruck. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Heathers” (1989), directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
SSN Insight: TV Land has ordered a pilot script for Heathers by Jason Micallef who wrote the feature film, Butter.
High Rise
Network: HBO
Production Company(s): The Firm, The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Kwatinetz, Josh Barry
Writer(s): Cami Delavigne
Logline: Set in the world of high end New York architecture, a brilliant, but struggling architect gets seduced by a billionaire’s daughter as she takes him under her wing and launches his career into the world of celebrity architecture.
SSN Insight: DeLavigne has previously developed projects for SundanceTV and worked on AMC’s upcoming drama series The Son.
Hollywood Darlings
Network: POP
Production Company(s): Objective Productions, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Jimmy Fox, Layla Smith, Greg Lipstone
Logline: Three lifelong friends, who grew up together in the entertainment business and became household names – now take on even bigger roles as moms, wives and businesswomen.
SSN Insight: POP has given a series order of eight episodes. The unscripted docu-comedy series will star Full House star Jodie Sweetin, Step By Step‘s Christine Lakin and 7th Heaven‘s Beverley Mitchell
Mariah’s World
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions
Executive Producer(s): Mariah Carey, Stella Bulochnikov Stolper, Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Farnaz Farjam
Logline: The series follows Mariah Carey as she begins her “Sweet Sweet Fantasy” tour of the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa, all while planning her upcoming wedding to Australian business mogul, James Packer.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of eight hourlong episodes. Mariah’s World will air globally over E!’s 17 international channels going out to 153 countries in 24 languages.
My Life is a Telenovela
Network: WE tv
Production Company(s): Matador Content
Logline: Set in Miami, the show is focused on the real characters who bring life to this enormously popular television genre. The series will follow a group of beautiful and fierce Latina actresses and actors working in this hyper-competitive world. As the series begins, several of our characters are vying for the same role in a real life telenovela being produced by Telemundo, resulting in drama and fireworks on both sides of the camera.
SSN Insight: WE tv has given a series order of eight episodes. The series will feature telenovela stars Raquenel, Sissi Fleitas, Gustavo Pedraza, Enrique Sapene and Liliana Gonzalez.
New People
Network: Freeform
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Silver Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Donald Roos, Joel Silver, Rodney Ferrell
Logline: The story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother and their family’s journey. Based on the book, “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.”
Details: Inspired by a true story. Based on the book, “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family,” written by Amy Ellis Nutt and published by Random House on October 20, 2015.
SSN Insight: The project under Silver Pictures’ first-look deal with Lionsgate TV. The ABC Family (now Freeform) docuseries, Becoming Us previously had a transgender member in the show.
Quacks
Network: BBC 2
Production Company(s): Lucky Giant Productions
Executive Producer(s): James Wood, Justin Davies
Writer(s): James Wood
Logline: Set in the 1840s Victorian era, the series follow the adventures of three medical pioneers- a psychiatrist, an arrogant surgeon and a hapless anesthetist. It will explore the perils and pitfalls facing these young men at the cutting edge of medicine when it was just going places.
SSN Insight: BBC 2 has given a series order of six half-hour episodes. The series is being made in association with the independent global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health through science, research and engagement with society, The Wellcome Trust.
The Increment
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Hypnotic
Executive Producer(s): Dawn Parouse Olmstead, David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein
Writer(s): Gideon Raff
Logline: The series explores today’s post-treaty Iran, a place where nothing is what it seems. The story is told through the points of view of Harry Pappas, a CIA officer who sets out to identify the sender of an encrypted message coming from inside one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Karim Molavi, an Iranian scientist driven to betray his country in order to protect it from itself. Instrumental to the story is the UK black ops unit known as “the Increment,” a new world collection of agents – Arab, Pakistani and Iranian operatives- who can penetrate terror organizations and enemy states. A dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds between the Revolutionary Guard and the Western agencies.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Increment,” written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company on May 18, 2009.
SSN Insight: A network has not been set. Raff co-created and executive produced Showtime’s Homeland and FX’s Tyrant.
The Runner
Network: Verizon go90 (digital)
Production Company(s): Pilgrim Studios, Adaptive Studios Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Marc Joubert, Perrin Chiles, Craig Piligian
Logline: A cross between The Amazing Race and the classic playground game cops and robbers. One contestant will be selected as the titular runner, and it will be his or her job to cross the United States in 30 days without getting caught by the other participants. The runner will follow clues that will lead him or her to a series of checkpoints; those checkpoints will provide temporary safety, though between them, it will be open season for the hunters.
SSN Insight: Affleck and Damon first sold The Runner to ABC in 2000. The Runner was revived by Yahoo in 2006. Go90 is Verizon’s recently launched free, ad-supported video platform.
The Santa Clarita Diet
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Flower Films, Kapital Entertainment, KatCo
Executive Producer(s): Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Fresco, Aaron Kaplan, Tracy Katsky
Logline: Husband and wife realtors who lead vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita, until one goes through a dramatic change sending both their lives down a road of death and destruction, in a good way.
SSN Insight: KatCo’s first series order under the company’s deal with Kapital Entertainment. Netflix has ordered 13 episodes.
Untitled New York Cosmos Project
Production Company(s): Rohan Media, Primary Wave
Executive Producer(s): Werner Roth, Roy Houlette, Ben Press
Logline: Set in the 1970’s, the series will follow the brief existence of the North American Soccer League, which spanned 1968-1984, through the story of its most famous club, the New York Cosmos.
SSN Insight: The drama project is done with the cooperation of the New York Cosmos, with former captain Werner Roth serving as an executive producer. The project is currently out to writers, and the show has not been picked up by a network.