Adam Carolla And Friends Build Stuff
Network: Spike TV
Production Company(s): Embassy Row, LLC
Executive Producer(s): Adam Carolla, Michael Davies
Logline: Adam Carolla takes on building projects with celebrity friends in need of his master carpentry expertise. Each week, Carolla will work side-by-side with a different celebrity on their project, infusing comedic commentary and engaging with fans on social media who have their own carpentry questions. The series will include taped segments illustrating the prep-work that went into that week’s building project.
SSN Insight: Spike has given a series order of ten episodes. Episodes will be live and the series is slated to premiere in 2017.
Backup Plan
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Triage Entertainment Productions, LEG
Executive Producer(s): Stu Schreiberg, Judi Brown-Marmel, Reg Tigerman
Logline: Leonard Ouzts has seen what happens when people hit their 15th minute of fame and realize he should be thinking about a more realistic career. Each episode will follow Leonard’s search for a backup job, just in case the one he has doesn’t work out.
SSN Insight: Leonard Ouzts was named a New Face at the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival in 2015. MTV has given a pilot order.
Famous in Love
Network: Freeform
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Farah Films & Management, Long Lake Productions
Executive Producer(s): Marlene King, Dan Farah, Miguel Arteta
Writer(s): Rebecca Serle, Marlene King
Logline: A college student plucked from obscurity to star in a major Hollywood movie franchise struggles with her new-found fame. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Famous in Love,” written by Rebecca Serle and published by Poppy on October 21, 2014.
SSN Insight: Freeform has given a series order. Thorne previously starred in the Disney Channel series Shake It Up.
Faster Than Light
Production Company(s): Skydance Productions, Anomaly Productions
Logline: Set in the very near future, this is the story of humanity’s first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “Faster Than Light,” created by Brian Haberlin and first published by Shadowline (Image) Comics in September, 2015.
SSN Insight: The comic book is accompanied by an augmented reality app developed by Haberlin’s Anomaly Productions, which allows readers to turn comic book pages into 3D animations. A network has not been set.
Flint (TV Movie)
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Storyline Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Logline: The film examines the events that led to the drinking water contamination in Flint, Michigan. It focuses not only on the politics and poor management that led to the poisoning of the water, but also the human element of the residents who not only suffered, but whose voices were ignored. Based on the magazine article.
Details: Based on the Time Magazine article, “The Toxic Tap,” written by Josh Sanburn and published on February 1, 2016. The article is based on real events.
SSN Insight: Three-time Oscar producers Zadan & Meron previously teamed up on the Steel Magnolias remake for Lifetime and on Hairspray and The Wiz Live! for NBC. They are also set to produce a live A Few Good Men.
Greek: The Reunion (TV Movie)
Network: Freeform
Production Company(s): Piller/Segan
Executive Producer(s): Shawn Piller, Lloyd Segan, Patrick Sean Smith
Logline: The characters from “Greek” return to Cypress Rhodes University for their five-year reunion.
Details: Based on the series “Greek,” which aired on Freeform from 2006-2011.
SSN Insight: The returning cast has not been set. It’s predicted to air during the holidays.
Issues
Network: Freeform
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): The District
Executive Producer(s): Joanna Coles, Sarah Watson, Ruben Fleischer, David Bernad
Writer(s): Sarah Watson
Logline: The show offers a glimpse into the lives — and love lives — of the staff responsible for the number one women’s magazine in the world. Just like the readers they cater to, the staff’s struggles are about balancing career, sex lives and family and finding your identity, while getting your heart broken and managing friendships — all while wearing the perfect pair of jeans to flatter any body type.
Details: Inspired by the life of Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles.
SSN Insight: A previous untitled take on the life of Cosmo editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, written by Leslye Headland, was in development at NBC as comedy for the 2015-2016, but was not ordered to pilot. A pilot at Freeform has been ordered.
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories
Production Company(s): Playground Entertainment
Logline: Based on the life and work of the celebrated British attorney Jeremy Hutchinson. His controversial cases include sex and spying scandals and to the fight against literary censorship.
Details: Based on the non-fiction book, ‘Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories’ written by Thomas Grant and published by John Murray.
SSN Insight: Playground Entertainment has secured the right to adapt the book into a TV series. One case contributed to the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. Hutchinson also defended Howard Marks who was acquitted of charges relating to the biggest importation of cannabis in British history.
Law & Order: True Crime
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Wolf Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dick Wolf
Logline: The series chronicles famous real-life criminal cases . The first season will center on Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 1996.
SSN Insight: Planned as an anthology series with an 8-episode first season and in development at the network. Law & Order: You the Jury, a one-hour live courtroom docu-drama series was picked up by NBC.
MadTV
Network: CW Television Network
Production Company(s): Telepictures Productions
Executive Producer(s): David Salzman, Mark Teitelbaum, John R. Montgomery
Logline: This primetime revival features the original shows signature pop-culture parodies and politically incorrect humor. It also will acknowledge its past, featuring special appearances from returning cast members of the original series as hosts of each episode.
Details: The project is a revival of the late-night sketch comedy, “Mad TV,” which aired on Fox from 1995-2009.
SSN Insight: CW has given a series order of eight episodes. No word yet on if former cast members might return. The returning series alumni for the 20th anniversary special on the CW included Keegan-Michael Key, Michael McDonald, Nicole Parker, Will Sasso and Debra Wilson.
Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger
Network: Freeform
Studio: Marvel Entertainment, ABC Entertainment Group
Logline: The live-action interracial romance follows the duo, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers while falling in love — Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart, but their feelings for each other make their already complicated world even more challenging.
Details: Based on the titular comic book duo, also known as Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, who have appeared in Marvel Comics, including “Spiderman” and “X-Men.”
SSN Insight: Ordered straight to series. The series was previously in development for five years while the network was under the name ABC Family.
The Armageddon Letters
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Phoenix Pictures, Albert Ruddy Productions
Executive Producer(s): Albert S Ruddy, Alexandra Ruddy, Mike Medavoy, Benjamin Anderson, Todd Martens
Logline: The series chronicle the buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world teetered on the edge of nuclear destruction. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis,” written by James blight and Janet M. Lang and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers on September 14, 2012.
SSN Insight: Planned as a 4-hour limited series. Albert S. Ruddy won two Oscars for his work on The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby. Mike Medavoy was nominated for Oscars on Black Swan and Shutter Island.
The Black Calhouns
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Martin Chase Productions
Executive Producer(s): Zvi Howard Rosenman, Debra Martin Chase
Writer(s):
Logline: The experiences of an extraordinary African American clan from the beginning of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement.
Details: Based on the book, “The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family,” written Gail Lumet Buckley and published by Atlantic Monthly Press on February 2, 2016.
SSN Insight: The miniseries is in development at Buckley will serve as a consultant.
The Boys
Network: Cinemax
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Original Film, Kickstart Productions, Point Grey Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty
Writer(s): Eric Kripke
Logline: The story is set in a time where most of the superheroes are corrupted by their celebrity status and often engage in reckless behavior, compromising the safety of the world. It centers on a CIA squad, known informally as “the boys,” whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, eliminate some of them.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “The Boys,” written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson and first published by Wildstorm and later by Dynamite Entertainment from 2006-2012.
SSN Insight: The project has also been in development as a feature at both Paramount Pictures and before that, Columbia Pictures.
The Widow
Production Company(s): Playground Entertainment
Logline: About Jean, the wife of a man who is accused (and eventually cleared) of kidnapping and murdering a child. Throughout the ordeal, she stands by her man, seemingly refusing to believe anything the police or press accused him of. But when he suddenly dies, both the law and the media want answers.
Details: Based on ‘The Widow’ novel by Fiona Barton and published by Penguin Random House Books.
SSN Insight: Playground Entertainment has secured the right to adapt the book into a TV series. The novel is currently in the Top 20 on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over 35,000 copies in the UK. It is the debut novel of former journalist Barton.
Untitled Unscripted Anthology Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Production Company(s): Critical Content
Executive Producer(s): Tom Forman
Logline: The series chronicles famous real-life criminal cases. The first season will center on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. The season will re-unite the original investigators in the Ramsey case as well as new experts who all re-examine the unsolved case from 20 years ago.
SSN Insight: Planned as an anthology series. Each season the subject will change. CBS is in final negotiations with Tom Forman and Critical Content to produce the limited-run series.
Untitled Young & Hungry Spinoff
Network: Freeform
Executive Producer(s): Ashley Tisdale
Logline: A spinoff of the Freeform comedy series “Young & Hungry” that will follow they character of Logan Rawlings.
Details: Spinoff of the Freeform series “Young & Hungry.”
SSN Insight: Young & Hungry‘s Aimee Carrero and Ashley Tisdale will star in the series currently in development.
Why Would You Do That? (Special)
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): LEG
Executive Producer(s): Judi Brown-Marmel, Stu Schreiberg
Logline: Sebastian Maniscalco delivers his brand of physical and quick-witted observational comedy.
SSN Insight: The comedy special will film in front of a live audience on May 7 at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre and will air on Showtime this summer, as well as online and on demand.