All the Single Ladies
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Rebecca Traister
Logline: Based on the book, which investigates the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in 21st-century America.
Details: Based on the book, “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” written by Rebecca Traister and published by Simon & Schuster on March 1, 2016.
SSN Insight: Paramount TV has optioned the rights to the book. Anonymous Content is under a first-look production deal with Paramount TV.
Brooklyn Animal Control
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Circle of Confusion, IDW Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): J.T. Petty, David S. Goyer, Rick Jacobs, David Alpert, David Ozer
Writer(s): J.T. Petty
Logline: The series follows the inner workings of a secret subdivision of the NYPD that functions as social services for some of the city’s most unique citizens — werewolves. Delving into the lives of both the Case Officers, and the secretive, highly insular Kveld-Ulf, a community of werewolves living deep in the borough, the show will examine city politics, immigrant communities, and families divided by ambition, secrecy, and tradition.
Details: Based on the comic book, “Brooklyn Animal Control,” written by J.T. Petty and published by IDW Publishing in 2013.
SSN Insight: USA decided not order the series, but it will be redeveloped.
Genius
Network: National Geographic Channel
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): Imagine Television, OddLot Entertainment, EUE/Sokolow
Executive Producer(s): Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane
Writer(s): Noah Pink
Logline: The series tells the stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators. The first season will focus on famous physicist Albert Einstein and explore how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk — a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job with a doctorate — unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe through his theory of relativity.
Details: Season 1 is based on the book, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon & Schuster on April 10, 2007.
SSN Insight: NatGeo gave a straight to series order on April 28.
I, Rebel
Production Company(s): IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky
Writer(s): Dana Farahani, Siavash Farahani
Logline: An astronaut — lost in space for eight years — crash lands on Earth to find the world colonized and enslaved by a humanoid alien race. His rise from slave to rebel leader will spark a revolution.
SSN Insight: Mark Ordesky was an executive produce on The Lord of the Rings franchise.
Jack Ryan
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios, Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Platinum Dunes, Carlton Cuse Productions, Skydance Productions
Executive Producer(s): Graham Roland, Carlton Cuse, Lindsey Springer, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller
Writer(s):
Logline: A new contemporary take on Jack Ryan in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative.
Details: Based on the Jack Ryan novel series, written by Tom Clancy and first published (“The Hunt For Red October”) by US Naval Institute Press on September 1, 1984.
SSN Insight: John Krasinski, best known for his role on The Office, will star as Jack Ryan.
LD50
Production Company(s): IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Scott Dacko
Writer(s): Scott Dacko
Logline: A virus has decimated the male population and created a tenuous balance between a small pocket of healthy men and women and the infected women who surround them.
SSN Insight: Dacko wrote and directed the 2007 film, The Insurgents.
Match Game
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): FremantleMedia North America
Executive Producer(s): Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Mullin
Logline: Civilian contestants try to guess how a panel of six celebrities will answer comedically tinged fill-in-the-blank questions.
Details: The project is a remake of the game show, “Match Game, ” which premiered on NBC in 1962.
SSN Insight: ABC has given a series order of ten episodes.
Muscle Shoals
Production Company(s): City Entertainment, infinitum nihil, IM Global, Virgin Produced
Executive Producer(s): Johnny Depp, Richard Branson, Christi Dembrowski, Jason Felts, Justin Berfield
Logline: The series will explore the rich and vast milieu of the tumultuous and often poetically tragic segregated South through its colorful characters, rich cultural and political history and southern gothic settings, which became a unique melting pot of diverse musical and cultural traditions.
Details: Inspired by the documentary, “Muscle Shoals,” (2013), directed by Greg Camalier.
SSN Insight: IM Global Television will partner with sister company IM Global Music to make the songs a focal point of the series.
Oklahoma City
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): Evolution Media
Executive Producer(s): Douglas Ross, Alex Baskin
Logline: Oklahoma City is known for its oil rigs, tornadoes and multitude of churches, but this group of hilarious friends is changing the way the winds come sweeping down the plains. These women are proudly challenging the conventions of conservative society and showing an alternative, outrageous side of the never-before-seen tony enclave of Oklahoma City.
SSN Insight: Bravo has given a series order.
Omerta
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, David Glasser
Writer(s): Justin Herber, Adam Hoff
Logline: To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel “Omerta,” written by Mario Puzo and published by Random House in 2000. This is the third novel in Mario Puzo’s Mafia trilogy, which includes “The Godfather” and “The Last Don.”
SSN Insight: Project stems from the multiple-year, first-look television deal with The Weinstein Company and Antoine Fuqua. Sylvester Stallone will play the lead role of mob boss Raymonde Aprile.
Planetoid
Production Company(s): IM Global
Logline: An ex-soldier-turned-space-mercenary finds himself stranded on a mysterious planet in alien territory. As he explores the long-abandoned industrial ruins of the planet’s surface, he fends off roving cyborg militias and a hostile alien military with a bounty on his head. Ultimately, he will build a coalition amongst the planetoid’s nomadic tribes and make a final stand against the larger tyrannical forces that rule over them.
Details: Based on the graphic novel, “Planetoid,” written by Ken Garing and published by Image Comics in 2013.
SSN Insight: IM Global Television is out to writers now for the series.
Relative Success with Tabatha Coffey
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): Lime Pictures, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Greg Lipstone, Kate Little, Derek McLean, Phil Harris, Paul Osborne
Logline: There are nearly 6 million family businesses in America, and for every one of them all business is personal. No one knows this better than Tabatha Coffey, with her years of experience helping businesses succeed through critical transitions. In each self-contained episode, a family will call upon Tabatha to help them sort out a dramatic, high stakes moment when their fortune and relationships are on the line. Tabatha will use her unique brand of no-nonsense tough love to help these families at a major crossroads and inspire, coax and sometimes shock them with her unapologetic nature into seeing their situation from a completely new perspective.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order.
Summer House
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): True Entertainment, Left Hook Media
Executive Producer(s): Matt Odgers, Scott Teti, Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin
Logline: For years this group of friends has spent their weekends from Memorial Day through Labor Day in one of the most exclusive beach areas on the East Coast. These professionals may keep it together during the week, but as soon as they hit the beach on the weekend, they let loose in a big, aspirational way that is exclusive to this high-end lifestyle.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. In September 2003, Endemol acquired a 51% stake in True Entertainment.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Network: Hulu
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bruce Miller, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Warren Littlefield
Writer(s): Bruce Miller
Logline: The drama tells the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the U.S. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted religious fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a handmaid in the commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. She is forced to navigate between commanders, their cruel wives, domestic marthas and her fellow handmaids where anyone could be a spy for Gilead all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
Details: Based on the 1990 movie, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was based on the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” written by Margaret Atwood and published in the United States by 1st Anchor Books.
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a series order of ten episodes.
The Lesser Dead
Production Company(s): City Entertainment, IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Joshua Maurer, Alixandre Witlin
Logline: Set among a colony of vampires in 1978 Manhattan when the City that Never Sleeps was still a gritty, dangerous place above ground, and much, much worse below.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Lesser Dead,” written by Christopher Buehlman and published by Berkley on October 7, 2014.
SSN Insight: Alixandre Witlin also executive produced the Rosemary Baby’s miniseries on NBC.
The Lodge
Network: Bravo Media
Executive Producer(s): Andrea Gorfolova, Jameel Bharmal, Jeffrey Hevert, Bruce Toms
Logline: Viewers will go for a wild downhill ride inside an ultra luxurious Whistler ski lodge. This new series follows the hard working lodge staff, whose demanding jobs require catering to the every whim of their vacationing rich clientele. From creating high octane heli-ski adventures or white water rafting to dining at the most exclusive restaurants and being whisked away to remote glacial hot springs, this seasoned staff knows how to make their clients’ dream vacations a reality. However, while living, working, and partying together in close quarters on the lodge property, these sexy staffers are sure to bump heads and break hearts as they navigate the resort hierarchy as well as their outrageous clients.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. Andrea Gorfolova is also an EP on Apres Ski for Bravo, Hollywood Cycle for E!, Human Resources for Pivot, Mission: 4Count for TeenNick and Power & Ice for History.
The Punisher
Network: Netflix
Studio: ABC Studios, Marvel Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steve Lightfoot
Writer(s): Steve Lightfoot
Logline: The alter ego of military veteran Frank Castle, who wages a one-man war against crime after his wife and children are killed during a shootout by rival mob outfits.
Details: Conceived as a spinoff of the Netflix series, “Daredevil .”
SSN Insight: Marvel’s “The Punisher” marks the sixth series ordered as part of the collaboration between Netflix and Marvel Television. Jon Bernthal will reprise his role.
Then and Now
Network: Bravo Media
Executive Producer(s): Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Andy Cohen
Logline: Andy Cohen turns back the pop-culture clock to 1989, 1994 and 2000 by reviewing nostalgic moments and exploring the legacy of events and developments from those three years.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. Andy Cohen is also an EP on the Real Housewives series and spin-offs as well as an EP on Top Chef.
These Broken Stars
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eric Balfour, Stephanie Varella, Warren Littlefield, Martin Berneman
Writer(s): Simon Davis Barry
Logline: A massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux — the daughter of the richest man in the universe — and Tarver Merendsen — a young war hero who comes from nothing — are the only survivors and must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.
Details: Based on the novel, “These Broken Stars,” written by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner and published by Disney- Hyperion in 2013.
SSN Insight: The project is reportedly being considered for development by Freeform in the U.S. and Sky in the U.K.
Truthing
Network: ITV 1
Production Company(s): Big Talk Productions
Executive Producer(s): Courteney Cox
Writer(s): Mark Chappell
Logline: The series is set in the Clear-Path Institute, a six-day healing retreat that promotes personal growth, transformational experience and inner well-being. It follows the valiant efforts of its charismatic American founder and leader as she struggles to enlighten a fresh intake of truth-seekers.
SSN Insight: ITV ordered the pilot on April 27.
Untitled Amber Rose Talk Show Project
Network: VH1 Network
Production Company(s): Stage 29 Productions, Behind Her Shades Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Amber Rose, Walter Mosley, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Carla Pennington
Logline: Amber Rose conducts interviews with celebrity friends about pop culture, motherhood, relationships, friendships, race and entrepreneurship.
SSN Insight: VH1 gave a series order on May 3. Amber Rose has been seen on Inside Amy Schumer, Selfie and Fashion Police.
Watership Down
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): Biscuit Filmworks, 42, Brown Bag Films
Executive Producer(s): Benjamin Pugh, Rory Aitken, Noam Murro, Josh Varney, Eleanor Moran
Writer(s): Tom Bidwell
Logline: The story follows a group of rabbits who are forced to leave their warren and find new dwellings. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Watership Down,” written by Richard Adams and published by Macmillan in 1972.
SSN Insight: The project will air as a 4-part miniseries. John Boyega, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton have all been cast in the series.
Yours, Mine or Ours
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): JV Productions Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Courtney Campbell, Kirk Hipkiss, Ryan Seacrest
Logline: Committed couples looking to cohabitate enlist the help of boisterous real estate agent Reza Farahan and interior designer and decorator Taylor Spellman to figure out which residence they should call home. Taylor will present stunning design renderings showcasing how to transform their existing spaces while Reza tempts them with brilliant new properties they can make all their own. The couples will have to weigh their options before making the ultimate decision of yours, mine or ours.
Details: Ordered to series. (4/27/2016)
SSN Insight: Bravo has given a series order. Seacrest is also an EP on the CBS pilots Squad Goals, The Doctor’s Brother and The Down Beat.
Zero K
Network: FX Network
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Scott Rudin
Logline: Billionaire Ross Lockhart’s younger wife, Artis Martineau, has a terminal illness. Lockhart is a significant investor in a secretive, remote compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until medical advances can restore individuals to improved lives. He hopes Artis can benefit from this pioneering science. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Zero K,” written by Don DeLillo and published by Scribner on May 3, 2016.
SSN Insight: FX has optioned the novel. DeLillo has written 15 novels including Cosmopolis which was adapted as a film starring Robert Pattinson and premiered at Cannes in 2012.