Signal
Network: Cinemax
Production Company: Electus
Executive Producers: Ben Younger, Ben Silverman, Sean Canino
Writer: Ben Younger
Logline: A young man launches a propaganda business in the Middle East and gets rich on the back of millions of dollars in US Government contracts.
Details: Inspired by true events.
SSN Insight: Silverman is also developing World’s End for Showtime and The Chairman for Spike, which was recently announced.
Answer Me 1999
Network: FOX
Production Company: FX Productions
Executive Producers: Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer, Jon M. Chu
Writers: Amy Adelson, Emily Mayer
Logline: In this series, the timeline will move back and forth between a group of friends’ past as high-school students in the late 1990s, and their present as adults. This musical journey will go through the most transformative decade of the modern era.
Details: Based on the Korean show Answer Me 1997.
SSN Insight: This is Adelson and Meyer’s first venture into TV.
East Of Exurbia
Digital Platform: Xbox Entertainment
Studio: Xbox Entertainment Studios
Production Companies: Five All in the Fifth Entertainment, Avalon Television, Inc.
Executive Producers: Douglas Banker, David Martin, Dan Lubetkin
Writers: Nick Kreiss, Ian Wolterstorff
Logline: Three guys try to build a bastion of bro-fueled debauchery in a house that happens to be situated on top of a magical portal to other worlds.
Details: Inspired by Worst Roommate Stories Ever, which originally appeared on BroBible.com.
Untitled Beatles Project
Network: NBC
Production Company: Electus
Executive Producers: Michael Hirst, Ben Silverman, Teri Weinberg
Writer: Michael Hirst
Logline: Will tell the story of the greatest band of all time: The Beatles.
Details: Project is planned as an eight-episode event series.
SSN Insight: Hirst, Silverman and Weinberg reunite after working together on Showtime’s The Tudors.
Point Of Honor
Digital Platform: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company: ABC Signature
Executive Producers: Randall Wallace, Carlton Cuse
Writers: Randall Wallace, Carlton Cuse
Director: Randall Wallace
Logline: A historical drama about a Virginia family that is divided by the Civil War.
Details: Project was initially being developed at ABC in 2011.
SSN Insight: Amazon is also developing two comedies; one with Lindsay Stoddart and one with Robin Schiff.
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