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Untitled Robbie Rogers Comedy Project
Network: TBD
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Storyline Entertainment
Executive Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Producers: Mark Nicholson, Robbie Rogers
Logline: Inspired by the experiences of Robbie Rogers, the first openly gay man to compete in a top North American professional sports league.
SSN Insight: Zadan and Meron are also in development on
Peter Pan, a live musical for NBC, and have just completed
Happyland for MTV, which will air in September.
Badlands
Network: AMC
Production Company: Double Feature Films
Executive Producers: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Daniel Wu, Stephen Fung
Writers: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Logline: The story of a great warrior and a young boy who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment.
Details: Ordered straight to series. Network has ordered 6 episodes.
SSN Insight: Gough and Millar have also received a series commitment on
Shannara for MTV.
The Legacy
Network: TBD
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Hypnotic
Executive Producers: Doug Liman, David Bartis, Gene Klein
Creator: Maya IIsoe
Logline: Follows the four children of an internationally renowned artist who dies, leaving them to divide her estate. What was meant to be a quick and painless process exposes startling secrets and lies, turning their lives upside-down and forcing them to take a deeper look within and at one another.
Details: Based on the Danish family drama,
The Legacy, which debuted on Denmark's DR1 in January, 2014. Project is planned as an event series.
Commando Crash
Network: Disney XD
Executive Producers: Eric Friedman, Jim Armogida, Steve Armogida
Writer: Eric Friedman
Director: Victor A. Gonzalez
Cast: Tim Lagasse, Adam Dorfman, Cameron Ocasio, Armaan Juneja, Nicholas Stargel, Megan Goodman
Logline: Picks up with Crash after he has been sent away to Oak Shield Military Academy, a military school with a stark division between the Alphas, who aspire to learn the good ways of an Oak Shield soldier, and the Clunks, a group of out-casted cadets who are there to mend their propensity for trouble-making. Crash rallies the discouraged Clunks to push their limits and stand up against the long-standing favoritism shown toward the Alphas.
Details: Pilot is currently in production.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Network: Lifetime
Studios: Fox 21, Lionsgate
Production Companies: Imagine Television, Allison Shearmur Productions
Executive Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, Allison Shearmur, Linda Woolverton, Jean M. Auel
Writer: Linda Woolverton
Logline: Story takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25,000 years ago when Neanderthals shared the Earth with the first early modern humans. A band of cave dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the "Others." As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage, she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader.
Details: Based on the novel series, including the novel
Clan of the Cave Bear, written by Jean M. Auel.
SSN Insight: All six books written by Jean M. Auel have been on the New York Times bestsellers list.
The Last Kingdom
Network: BBC America
Production Company: Carnival Films
Executive Producers: Stephen Butchard, Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant
Co-Executive Producer: Nick Murphy
Producer: Chrissy Skinns
Writer: Stephen Butchard
Logline: Set in the year 872, when many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings, the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred the Great. Against this turbulent backdrop lives our hero, Uhtred. Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested. What is he - Saxon or Viking? On a quest to claim his birthright, Uhtred must tread a dangerous path between both sides if he is to play his part in the birth of a new nation and, ultimately, seek to recapture his ancestral lands.
Details: Based on the novel series,
The Saxon Stories, including the novel
The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell.
SSN Insight: BBC American has ordered this project to series and will produce eight episodes.
The Fermata
Network: TBD
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company: Compari Entertainment
Executive Producers: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke
Writer: David Hollander
Logline: Arno Strine is a 35-year-old office temp who can stop the flow of time. He uses his power to act out his small-scale sexual fantasies on the women around him.
Details: Based on the novel,
The Fermata, written by Nicholson Baker
SSN Insight: This project is part of a two-year, first-look deal that Zemeckis has just signed with Paramount Television.
The Crusaders
Network: Spike
Production Companies: Irish Dreamtime, Sennet Entertainment
Executive Producers: David Franzoni, Michael Finch, Pierce Brosnan, Beau St. Clair, Mark Sennet, Craig Sheftel, Brian Gary
Writer: David Franzoni, Michael Finch
Logline: Takes place during the Third Crusade, after the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin's armies. It centers on two different knights who journey from Scotland to the Holy Land for very different reasons. There, bound together in the crucible that is war, politics and betrayal, they will encounter and be forced to overcome, among others, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, the Hashshashin and ultimately their own personal demons.
Details: Planned as an event series.
SSN Insight: Spike is also developing
The Chairman with Julian McMahon and
Basket Case with Rob Reiner.
