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School Of Rock
Network: Nickelodeon
Studio: Paramount Television
Executive Producers: Richard Linklater, Scott Rudin, Jim Armogida, Steve Armogida
Writers: Jim Armogida, Steve Armogida
Logline: Centers on Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck rocker who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school as he teaches his eccentric, unconventional and overachieving students to play and love rock ‘n’ roll.
Details: Based on the film
School of Rock (USA/2003), directed by Richard Linklater. Ordered straight to series with a 13 episode order.
SSN Insight: This is the first series order for the new Paramount Television arm.
Debt
Network: ABC Family
Studio: ABC Signature
Production Company: Calamity Jane
Executive Producer: Ellen Pompeo
Logline: A satire of the 2008 financial meltdown in New York. It follows Lillian, a woman in her 20s, who works as an SAT tutor to try to pay off her college loans and explores how everyone she knows — even her tutee's billionaire father — is in somebody's debt.
Details: Based on the novel,
Debt, written by Rachel Carey.
SSN Insight: A writer is not yet attached to this project.
Untitled Richard Price Crime Drama
Network: FOX
Studio: 20
th Century Fox
Writer: Richard Price
Logline: Centers on a twenty-something Wall Street portfolio manager who unwittingly becomes a pawn in the DA’s attempts to take down a criminal organization.
Details: Script commitment plus penalty.
Big Kids
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producers: Ed Helms, Claudia Lonow
Co-Executive Producer: Joe Wengert
Writer: Joe Wengert
Logline: Centers on Andy, a young professional with a messiah complex who is constantly trying to control and "fix" his little sister and their young, blue-collar parents.
Details: Loosely based on the life of creator Joe Wengert.
Quality Time
Network: TBS
Production Company: Broken Lizard
, Entertainment One
Executive Producers: Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Steven Amato
Writers: Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske
Logline: Follows the now-adult (well, at least older) versions of the Broken Lizard group as they struggle through various challenges of adult misery and child rearing and attempt to hang on to the idiotic freedom of their irresponsible pre-parental lives.
Ghost Brigades
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company: Petersen’s Radiant Productions, Bluegrass Films
Executive Producers: Wolfgang Petersen, Scott Stuber
Writers: Jake Thornton, Ben Lustig
Logline: Follows John Perry, who at 75 enlists in the Colonial Defense Force to fight a centuries-long war for man's expansion into the cosmos. Technology allows experiences and consciousness to be transplanted into younger bodies that are outfitted to endure the harsher rigors of war in space. However, soon after John arrives, he finds himself involved with a mysterious woman, and at the same time, at the center of an unraveling conspiracy involving an elite fighting force known as the Ghost Brigades.
Details: Based on the
Old Man's War universe book series by
John Scalzi.
