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Game of Silence
Network: NBC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Companies: Carol Mendelsohn Productions, TIMS Productions, Intrigue
Executive Producers: David Hudgins, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz, Timur Savci, Tariq Jalil
Writer: David Hudgins
Logline: A rising attorney on the brink of spectacular success could lose his perfect life when his long- lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their violent past.
Details: Based on the Turkish series,
Suskunlar, which aired in 2012.
SSN Insight: Hudgins and Mendelsohn both have overall deals with Sony TV.
The Things They Left Behind
Network: CBS
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Companies: KatzSmith Productions, Berlanti Productions
Executive Producers: Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith
Logline: Set in the aftermath of 9/11, the story centers on an unlikely pair of investigators carrying out the unfinished business of the dead.
Details: Based on the short story,
The Things They Left Behind, written by Stephen King, which was originally published as part of the compilation
Transgressions: Volume Two.
SSN Insight: Berlanti is also developing
Blindspot with Martin Gero at NBC , as well as the
Untitled Supergirl Project with Ali Adler and Warner Bros. Television.
Untitled Chris Moynihan Pub Quiz Comedy
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer: Chris Moynihan
Writer: Jonathan Prince
Logline: A group of millennials team up once a week to compete in their local pub quiz.
SSN Insight: This is the second project for Moynihan at NBC. He is also involved with the live scripted series being developed by Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills Productions.
Untitled Steven Cragg & Brian Bradley Suburban Family Comedy
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: David Janollari Entertainment
Executive Producers: Steven Cragg, Brian Bradley, David Janollari
Writers: Steven Cragg, Brian Bradley
Logline: Centers on a pop science blogger and his wife who move from Manhattan and single life to New Jersey and married/family life. There, he begins writing about his suburban friends and neighbors on the cul-de-sac in the style of an anthropologist who’s stumbled on an undiscovered tribe.
Details: Inspired by Cragg and Bradley’s personal observations of their own family lives.
SSN Insight: Janollari is also developing
The Catch, for NBC, with DJ Nash.
Last Hour
Network: CBS
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: John Glenn Entertainment
Executive Producer: Nikki Toscano, John Glenn
Writer: Nikki Toscano
Logline: In an undercover operation, the most dangerous, critical time comes in the last sixty minutes. But for Frankie Wallace, a tough female FBI agent with a complicated past, these are exactly the stakes she lives for. The series follows Frankie’s journey through the final hour of a sting operation, which plays in real-time.
SSN Insight: Glenn and Toscano both have overall deals with Universal Television.
100 Grand
Network: FOX
Studio: 20
th Century Fox Television
Production Companies: 3 Arts Entertainment, The Walcott Company
Executive Producers: Nicholas Thomas, Jake Johnson, Max Winkler, Dave Becky, Oly Obst, Jonathan Berry
Writer: Nicholas Thomas
Logline: Two guys learn how to grow up in the most unexpected way – paying off a debt for a local crime boss.
Details: Script + Penalty
Protect & Survive
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company: Shondaland
Executive Producers: David Slack, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Writer: David Slack
Logline: Centers on the last LAPD precinct fighting to hang on in Los Angeles after a massive disaster changes life as we know it.
SSN Insight: This is the first sale for Shondaland this development season. Their new project
How To Get Away With Murder will premiere this month.
Torment
Network: FOX
Studio: 20
th Century Fox Television
Executive Producers: Manny Coto, Evan Katz, Michael Cuesta
Writer: Manny Coto, Evan Katz
Director: Michael Cuesta
Logline: After an Iraq war vet experiences a supernatural attack that leaves his wife in an unexplained coma, he embarks on a desperate quest to unravel the truth behind the hauntings. Though a determined and acerbic loner, circumstances force him to work with a media-hungry, but not very successful team of ghost hunters.
Details: Script + Penalty
Public Integrity
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Kennedy/Marshall Company
Executive Producers: Aaron Tracy, Rene Balcer, Robert Zotnowski, Frank Marshall
Writer: Aaron Tracy
Logline: Centers on the the nation’s watchdogs — the passionate prosecutors of the Public Integrity Section who target criminals within the government.
SSN Insight: Project stems from an overall deal Kennedy/Marshall has with CBS Television Studios.
Shooter
Network: TNT
Studio: Paramount Television
Executive Producers: John Hlavin, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson
Writer: John Hlavin
Logline: Based on the film about a marksman and former U.S. Marine scout sniper coaxed back into action, only to be framed for murder and have to go on the run.
Details: Based on the film,
Shooter, (USA, 2007) directed by Antoine Fuqua, which was based on the novel
Point of Impact, written by Stephen Hunter.
SSN Insight: Paramount Television is also adapting ,from their feature library,
Minority Report, School Of Rock and
Shutter Island.
The Walk-Up
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: True Jack Productions
Executive Producers: Julia Brownell, Jason Katims, Michelle Lee
Writer: Julia Brownell
Logline: Two 30-something couples — one with a baby on the way — decide to buy and live in a Brooklyn brownstone together, creating their own version of the modern urban family.
Details: Inspired by the Atlantic.com article,
Two Couples, One Mortgage, written by Ari Weisbard.
SSN Insight: True Jack Productions is also developing a medical drama with Sarah Watson for CBS and a dating comedy with Stu Zicherman for Showtime.
Digital Fortress
Network: ABC
Studio: 20
th Century Fox Television
Production Company: Imagine Television
Executive Producers: Joshua Goldin, Rachel Abramowitz, Dan Brown, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Writers: Joshua Goldin, Rachel Abramowitz
Logline: Set in the world of the NSA during a global threat, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between an Edward Snowden-esque character who is threatening to release all of the government’s secrets to the highest bidder - and a female cryptographer and her elite team who are tasked to stop him.
Details: Based on the novel,
Digital Fortress, written by Dan Brown.
Untitled Brian Grazer / Molyneux Sisters Family Comedy Project
Network: ABC
Studio: 20
th Century Fox Television
Production Company: Imagine Television
Executive Producers: Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Writers: Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux
Logline: Follows an extraordinarily gifted family who find themselves unprepared for their new lives in Orange County, California, a place where beauty is valued more than brains.
Details: Inspired by the book,
The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family’s Method To College Ready By Age Twelve, written by Kip Harding and Mona Lisa Harding.
SSN Insight: Project stems from an overall deal the Molyneux sisters have at 20
th Century Television.
Untitled Kevin Nealon / Susan Yeagley Divorce Comedy Project
Network: NBC
Co-Executive Producers: Kevin Nealon, Susan Yeagley
Writers: Kevin Nealon, Susan Yeagley
Logline: A recently divorced couple find themselves still tied to their close-knit family (and each other) through their jointly owned business – a bar off the Las Vegas Strip.
Untitled Angela Kinsey / Will Gluck Female Buddy Comedy
Network: ABC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Olive Bridge Entertainment
Executive Producers: Angela Kinsey, Will Gluck, Rachel Specter, Audrey Wauchope, Darlene Hunt
Writers: Angela Kinsey, Rachel Specter, Audrey Wauchope
Cast: Angela Kinsey
Logline: A woman and her ex-husband’s new girlfriend end up becoming BFFs — much to the annoyance of the guy stuck in the middle.
Details: Script + Penalty
The Meatball Project
Network: CBS
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Companies: Doozer Productions, All3Media America
Executive Producers: Jeff Astrof, Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold, Eli Holzman, Stephen Lambert
Consulting Producers: Daniel Holzman, Michael Chernow
Writer: Jeff Astrof
Logline: Centers on two lifelong best friends who are poised to become successful restaurateurs — if they can keep from killing each other. In order to keep their business — and friendship — alive, the two decide to see a couples’ therapist who will guide them through life, love and the fast-paced world of being big-city restaurant owners.
Details: Inspired by the business partnership of chefs Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow who own New York City’s Meatball Shop restaurants.
SSN Insight: Project has been ordered straight to pilot.
Untitled Jimmy Kimmel / Carson Daly Project
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producers: Jimmy Kimmel, Carson Daly, Dan Fogelman
Writer: Jimmy Kimmel
Logline: A once-massively popular VJ loses it all and is forced to move in with his parents and take a job as host of a local radio "morning zoo."
Details: Loosely based on the real-life experiences of Carson Daly.
SSN Insight: This is Kimmel’s first sale of a pilot written by himself.
Untitled Jason Blum Horror Anthology Project
Network: NBC
Production Companies: Blumhouse Productions, Endemol Studios
Executive Producers: Jason Blum, Tony Kranz
Writers: Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin, Chad Villella, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez
Logline: Horror anthology inspired by true events in the vein of
The Twilight Zone.
Details: Upon script approval, the project will receive a 10-episode straight-to-series order.
Letters To My Daughter's Future Therapist
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Junction Entertainment
Executive Producers: Jon Turtletaub, Jordan Roter
Writer: Jordan Roter
Logline: Centers on a mother’s letters to her daughter’s future therapist, explaining her actions for when her daughter inevitably blames her for everything.
Details: Script commitment
Deep Web
Network: Spike TV
Production Companies: Flying Studio, Flame Ventures, LLC
Executive Producers: Tony Krantz, Gary Oldman, Douglas Urbanski, Scott Gold
Co-Executive Producer: Drew Comins
Writer: Scott Gold
Logline: Chronicles the saga of an ambitious computer aficionado in Silicon Valley who, with the help of his friends, evolves into an internet underworld crime boss fueled by a web portal where one can buy anything from a kidney to cocaine to a rocket-launcher. As his empire grows beyond borders and government regulation, he becomes the one of the most wanted men on Earth.
Details: Inspired by the TIME Magazine article,
The Deep Web, written by Jay Newton-Small.
SSN Insight: This is the first television series being developed by feature producers Oldman and Urbanski.
Love
Digital Platform: Netflix
Production Companies: Apatow Productions, Legendary Television
Executive Producers: Judd Apatow, Paul Rust, Lesley Arfin, Brent Forrester
Writers: Judd Apatow, Paul Rust, Lesley Arfin
Cast: Paul Rust, Gillian Jacobs
Logline: A relationship comedy that follows a couple, Gus and Mickey as they navigate the exhilaration and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid.
Details: Netflix has given a two-season straight to series commitment with 10 episodes ordered for the first season and 12 episodes ordered for the second.
SSN Insight: This is the second time that Netflix has given a huge commitment like this, with the first given out to
House Of Cards.
