3001: The Final Odyssey Network: SyFy Studio: Warner Horizon Television Production Company: Scott Free Productions Executive Producers: Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker Writers: Stuart Beattie Logline: Beginning with the discovery of Frank Poole’s frozen body, floating in space, 3001: The Final Odyssey offers an extraordinary range of complex characters with conflicting agendas, stunning visuals, and dark thematic meditations on the final fate of all Humankind. Details: Adapted from Arthur C. Clarke's novel 3001: The Final Odyssey published in 1997. The book is the fourth of the Space Odyssey series and concludes the story started in 2001: A Space Odyssey. SSN Insight: 3001 is Syfy's second Clarke adaptation as they are also in preproduction on the miniseries Childhood's End. Bros. Production Company: Hemingway Taylor Productions Executive Producers: Anthony Hemingway, Mark Taylor Writer: Ben Cory Jones Logline: Three African-American brothers, two straight and one gay, deal with love and dating. Details: Loosely based on the life of Ben Cory Jones.
Fox/ Untitled Robert Munic Chris Morgan Drama Project Network: Fox Broadcasting Company Studio: 20th Century Fox Television Production Company: Chris Morgan Productions Executive Producers: Robert Munic, Chris Morgan Writer: Robert Munic Logline: Two estranged brothers, one a former Marine turned Shaolin master, and a showboating, all-swagger Chicago cop, come together in their hometown to form an unlikely law enforcement partnership. SSN Insight: Munic created A&E's The Cleaner and currently serves as co-executive producer on TNT's Murder in the First. Morgan created the recently on the bubble, now cancelled show Gang Related. Chris Morgan Productions has an overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television.
CBS/ Untitled Geoff Stults/ Dave Whatley Project Network: CBS Entertainment Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television Production Company: Olive Bridge Entertainment Executive Producers: Geoff Stults, Dave Whatley, Joe Port, Joseph Wiseman, Will Gluck Writers: Geoff Stults, Dave Whatley Logline: Centers on Martin "Marty" Booker, a firefighter, average Joe, ladies' man and three-time firehouse beer pong Olympics champion who had no real ambition in life. After a news crew films him saving two kids from a burning building and the clip goes viral, Marty is thrust into the limelight and becomes a national hero and winds up being elected mayor. SSN Insight: The show has an initial script commitment from CBS. Recently, Stults was a series regular on the Fox comedy Enlisted and had a recurring guest spot on Fox’s Ben and Kate.
Fox/ Untitled Colleen McGuinness/ Matt Damon/ Ben Affleck Comedy Project Network: Fox Broadcasting Company Studio: Universal Television Production Company: Pearl Street Films Executive Producers: Colleen McGuinness, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Todd Writer: Colleen McGuinness Logline: A 25-year-old woman who works at a frozen yogurt shop and whose life is going nowhere discovers she is telekinetic. SSN Insight: McGuiness served as supervising producer on NBC’s About a Boy. Her writer credits include season six and seven on 30 Rock. She also recently sold another untitled comedy to NBC, executive produced by 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.
Limitless Network: CBS Entertainment Studio: CBS Television Studios Production Companies: K/O Paper Products, Relativity Television, Unnamed Todd Executive Producers: Phillips and Bradley Cooper Production Company Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Craig Sweeny, Neil Burger, Alex Kurtzman Writer: Craig Sweeny Director: Neil Burger Logline: Based on the film about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life. Details: Based on the 2011 movie, Limitless, directed by Neil Burger and based on the novel Dark Fields written by Alan Glynn and published by Penguin-Putman. SSN Insight: Project was previously in development last season with Georgetown TV, who are no longer attached to this project.
Pitbull: The Lyfe Production Companies: The Weinstein Company , Real Change Productions, LLC, Honey I'm Home Executive Producers: Pitbull, Michael Calderon, Liam Murphy, Robert Engler Writers: No Writer Available. Logline: This is a look at Pitbull's world tour, recording sessions, and his life behind the scenes. SSN Insight: Pitbull’s slated to host the American Music Awards on November 23 and will launch a New Year’s Eve Special on Fox. He's also developing his eighth studio album, Globalization, for RCA, to be distributed on November 24.
The Real Change Project Production Companies: The Weinstein Company , Real Change Productions, LLC, Honey I'm Home Executive Producers: Pitbull, Michael Calderon, Liam Murphy, Robert Engler Writers: No Writer Available. Logline: Pitbull teams with public figures and others as they look back at obstacles they overcame in their formative years and the mentors who helped them succeed. The series will include live performances and the aim is to raise money for school teachers and educators around the globe. Details: Patrick Reardon,senior VP television production, will oversee for Weinstein Co. SSN Insight: Guests signed up include First Lady Michelle Obama, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Kobe Bryant.
Risk Network: ABC Entertainment Group Studio: 20th Century Fox Television Production Company: Sander/Moses Productions Executive Producers: Jack Kenny, Ian Sander, Kim Moses Writer: Jack Kenny Logline: A family-run private investigation firm with looming financial problems is forced to team up with Nikki Castaneda, a former national security agent who now owns a successful corporate investigation firm. The newly merged company's lead investigators resist their physical attraction to each other while working through their very different approaches to their business and personal lives. Details: Based on the French drama, "Risk." SSN Insight: Sander/Moses also has a cast-contingent pilot order for Fox's Runner, based on the Turkish format and are developing Kingdoms for Amazon. Their credits include CBS' long-running Ghost Whisperer.
The Magellan Network: CW Television Network Studio: Warner Bros. Television Production Companies: Management 360, GloboMedia, Ombra Films Executive Producers: Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Ecija, Laura Fernandez, Jaume Collet-Serra, Juan Sola Writer: Jennifer Johnson Logline: A mysterious global cataclysm strands a group of students, teachers and crew on a Semester at Sea sailboat. With the entire planet seemingly covered in water, they begin to wonder if they are the only survivors left. As they explore their strangely beautiful new world, this group of strangers must join forces to survive, all while facing the equally daunting challenges of friendship, family and even love. Details: Based on the Spanish series, El Barco, which aired on Antena 3 from 2011 through 2013, averaging 2.6 million total viewers. The format has been sold to 23 different countries, including the U.S.
Zoobiquity Network: Fox Broadcasting Company Studio: 20th Century Fox Television Production Company: No Production Company Available. Executive Producers: Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier, Spencer Medof Writers: Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier Logline: A dynamic group of doctors help treat patients by searching for correlation in an unexpected places in the animal kingdom. Details: Based on the book, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing, written by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers and published by Knopf on June 12, 2012. The show has a script-plus-penalty order from FOX.
Sick City Network: CBS Entertainment Studio: CBS Television Studios Production Company: No Production Company Available. Executive Producers: Daniel Truly, Neal Baer, Jessica Shulman Writer: Daniel Truly Logline: LA’s female Director of Public Health handles everything from large scale health scares from bad drugs or bio terrorism to irate celebs getting bad health ratings on their vanity restaurants. SSN Insight: CBS gave an initial script commitment. This marks the second project for Baer and Truly this season, the pair are also co-writing an action-adventure drama Cheerleader Death Squad with Marc Cherry for the CW.