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The Series: "The Kid Detective"
Where You Can Stream It: Starz
The Pitch: Remember Nancy Drew? Encyclopedia Brown? The Hardy Boys? Those precocious kid detectives made childhood seem exciting and all they did was solve benign mysteries like The Case of the Missing Pencil Sharpener. But even though their whodunits were small-scale, they were still pretty damn magical. So what happens when you subtract the childhood magic, skip ahead 20 years, and catch up with a 31-year-old washed-up kid detective? Evidently, you get a great movie out of it.
"The Kid Detective" is the story of Adam Brody's Abe Applebaum, a once-celebrated mystery-solving kid who's gone from making headlines in local papers to wallowing in his own self-pity. Still solving...
The Series: "The Kid Detective"
Where You Can Stream It: Starz
The Pitch: Remember Nancy Drew? Encyclopedia Brown? The Hardy Boys? Those precocious kid detectives made childhood seem exciting and all they did was solve benign mysteries like The Case of the Missing Pencil Sharpener. But even though their whodunits were small-scale, they were still pretty damn magical. So what happens when you subtract the childhood magic, skip ahead 20 years, and catch up with a 31-year-old washed-up kid detective? Evidently, you get a great movie out of it.
"The Kid Detective" is the story of Adam Brody's Abe Applebaum, a once-celebrated mystery-solving kid who's gone from making headlines in local papers to wallowing in his own self-pity. Still solving...
- 9/11/2022
- by Shania Russell
- Slash Film
Patti Cake$ star Danielle Macdonald has been cast opposite Toni Collette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly and Katie Couric.
Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the “This American Life” radio episode about the same case, “Anatomy of Doubt.” It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Details of Macdonald’s character are not being revealed.
Grant, Chabon, Waldman, Timberman, Beverly and Couric executive produce.
Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the “This American Life” radio episode about the same case, “Anatomy of Doubt.” It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Details of Macdonald’s character are not being revealed.
Grant, Chabon, Waldman, Timberman, Beverly and Couric executive produce.
- 7/26/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS is going into business with professional fixer Judy Smith. The network has picked up a script for The Advocate, a drama from CSI Ep Carol Mendelsohn and Scandal co-ep Smith, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. From writer Ayelet Waldman (CBS' 2012 pilot Applebaum), the drama centers on a former doctor who has found her calling as a medical advocate, where she works on behalf of patients and their loved ones, solving medical crises and mysteries and guaranteeing people the care they deserve. Waldman will pen the script for the CBS Television Studios drama and executive produce alongside Mendelsohn and
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- 11/6/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Domenick Lombardozzi (Breakout Kings) has been cast in a recurring role on HBO’s period mob drama Boardwalk Empire. He will play Chicago mobster Ralph Capone, older brother to Al Capone (Stephen Graham). This marks Lombardozzi’s return to HBO where he co-starred on The Wire, did arcs on Entourage and Oz and guest-starred on Bored To Death. He will next be seen in the features Malavita, directed by Luc Besson, and Blood Ties, helmed by Guillaume Canet. James Hiroyuki Liao (Battle: Los Angeles) has joined the retooled version of CBS’ crime drama Unforgettable. He will play Jay, a detective with a wide variety of eclectic interests and skills. He is set for three episodes with an option to become a regular. Last season, Hiroyuki, repped by SMS and Joan Sittenfield Management, co-starred in the CBS drama pilot Applebaum. He also recurred on 24 and Prison Break.
- 2/16/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Sherri Cooper and Jennifer Levin, who wrote and are executive producing the CW’s Beauty And The Beast reboot, have signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios, the studio behind the freshman series. The two-year pact will include Cooper and Levin’s services as executive producers/co-showrunners on Beauty And The Beast, which they run with Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson. It also expands Cooper and Levin’s relationship with CBS Studios, where they had a two-script deal last season when they were also consulting on the studio’s freshman drama Unforgettable. They got both of their projects under that deal – Beauty And The Beast and Applebaum at CBS, which they co-wrote/exec produced — picked up to pilots, with one of them, Beast, making it to series. Wme-repped Cooper and Levin are not a formal writing team; they paired up for developing after working together on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters.
- 9/24/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Rachelle Lefevre has signed with Wme. Lefevre most recently played the lead in the CBS drama pilot Applebaum and co-starred on the CBS drama series A Gifted Man. On the feature side, the Twilight alumna just finished filming Wayne Kramer’s Pawn Shop Chronicles and wrapped voicing the female lead opposite Christopher Plummer in the animated feature, Sarila. Lefevre continues to be repped by Pearl Hanan Management and attorney Neil Meyer. Katie Featherston, star of the hit horror franchise Paranormal Activity, has signed with New Wave Entertainment. Featherston, who will next reprise her role in the fourth Paranormal Activity film, also had a recurring role on ABC’s The River, from Paranormal Activity‘s Oren Peli.
- 8/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the fourth announced. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on CBS.
With CBS leading in viewers by the widest margin of any network in 23 years, the network has little need to refresh its line-up this year - especially with last season's successes like "2 Broke Girls" and "Persons of Interest" adding to a solid run of hits in recent years.
Yet it's not resting on its laurels, ordering six new shows and shifting four existing shows around the schedule to shore up its weak points, in the process teaming its two biggest comedies "Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men" on the one night.
Several other pilots didn't make the final cut and won't be seen include cop drama "The Widow Detective", various comedies about twenty...
With CBS leading in viewers by the widest margin of any network in 23 years, the network has little need to refresh its line-up this year - especially with last season's successes like "2 Broke Girls" and "Persons of Interest" adding to a solid run of hits in recent years.
Yet it's not resting on its laurels, ordering six new shows and shifting four existing shows around the schedule to shore up its weak points, in the process teaming its two biggest comedies "Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men" on the one night.
Several other pilots didn't make the final cut and won't be seen include cop drama "The Widow Detective", various comedies about twenty...
- 5/18/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Every year, the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC) order pilots to be considered for the fall season. A pilot, as you may know, is the first episode of a TV series and the final step in a long development process from idea to screen.
From the 87 drama and comedy pilots ordered this year, a new crop of television shows will be selected -- and I read the scripts for each and every one of them. Over the course of this week, I'm walking you through the network's pilot slates, offering a bit of analysis on their present schedules and providing you with a rundown of the drama contenders. (Plus, a little bit of info about the comedies, too.) Of course, not all of these shows will find their way to your TV set -- in fact, most of them you may never hear of again.
From the 87 drama and comedy pilots ordered this year, a new crop of television shows will be selected -- and I read the scripts for each and every one of them. Over the course of this week, I'm walking you through the network's pilot slates, offering a bit of analysis on their present schedules and providing you with a rundown of the drama contenders. (Plus, a little bit of info about the comedies, too.) Of course, not all of these shows will find their way to your TV set -- in fact, most of them you may never hear of again.
- 3/27/2012
- by Garrett Greer
- Aol TV.
It's that time of year again, TV fans -- the networks are almost done picking up and casting the various pilots that will be in contention to become series in the Fall 2012 schedule. With so many announcements made on a daily basis, keeping track of it all can be overwhelming, so Zap2it is assembling round-ups of all the information to help you out. (You can check out ABC's here.)
The CBS pickups are listed below. Remember, don't fall in love with a logline -- some of these will never see the light of day! We'll find out which made the cut in mid-May at the network upfronts. Get ready for a whole lotta cop shows.
Dramas
"Applebaum": Starring "Twilight's" Rachelle Lefevre, "Applebaum" follows a former lawyer who gave up her career to take care of her kids. Now, she's going back on the job as a private detective.
The CBS pickups are listed below. Remember, don't fall in love with a logline -- some of these will never see the light of day! We'll find out which made the cut in mid-May at the network upfronts. Get ready for a whole lotta cop shows.
Dramas
"Applebaum": Starring "Twilight's" Rachelle Lefevre, "Applebaum" follows a former lawyer who gave up her career to take care of her kids. Now, she's going back on the job as a private detective.
- 3/14/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Gary Cole has fashioned himself a plum role in the ABC drama pilot Scruples.
Also among the latest pilot castings: A Suburgatory star relocates from the ‘burbs, a Walking Dead alum is reborn on L.A. Noir, an Outsourced survivor heads to Awesometown and more.
Scruples — based on Judith Krantz’ novel and executive produced by Natalie Portman — follows Billy Winthrop (played by Claire Forlani), a rich and powerful clothing designer working in a business dominated by sex, revenge and scandal. Cole will play the the manipulative, longtime lawyer of Billy’s late husband.
Cole, a TV mainstay whose resume includes gigs on Chuck,...
Also among the latest pilot castings: A Suburgatory star relocates from the ‘burbs, a Walking Dead alum is reborn on L.A. Noir, an Outsourced survivor heads to Awesometown and more.
Scruples — based on Judith Krantz’ novel and executive produced by Natalie Portman — follows Billy Winthrop (played by Claire Forlani), a rich and powerful clothing designer working in a business dominated by sex, revenge and scandal. Cole will play the the manipulative, longtime lawyer of Billy’s late husband.
Cole, a TV mainstay whose resume includes gigs on Chuck,...
- 3/13/2012
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Stockard Channing and Kurt Fuller have joined ABC’s single-camera pilot starring Mandy Moore and directed by Shawn Levy. The project, written by Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub, centers on newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben, who get the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high-maintenance family. Channing and Fuller will play Annie’s parents: her warm and devoted and sometimes overbearing and manipulative mother Barbara and good-natured dad Steve. Jay Mohr has joined the CBS pilot Applebaum, directed by Chris Columbus. Based on Ayelet Waldman’s Mommy Track Mysteries series of books, Applebaum centers on Juliet Applebaum (Rachelle Lefevre), a former public defender who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom. Mohr, repped by Gersh and manager Barry Katz, will play Juliet’s partner at the Pi agency,...
- 3/12/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Rhys Coiro has joined CBS legal drama Applebaum. The Entourage actor will appear opposite A Gifted Man co-star Rachelle Lefevre, according to Deadline. Lefevre will play private investigator Juliet Applebaum in the pilot, which is based on the Mommy Track Mysteries books by Ayelet Waldman. Coiro has now been cast as her husband Peter, a successful comic book artist. The actor's past credits include episodes of Burn Notice, Hawaii Five-0 and a recurring role in the seventh season of 24. Both (more)...
- 3/8/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Anthony Edwards is eying a return to TV in an ABC pilot.
Also among the latest pilot castings: A Gifted Man star finds a new gig, a Bridesmaids scene-stealer is ABC-bound, a General Hospital alum books another soap and more.
In his first regular TV role since ER, Edwards will star in ABC’s drama Zero Hour from Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring.
The project centers on a magazine editor who becomes involved in one the most compelling conspiracies in human history when his wife is kidnapped.
In other pilot news from our sister site Deadline:
• Rhys Coiro is reuniting...
Also among the latest pilot castings: A Gifted Man star finds a new gig, a Bridesmaids scene-stealer is ABC-bound, a General Hospital alum books another soap and more.
In his first regular TV role since ER, Edwards will star in ABC’s drama Zero Hour from Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring.
The project centers on a magazine editor who becomes involved in one the most compelling conspiracies in human history when his wife is kidnapped.
In other pilot news from our sister site Deadline:
• Rhys Coiro is reuniting...
- 3/7/2012
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: It’s A Gifted Man reunion on the CBS pilot Applebaum, directed by Chris Columbus. Rhys Coiro is set as a male lead opposite his Gifted Man co-star Rachelle Lefevre in the pilot based on Ayelet Waldman’s Mommy Track Mysteries series of books. Applebaum centers on Juliet Applebaum (Lefevre), a former public defender who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom. Coiro will play Juliet’s husband Peter, a successful comic book artist who is crazy about his wife. For both, Applebaum is formally in second position to CBS’ A Gifted Man, which is produced by CBS TV Studios, as is the pilot. Ayelet, Jennifer Levin and Sherri Cooper wrote Applebaum and are executive producing with Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Jeff Rake, who serves as showrunner. In addition to Lefevre and Coiro, A Gifted Man co-star Margo Martindale also booked a pilot in second position,...
- 3/7/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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