Nominees have been announced for the 76th annual Writers Guild Awards, and Star Trek: Picard squeaked in just under the wire.
The concluded Paramount+ quasi-revival saw its series finale nominated in the Episodic Drama category. Other first-time nominees include freshman shows Shrinking, The Last of Us, The Curse and The Diplomat.
More from TVLineThe Last of Us: Catherine O'Hara Confirmed for Season 2 Mystery RoleThe Diplomat Season 2: The West Wing's Allison Janney Elected Vice PresidentThe Last of Us Casts 100 Things to Do Before High School's Isabela Merced as Someone Very Important to Ellie
Of course, usual suspects like Succession,...
The concluded Paramount+ quasi-revival saw its series finale nominated in the Episodic Drama category. Other first-time nominees include freshman shows Shrinking, The Last of Us, The Curse and The Diplomat.
More from TVLineThe Last of Us: Catherine O'Hara Confirmed for Season 2 Mystery RoleThe Diplomat Season 2: The West Wing's Allison Janney Elected Vice PresidentThe Last of Us Casts 100 Things to Do Before High School's Isabela Merced as Someone Very Important to Ellie
Of course, usual suspects like Succession,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Former Disney TV studio executive and CAA agent Elizabeth Newman has joined Literate as its first new partner since the television-focused boutique management and production company was launched in early 2018 by founding partners A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim.
With her background in television, publishing and book adaptations, Newman will manage a curated roster of film & TV writer/showrunners and will expand Literate’s business in representing screen rights for intellectual property creators, rightsholders, and estates. She also will work with authors, journalists, and playwrights transitioning to Hollywood.
This marks a return to representation for Newman who started her entertainment career at CAA. During her nearly 15-year tenure, she was a TV Literary & Media Rights agent, representing TV writer/creators, showrunners, producers, directors, and intellectual property, brokering major rights deals on behalf of bestselling authors such as Anne Rice and James Patterson.
At the end of 2019, Newman segued to the TV executive ranks,...
With her background in television, publishing and book adaptations, Newman will manage a curated roster of film & TV writer/showrunners and will expand Literate’s business in representing screen rights for intellectual property creators, rightsholders, and estates. She also will work with authors, journalists, and playwrights transitioning to Hollywood.
This marks a return to representation for Newman who started her entertainment career at CAA. During her nearly 15-year tenure, she was a TV Literary & Media Rights agent, representing TV writer/creators, showrunners, producers, directors, and intellectual property, brokering major rights deals on behalf of bestselling authors such as Anne Rice and James Patterson.
At the end of 2019, Newman segued to the TV executive ranks,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2023 Emmy Predictions:
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Weekly Commentary: Acting nominees Richard Jenkins and Evan Peters (“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong (“Beef”) added producing noms to their Emmy celebrations.
“Dahmer” marks Peters’ second executive producer credit (the first was “American Horror Story...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2023 Emmy Predictions:
Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Weekly Commentary: Acting nominees Richard Jenkins and Evan Peters (“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong (“Beef”) added producing noms to their Emmy celebrations.
“Dahmer” marks Peters’ second executive producer credit (the first was “American Horror Story...
- 8/17/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Kc Global Embarks On Scripted Series ‘ Jonesy’
Kc Global Media, which operates a string of channels across Asia including Axn, anime channel Animax, South Korea’s One and Japanese entertainment channel Gem, has unveiled its first script development of a sci-fi live action series, “Jonesy.” The show is a sci-fi fantasy thriller action-comedy series set in the year 2029, with eight episodes of 15-20 minutes each. Production will be with Singapore-based production agency, Monochromatic Pictures, while development is supported through the Capability Partnership Programme (Cpp) operated by the country’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. The show sees an internet crazy shut-in man driven to extremes by violent weather systems which carry with them supernatural beasts intent on devouring humankind. With his imaginary friend, the man learns to navigate the new world alone, confront his fears, battle colorful foes, and become humanity’s new hope when he kills one of the monsters during a livestream.
Kc Global Media, which operates a string of channels across Asia including Axn, anime channel Animax, South Korea’s One and Japanese entertainment channel Gem, has unveiled its first script development of a sci-fi live action series, “Jonesy.” The show is a sci-fi fantasy thriller action-comedy series set in the year 2029, with eight episodes of 15-20 minutes each. Production will be with Singapore-based production agency, Monochromatic Pictures, while development is supported through the Capability Partnership Programme (Cpp) operated by the country’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. The show sees an internet crazy shut-in man driven to extremes by violent weather systems which carry with them supernatural beasts intent on devouring humankind. With his imaginary friend, the man learns to navigate the new world alone, confront his fears, battle colorful foes, and become humanity’s new hope when he kills one of the monsters during a livestream.
- 9/30/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The participants for Impact Australia 2 have been revealed, with nine emerging creators to be paired with nine mentors.
Following a call-out for submissions in June, the emerging creators that have been selected to work on their projects as part of the program are:
Jessie Hughes (Qld): Head Above Water (TV Series – half hour)
John Kachoyan (Vic): Gaia (Feature)
Drew Macdonald (Qld): Only One Survives (TV Series – hour)
Julia Moriarty (Nsw): Stony Rise (TV Series – hour)
Elena Pavli (Nsw): The Clinic 2200 (TV Series – half hour)
Felicity Price (Nsw): Bird Island (TV Series – hour)
Bradley Slabe (Vic): Owner’s Manual: Operation and Maintenance of the Human Body (Feature)
Ramon Watkins (Vic): Daddies (TV Series – half hour)
Harvey Zielinski (Vic): Sweet Milk Lake (Feature)
Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant, and Sarah Lambert will join international writers Mark Bianculli, Dana Calvo, Hunter Covington, Eric Pearson, Stacy Traub,...
Following a call-out for submissions in June, the emerging creators that have been selected to work on their projects as part of the program are:
Jessie Hughes (Qld): Head Above Water (TV Series – half hour)
John Kachoyan (Vic): Gaia (Feature)
Drew Macdonald (Qld): Only One Survives (TV Series – hour)
Julia Moriarty (Nsw): Stony Rise (TV Series – hour)
Elena Pavli (Nsw): The Clinic 2200 (TV Series – half hour)
Felicity Price (Nsw): Bird Island (TV Series – hour)
Bradley Slabe (Vic): Owner’s Manual: Operation and Maintenance of the Human Body (Feature)
Ramon Watkins (Vic): Daddies (TV Series – half hour)
Harvey Zielinski (Vic): Sweet Milk Lake (Feature)
Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant, and Sarah Lambert will join international writers Mark Bianculli, Dana Calvo, Hunter Covington, Eric Pearson, Stacy Traub,...
- 9/14/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Warning: contains spoilers for The Office seasons 1-9.
“Geese and goats and Schrutes and hijinks at the Bed and Breakfast” is how Rainn Wilson, the actor behind The Office‘s Dwight K. Schrute, summed up proposed spin-off The Farm, which never went beyond its pilot episode. Speaking to fans on a Reddit Ama back in 2012, Wilson called the Dwight-focussed show a terrific, weird yet accessible rural family comedy. Had it been ordered to series, it would have told the story of the Dunder Mifflin paper salesman running a 1,600 acre farm and B&b with his brother and sister.
“It would have been a really big hit,” The Farm writer-director Paul Lieberstein told ‘The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner’ podcast in 2021. Lieberstein was co-showrunner on The Office for seasons five to eight, and played Hr manager Toby Flenderson on the comedy. He told podcast presenter Brian Baumgartner how disappointed he...
“Geese and goats and Schrutes and hijinks at the Bed and Breakfast” is how Rainn Wilson, the actor behind The Office‘s Dwight K. Schrute, summed up proposed spin-off The Farm, which never went beyond its pilot episode. Speaking to fans on a Reddit Ama back in 2012, Wilson called the Dwight-focussed show a terrific, weird yet accessible rural family comedy. Had it been ordered to series, it would have told the story of the Dunder Mifflin paper salesman running a 1,600 acre farm and B&b with his brother and sister.
“It would have been a really big hit,” The Farm writer-director Paul Lieberstein told ‘The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner’ podcast in 2021. Lieberstein was co-showrunner on The Office for seasons five to eight, and played Hr manager Toby Flenderson on the comedy. He told podcast presenter Brian Baumgartner how disappointed he...
- 7/13/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Longtime TV development executive Jessica Shulman has segued to the representation business, joining Literate as a manager.
At the company, where she started yesterday, Shulman will work alongside Literate partners A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim and fellow manager Kelly Miller.
Shulman has been a development executive for the past 15 years, most recently serving as SVP of Television for Michael London’s Groundswell Productions. Prior to that, she spent 5 years as Head of Television for Neal Baer’s Baer Bones, overseeing the production company’s deals at CBS TV Studios and 20th Television.
“We’ve both known Jessica for years, and witnessed first-hand how she’s nurtured and cared for the writers she’s worked with,” Fischer and Kim said in a statement. “That quality alone will serve her well as she makes the transition from executive to manager. Her development experience, deep bench of relationships and genuine, collaborative spirit...
At the company, where she started yesterday, Shulman will work alongside Literate partners A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim and fellow manager Kelly Miller.
Shulman has been a development executive for the past 15 years, most recently serving as SVP of Television for Michael London’s Groundswell Productions. Prior to that, she spent 5 years as Head of Television for Neal Baer’s Baer Bones, overseeing the production company’s deals at CBS TV Studios and 20th Television.
“We’ve both known Jessica for years, and witnessed first-hand how she’s nurtured and cared for the writers she’s worked with,” Fischer and Kim said in a statement. “That quality alone will serve her well as she makes the transition from executive to manager. Her development experience, deep bench of relationships and genuine, collaborative spirit...
- 10/7/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Imagine Impact is a Silicon Valley-inspired film and TV writers’ accelerator programme.
Imagine Impact – the Silicon Valley-inspired film and TV writers’ accelerator programme – yesterday announced a new programme in Australia, in partnership with Gentle Giant Media Group, Screen Australia and Film Victoria.
This deal could signal more international expansion to come.
“There are a few different exciting ways that Impact is going to be working going forward,” Tyler Mitchell, head of impact at the offshoot of Imagine Entertainment, told Screen. “We plan on having an international presence and we’re in active conversations with multiple international companies and countries about doing that.
Imagine Impact – the Silicon Valley-inspired film and TV writers’ accelerator programme – yesterday announced a new programme in Australia, in partnership with Gentle Giant Media Group, Screen Australia and Film Victoria.
This deal could signal more international expansion to come.
“There are a few different exciting ways that Impact is going to be working going forward,” Tyler Mitchell, head of impact at the offshoot of Imagine Entertainment, told Screen. “We plan on having an international presence and we’re in active conversations with multiple international companies and countries about doing that.
- 2/21/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Much like the rest of the world, Rufus Jones watched on in horror as the refugee crisis gripped Europe in 2015. As people fled conflict in Syria and beyond, the Stan & Ollie actor had just fathered twins and became preoccupied with worries about the world his new-born girls were entering.
Not obvious territory for comedy, you might think. But that’s exactly how Jones’ thoughts crystallized as he set to work on a script that would domesticate the epic scale of the horrors being transmitted on rolling news at the time. And so, Home was created, but it would be four years before the comedy found its own home with Channel 4.
The show premiered last year and tells the story of how a family in the small British town of Dorking takes in a Syrian refugee named Sami. It returns for a second season in the UK on Wednesday...
Not obvious territory for comedy, you might think. But that’s exactly how Jones’ thoughts crystallized as he set to work on a script that would domesticate the epic scale of the horrors being transmitted on rolling news at the time. And so, Home was created, but it would be four years before the comedy found its own home with Channel 4.
The show premiered last year and tells the story of how a family in the small British town of Dorking takes in a Syrian refugee named Sami. It returns for a second season in the UK on Wednesday...
- 2/5/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: NBC has handed a put pilot commitment to Home, a single-camera comedy about an American couple who take in a Syrian refugee. It is based on the British series, which was created by Rufus Jones and originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK. The adaptation will be written/executive produced by former Black-ish Ep Stacy Traub and directed/executive produced by Ben Stiller.
It marks the second project to emerge out of Lionsgate and BBC Studios’ development deal and comes on the back of CBS nabbing an adaptation of BBC One comedy Ghosts.
Home follows a new couple, Mark and Melanie, who go on a long weekend trip to a cabin in the woods with Melanie’s son Jonah. Their plan to come back with a tan and some happy memories is interrupted when they return with Jay, a Syrian refugee who moves in with them, and the cobbled-together...
It marks the second project to emerge out of Lionsgate and BBC Studios’ development deal and comes on the back of CBS nabbing an adaptation of BBC One comedy Ghosts.
Home follows a new couple, Mark and Melanie, who go on a long weekend trip to a cabin in the woods with Melanie’s son Jonah. Their plan to come back with a tan and some happy memories is interrupted when they return with Jay, a Syrian refugee who moves in with them, and the cobbled-together...
- 11/22/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Imagine Entertainment has set its roster of participants of Impact 2, the inventive program where the company empowers outside voices, “creators,” paying the newcomers accepted to the program to develop TV series and movies under the watchful eye of “shapers,” a group of established industry writers and showrunners. The program, hatched by Imagine co-heads Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, this year got over 4000 submissions from 57 countries covering every continent but Antarctica. Tyler Mitchell runs the program.
The “shapers” in this year’s program are: Stacy Traub, Akiva Goldsman, Doug Ellin, Seth Grahame-Smith, Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney and Sascha Penn.
Here are the newcomers whose work was accepted and who will be paid a stipend to create one new project during the boot camp, before all of the work gets pitched to the town. Traub will oversee:
Writer/actor and Chicago native Aris Mendoza is creating the half hour TV project Blasian...
The “shapers” in this year’s program are: Stacy Traub, Akiva Goldsman, Doug Ellin, Seth Grahame-Smith, Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney and Sascha Penn.
Here are the newcomers whose work was accepted and who will be paid a stipend to create one new project during the boot camp, before all of the work gets pitched to the town. Traub will oversee:
Writer/actor and Chicago native Aris Mendoza is creating the half hour TV project Blasian...
- 4/23/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Imagine Impact is launching its second mentoring program. The program launched last year, to find new writer voices and give them a seat at the table, pairing them with a veteran mentor and giving them a paid eight-week creative boot camp to develop saleable screenplays, teleplays and presentations that were pitched to buyers across town late last year at a Pitch Day.
The application process for Impact 2 is now underway, and Imagine Impact head Tyler Mitchell said that each and every application will be thoroughly considered. An improved infrastructure, and a dedicated app, has enabled them to handle up to 10,000 online submissions.
The application window closes Sunday, January 20th at 11:59Pm Pst. A link to the application can be found here.
Imagine Impact 1 road tested a philosophy by Imagine founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, that democratizing the creative process by inviting in new narrative voices from all over the world,...
The application process for Impact 2 is now underway, and Imagine Impact head Tyler Mitchell said that each and every application will be thoroughly considered. An improved infrastructure, and a dedicated app, has enabled them to handle up to 10,000 online submissions.
The application window closes Sunday, January 20th at 11:59Pm Pst. A link to the application can be found here.
Imagine Impact 1 road tested a philosophy by Imagine founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, that democratizing the creative process by inviting in new narrative voices from all over the world,...
- 1/16/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Five months after announcing plans to provide an unprecedented Hollywood gateway for new voices and talent in movies and television, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment offshoot Imagine Impact will hold its first “Pitch Day” on November 13. The daylong event will be held at the WeWork Constellation Theater in Century City, where over 100 industry buyers have RSVP’d to hear 22 film and television series pitches.
The initiative was launched last Cannes, where newcomers with an idea and a dream were invited to compete for a small spot in the program, which is run by Imagine exec veep Tyler Mitchell. Those “creators” who got accepted worked with “shapers” or mentors who in the first iteration are the Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black; sitcom vet and Black-ish exec producer Stacy Traub; Burn Notice exec producer Ben Watkins; The Last O.G. showrunner Saladin K. Patterson; Gaz Alazraki, whose Nosotros...
The initiative was launched last Cannes, where newcomers with an idea and a dream were invited to compete for a small spot in the program, which is run by Imagine exec veep Tyler Mitchell. Those “creators” who got accepted worked with “shapers” or mentors who in the first iteration are the Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black; sitcom vet and Black-ish exec producer Stacy Traub; Burn Notice exec producer Ben Watkins; The Last O.G. showrunner Saladin K. Patterson; Gaz Alazraki, whose Nosotros...
- 11/9/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: For its first content acceleration program, Imagine Impact has set a diverse roster of established talent to mentor the first round of aspirants. The mentors will be the Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, sitcom vet and black-ish exec producer Stacy Traub, Burn Notice exec producer Ben Watkins, The Last O.G. showrunner Saladin K. Patterson, Gaz Alazraki, whose Nosotros los Nobles was a monster hit in Mexico, and Kate Purdy, co-creator of the upcoming Amazon series Undone. They will be the six “Shapers” who will mentor the first group of “Creators,” meeting with their charges twice per week to create a saleable script, teleplay or presentation. After opening the admissions applications process online recently, Imagine Impact received over 37,000 website views from 102 countries, with over 4,000 Creator applications submitted during the two-week window.
Said Tyler Mitchell, the vet exec recently named head of the Imagine Impact initiative: “We are extremely fortunate...
Said Tyler Mitchell, the vet exec recently named head of the Imagine Impact initiative: “We are extremely fortunate...
- 8/20/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Hunter Covington We had a very gung-ho strike captain on our staff at My Name Is Earl, and I said, half-joking, "If you did a singles picket, people would go."
Stacy Traub I'd just gone through a pretty gnarly divorce in July. I've got a 4-month-old and a 3-year-old, and then the strike hits. So, when the thing comes up about the singles picket, everyone who knew me said: "You have to go to this. You may meet the love of your life."
Covington Also, writers being writers, you're doing it for the irony.
Traub I ...
Stacy Traub I'd just gone through a pretty gnarly divorce in July. I've got a 4-month-old and a 3-year-old, and then the strike hits. So, when the thing comes up about the singles picket, everyone who knew me said: "You have to go to this. You may meet the love of your life."
Covington Also, writers being writers, you're doing it for the irony.
Traub I ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Overall and first-look deals still drive the television business.
Although some mega-producers have moved to the streaming world, including Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes at Netflix, the overwhelming majority of pacts are still at the studio and linear network level. These deals help lock in show services, as well as keep the development pipeline flowing.
Here is a snapshot at most of the deals currently in place across Hollywood, as of mid-May.
A+E Studios
Appletree Pictures
Ross Fineman
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Thruline (Ron West/Chris Henze/Jb Roberts)
ABC Studios
Eli Attie
Alec Baldwin/Mallory Schwartz El Dorado Pictures
Kenya Barris Khalabo Ink Society
Julie Bean
Kevin Biegel
Sherry Bilsing-Graham/Ellen Kreamer
Bluegrass Fanfare
Chris Brancato Churchill Road Prods.
Jeremy Bronson
Danny Chun
Adam Ciralsky
Eliza Coupe
Liz Craft/Sarah Fain
Carlton Cuse
Paul Davies
Viola Davis/Kaylon Hunt JuVee Prods.
Tim Doyle
Dan Dworkin/Jay Beattie
Randall Einhorn...
Although some mega-producers have moved to the streaming world, including Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes at Netflix, the overwhelming majority of pacts are still at the studio and linear network level. These deals help lock in show services, as well as keep the development pipeline flowing.
Here is a snapshot at most of the deals currently in place across Hollywood, as of mid-May.
A+E Studios
Appletree Pictures
Ross Fineman
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Thruline (Ron West/Chris Henze/Jb Roberts)
ABC Studios
Eli Attie
Alec Baldwin/Mallory Schwartz El Dorado Pictures
Kenya Barris Khalabo Ink Society
Julie Bean
Kevin Biegel
Sherry Bilsing-Graham/Ellen Kreamer
Bluegrass Fanfare
Chris Brancato Churchill Road Prods.
Jeremy Bronson
Danny Chun
Adam Ciralsky
Eliza Coupe
Liz Craft/Sarah Fain
Carlton Cuse
Paul Davies
Viola Davis/Kaylon Hunt JuVee Prods.
Tim Doyle
Dan Dworkin/Jay Beattie
Randall Einhorn...
- 5/16/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Updated: ABC has ordered a fourth season of its praised comedy series Black-ish, from ABC Studios. Stacy Traub, who served as executive producer on ABC/ABC Studios comedy series The Real O’Neals — just canceled by ABC — is coming on board as an executive producer and will have a leadership role alongside Black-ish creator/executive producer/showrunner Kenya Barris. He has been ramping up development under his rich overall deal at ABC Studios, and had three pilots this…...
- 5/12/2017
- Deadline TV
ABC has renewed ‘black-ish’ for Season 4. Stacy Traub is joining the show as an executive producer for Season 4, having extended her overall deal with ABC Studios for an additional two years. The sitcom was created by Kenya Barris and stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. It was nominated for three Emmys last year, including best comedy series and acting nods for Anderson and Ross, and a spinoff is in the works. Also Read: 'Designated Survivor,' 'Once Upon a Time' Among 4 ABC Renewals Among the comedies renewed by ABC include “Modern Family” and “The Goldbergs,” which both received two-season pickups,...
- 5/12/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Wrap
The arrival of Dre and Bow’s new baby isn’t the only happy event in black-ish‘s world: The ABC comedy has been renewed for a fourth season, TVLine has learned.
Related2017 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
In the upcoming season, Stacy Traub (Glee, The Real O’Neals) will join the series, replacing executive producer Jonathan Groff.
Relatedblack-ish‘s Zoey-Centric Spinoff May Find New Home on Freeform
The Season 3 finale, which aired Wednesday, drew an audience of 4.8 million total viewers and earned a 1.3 in the demo, improving slightly on the previous week.
Related2017 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
In the upcoming season, Stacy Traub (Glee, The Real O’Neals) will join the series, replacing executive producer Jonathan Groff.
Relatedblack-ish‘s Zoey-Centric Spinoff May Find New Home on Freeform
The Season 3 finale, which aired Wednesday, drew an audience of 4.8 million total viewers and earned a 1.3 in the demo, improving slightly on the previous week.
- 5/12/2017
- TVLine.com
The Real O’Neals has an uphill battle on its hands, and it’s the same battle that has faced such shows as The Middle, and Martha Plimpton‘s last series, Raising Hope. Unfortunately, it’s the same battle that has also faced countless shows that you don’t remember, because most shows these days can’t overcome the degree of difficulty.
The problem these shows face is that they need a while to get going, and there’s nothing about the pilot that’s going to suck you in enough to demand that you not only watch, but pull your friends along as well.
As if the genre of television shows that are ultimately “hanging with a family” isn’t dated enough, and tricky enough to get off the ground, The Real O’Neals focuses on the irritating world of holier-than-thous, and puts them through the ringer.
Eileen (Plimpton...
The problem these shows face is that they need a while to get going, and there’s nothing about the pilot that’s going to suck you in enough to demand that you not only watch, but pull your friends along as well.
As if the genre of television shows that are ultimately “hanging with a family” isn’t dated enough, and tricky enough to get off the ground, The Real O’Neals focuses on the irritating world of holier-than-thous, and puts them through the ringer.
Eileen (Plimpton...
- 2/29/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
The sheer volume of British television shows that receive the U.S. reboot treatment continues to baffle me, mainly because the majority are often massive flops. Much like the recent Guardians Of The Galaxy Chinese subtitle issue, wherein the nuanced comedy was lost in translation, a similar fate often befalls British shows headed across the pond. Still, we can hold out hope that ABC Studios and Amblin TV won’t make a complete balls-up of No Angels.
The dramedy is being spearheaded by producer Julie Anne Robinson (Suburgatory), who is no stranger to the naughty antics of those Northern nurses. Robinson directed two episodes of the original series, which followed four nurses who work and live together. It began airing in 2004 and ran for two seasons, which wasn’t nearly enough in my opinion.
No Angels managed to perfectly blend the silly, funny and true-to-life aspects of the nurses’ daily lives,...
The dramedy is being spearheaded by producer Julie Anne Robinson (Suburgatory), who is no stranger to the naughty antics of those Northern nurses. Robinson directed two episodes of the original series, which followed four nurses who work and live together. It began airing in 2004 and ran for two seasons, which wasn’t nearly enough in my opinion.
No Angels managed to perfectly blend the silly, funny and true-to-life aspects of the nurses’ daily lives,...
- 10/21/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Childrens Hospital co-star Erinn Hayes is set as the co-lead opposite June Diane Raphael in NBC‘s comedy pilot Mason Twins. Written/executive produced by Raphael and Casey Wilson, with Stacy Traub supervising the script/exec producing, Mason Twins tells the the story of two fraternal twin sisters, estranged since high school, who could not be more different. Pender (Raphael) is stuck in the 80s and has never made anything of her life. She is reunited with her sister Lizze (Hayes) who is an intense, successful corporate climber who comes back home after she catches her fiancé cheating and loses her job, both in the same day. This marks a return to NBC for Hayes, repped by UTA and Sweeney Entertainment, who co-starred on the network’s comedy series Guys With Kids last season. She appeared in two films at this years’ Sundance Film Festival, Hits and They Came Together.
- 2/5/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Role Models helmer David Wain has signed on to direct NBC‘s single-camera comedy pilot Old Soul, co-created by Amy Poehler and starring Natasha Lyonne. The Uni TV-produced project, which Poehler co-created with Josh Bycel and Jonathan Fener, centers on a reformed wild child Nadia (Lyonne) who has a business caring for the elderly and feels she has more in common with her colorful old clients than she does with people her age. Old Soul reunites Wain with Poehler — his Lionsgate feature They Came Together starring Poehler and Paul Rudd just premiered at Sundance. Wain, repped by Wme, Principato-Young and attorney Rick Genow, executive produces Adult Swim’s Newsreaders as well as Childrens Hospital, which he also directs. In another NBC comedy pilot director hire, Robbie Duncan McNeil (Chuck) is set to helm single-camera project Mason Twins, from Casey Wilson, June Rafael, Stacy Traub and ABC Studios. Having been estranged for 15 years,...
- 1/31/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC has ordered two new single-camera comedy pilots from former “Happy Endings” star Casey Wilson and Rashida Jones-Will McCormack’s production company, Le Train Train. “Happy Endings” alum Wilson will co-write and executive produce “Mason Twins” with June Raphael. Stacy Traub will also executive produce the ABC Studios project. The project is described as following fraternal twins who had been estranged for 15 years. Pender and Lizzie Mason reconnect after Lizzie’s perfect city life has fallen apart, and she returns to her suburban town to find that her sister hasn’t matured past her teen queen days. See photos: 2014 TV Preview: 26 Upcoming Shows.
- 1/11/2014
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
NBC has given pilot orders to two more comedies: Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael’s Mason Twins and Ben Queen/Le Train Train’s A To Z. Single-camera Mason Twins, from ABC Studios, is written/exec produced by Wilson and Raphael and exec produced by Stacy Traub who supervised the script. Having been estranged for 15 years, fraternal twins Pender and Lizzie Mason reconnect after Lizzie’s perfect city life has fallen apart, and she returns to her suburban town to find that her sister hasn’t matured past her teen queen days. The project stems from the deal Happy Endings and SNL alumna Wilson and Raphael inked with ABC Studios in August. The duo also has Dinks, a half-hour with Jonathan Groff, at ABC with a pilot production commitment. Wilson and Raphael, who met in a clown class at Nyu, are longtime writing and stage partners and best friends.
- 1/11/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC has put in development Pulling Teeth, a single-camera, ensemble workplace comedy from Stacy Traub (Glee), ABC Studios and studio-based Brillstein Entertainment. Written by Traub, who is under an overall deal at ABC Studios, the project takes place in a large dental practice. It focuses on Holly, a dentist who recently discovered that her surgeon husband has been having an affair with a pharmaceutical sales rep. After a leave of absence, Holly returns to the practice only to find that the dynamics of the workplace are even more complicated than the ones in her own life. UTA-repped Traub is executive producing with Brillstein’s Robin Schwartz. Also sold through ABC Studios is The Alzheimer’s Project, a single-camera script at ABC based on an original idea by Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment. Written by Sam Sklaver (HBO’s Bored To Death), it’s a comedy about a father with early...
- 10/24/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC is getting into the Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael business. The network has given a script order to The Mason Twins, a comedy from Raphael and Wilson, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The comedy centers on fraternal twins in their 30s who find themselves living under the same roof and not at all where they thought they'd be. Ntsf's Raphael and Happy Endings' Wilson will pen the script and executive produce the ABC Studios half-hour alongside Stacy Traub (Glee). Photos: On the Set of 'Happy Endings' Mason Twins marks the second sale this development season for ABC Studios-based
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- 10/3/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Endings star Casey Wilson is having a very busy fall. Vulture hears that she and longtime writing-performing partner June Diane Raphael, who last month landed a comedy pilot at ABC, have now set up a half-hour comedy project at NBC. Tentatively titled The Mason Twins, the potential series would focus on two thirtysomething fraternal twins still living with each other and not very satisfied with how their lives have turned out. The duo are writing Mason Twins and will executive produce the project, with Stacy Traub (Notes From the Underbelly) also exec producing. While a show about fraternal twins sounds like a perfect on-camera gig for Wilson and Raphael, as of now, it's unclear whether the women will star in Mason Twins, the ABC pilot (called Dinks) — or neither. NBC has bought a script for Mason Twins and will decide by early next year whether to film a pilot.
- 10/3/2013
- by Josef Adalian
- Vulture
Exclusive: Actress/writer Annie Mumolo is set as the lead in ABC‘s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. Written by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage chronicles what happens when Carol (Mumolo), a middle-aged wife and mother, is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday and showrunner Stacy Traub executive produce with Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for ABC Studios. Mumolo is best known for co-writing with Kristen Wiig the 2011 blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids, which earned the duo an Oscar nomination. As an actress, she was recently seen in another project dealing with middle-age crisis, Judd Apatow’s movie This Is 40, and in Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
- 2/20/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Glee co-executive producer Stacy Traub has inked an overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, she is joining the studio’s ABC comedy pilot Middle Age Rage as executive producer. Written by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage chronicles what happens when a middle-aged wife and mother is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Holliday and Traub executive produce with Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Notes From The Underbelly creator Traub sold a couple of projects this season, including a comedy starring Rachael Harris and The Office‘s Angela Kinsey, which had a put pilot commitment at Fox. She is with UTA.
- 2/14/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Newcomers Jessie Miller and Bennett Wolin have sold spec comedy script The Messed Uptons to NBC through 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Imagine TV. Stacy Traub (Glee) is on board to executive produce the project, which marks the first sale for Miller and Wolin, former writers assistants. The two will co-executive produce the comedy, which centers on 33-year-old Jenn Upton. After hitting rock bottom, she discovers she’s actually the crazy glue that holds her broken family together and learns that life isn’t so embarrassing if your family is as big of a mess as you are. Traub is repped by UTA, which also reps Miller and Wolin, and attorney Ken Richman.
- 11/19/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Fox has closed a deal to develop Gavin & Stacey, an adaptation of the 2007 British romantic comedy series. The script will be written by David Rosen, creator/executive producer of the MTV cult comedy I Just Want My Pants Back, which also was based on source material — a book. BBC Worldwide Prods. and Sony Pictures TV are producing with the company behind the UK series, Baby Cow Prods. The original series, created by James Corden and Ruth Jones, chronicled the long-distance relationship between a man from England (Matthew Horne) and a woman from Wales (Joanna Page) who start off talking on the phone. They eventually decide to meet, and hit it off — but must navigate their eccentric families and friends (watch a clip below). It ran for three seasons plus a Christmas special and aired in the U.S. on BBC America. The Fox version of Gavin & Stacey focuses on the...
- 10/16/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
If blondes have more fun, what do funny blondes have?
A put-pilot commitment from Fox.
The Office‘s Angela Kinsey and The Hangover‘s Rachael Harris, along with Glee co-executive producer Stacy Traub, are producing a comedy pilot based on Harris and Kinsey’s long friendship, our sister site Deadine reports.
Exclusive | Happy Endings Taps Rachael Harris as Dave and Alex’s [Spoiler]
Fox reportedly won a bidding war for the sitcom, titled Dirty Blondes, which follows two women (played by Kinsey and Harris) who’ve been friends for nearly two decades. When both get divorced, their friendship strengthens.
The concept...
A put-pilot commitment from Fox.
The Office‘s Angela Kinsey and The Hangover‘s Rachael Harris, along with Glee co-executive producer Stacy Traub, are producing a comedy pilot based on Harris and Kinsey’s long friendship, our sister site Deadine reports.
Exclusive | Happy Endings Taps Rachael Harris as Dave and Alex’s [Spoiler]
Fox reportedly won a bidding war for the sitcom, titled Dirty Blondes, which follows two women (played by Kinsey and Harris) who’ve been friends for nearly two decades. When both get divorced, their friendship strengthens.
The concept...
- 10/9/2012
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: In a very competitive situation with multiple networks bidding, a comedy starring Rachael Harris (Hangover) and The Office‘s Angela Kinsey has gone to Fox with a put pilot commitment. Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer is set to direct the project, created by Glee co-executive producer Stacy Traub, Harris and Kinsey and to be written by Traub. Titled Dirty Blondes, the comedy, from 20th Century Fox TV, is based on the real life long-time friendship of Kinsey and Harris. It centers on two women who’ve been friends for 16 years. Both get divorced and are brought closer together by the experience. Traub and Fleischer executive produce, with Harris and Kinsey co-executive producing. Harris and Kinsey have been friends since meeting at the Los Angeles Groundlings improv theater early in their careers. Meanwhile, Traub worked with Harris on the 2007 ABC comedy series Notes From the Underbelly created by Traub and co-starring Harris.
- 10/9/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ABC has bought Pulling, a single-camera comedy based on the praised 2006 British series. Bad Teachers scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky will write the adaptation, produced by ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment, which has received a script commitment with penalty. Sharon Horgan and Dennis Kelly, creators of the original series, will executive produce with Eisenberg and Stupnitsky. Pulling revolves around three single thirtysomething women, one of them played in the original by Horgan, who live together after one breaks off her engagement the day before her wedding. ABC first took a stab at developing an U.S. version of Pulling during the 2008-09 season with Rob Hanning as writer, Stacy Traub as showrunner and Francie Calfo as executive producer. Kaplan, then an agent at Wma, sold the format to ABC, which picked up the project to pilot but not to series. Horgan and Kelly served as exec producers on the first ABC incarnation,...
- 9/17/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Brian Cox is set to co-star in the ABC drama pilot Gotham. The 20th TV-produced project centers on Detective Annie Travers (Megan Ketch) who, while investigating the “impossible murder” of a nightclub owner, is stunned to learn that New York has a whole secret magical history of which she (and everyone else) was hitherto unaware. Ifa-repped Cox will play Alderman Morrill, an intelligent, sharp-eyed gentleman and seemingly the owner of a clock shop who is actually entrusted to keep the secret magic world New York City running on an even keel. The pilot was written by Michael Green, with Francis Lawrence directing. Nelson Franklin (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) has landed the male lead opposite Mandy Moore in Moore’s ABC comedy pilot directed by Shawn Levy. The single-camera project, written by Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub, centers on newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben (Franklin), who get the opportunity...
- 3/19/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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
Mandy Moore, meet your parents.
Acting vets Stockard Channing (The West Wing) and Kurt Fuller (Psych, Better with You, etc.) have joined the cast of ABC’s Untitled Mandy Moore Project, a half-hour comedy that revolves around newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben, who open a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family.
Channing plays Barbara, Annie’s warm, devoted and sometimes overbearing mother. Fuller, meanwhile, plays her good-natured dad Steve, who’s used to taking a backseat to his take-charge wife.
Shawn Levy (Date Night) is attached to exec produce and direct the pilot.
Acting vets Stockard Channing (The West Wing) and Kurt Fuller (Psych, Better with You, etc.) have joined the cast of ABC’s Untitled Mandy Moore Project, a half-hour comedy that revolves around newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben, who open a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family.
Channing plays Barbara, Annie’s warm, devoted and sometimes overbearing mother. Fuller, meanwhile, plays her good-natured dad Steve, who’s used to taking a backseat to his take-charge wife.
Shawn Levy (Date Night) is attached to exec produce and direct the pilot.
- 3/12/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Veteran Christpher Lloyd has been tapped to star opposite John Leguizamo and Dustin Ybarra in ABC’s multicamera comedy pilot Only Fools And Horses. Based on the British format, the multicamera comedy chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers, Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Ybarra), and their aging grandfather (Lloyd) as they concoct outrageous, morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires. Also cast in the pilot is Bj Bales (Happy Endings) as Trigger, a ghetto-talking con man who is Del and Rodney’s perpetual enemy. Lloyd is with Gersh and Freedman Management; Bales is with Apa and Principato-Young, Majandra Delfino (The Great State Of Georgia) has been cast in 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,...
- 3/1/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Pilot casting is starting to heat up, and several actors familiar to TV fans have landed roles. The latest:
- Jessica Lucas, one of the better things about The CW's ill-fated "Melrose Place" reboot, will return to the network for its drama pilot "Cult," from writer Rockne S. O'Bannon ("Farscape") and "Gossip Girl" executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. She'll star as a production assistant on a TV show who begins to suspect some of its fans are re-creating crimes from the series. [Deadline]
- A pair of multiple Emmy winners are in talks to star in NBC's adaptation of the Britcom "Friday Night Dinner." Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub would play the parents of two grown children who come home for a Shabbat dinner every Friday. "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation" exec producer Greg Daniels is writing it. [Vulture]
- Mandy Moore has signed on to star in a...
- Jessica Lucas, one of the better things about The CW's ill-fated "Melrose Place" reboot, will return to the network for its drama pilot "Cult," from writer Rockne S. O'Bannon ("Farscape") and "Gossip Girl" executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. She'll star as a production assistant on a TV show who begins to suspect some of its fans are re-creating crimes from the series. [Deadline]
- A pair of multiple Emmy winners are in talks to star in NBC's adaptation of the Britcom "Friday Night Dinner." Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub would play the parents of two grown children who come home for a Shabbat dinner every Friday. "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation" exec producer Greg Daniels is writing it. [Vulture]
- Mandy Moore has signed on to star in a...
- 2/8/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Bob Fisher, Stacy Traub's Mandy Moore pilot at ABC. Levy directs, exec produces ABC has ordered a comedy pilot which stars Mandy Moore in the single-camera project being helmed and exec produced by Shawn Levy, reports Variety. 20th Century Fox TV produces the show which tells of a newlywed couple who land a great opportunity to run a fresh, hip restaurant in Moore's characters hometown where he high maintenance family resides. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Levy's 21 Laps, based at Fox, are to also serve as executive producers. Film-wise, Moore voiced Rapunzel in Disney's wonderful Tangled animation, and the well-received short Tangled Ever After. She also starred alongside Kellan Lutz, James Brolin, Jane Seymour, Jessica Szohr and Michael Weston in the Dermot Mulroney-directed Love, Wedding, Marriage...
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Bob Fisher, Stacy Traub's Mandy Moore pilot at ABC. Levy directs, exec produces ABC has ordered a comedy pilot which stars Mandy Moore in the single-camera project being helmed and exec produced by Shawn Levy, reports Variety. 20th Century Fox TV produces the show which tells of a newlywed couple who land a great opportunity to run a fresh, hip restaurant in Moore's characters hometown where he high maintenance family resides. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Levy's 21 Laps, based at Fox, are to also serve as executive producers. Film-wise, Moore voiced Rapunzel in Disney's wonderful Tangled animation, and the well-received short Tangled Ever After. She also starred alongside Kellan Lutz, James Brolin, Jane Seymour, Jessica Szohr and Michael Weston in the Dermot Mulroney-directed Love, Wedding, Marriage...
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Bob Fisher, Stacy Traub's Mandy Moore pilot at ABC. Levy directs, exec produces ABC has ordered a comedy pilot which stars Mandy Moore in the single-camera project being helmed and exec produced by Shawn Levy, reports Variety. 20th Century Fox TV produces the show which tells of a newlywed couple who land a great opportunity to run a fresh, hip restaurant in Moore's characters hometown where he high maintenance family resides. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Levy's 21 Laps, based at Fox, are to also serve as executive producers. Film-wise, Moore voiced Rapunzel in Disney's wonderful Tangled animation, and the well-received short Tangled Ever After. She also starred alongside Kellan Lutz, James Brolin, Jane Seymour, Jessica Szohr and Michael Weston in the Dermot Mulroney-directed Love, Wedding, Marriage...
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The voice of Rapunzel in Tangled just scored a pilot gig at ABC.
The network just gave a big heck yes to a new comedy that will star Mandy Moore as a newlywed who “gets the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant” in her hometown. At the same time, this new “opportunity” brings her closer to her “needy and high maintenance family.” Hilarity ensues! The comedy’s from Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub.
In the meantime, ABC is keeping the love alive for primetime soaps by ordering Mistresses to series. Targeted for summer, the show from...
The network just gave a big heck yes to a new comedy that will star Mandy Moore as a newlywed who “gets the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant” in her hometown. At the same time, this new “opportunity” brings her closer to her “needy and high maintenance family.” Hilarity ensues! The comedy’s from Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub.
In the meantime, ABC is keeping the love alive for primetime soaps by ordering Mistresses to series. Targeted for summer, the show from...
- 2/8/2012
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
ABC has given a pilot order to a single-camera comedy starring Mandy Moore and set to be directed by "Real Steel" helmer Shawn Levy. The untitled comedy was originally picked up in October with a put pilot commitment and Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub scripting. According to Deadline.com, the 20th Century Fox TV comedy will feature Moore and a yet-to-be-cast actor as newlyweds who return to her hometown to run a new restaurant, a move that brings them all too close to her predictably wacky family. Levy, who is also directing Fox's "Little Brother" this pilot season, will...
- 2/8/2012
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
ABC has ordered a half-hour single camera comedy pilot starring Mandy Moore.
The untitled project centers on newlyweds Annie (Mandy Moore) and Ben, who open a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family.
Shawn Levy (Date Night) is attached to executive produce and direct the pilot. Bob Fisher (Traffic Light) and Stacy Traub (Notes From the Underbelly) penned the script.
The untitled project centers on newlyweds Annie (Mandy Moore) and Ben, who open a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family.
Shawn Levy (Date Night) is attached to executive produce and direct the pilot. Bob Fisher (Traffic Light) and Stacy Traub (Notes From the Underbelly) penned the script.
- 2/8/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
ABC has given a late pilot order to a single-camera pilot starring actress/singer Mandy Moore, which will be 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. 20th Century Fox TV is producing with Shawn Levy and Marty Adelstein’s studio-based banner. In addition to directing, Levy is executive producing the project with Adelstein and Becky Clements. Moore’s manager John Leshay will serve as a producer. The untitled comedy, which landed at ABC in October with a put pilot commitment, was one of very few projects still in contention at ABC, which is wrapping up its pilot orders. For Levy, this marks the second single-camera comedy pilot he will direct this season,...
- 2/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Fox has bought a CIA drama from Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club) in a script deal that has a significant penalty attached to it. The project, a procedural thriller centered on the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself, is being produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Mary Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods. Usher, Adelstein, Levy and Becky Clements are executive producing. Adelstein approached Usher, who also is under an overall deal at 20th TV, with the idea for the project to find out that she had been thinking about a similar idea. This is the duo’s third project together. Adelstein first met Usher on the Fox/20th TV drama Prison Break, which Adelstein executive produced and on which Wme-repped Usher started off as a co-producer and eventually rose to co-executive producer. The two later developed a U.
- 9/21/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Fox has started working on a new comedy called Gorilla Time. The project focuses on a group of friends who try to change their lives when they reach their mid-thirties, Deadline reports. They end up trying to live with no inhibitions, eating whatever they want and sleeping around. Gorilla Time, which allegedly received interest from a number of networks, is being written by Stacy Traub. She has previously worked on Notes From The Underbelly and Spin City. Traub will write the script for Gorilla Time with Hayes Jackson, whose credits (more)...
- 8/19/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Two single-camera projects, one from Neal Moritz's Original Film and one from Shawn Levy and Marty Adelstein's 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods., landed sales after getting interest from multiple networks. Original Film's The Singles went to ABC with penalty attached. Written/co-executive produced by David Holden (Accidentally on Purpose), the comedy/dating show is based on David Holden's life experiences when his entire family were all single...all at the same time. He returned home from the Peace Corp, and found out his mom and dad got divorced, his sister was left at the altar, his brother was focused on being alternative and couldn't keep a girl, and he himself, a gay man in his mid-20s was trying to find the perfect man. Instead of the family being known as the Holdens, people ended up calling them "The Singles." Sony TV is producing with Moritz and Vivian Cannon...
- 8/18/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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