Basketball Moms
Network: WETV
Production Company(s): A. Smith & Co. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Frank Sinton, Christmas Rini
Logline: An unscripted series based on five Houston-area mothers whose sons play on rival youth teams and dream of making it to the NBA
SSN Insight: A. Smith & Co. Productions also produce the hit, Hell’s Kitchen. The company’s upcoming shows include Team Ninja Warrior for Esquire and Spartan Race for NBC.

Bastards
Network: HBO
Production Company(s): Happy Madison, Boku Films
Executive Producer(s): Alan Poul, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Doug Robinson, Mirit Toovi, Yoran Mokady, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein
Writer(s): Branden Jacobs Jenkins
Logline: Follows two elderly Vietnam vets in contemporary Miami, whose resentment of today’s entitled youth causes a small act of self-defense to snowball into something much bigger.
Details: Based on the Israeli series Nevelot created by Dror Sabo, Daphna Levin, Lee Yardeni and Aviram Buchris and produced by MYtv for the HOT network.
SSN Insight: Poul is attached to direct under his overall deal at HBO. Happy Madison also produces The Goldbergs, now in season 3.

Cat’s Cradle
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Production Company(s): Elkins Entertainment, IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Noah Hawley
Writer(s): Noah Hawley
Logline: An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, featuring a little person as the protagonist and a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Cat’s Cradle,” written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Holt, Rinehardt and Winston in 1963.
SSN Insight: In addition to creating the series Fargo, Noah Hawley is also the executive producer and writer of Legion, the series picked up by FX.

Channel Zero
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Executive Producer(s): Max Landis, Nick Antosca
Writer(s): Nick Antosca
Logline: Each season of this horror anthology will feature new storylines. In the first season, it tells the story of a mysterious children’s television show from the 1980s and the show’s role in a series of murders and one man’s dark secret.
Details: Based on Kris Straub’s “Candle Cove,” a short story that originated from the user-generated Internet horror phenomenon known as creepypasta.
SSN Insight: SyFy has given a straight to series order for two seasons.

Cold Feet
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Big Talk Productions
Executive Producer(s): Mike Bullen, Kenton Allen
Writer(s): Mike Bullen
Logline: Thirteen years after the death of Rachel, the series revival explores how Adam has coped without his soulmate, raising their son on his own and answers questions about how the other members of the gang have fared.
Details: The project is a revival of the British series “Cold Feet,” which aired on ITV from 1998-2003. It picks up 13 years after the events of the prior series.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order. Stateside, the original series, Cold Feet aired on Bravo and BBC America.

Corporate
Network: Comedy Central
Writer(s): Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, Pat Bishop
Logline: A dark, satirical workplace comedy that follows Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, two junior executives-in-training who are forced to do the dirty work of the higher-ups at one of the world’s largest corporations, Hampton DeVille.
SSN Insight: Comedy Central has given a pilot order. WOMEN sketch group members Jake Weisman and Pat Bishop will also direct.

Cry
Network: The CW
Studio: CBS TV Studios
Production Company(s): Paulist Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar, Chris Donahue and Marybeth Sprows
Writer(s): Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar
Logline: The story of a doctor who makes the astonishing medical breakthrough to bring cryogenically preserved people back to life, starting with the unfreezing of his own father — but he never expects that restoring life will have both glorious and devastating consequences.
SSN Insight: Begun in 1960, Paulist Productions has produced film and television projects with writers such as John Wells, Michael Crichton, Rod Serling and Tom Fontana. Paulist Productions also formed the Humanitas Prize to celebrate writers who affirm human dignity and explore the meaning of life.

Dead of Summer
Network: ABC Family
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kitsis/Horowitz
Executive Producer(s): Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Ian Goldberg
Writer(s): Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Ian Goldberg
Logline: Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.
SSN Insight: ABC Family gave an initial commitment of multiple scripts plus penalty and has since given a straight to series order.

Haunted
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Chris Morgan Productions
Executive Producer(s): William Brent Bell, Chris Morgan, Ainsley Davies
Writer(s): William Brent Bell
Logline: A military agent is partnered with her ex-boyfriend, now a rogue demonologist, to help a family overcome a deadly demonic infestation of their home. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The Demon of Brownsville Road: A Pittsburgh Family’s Battle with Evil in Their Home,” written by Bob Cranmer and published by Berkley Books on August 5, 2014.
SSN Insight: William Brent Bell is the director of STX’s upcoming film, The Boy and he previously was the filmmaker behind the horror films Stay Alive, The Devil Inside and Wer.

Hawaiian Dick
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Johnny Knoxville, David Janollari, Eric Gitter, Michael Rotenberg
Writer(s): Paul Lovett, David Elliot
Logline: Stateside cop, Byrd, is exiled to Hawaii in the early 1950’s and finds himself immersed in a dark and dangerous paradise. Based on a graphic novel.
Details: Based on the graphic novel “Hawaiian Dick,” written by B. Clay Moore, illustrated by Steven Griffin and published by Image Comics January 10, 2008.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development with New Line Cinema as a feature film in 2004.

Him
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Mainstreet Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Laura Mackie, Sally Haynes
Writer(s): Paula Milne
Logline: The story of a 17-year-old boy — known only as “Him” — who is caught in the limbo between childhood and adulthood and the homes of his divorced parents. The teenager tends to act out, but his behavior also is triggered by something else: He’s engaged in a primal struggle to contain the terrifying secret of a supernatural power he inherited from his grandfather — a power that only his aging grandmother understands.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order for the three-part horror drama. Shooting starts in London in January.

Hype
Network: TBS
Production Company(s): Underground, Five All in the Fifth Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Irvine Welsh, Trevor Engelson, Doug Banker
Writer(s): Irvine Welsh
Logline: Set in the world of the Miami art scene.
SSN Insight: A number of novels by Welsh have been adapted to the screen including Filth with James McAvoy. His novel, Porno, a sequel to Trainspotting, will be adapted for film with Boyle and the original cast expected to return.

Lost In Space
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Synthesis Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, Applebox Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Marc Helwig, Neil Marshall, Kevin Burns
Writer(s): Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
Logline: This is an update of the series about an attempt by the U.S. to colonize deep space by sending a single family, the Robinsons, on a 5 1/2-year journey to another planet. But a foreign secret agent, Dr. Zachary Smith, sabotages the mission, causing the ship to veer off course and become lost in space.
Details: Based on the series, “Lost In Space,” which aired on CBS from 1965-1968.
SSN Insight: Lost in Space was also adapted for the 1998 film starring William Hurt and Mimi Rogers which grossed $135 million worldwide.

Nicole & Jionni’s Shore Flip
Network: FYI
Studio: eOne Television
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jionni Lavalle, John Morayniss, Tara Long, Mark Herwick
Writer(s): No Writer Available.
Logline: Reality TV personality turned interior design maven and entrepreneur Nicole Polizzi and her husband, Jionni Lavalle, start a new business together flipping homes on the New Jersey shore.
SSN Insight: FYI has given a series order of 8 episodes.

Read Bottom Up
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Ben Karlin, Neel Shah, Sloane Crosley
Writer(s): Neel Shah, Sloane Crosley
Logline: Follows young New Yorker’s Madeline and Elliot, who meet then embark on a relationship. Much of it plays out online, under the scrutiny and well-intentioned interference of their respective best friends and confidants Emily and David.
Details: Based on the novel “Read Bottom Up: A Novel,” written by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham and published by Dey Street Books on April 7, 2015.
SSN Insight: ABC has given an initial commitment of a put pilot.

The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Baer Bones, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Alexandra McNally, Neal Baer
Writer(s): Alexandra McNally
Logline: When a young woman gets a data entry job at a mysterious corporation, she discovers that the information she is logging is building a database that has the power to affect fate – including her own.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Beautiful Bureaucrat,” written by Helen Phillips and published by Henry Holt and Co. on August 11, 2015.
SSN Insight: Last season Baer joined with Marc Cherry for prep school spy drama Cheerleader Death Squad, which went to pilot at the CW.

The Good Karma Hospital
Network: ITV 1
Studio: ITV Studios
Production Company(s): Tiger Aspect
Executive Producer(s): Will Gould, Frith Tiplady, and Iona Vrolyk
Writer(s): Dan Sefton
Logline: it’s set in the tropical paradise of Goa and follows a team of British and Indian medics as they cope with work, life and love at a cottage hospital. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, the Good Karma turns no one away.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order of six episodes of this series by Peaky Blinders maker Tiger Aspect.

Toward the Light
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Michael Rauch, Jonathan Levin, Jason Egenberg
Writer(s): Michael Rauch
Logline: Based on the book that acts a guide dedicated solely to spirit rescue and its role in saving earthbound spirits from their self-imposed exile on earth.
Details: Based on the book, “Toward the Light: Rescuing Spirits, Trapped Souls, and Earthbound Ghosts,” written by Amy Major and published by New Page Books on May 18, 2015.
SSN Insight: Falls under the two-year overall deal at CBS Television Studios with Royal Pains executive producer/co-showrunner Michael Rauch.

Untitled Eve Babitz Project
Studio: TriStar Television
Production Company(s): The Cantillon Co., Pascal Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs
Logline: Based on the books of Eve Babitz, about her life as a writer, artist, party girl and muse in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, romancing the likes of Jim Morrison, Steve Martin and Harrison Ford. She became an icon of sexual liberation when at the age of 20 she was photographed playing chess in the nude with the artist Marcel Duchamp.
Details: Based on four books by Eve Babitz: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Sex And Rage, and LA Woman.
SSN Insight: Sony-based producers Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon are currently collaborating on the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl In The Spider Web.

Winsanity
Network: Game Show Network
Production Company(s): Electus, Barracuda Television Productions
Executive Producer(s): Christopher Grant, Barry Poznick
Logline: Each episode features a contestant attempting to rank ten compelling and surprising facts in numerical order, from lowest to highest (i.e.: Which is greater: the number of times a man thinks about sex in a day, or the number of words a woman speaks in a day?). Every time a contestant is correct and wins a prize, so does a randomly selected portion of the studio audience. However, if a contestant gives a wrong answer at any point, they, and the audience lose everything, and a new contestant takes his or her place and continues the game, trying to win prizes that increase in value with each round.
SSN Insight: GSN has given a series order of 40 episodes. Donald Faison of Scrubs and Clueless fame is set to host.

Killing Patton
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): Ridley Scott Films
Executive Producer(s): Bill O’Reilly, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Mary Lisio
Writer(s): Tony Peckham
Logline: The story focuses on the death of the World War II general. It explores the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s suspicious demise, which may have been an assassination by any number of powerful individuals who wanted him silenced. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General,” written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard and published by Henry Holt and Company on September 23, 2014.
SSN Insight: NatGeo has ordered the project as a 4-hour miniseries.

My Friend 50
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Will Packer Productions, G-Unit Film & Television Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Will Packer, 50 Cent
Writer(s): Ava Tramer
Logline: Amanda Kramer is an unstable twenty-something who believes that joining 50 Cent’s entourage is the answer to all her problems. Her unlikely journey with 50 Cent’s crew takes the form of a bizarre documentary commissioned by the most unreliable narrator in history: Amanda.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial script commitment.

No Tomorrow
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Electus
Executive Producer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ben Silverman, Sean Canino
Writer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Scott McCabe, Tory Stanton
Logline: Sarah is a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier, only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.
Details: Based on the Brazilian format, “How To Enjoy The End Of the World.”
SSN Insight: Brinkerhoff previously worked on The Good Wife and is the creator and executive producer of CBS’s recently picked-up American Gothic set to launch in summer of 2016.

Rambo: New Blood
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Millennium Films, eOne Television
Executive Producer(s): Avi Lerner, John Morayniss, Sylvester Stallone, Jeb Stuart
Writer(s): Jeb Stuart
Logline: About a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand to hand combat and guerrilla warfare.
Details: Based on the novel, “First Blood,” written by David Morrell and published by Lippincott in 1972.
SSN Insight: Rambo rights owner Nu Image/Millenium Films and eOne originally joined forces to develop a Rambo TV series in 2013. Stuart just penned two miniseries projects for History, The Liberators and Boys of 67. It’s not confirmed whether Stallone will act in the series.

Tremors
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Bacon
Writer(s): Andrew Miller
Logline: An adaptation of the film “Tremors” about a giant man eating worm.
Details: Based on the 1990 film “Tremors.”
SSN Insight: No network is attached yet, but per UCP, there are multiple bidders interested. Kevin Bacon is attached to star.

Trial
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro, Ross Fineman, David Semel
Writer(s): David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro
Logline: Having been expelled from his lucrative, respectable, even legendary career as an attorney under a very dark cloud, Billy spends most of his days getting drunk, with the occasional case tossed his way by his ex-wife, Julie, who works for the same high-powered, high profile firm he co-founded. When Billy becomes involved with a wrongful death case brought to him by a young lawyer, who’s just been punitively fired from his old firm, he finds himself up against a formidable opponent.
SSN Insight: Kevin Costner was previously in discussions to play the lead role, but opted not to proceed. Amazon has given a series order of ten episodes.

The Long Road Home
Network: National Geographic Channel
Executive Producer(s): Mike Medavoy, Jason Clark, Benjamin Anderson and Edward McGurn
Writer(s): Mikko Alanne
Logline: It will chronicle the events of April 4, 2004, a day that became known in military annals as “Black Sunday,” when a newly-arrived Platoon from the First Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, was ambushed in Sadr City in Baghdad.
Details: Based on Martha Raddatz’s bestselling novel, “The Long Road Home”.
SSN Insight: The adaptation will be a miniseries. Alanne previously scripted the film, The 33 starring Antonio Banderas.

Rattle
Production Company(s): Archery Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier
Logline: About a sinister bone collector who has a macabre obsession with his museum of medical oddities. Now it seems the time has come for a fresh harvest, and it’s down to Detective Etta Fitzroy to hunt down this psychopath before he can add to his collection.
Details: Based on the debut novel by former Daily Mirror showbiz reporter Fiona Cummins entitled “Rattle” published by Pan Macmillan.
SSN Insight: Archery Pictures, which launched last year, also is developing a 10-part series entitled Mafiya, penned by William Nicholson and picked up by ITV and The Weinstein Company.

Accidentes
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Tannenbaum Company
Executive Producer(s): Mark Perez, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Haswell-Tannenbaum
Writer(s): Mark Perez
Logline: A disgraced Wall Street lawyer who had distanced himself from his Latino roots goes back home to work at his family’s strip-mall law firm in the heart of Little Havana.
SSN Insight: Perez has written for Disney’s The Country Bears and Universal’s Accepted, in addition to Mothers I’d Like To…, a comedy developed for Jennifer Lopez at Universal and Game Night at New Line.

Barbarians Rising
Network: History
Production Company(s): October Films
Executive Producer(s): Adam Bullmore, Kristen Burns, Russ McCarroll, Sally Habbershaw
Logline: The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire told from the perspective of the barbarian rebel leaders.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series, History has given a series order of eight episodes.

Brief Encounters
Network: ITV 1
Production Company(s): CPL Productions
Executive Producer(s): Fay Rusling, Oriane Messina, Arabella McGuigan, Danielle Lux
Writer(s): Fay Rusling, Oriane Messina
Logline: The 1980s-set story of four unlikely female entrepreneurs. The series introduces Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn who begin to sell exotic lingerie — to the dismay, and often delight, of their loved ones.
Details: Based on the memoir, “Good Vibrations: The True Story of Ann Summers,” written by Jacqueline Gold and published by Trafalgar Square in May, 1996. The series and memoir are both inspired by the early days of the Ann Summers Party Plan business.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order of six episodes.

Hard Corps.
Network: Fuse
Production Company(s): Seven Bucks Productions, 44 Blue Prods.
Executive Producer(s): Hiram Garcia, Rasha Drachkovitch
Logline: Set in the competitive world of Drum Corps International, Hard Corps (wt) follows two all-star teams, one in Pennsylvania and one in Northern California, who for the last 20 years, have been battling it out for the championship. The series will culminate at the world championships in Indianapolis, IN, in August.
SSN Insight: Production began last month at locations throughout the U.S. Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia are the principals at Seven Bucks Productions.

Hard Sun
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): Euston Films
Executive Producer(s): Kate Harwood, Elizabeth Kilgarriff
Logline: Set in contemporary London, detective partners and enemies, Elaine Renko and Robert Hicks seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. But what’s the point of justice in the face of Armageddon?
SSN Insight: BBC has given a series order of six episodes.

Harrow County
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Dark Horse Entertainment
Writer(s): Rebecca Kirsch
Logline: Emmy has always known that the deep, dark woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts, goblins, and the restless dead. On the eve of her 18th birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures and to the land itself in a way she never imagined, for she is the reincarnation of a powerful witch who was put to death on the very day Emmy was born. For this reason, the townsfolk mean to kill her too. In order to survive, Emmy must embrace the unusual powers at her command.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “Harrow County,” written by Cullen Bunn and to be published by Dark Horse on December 15, 2015.
SSN Insight: Kirsch has previously written for Syfy’s Dominion and Twelve Monkeys.

Heist
Network: NBC Entertainment
Production Company(s): The Boardwalk Entertainment Group
Executive Producer(s): Chuck Rose, Gary A. Randall
Writer(s): Chuck Rose
Logline: Myriad characters on both sides of a high end jewel heist scheme, plot and betray each other on their way to a huge payday that promises to change all their lives.
SSN Insight: Rose’s hourlong scripted drama The Art of More recently received a second season renewal from Sony’s Crackle days after its premiere.

Live & Learn
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Will Packer Productions
Executive Producer(s): Crystal Jenkins, Tim Story, Will Packer
Writer(s): Crystal Jenkins
Logline: Sydney Mitchell is a suburban freshman who impulsively enrolls in Owen College, a fictional black college in Atlanta, where her long-lost father teaches. The show follows her as she reconnects with her father, Bryan, while trying to gain the sense of cultural identity she lacked her entire life.
SSN Insight: Will Packers Prods. are also developing the Think Like A Man TV series and the drama The Diplomats for Fox, comedy My Friend 50. In addition, they are developing the comedy Bonita & Mechelle and the drama Buckhead, both for NBC.

Power
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Sander/Moses Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Michael G. Cooney
Writer(s): Michael G. Cooney
Logline: Set in the alternate reality of Steampunk – circa 2016 – this is the story of two rival families battling for power and the woman who takes them down.
SSN Insight: Separate to this series, producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses (Ghost Whisperer, Reckless, Profiler) have inked a first-look deal with NBC Universal International TV Studios.

Presence
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): International Famous Players Radio Picture Corp., Stearns Castle
Executive Producer(s): John Ridley, Michael McDonald
Writer(s): John Ridley
Logline: Presence Foster is a former army counter-insurgency operative who finds herself navigating a widely divergent and highly colorful cross section of Los Angeles as she unintentionally begins a career as an unlicensed private investigator.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial script commitment back in June and ordered the pilot on December 3.

Queen Charlotte
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Sander/Moses Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Tina Andrews
Writer(s): Tina Andrews
Logline: The German-born British queen is suspected of being a Moor hiding her color, having a famous lover, and a relic the Vatican desperately wants all while her husband, King George III, loves a mistress he can’t marry, is losing the Seven Years War, and is fending off secret enemies within Buckingham Palace.
SSN Insight: Separate to this series, producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses (Ghost Whisperer, Reckless, Profiler) have inked a first-look deal with NBC Universal International TV Studios.

Red Mars
Network: Spike TV
Studio:
Production Company(s): Skydance Productions, Studio JMS
Executive Producer(s): Vince Gerardis, J. Michael Straczynski, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross
Writer(s): J. Michael Straczynski
Logline: The story explores the colonization and terraforming transformation of Mars into a place where humans can sustainably live. It asks the core question – what is it to be human when we are no longer of earth? Are we not then Martians? Based on the novel series by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Details: Based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars” novel series, starting with “Red Mars,” published by Spectra – Bantam Books, January 1, 1993.
SSN Insight: Originally in development as a miniseries for Syfy with Valhalla attached as the prodction company and Gale Anne Hurd attached as executive producer- the project rolled over to 2008-2009 at AMC. Rolled over to 2009-2010 season at AMC. Spike has given a series order of ten episodes.

Section 13
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Tom Welling Productions
Executive Producer(s): Carla Kettner, Tom Welling
Writer(s): Carla Kettner
Logline: After a personal tragedy, a CIA black ops officer-turned-private contractor joins a covert organization devoted to carrying out the most difficult and dangerous high-stakes assignments.
SSN Insight: Tom Welling previously starred in CW’s long-running Smallville TV series. He will next be seen in film in Lionsgate’s The Choice. He will star in Section 13.

Shady Neighbors
Network: truTV
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Thank You, Brain! Productions
Executive Producer(s): Dean Lorey, Tracey Baird, Krysia Plonka, Jonathan Berry, Tom Lassally
Writer(s): Dean Lorey
Logline: Tom and Wendy’s marriage lacks pizzazz, and to make matters worse, nothing seems to be going their way. They’ve lost their jobs, the bills are mounting up, and it seems the world is out to get them. Fed up and worn out, they make a bold decision to dabble in a little criminal activity. Feeling pretty good after a successful heist, they find that their newly found life of crime is sort of addictive – and it breathes new life into their marriage.
SSN Insight: truTV has given a pilot order.

The Code
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Nemo Films, Rooney McP, DCD Media, Playmaker, Me2U Productions
Executive Producer(s): Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Michael Dinner
Writer(s): Graham Yost, Fred Golan
Logline: Two very different brothers, a journalist and a hacker, unearth information that those at the highest levels of political power will kill to keep secret.
Details: Based on the Australian series, “The Code,” which premiered on Australia’s ABC1 on September 21, 2014.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.

The Halcyon
Network: ITV 1
Production Company(s): Left Bank Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Sharon Hughff
Logline: The story of a bustling and glamorous five-star hotel at the center of London society and a world at war. It will reveal London life against the backdrop of war and the impact it has on families, politics, relationships and work across every social strata. It unspools through the eyes of visiting American journalist Joe O’Hara.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order of eight episodes.

Through My Eyes
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): Bender Brown Productions
Executive Producer(s): Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown, Zaur Bolotaev
Writer(s): Joel Wyman
Logline: The show is a horror/thriller where the story unfolds though the direct point of view of a different character each episode. Based on the Russian format.
Details: Based on the Russian format, “Moimi glazami (Through My Eyes)” which premiered in 2013 on the Russian network, TNT.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial script commitment.

Transylvania
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Midnight Radio
Executive Producer(s): Hugh Sterbakov, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Scott Rosenberg
Writer(s): Hugh Sterbakov
Logline: Set in 1880, a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father ventures from New York City to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard detective. Together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.
SSN Insight: Midnight Radio has a first-look deal at CBS Studios.

Untitled Stephen Falk Alison Bennett Comedy Project
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Falk, Alison Bennett
Writer(s): Stephen Falk, Alison Bennett
Logline: Ali is an unrelentingly dissatisfied TV writer who returns to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania to live “the simple life.”
SSN Insight: Falk recently signed an overall deal to develop and produce projects for FX Networks and FX Prods. following FXX’s third-season renewal of You’re The Worst, which he created and executive produces.

Untitled Sue Chung Jennifer Johnson Drama Project
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer(s): Sue Chung, Jennifer Johnson
Writer(s): Sue Chung
Logline: A trio of women work outside the law to deliver justice against those who evade punishment in the legal system. At the same time, they seek personal revenge against the people responsible for destroying their own lives.
SSN Insight: Chung has previously written on Gotham and Agent Carter.

Upstart Crow
Network: BBC 2
Production Company(s): BBC In House Productions
Logline: The show focuses on the life of playwright William Shakespeare before he became famous.
Details: Inspired by the pre-famous life of William Shakespeare.
SSN Insight: BBC 2 has given a series order of 6 episodes.

Vatican City
Network: Amazon
Studio: CBS TV Studios
Production Company(s): Scott Free Prods., King Size Prods.
Executive Producer(s): Robert King, Michelle King, Liz Glotzer, Ridley Scott, David Zucker
Writer(s): Robert King, Michelle King
Logline: Tells the story of an American, female, on-screen reporter working at a financial news network in Rome. There she comes to the attention of the liberal pope, Clement, who, knowing he can’t buck tradition and make women priests, decides to shake up the curia by making her the papal spokesperson. Once there, she’s forced to navigate 2000 years of sexism and a boss who 1.2 billion people consider infallible.
SSN Insight: Robert King and Michelle King are behind two other series: CBS’ The Good Wife and the upcoming BrainDead. Scott Free previously produced the 2013 Showtime drama pilot The Vatican.

Voice of the City
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Claudia Shear, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Bruce Cohen
Writer(s): Claudia Shear
Logline: Set in New York City in 1891 and told from the point of view of a romantic showman, Patrick and his love, Lucy, as they struggle to create a life in a new land in the only business they know.
SSN Insight: Actress and playwright Shear was previously nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actress for Dirty Blonde. Her musical adaptation of Tuck Everlasting opens on Broadway this spring 2016.

You’re Back In The Room
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): BBC Worldwide Productions, Tuesday’s Child
Executive Producer(s): Karen Smith
Logline: Contestants are challenged to complete a variety of simple, everyday tasks, from frosting a cake to painting a picture after being hypnotized.
Details: Based on the UK series, “You’re Back In The Room,” which premiered on ITV on March 14, 2015.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of eight episodes.

2 Black Dudes
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Fuzzy Door Productions
Executive Producer(s): Seth MacFarlane, Michael A Mariano
Writer(s): J. Lee
Logline: Originally from St. Louis, two African-American cousins with two completely different perspectives on life, now live in Los Angeles and continuously bump heads on everything from religion, sex, politics, and being black in America all the way down to who’s the best ninja turtle.
SSN Insight: J. Lee was previously a story editor on MacFarlane’s The Cleveland Show. Mariano took over for creator Greg Garcia as showrunner on the final season of the Fox/20th TV comedy series Raising Hope under a multi-year deal with Fox that included development.

8 Years Lost
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jason Blum
Writer(s): Lauren MacKenzie, Andy Gettens
Logline: Jayna Beckner was a teenage girl who went missing in 2007 and whose body is discovered eight years later. When we learn these remains were just a few weeks old the mystery deepens– where has Jayna been all this time? And why was she killed now?
SSN Insight: Will look and feel exactly like a true crime documentary. MacKenzie and Gettens recently wrote for A&E The Returned and are now producers on CBS’s American Gothic.

Animal Kingdom
Network: TNT
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): John Wells Productions
Executive Producer(s): John Wells, Jonathan Lisco, Andrew Stearn, David Michôd, Liz Watts
Writer(s): Jonathan Lisco
Logline: When 17-year-old Josh moves in with his wild, free-wheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town, he is pulled into their life of indulgence and excess. But after Josh discovers that it’s all being funded by criminal activities, it becomes clear to him that joining the family comes with more danger and excitement than he might be ready to handle.
Details: Based on the film, “Animal Kingdom,” (Australia/ 2010) directed by David Michôd and starring Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton and Jacki Weaver.
SSN Insight: TNT ordered the pilot back in May and gave a series order on December 10.

Bob’s Your Uncle
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions
Executive Producer(s): Greg Garcia
Writer(s): John Cochran
Logline: A hot shot lawyer takes his socially awkward nephew under his wing and becomes his guide both in and out of the office.
SSN Insight: Cochran finished 8th on Survivor’s South Pacific season before winning Survivor: Caramoan – Fans vs. Favorites in 2012.

Designated Survivor
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): infinitum nihil
Executive Producer(s): Nikki Toscano, Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, Norman Todd
Writer(s): Nikki Toscano
Logline: When the President, Vice President and Cabinet all meet in one location for an event such as the State of the Union, one Cabinet member is conspicuously missing: the Designated Survivor. Hidden away in an undisclosed location with Presidential-level security, the Designated Survivor is ready to take the reins of the President should the unthinkable happen and the rest of the government is wiped out in an attack.
SSN Insight: Sutherland will star as the President. Fox has given a straight to series order.

Dope Girls
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Management 360
Executive Producer(s): Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Marcus Blakely, Guymon Casady, Jill McElroy
Writer(s): Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Logline: Paige and Jordan may be weed dealers, but in their eyes they are entrepreneurs. Their dope delivery app is quickly gaining popularity with foodies, celebrities and the most particular and crucial consumers, hipsters. These two girls, living in Los Angeles, are desperate to succeed, find a little romance, and keep their clients happy and high, all with the least amount of effort possible.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order as of December 14.

Good Behavior
Network: TNT
Writer(s): Blake Crouch, Chad Hodge
Logline: Letty Dobesh is a thief and a con artist whose life is always one wrong turn, one bad decision from implosion — which is exactly how she likes it. Fresh out of prison, Letty is attempting to stay afloat. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, setting her on a collision course with the killer and entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.
Details: Based on the Letty Dobesh novel series, written by Blake Crouch and published by Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
SSN Insight: TNT ordered the pilot back in July and has since given a series order on December 10.

Highland
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Tomorrow Studios, ITV Studios
Executive Producer(s): Margaret Cho, Liz Sarnoff, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements
Writer(s): Liz Sarnoff
Logline: After a court ordered rehab, Margaret Cho gets a chance to start over but has to move in with her dysfunctional family who now runs a pot dispensary.
SSN Insight: Adelstein and Clements currently executive produce ABC’s Last Man Standing, NBC’s Aquarius and TNT’s Good Behavior.

Little Darlings
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Shiny Penny
Executive Producer(s): Stacey Sher, Emily Levitan, Amanda Lasher
Writer(s): Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Logline: College student Ophelia is an edgy, hip young trouble magnet: she works in a vintage record store, sells weed on the side, and is on a first-name basis with Campus Security. Jules is a sweet, small-town girl who is a member of the one of the best sororities on campus — but she has a secret identity as a masked superheroine who dishes out rough justice to those getting away with sexual assault and bullying on campus. When Ophelia learns all about Jules and her clandestine operation, she insists on playing Batgirl to , well, to Batgirl.
SSN Insight: MTV gave a series order as of December 14.

Miracle Man
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Kevin Sorbo, Bob Eisele, Sam Sorbo
Writer(s): Bob Eisele
Logline: Jason, a decorated Army Ranger, is nearly killed in Afghanistan. Haunted by the experience, he’s discharged and returns home to a wife who’s left him and an adult son he barely knows. As he struggles to piece his life together, he discovers that he has the ability to make miracles happen that can change people’s lives, and sets out on a quest to discover why.
SSN Insight: Series to star Kevin Sorbo who previously starred in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Andromeda and on the film side, God’s Not Dead.

NOS4A2
Network: AMC
Studio: AMC Studios
Production Company(s): The Tornante Company
Executive Producer(s): Michael Eisner
Logline: Victoria “Vic” McQueen is a young woman with an uncanny talent for finding lost things… a gift that is gradually destroying her mind. Her search for help leads her to someone with powers not unlike her own: the psychopath Charlie Manx, who has survived for a century by abducting children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith (license plate: NOS4A2), and draining his passengers of their souls to keep himself forever young. When Manx kidnaps Vic’s own son, she’ll plunge into the impossible, nightmare world that lies just beneath the surface of everyday America in a desperate attempt to get him back. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “NOS4A2,” written by Joe Hill and published by William Morrow on October 15, 2013.
SSN Insight: Hill’s fantasy thriller Horns was adapted for the 2014 film starring Daniel Radcliffe, his novel Heart Shaped Box is currently being redeveloped at Warner Bros. and Hill’s supernatural comic series Locke & Key was first developed for TV and later as a feature at Universal.

Now You See Her
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): James Patterson Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): James Patterson, Leopoldo Gout, Siobhan Byrne O’Connor, Bill Haber, Bill Robinson
Writer(s): Siobhan Byrne O’Connor
Logline: A successful attorney at a boutique New York City law firm is hiding her true identity and past as a murderer when one case threatens to expose her and upend her new life and career. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Now You See Her,” written by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge and published by Little, Brown and Company June 27, 2011.
SSN Insight: James Patterson Entertainment has a first-look deal at CBS TV Studios.

Shots Fired
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Imagine Television
Executive Producer(s): Gina Prince-Bythewood, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo
Writer(s): Gina Prince-Bythewood, Reggie Rock Bythewood
Logline: When a black officer shoots a white teen in a racially charged Tennessee town, the country is suddenly buzzing. Meanwhile, outrage over police brutality has been going unheard for awhile. Considering the unusual circumstances of this case, however, two out-of-town, black prosecutors are brought in to sort through the evidence and find out what really happened. Preston Terry and Ashe Bell have different ways of doing things, but both seek justice all the same. As new evidence surfaces and the community grows anxious, Terry and Bell must keep personal bias and suspicions to themselves as they seek the truth.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a pilot presentation. The project is planned as a limited series.

Sweet Harts
Production Company(s): Hartbreak Films, 44 Blue Productions
Executive Producer(s): Melissa Joan Hart, Paula Hart, Stephanie Drachkovitch
Writer(s):
Logline: The show will focus on Melissa Joan Hart and her ex-showbiz siblings as they open and operate Melissa’s dream dessert store – Sweet Harts – in her hometown of Westport, Connecticut. After a failed attempt with other partners in Sherman Oaks, California, Melissa is ready to try again – but this time, the right way. With her opinionated family by her side helping her, everyone is excited to see this dream to fruition – but of course, it wouldn’t be a dream without a little drama along the way.
Details:
SSN Insight: Melissa Joan Hart can next be seen in the upcoming film, God’s Not Dead 2.

The Circus: Inside The Greatest Political Show On Earth
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Left/Right Films
Executive Producer(s): Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon
Logline: A weekly half-hour show between January and November that will follow multiple individual stories and key characters from the campaigns and capture their unique perspectives.
SSN Insight: The real-time documentary series will premiere in January.

The Job Squad
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions, Big Talk Productions
Executive Producer(s): Stephnie Weir, Greg Garcia, Kenton Allen, Matthew Justice
Writer(s): Stephnie Weir, Greg Garcia
Logline: Set at an unemployment office in Burlington, Vermont, Trish is an office manager who heads up a staff of colorful characters doing their best to turn Un-Employment into Fun-Employment.
Details: Based on the British series, “The Job Lot,” which premiered on ITV in 2013.
SSN Insight: ABC has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.

The Letter
Network: ABC Family/ Freeform
Production Company(s): Sirens Media
Executive Producer(s): Rebecca Toth, Valerie Haselton, Lucila D’Agostino
Logline: In each episode, four people close to one another draw names and anonymously write to the selected person a thoughtful yet totally honest letter outlining what, in their opinion, needs to be changed in order to improve and transform for the better the life of the recipient. For one week, each “reader” must follow all the rules and instructions outlined in the letter – culminating in a dramatic and emotionally charged meeting where the authors of each letter reveal themselves to their best friends.
SSN Insight: ABC Family/Freeform has given a series order.

Untitled Coast Guard Drama Project
Production Company(s): Armada Partners
Executive Producer(s): David M. Rudy
Logline: The series will tell stories about the nation’s oldest and premiere maritime agency, the United States Coast Guard.
Details: Inspired by real-life stories of the U.S. Coast Guard.
SSN Insight: The U.S. Coast Guard has joined with production company Armada Partners to develop the project which is in the early concept stages. Established in 1790 the Coast Guard is the oldest continuous seagoing service within the U.S. Armed Forces.

Untitled Nicole Byer Comedy Project
Network: MTV Networks
Executive Producer(s): Avi Gilbert, Christian Lander
Writer(s): Christian Lander
Logline: Out of money, luck and options, myopically self-serving Nicole is forced to move in with her sister and her sister’s four kids.
SSN Insight: MTV gave a series order, as of December 14.

Untitled Richard LaGravanes/ Julianne Hough Dance Drama
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Temple Hill Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Richard LaGravenese, Julianne Hough, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen
Writer(s): Richard LaGravenese
Logline: Set in the competitive world of dance, the show highlights how dancers must work, fight, and create to achieve their dreams.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial commitment of a script plus penalty.

American Lion
Network: HBO Network
Studio: Lionsgate
Executive Producer(s): Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, Matt Jacobson, Sean Penn
Writer(s): Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard
Logline: The story of Andrew Jackson, a man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy.
Details: Based on the book, ” American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House on November 11, 2008.
SSN Insight: HBO has greenlighted the six-hour event miniseries with Oscar winner Sean Penn set to play the President in his first major TV role.

Apparition
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Albert Torres, Tom Lassally
Writer(s): Albert Torres
Logline: A successful New Orleans doctor is reluctantly pulled into the world of paranormal investigation when she discovers a secret family history that awakens an ability to connect with the afterlife. She teams up with an uncle she never knew she had and a former TV ghost hunter to help troubled souls, dead and live, find peace in this life and the next.
SSN Insight: Apparition is Torres’ first foray into television, previously he wrote the 2008 film Henry Poole Is Here and last year he adapted comic book series Locke & Key for Universal.

Botcop
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): KatCo
Executive Producer(s): Geoff Barbanell, Itai Grunfeld, Tracy Katsky, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Geoff Barbanell, Itai Grunfeld
Logline: In 1985 botcop was the cutting edge of law enforcement technology. Half man and half robot, all bad ass and he cleaned the mean streets of LA bringing crime to its lowest levels of all time. Now, 30 years later, botcop is nothing more that an outdated relic, he is fired from the LAPD and forced to take the only law enforcement gig he can get – that of a meter maid.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2015-2016 season. Fox has given a pilot presentation order as of December 15.

Bunsen is a Beast!
Network: Nickelodeon
Executive Producer(s): Butch Hartman
Logline: Bunsen is the first beast to attend a human-grade school. On his first day of school, Bunsen befriends a classmate named Mikey, who over time guides Bunsen through the ups and downs of life as a human. On the flip side, Bunsen introduces Mikey to the wild and wacky world of monsters which, as it turns out, is a lot more fun than scary. No matter what the stakes, Bunsen and Mikey will always have each other’s backs.
SSN Insight: Network has ordered 20 episodes.

Good Girls Revolt
Network: Amazon
Studio: TriStar Television, Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Lynda Obst Productions
Executive Producer(s): Lynda Obst, Jeff Okin, Dana Calvo, Darlene Hunt, Don Kurt
Writer(s): Dana Calvo
Logline: A group of young female researchers at “News of the Week” simply ask to be treated fairly. Their revolutionary request will spark convulsive changes and upend marriages, careers, sex lives, love lives, and friendships.
Details: Based on the sexual discrimination cases chronicled in “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace,” written by Lynn Povich and published by PublicAffairs on September 10, 2012.
SSN Insight: Amazon has picked up the pilot to series. Additionally, new series Red Oaks and Hand Of God will join recently renewed The Man In The High Castle in getting second-season pickups.

Highston
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Four by Two Films
Executive Producer(s): Bob Nelson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Todd Hoffman
Writer(s): Bob Nelson
Logline: Highston Liggetts is a 19-year-old with a wide circle of celebrity friends—that only he can see. His parents, Jean and Wilbur, force him to get psychiatric help, but his Uncle Billy thinks he’s just fine.
SSN Insight: Amazon has picked up the pilot to series and gave a ten episode order.

Hoff The Record
Network: UKTV, AXS TV
Production Company(s): Me & You Productions
Executive Producer(s): Krishnendu Majumdar, Richard Yee, Eric Gardner, Iain Coyle
Logline: The show follows TV legend David Hasselhoff – playing a highly fictionalized version of himself – as he arrives in the UK in an attempt to reignite his flagging career. It’s been thirty years since he rose to worldwide fame in Baywatch and Knight Rider and things have since gone a little stale for The Hoff. Will a move across the Atlantic change his luck?
SSN Insight: AXS TV bought Season 1 of UK mockumentary series and will premiere it in early spring.

Kill Jill
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): FourBoys Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Laura Solon, Patricia Heaton, David Hunt
Writer(s): Laura Solon
Logline: An idealistic graduate, desperate to escape her small hometown, takes a job with a glamorous West Coast businesswoman who appears to have it all — including a plot against her life.
SSN Insight: Kill Jill is under the deal FourBoys (run by Heaton and Hunt) inked with WBTV back in August.

Mindhunter
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Denver & Delilah Films
Executive Producer(s): David Fincher, Charlize Theron
Logline: Storyline under wraps. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” written by John Douglas and Mark Olshker and published by Pocket Books on August 1, 1996.
SSN Insight: Previously set up at HBO and Fox 21 in 2009 with writer Scott Buck. Fincher is expected to direct.

One Mississippi
Network: Amazon
Studio: FX Productions, Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Pig Newton, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Tig Notaro, Diablo Cody, Louis C.K., Dave Becky, Blair Breard
Writer(s): Tig Notaro, Diablo Cody
Logline: Tig Notaro deals with the complex reentry into her childhood hometown of Bay Saint Lucille, Mississippi, to deal with the unexpected death of her mother, the interminable life of the party, Caroline. Reeling from her own recently declining health, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the one person who actually understood her, with help from her older but not always wiser brother, Remy, and her emotionally distant stepfather, Bill. A surprise visit from Tig’s girlfriend, Brooke, only compounds the reality of how out of place Tig is in a world without her mother.
Details: Loosely inspired by Tig Notaro’s life.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at FX. Louis CK was previously attached to direct.

Patriot
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Executive Producer(s): Steve Conrad, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Charlie Gogolak, Gil Bellows
Writer(s): Steve Conrad
Logline: The story follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner. His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-official cover” — that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government’s incompetence, and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the “front” industrial piping company, cause a barrage of ever-escalating fiascos that jeopardize Tavner’s mission.
SSN Insight: Amazon has given a series order of ten episodes.

Please Don’t Go
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Pacific Standard
Executive Producer(s): Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea
Writer(s): Meaghan Oppenheimer
Logline: The story follows the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas. Raised in the trailer parks of Texas, she has left behind a life of struggle amid squalor, working her way into a corner office and mansion in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhood. But beneath her facade of togetherness, she’s plagued by self-destructive tendencies and long hidden family secrets that begin to unravel her life.
SSN Insight: Pacific Standard is also prepping a romantic mystery drama from Rob Long for ABC and is producing HBO’s Big Little Lies, in which Witherspoon will star.

Revenge Body
Network: E! Networks
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Ryan Seacrest Media, Rogue Atlas Productions, KhloMoney Productions, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Khloe Kardashian, Eli Frankel, Ryan Seacrest
Logline: In each episode, two heartbroken individuals will get the opportunity to recreate themselves with the help of a team of Hollywood’s most elite trainers, stylists and glam squads assembled by Khloe Kardashian.
SSN Insight: Ordered to series. E! has ordered 6 episodes.

The Interestings
Network: Amazon
Studio: TriStar Television, Amazon Studios
Executive Producer(s): Lyn Greene, Richard Levine, Michael De Luca, Lindsay Sloane
Writer(s): Lyn Greene, Richard Levine
Logline: Based on a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they’re 15 in 1974. The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older.
Details: Based on the novel “The Interestings,” written by Meg Wolitzer and published by Riverhead Books in 2013.
SSN Insight: Mike Newell, who previously directed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, has lifted the director contingency on this project.

The Passion
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Dick Clark Productions, Eye2Eye Media
Executive Producer(s): Allen Shapiro, Michael Mahan, Mark Bracco, Jacco Doornbos, Adam Anders
Logline: Set in modern day, but told through song and Bible verse, The Passion will unfold live at some of New Orleans’ most iconic locations as Jesus presides over the Last Supper, is betrayed by Judas, arrested, put on trial by Pontius Pilate, convicted and ultimately resurrected. In addition, hundreds of people from New Orleans will participate in a live procession as a 20 foot, illuminated cross is carried through the streets of New Orleans from the Superdome to the location of the live stage at Woldenburg Park on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Details: Based on a format originally created in the Netherlands.
SSN Insight: The show first aired in 2011, and became the most successful live storytelling event ever on Dutch TV.

The Windsors
Network: Channel 4
Production Company(s): Noho Film and TV
Executive Producer(s): Camilla Campbell, Robert Wulff-Cochrane
Writer(s): Bert Tyler-Moore, George Jeffrie
Logline: A look at the imagined lives and loves of the royal family.
Details: Inspired by real events.
SSN Insight: Ordered to series. UK’s Channel 4 has ordered six episodes.

Untitled Latin Romeo and Juliet Drama Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): Eduardo Cisneros, Jason Shuman
Writer(s): Eduardo Cisneros, Jason Shuman
Logline: A modern Romeo and Juliet tale set against the backdrop of Los Angeles’ new Latino wealth in the music and radio industry.
Details: Based on the play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare.
SSN Insight: The famous play is also the basis for the ABC series is developing entitled Still Star-Crossed.

Untitled Riddick Drama Project
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): One Race Films
Executive Producer(s): Vin Diesel, Samantha Vincent
Logline: Storyline under wraps. Based on the films.
Details: The project is based on the Riddick film trilogy, which included “Pitch Black”(2000), “The Chronicles of Riddick” (2004), “Riddick” (2013).
SSN Insight: Vin Diesel and his One Race Television has signed a multi-year, first-look production deal with Universal TV.

When We Rise
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Laurence Mark Productions
Executive Producer(s): Laurence Mark, Dustin Lance Black, Bruce Cohen, Gus van Sant
Writer(s): Dustin Lance Black
Logline: The story centers on the gay rights movement starting in the 70s up to the overturning of Prop 8 and the legalization of gay marriage.
Details: Based on the life of Dustin Lance Black.
SSN Insight: Planned as an 8-hour miniseries.

Z: The Beginning of Everything
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Killer Films
Executive Producer(s): Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin, Christina Ricci, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon
Writer(s): Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin
Logline: A series based on the novel, “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”.
Details: Based on the novel, “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” by Therese Anne Fowler (2013)
SSN Insight: Ordered to series. Amazon has given a series order of 10 episodes.

Danger & Eggs
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Executive Producer(s): Shadi Petosky, Michael Owens, Vincent Stall
Writer(s): Shadi Petosky
Logline: Follows the endless adventures of fearless D.D. Danger and her ever-cautious best friend, a giant, talking egg named Phillip. D.D., an energetic future stuntwoman, is always chasing her next big thrill. Lucky for her, Phillip is always there with jerry-rigged safety mechanisms to more responsibly–and sometimes absurdly–make her thrill seeking dreams come true.
SSN Insight: Amazon has given a series order. Michael Owens previously was a BAFTA award winner for his visual effects works on The Witches of Eastwick. He’s credited as a visual effects supervisor on American Sniper and Tropic Thunder among other films.

Florida Roadkill
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Evan Endicott, Josh Stoddar, Jennifer Eatz, Danny Davids, Neil Canton
Writer(s): Evan Endicott, Josh Stoddard
Logline: About the violent and bizarre adventures of a charismatic criminal named Serge Storms. While Serge suffers a range of mental illnesses that render him compulsive, paranoid and frequently homicidal, his strong sense of justice and rigid moral compass make him a compelling antidote to Florida’s ethically-challenged crooks and miscreants.
Details: Based on the Serge Storms novel series by Tim Dorsey. The first book in the series is titled Florida Roadkill.
SSN Insight: Production and distribution company Sonar Entertainment has previously given projects a straight-to-series order, so this project will likely follow that model. Endicott and Stoddard created the Amazon comedy series Betas and are presently writers and producers on MTV’s forthcoming The Shannara Chronicles.

Howard’s End
Network: BBC One
Production Company(s): Playground, City Entertainment, KippSterEntertainment
Executive Producer(s): Colin Callender
Writer(s): Kenneth Lonergan
Logline: Explores the changing landscape of social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the prism of three families: the intellectual and idealistic Schlegels, the wealthy Wilcoxes from the world of business, and the working class Basts.
Details: Based on the EM Forster novel of the same name. It was later adapted into an Oscar-winning Merchant Ivory feature in 1992.
SSN Insight: Was originally developed for BBC Two. Production on the four-part drama is set to begin in the summer of 2016. Kenneth Lonergan is a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright best known for You Can Count On Me and Gangs Of New York.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Fearless Films, Mercury Films, A Canada Film Capital Company
Executive Producer(s): Ken Scarborough, Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond, Clint Eland
Writer(s): Ken Scarborough
Logline: Follows the adventures of Mouse, Oliver and other familiar friends as they discover that when you’ve got a curious Mouse for a friend (not to mention a Moose, a Pig, a Cat and a Dog), one thing always leads to another, then another, and then another! You never know what to expect, but you do know it’s going to be fun—and maybe a little bit messy. Much like the books, the story will start in one place and lead to unexpectedly delightful twists and turns until we are back at home where we started.
Details: Based on the book “”If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” written by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond and published by Harper & Row in 1985.
SSN Insight: Amazon ordered 26 episodes for a full season order. Ken Scarborough was previously the head writer on the PBS series Arthur and has writing credits on NBC’s SNL.

Niko and the Sword of Light
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Writer(s): Rob Hoegee
Logline: Ten-year-old Niko who is the last of his kind in a strange, fantastical world, must embark on an epic quest to defeat the darkness and bring the light back to his land. Armed with his magic sword, brave Niko journeys to the Cursed Volcano, making new friends and powerful foes along the way, all while uncovering secrets about his mysterious past.
SSN Insight: Amazon has given a series order. Rob Hoegee was previously a story editor on Cartoon Network’s Generator Rex and Teen Titans.

Top Gear (Revamp)
Network: BBC Two, BBC America
Production Company(s): BBC In House Productions
Executive Producer(s): Andy Wilman
Logline: Featuring super-cars, extreme stunts and challenges, time trials, road tests and the occasional celebrity driver, to be hosted by four presenters, one of whom is a secret test driver.
SSN Insight: Previous hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond along with executive producer Lisa Clark and script editor Tom Ford all departed the show in 2015. The revamped series will have three new hosts to aid veteran presenter Chris Evans: racecar driver Sabine Schmitz, motoring journalist Chris Harris and ex-Formula One driver David Coulthard.

Boost Unit
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Seven Bucks Productions, Imperative Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Tim Kring, Jonny Umansky, Zach Hyatt
Writer(s): Jonny Umansky, Zach Hyatt
Logline: Follows the newest recruit of the LAPD’s Auto Theft Task Force, a notorious getaway driver with a hidden past.
Details: Based on a real LAPD unit that focuses specifically on all car crimes that take place in Los Angeles, ranging from thefts, narcotics trafficking, chases, terrorism and bomb threats.
SSN Insight: Dwayne Johnson currently stars and executive produces HBO’s Ballers as well as TNT’s The Hero and Wake Up Call and Spike’s Rock the Troops. Tim Kring’s previous credits include Heroes Reborn, USA’s Dig and the Freeform drama Beyond.

Hide The Smile
Production Company(s): Thinkfactory Media, Yellow Films/ Story Of…
Executive Producer(s): Larry the Cable Guy, Leslie Greif, Adam Reed, Maggie Houlehan
Logline: Through a mashup of game show, stage entertainment and comedy sketches, the show challenges contestants to keep a straight face and hold back laughter in an effort to win cash, as they are put in the midst of scripted sketches performed by a professional comedy troupe. Taped in front of a live studio audience, the show features bizarre scenarios, outlandish costumes and surprise celebrity guests, all designed to ratchet up the comedy pressure and make it harder for contestants not to crack a smile.
Details: Based on the Finnish format, “Hide The Smile,” which aired on Finland’s channel, YLE.
SSN Insight: Thinkfactory licensed Hide The Smile from London-based, Small World IFT Distribution. The series has also been adapted for Canadian youth channel Vrak, and was licensed in Ukraine.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): The Jackal Group
Executive Producer(s): Gail Berman, Lou Adler, Kenny Ortega
Writer(s): Jim Sharman, Richard O’Brien
Logline: A re-imagining of the story about a couple who encounters a strange group of transsexuals when their car breaks down.
Details: This project is a remake of the 1975 film, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” (1975), directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at Fox for the 2003-2004 season. Order was cast contingent but has been lifted. Victoria Justice will star as Janet and Ryan McCartan as Brad, alongside Laverne Cox, Reeve Carney and Staz Nair. Fox plans to tape the two-hour event this winter for premiere in the fall.

Trollhunters
Network: Netflix
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Production Company(s): Del Toro Productions
Executive Producer(s): Guillermo del Toro
Logline: Set in a fantastical world where two best friends make a startling discovery beneath their hometown.
Details: Based on the book Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus and illustrated by Sean Murray, published by Disney-Hyperion in July 2015.
SSN Insight: DreamWorks Animation has not said who will be the writers of the series. The greenlight was given as part of an expanded new, multi-year deal between the production partners in which Netflix will launch several new series from DreamWorks Animation.

Untitled Louis C.K./Albert Brooks Animated Comedy Project
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Production Company(s): Pig Newton, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Louis C.K., Albert Brooks
Writer(s): Louis C.K., Albert Brooks
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: FX has ordered a pilot. Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks are also both in the voice cast of Illumination’s upcoming feature The Secret Life Of Pets.

Voltron
Network: Netflix
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Logline: A reimagining of the popular animated adventure series that follows a team of astronauts who pilot the titular giant super-robot.
Details: Based on the original 1984-1985 television series that aired in syndication. The first season was adapted from the Japanese anime television series Beast King GoLion and the second season, was adapted from the unrelated anime series Armored Fleet Dairugger XV.
SSN Insight: DreamWorks Animation has not released who will create the show. The greenlight was given as part of an expanded new, multi-year deal between the production partners in which Netflix will launch several new series from DreamWorks Animation. A live-action feature version has been in development for years among different studios, but rights issues kept the film from being made.

American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story
Production Company(s): Stephen David Entertainment, Alta Loma Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Stephen David, Peter Jaysen, Dick Rosenzweig
Logline: Series to span over six decades of American history, telling the dual narrative of Hefner’s personal life, intertwined with the evolution of the country he sought to change.
Details: Based on the life of Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy.
SSN Insight: The “hybrid” docudrama style miniseries is currently being shopped to networks and slated to begin production in 2016. The producers will have full access to Hefner’s video and photographic archives and the Playboy library, which includes more than 60 years the magazine and unpublished material.

Barry
Network: HBO Network
Executive Producer(s): Bill Hader, Alec Berg
Writer(s): Bill Hader, Alec Berg
Logline: An ex-Marine works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to kill someone and ends up finding an accepting community in a group of eager hopefuls within the L.A. theater scene.
SSN Insight: HBO ordered the pilot on January 11.

Behind The Mask
Production Company(s): SYCO Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Simon Cowell
Logline: Based on the book about a sex club that organizes decadent events in secret locations for the world’s elite. There, people explore their innermost fantasies and deepest sexual desires in a safe but sexually-charged environment. It is a club where women make all the rules and men must be invited to participate.
Details: Based on the memoir, “Behind The Mask: Enter a World Where Women Make – and Break – the Rules ,” written by Emma Sayle and published by HarperCollins on April 24, 2014.
SSN Insight: Behind The Mask is Sayle’s debut book. Cowell currently serves as a judge and executive producer on America’s Got Talent.

Chance
Network: Hulu
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Michael London, Kem Nunn, Alexandra Cunningham, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Grazer
Writer(s): Kem Nunn, Alexandra Cunningham
Logline: Follows Eldon Chance, a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness. After an ill-advised decision regarding an alluring patient who may or may not be struggling with a multiple personality disorder, Chance finds himself in the cross hairs of her abusive spouse, who also happens to be a ruthless police detective.
Details: Based on the novel “Chance,” written by Kem Nunn and published by Scribner on February 18, 2014.
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a two season order of 20 episodes.

Gypsy
Network: Netflix
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Lisa Rubin, Liza Chasin, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Writer(s): Lisa Rubin
Logline: Jean Holloway, a therapist, begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives.
SSN Insight: Rubin’s future projects include adapting best-selling novel I Was Here by Gayle Forman for New Line and adapting the novel Food Whore for DreamWorks.

Knightfall
Network: History
Production Company(s): Midnight Radio, The Combine
Executive Producer(s): Don Handfield, Jeremy Renner, Richard Rayner, Jeff Pinkner, André Nemec
Logline: The series chronicles the actual events leading up to and following the persecution, downfall and burning at the stake of the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th, 1307. based on a true story.
Details: Based on the true story of the fall of the Knight Templar.
SSN Insight: History has given a series order for 10 episodes.

Made In LA
Network: Freeform
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Orchard Films, Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Mila Kunis, Cami Curtis, Susan Curtis, Lisa Sterbakov, Sascha Rothchild
Writer(s): Sascha Rothchild
Logline: The story details how two friends founded a global clothing brand on just $200. Based on the memoir, ” “The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand.”
Details: Based on the memoir, “The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand,” written by Juicy Couture founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor and published by Gotham on May 29, 2014.
SSN Insight: This is the fourth collaboration between Rothchild and Fake Empire. They’re most recent team-up was on CW’s drama The Carrie Diaries.

Maleficio
Network: Starz
Production Company(s): Televisa USA
Executive Producer(s): Mauricio Katz, Pedro Peirano
Writer(s): Mauricio Katz, Pedro Peirano
Logline: Don Enrique De Martino, a powerful Mexican businessman makes a deadly pact with the Devil.
Details: Based on the Mexican series “El Maleficio,” which originally aired on Canal de las Estrellas in 1983-84.
SSN Insight: Mauricio Katz is also the creator and executive producer behind Nino Santo, a pilot being developed for A&E.

Marlon
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Unnamed Marlon Wayans Company
Executive Producer(s): Marlon Wayans, Christopher Moynihan, Rick Alvarez, Michael Rotenberg
Logline: An inappropriate but loving father is committed to successfully co-parenting with his polar opposite ex-wife.
Details: Loosely inspired by the real life of Marlon Wayans.
SSN Insight: NBC initially gave a put pilot commitment back in September, but has now ordered the pilot.

No Dumb Questions
Network: truTV
Production Company(s): Big Breakfast/College Humor
Executive Producer(s): Sam Reich, Spencer Griffin, Jon Cohen
Logline: Led by host Emily Axford, a team of comedy journalists poses the questions you didn’t think to ask, but once you hear them, you have to know the answers.
SSN Insight: truTV gave a pilot order on January 7.

Nobodies
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): On the Day Productions
Executive Producer(s): Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, Rachel Ramras
Writer(s): Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, Rachel Ramras
Logline: Inspired by the real lives of Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras, who watched as their friends from The Groundlings went on to star in blockbuster comedies and win Oscars, while they toiled away writing for children’s television.
Details: Inspired by the real lives of Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras.
SSN Insight: TV Land gave an initial script commitment back in July and has since ordered the pilot.

One Day at a Time
Network: Netflix
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Act III Productions, Snowpants Productions, Small Fish Studios
Executive Producer(s): Norman Lear, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Mike Royce, Michael Garcia
Writer(s): Mike Royce, Gloria Calderon Kellett
Logline: This modernized multi-camera comedy revolves around a Cuban-American family where the heroine is a recently separated, former military mom who is navigating a new single life while raising her radical teenage daughter and socially adept tween son with the help of her old-school Cuban-born mom and a friends-without-benefits building manager named Schneider.
Details: Based on series “One Day at a Time,” which ran for 9 seasons on CBS from 1975-1984.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order for 13 episodes.

People of Earth
Network: TBS
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Conaco Productions
Executive Producer(s): Conan O’Brien, Greg Daniels, Jeff Ross, David Kissinger, Dan Halsted
Writer(s): David Jenkins
Logline: A serious journalist is tapped to write an article about an alien abduction support group. Initially dismissive, he gradually learns that he has more in common with these people than he’d like to admit. Eventually, he must accept that either he is having a nervous breakdown or that the small, upstate town of Beacon, New York is about to be invaded by aliens.
SSN Insight: Marylouise Burke was previously attached to star, but has been replaced by Nancy Lenehan. TBS has given a series order of 10 episodes.

Pour Vida
Network: Starz
Production Company(s): Big Beach
Executive Producer(s): Marc Turtletaub, Dan Pasternack, Erin Keating
Logline: Twin sisters Brook and Lyn Hernandez inherit an East LA building from the recently deceased aunt who raised them. They open Pour Vida, a new wine and tapas bar, in a building in Boyle Heights which houses a failing lesbian bar below and a village-like collection of Eastside denizens in three units above.
Details: Inspired by a short story by Richard Villegas, Jr.
SSN Insight: Marc Turtletaub’s credits include Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning and Safety Not Guaranteed.

Powerless
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): DC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Ben Queen, Michael Patrick Jann
Writer(s): Ben Queen
Logline: Set at one of the worst insurance companies in America, the show is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of superheroes and villains. The series follows ordinary, “power-less” folk working at the insurance company who often envy the man and women outside their window who make headlines with their supernatural powers.
Details: Based on characters from DC Comics.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a pilot order. Queen previously created and executive produced A to Z for NBC that was also from Warner Bros. Television.

Santeria
Network: Starz
Executive Producer(s): Alejandro Brugués, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale
Logline: Cuba’s doors are finally open to the world. But a secret war brews there, a clash between opposing sects of Santeria, the ancient religion born on the island. Two undercover agents investigating a bizarre murder are pulled into this supernatural conflict and discover it’s more dangerous and far-reaching than anything they could have imagined.
SSN Insight: Alejandro Brugues previously directed From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and wrote and directed the film Juan of the Dead.

Six
Network: History
Studio: A+E Studios
Production Company(s): The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): William Broyles Jr., David Broyles, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Alfredo Barrios Jr.
Writer(s): William Broyles Jr., David Broyles, Alfredo Barrios Jr., Bruce C McKenna, Karen Campbell
Logline: A Navy SEAL Team Six’s mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists.
Details: Based on an idea by Harvey Weinstein and inspired by real Navy SEAL missions.
SSN Insight: History has given a series order of eight episodes.

Tales from the Crypt
Network: TNT
Production Company(s): Blinding Edge Pictures, Endgame Entertainment, Aloris Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan, James D. Stern, John Santilli, Daniel McKinnon
Logline: An anthology horror series. Based on the comic book.
Details: Based on the 1950s EC Comics series created by William Gaines. The comic also aired as the HBO series “Tales From the Crypt,” which premiered on June 10, 1989.
SSN Insight: TNT has given a series order. Shyamalan executive produced and directed the pilot for Wayward Pines, the TV series that was a ratings winner for Fox.

The Son
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment, ShineBox SMC
Executive Producer(s): Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, Michael Connolly, Philipp Meyer
Writer(s): Lee Shipman, Brian McGreevy, Philipp Meyer
Logline: A multi-generational epic telling of the story of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Son,” written by Philipp Meyer and published by Ecco on May 28, 2013.
SSN Insight: Originally planned as a limited series, before AMC was attached. AMC has given a straight-to-series order for the drama.

Time Traveling Bong
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Ilana Glazer, Paul W Downs, Lucia Aniello, Dave Becky
Logline: Two cousins discover a time-traveling bong and ride high as they blaze through time. Their buzz is killed when the bong breaks and the cousins are forced to bounce around the space time continuum, learning to appreciate there’s no time like the present.
Details: Ordered to series. Network has ordered 3 episodes. (1/6/2016)
SSN Insight: Comedy Central has given a limited series order of three episodes. Glazer, Downs and Aniello all currently work on Broad City.

Untitled Courteney Cox/Robert Padnick Charity Project
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Robert Padnick, Courteney Cox, James Griffiths, Thea Mann
Writer(s): Robert Padnick
Logline: Centers on Hailey, a woman who inherits her late billionaire husband’s charity and quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.
SSN Insight: Courteney Cox will star in the project and James Griffiths is set to direct the potential pilot. Cox will make her feature directorial debut in Hello I Must Be Going, with Seann William Scott & Kate Walsh attached to star.

Untitled Jake Gyllenhaal Cult Anthology Drama Project
Network: A+E Networks
Studio: A+E Studios
Production Company(s): Nine Stories Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker
Logline: The series will explore a different major cult personality and the provocative nature of belief each season. Season 1 would focus on the notorious story of Jim Jones and his cult The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. The series would chronicle Jones’ path from social leader and passionate integrationist to deranged spiritual dictator over a group of followers committed to his dangerous philosophy of faith, culminating in a mass murder-suicide in which 918 people died at the group’s Guyana compound in November 1978.
SSN Insight: A+E Networks will handle global sales. This is the first series that Jake Gyllenhaal has created.

Untitled Matt Hubbard/ Mike Schur Couple Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Matt Hubbard, Michael Schur, David Miner
Writer(s): Matt Hubbard
Logline: Centers on a happily-married interracial couple, Andrew and Josie, whose lives take a turn when they move close to Josie’s family in Missouri.
SSN Insight: NBC initially gave a production commitment back in September and has since ordered a pilot.

Untitled Phil Lord/Chris Miller Time Travel Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Lord Miller
Executive Producer(s): Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Julius Sharpe
Writer(s): Julius Sharpe
Logline: Revolves around three friends who find a way to travel through time for truth, justice, and riches, which complicates their lives in 2016. They visit some of the greatest moments of the past as they try to resolve their personal problems, while history and pop culture comically collide.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial commitment of put pilot back in October and has since ordered the pilot. This marks a second pilot order for Lord and Miller at Fox, the first being for Son of Zorn.

ABC

Marvel’s Most Wanted
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Marvel Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jeffrey Bell, Paul Zbyszewski, Megan Thomas Bradner, Jeph Loeb
Writer(s): Jeffrey Bell, Paul Zbyszewski
Logline: Ex-Spies and ex-spouses Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter are on the run with no friends, no S.H.I.E.L.D. and every one of their enemies looking to claim a bounty on their heads. While uncovering the conspiracy that put their lives in jeopardy, these two heroes will go anywhere and save anyone in need.
Details: Based on the Marvel character, Mockingbird. The project is planned as a spinoff of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” which premiered on ABC in 2013.
SSN Insight: Rolled from the 2015-2016 season. ABC has given a pilot order.

Pearl
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Andrew Reich
Writer(s): Andrew Reich
Logline: Centers on a larger-than-life family matriarch who, after she finds out she has cancer, becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family’s life before she dies.
SSN Insight: ABC has given a pilot order as of January 11. Reich was previously a writer on Work It and Romantically Challenged for ABC.

Speechless
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Scott Silveri, Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar
Writer(s): Scott Silveri
Logline: A family with a special-needs child is good at dealing with the challenges it faces and excellent at creating new ones.
SSN Insight: The project was originally developed at Fox for the 2015-2016 season, for which it received a put pilot commitment with penalty but was not picked up. ABC ordered the pilot on January 11.

The Jury
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Carol Mendelsohn Productions
Executive Producer(s): V.J. Boyd, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz
Writer(s): V.J. Boyd, Mark Bianculli
Logline: Follows a single murder trial a season as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence the jurors’ judgment, and how their preconceptions change along the way.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a pilot with a significant penalty back in August. ABC gave the official pilot order on January 7.

NatGeo

Barkskins
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Scott Rudin
Logline: A pair of poor Frenchmen travel across North America, China and New Zealand in the 17th century. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Barkskins,” written by Annie Proulx and set to be published by Scribner on June 14, 2016.
SSN Insight: Rudin is also an executive producer on the upcoming TV series, School of Rock to air on Nickelodeon.

Blood Ivory
Network: National Geographic Channel
Studio: FX Productions
Production Company(s): DNA Films
Writer(s): Joshua Brand
Logline: The series traces the massive global web of contraband animals and ivory, and its connection to the trafficking of narcotics, people and weapons. It exposes a shocking underworld that rewards greed and bloodshed while helping to fund the madness of terrorist regimes.
SSN Insight: Brand served as a writer on The Americans and previously wrote the screenplay for Mystery, Alaska.

Mygrations
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): October Films
Executive Producer(s): Matt Robins, Jos Cushing, Chris Muckle, Douglas McCallie
Logline: A “herd’ of 20 elite men and women attempt to complete the world’s most famous animal migration across Africa. The human herd must brave harsh elements, deadly predators and each other as they attempt to endure Africa’s grueling Wildebeest migration through the Serengeti to the Mara River as they use their expert survival skills on a 200-mile, six-week journey.
SSN Insight: NatGeo has given a limited series order of six episodes.

One Strange Rock
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): Protozoa Pictures, Nutopia
Executive Producer(s): Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Jane Root, Arif Nurmohamed, Peter Lovering
Logline: The series explores how intricate, interwoven and fragile life as we know it is on Earth and how rare it may be in the universe.
SSN Insight: The project is envisioned as an event series and NatGeo has given a series order. Aronofsky is also in development on the MaddAddam pilot for HBO.

Original Sin: How Sex Changed The World
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): World of Wonder Productions
Executive Producer(s): Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Dan Partland, Kevin Tao Mohs
Logline: The series will look at the sexual revolution of the past half-century and how it has affected culture, science, and politics in the U.S. and around the world. It will uncover the surprising ways sex impacts humanity and how it’s changed during the past 50 years.
SSN Insight: NatGeo has given a series order of six episodes. Bailey is currently attached as a director on the upcoming HBO series, Mapplethorpe: Look At the Pictures and Every Brilliant Thing.

Untitled Sebastian Junger Syria & Iraq Documetary Project
Network: National Geographic Channel
Executive Producer(s): Nick Quested, Sebastian Junger
Logline: Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested explore the complexities of the war in Syria and Iraq as they gain access to clandestine organizations to offer a look at one of the most serious threats faced by the Western world.
SSN Insight: Sebastian Junger is a filmmaker, author and journalist, nominated for an Oscar for his documentary, Restrepo in 2010.

24: Legacy
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Imagine Television, Teakwood Lane Productions
Executive Producer(s): Howard Gordon, Manny Coto, Evan Katz, Kiefer Sutherland, Brian Grazer
Writer(s): Manny Coto, Evan Katz
Logline: Revolves around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him toask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Details: Project is a spinoff of the series, “24,” which aired on Fox from 2001-2010 and as a limited series called “24: Live Another Day,” in 2014.
SSN Insight: Planned as a limited series, Fox ordered the pilot on January 15. The series will feature an all-new cast of characters and Kiefer Sutherland will not be returning. Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who co-created the project, Hellfire, an X-Men spin-off series for Fox, left that project to join 24: Legacy.

America Divided (Documentary)
Network: Epix
Production Company(s): Shondaland, RadicalMedia, Freedom Road Productions
Executive Producer(s): Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, Common, Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read, Richard Rowley, Jon Kamen, Justin Wilkes, Dave O’Connor, Nicole Dow (co-EP), Derek Dudley (co-EP)
Writer(s): Common, Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read and Richard Rowley.
Logline: A nonpartisan investigation of the key issues shaping the presidential campaign, and we are confident our viewers will find each episode compelling and accessible.
SSN Insight: The series is set to debut in the fall. Lear will front one piece for the series, surrounding the housing crisis in New York and the inequality at play. Rebecca Teitel and Jesse Williams are signed on as senior producers with producers Abby Ellis and Leah Thomas.

Blue Demon
Studio: Sony Pictures TV, Televisa
Executive Producer(s): Daniel Ucros, Juan Pablo Posada
Writer(s): Carlos Algara, Alejandro Martínez, Fernando Abrego, Luis Guerrero, Larissa Andrade and Rodrigo Ordoñez
Logline: Blue Demon is inspired by the real-life story of Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, who overcame enormous odds to become the World Wrestling Champion under the name Blue Demon.
SSN Insight: The 65-episode, hour-long drama will air throughout Latin America on numerous Televisa platforms. SPT and Televisa will cooperatively distribute the series globally. Production is scheduled to start in April in and around Mexico City.

Darktown
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Pascal Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Jamie Foxx, Amy Pascal
Logline: Set in Atlanta in 1948, the story centers on the city’s first black police officers — whose hire in the department as a result from pressure on high is met with vitriol from their white counterparts and distrust within their own African American community. In a culture and time when blacks were still relegated to the back of the bus, the officers are treated as second class. They can only patrol in black neighborhoods, are not allowed to arrest white suspects, cannot drive squad cars and cannot use the police headquarters, forced to operate out of the basement of a gym. When a black woman turns up fatally beaten after last seen in a car driven by a white man, it deepens the divide in the police department.
Details: Based on the novel, “Darktown,” written by Thomas Mullen and to be publsiehd by Simon & Schuster in September of 2016.
SSN Insight: The series falls under Pascal Pictures’ first-look deal with Sony TV. Sony TV won the series in a competitive bidding war with five TV studios pursuing the project.

Eyewitness
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Adi Hasak, Jarl Emsell Larsen
Writer(s): Adi Hasak
Logline: When two innocent teenage boys secretly meet up in the forest, they bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen and when you witness a horrible event it changes everything, forever. Based on the Norwegian miniseries “Øyevitne.”
Details: Based on the Norwegian miniseries, “Øyevitne (Eyewitness,)” created by by Jarl Emsell Larsen. It premiered on NRK in 2014.
SSN Insight: USA has given a series order of ten episodes. The project originated from Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak.

Falling Water
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Valhalla Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Henry Bromell, Blake Masters, Gale Anne Hurd, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer(s): Henry Bromell, Blake Masters
Logline: Three unrelated people slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious — a missing girlfriend, a son, a way to communicate with a catatonic mother. However, the more they begin to use the dream world as a tool to advance their hidden agendas, they realize that their visions are trying to tell them something and that their very real lives are at stake.
SSN Insight: USA initially ordered the pilot back in March of 2015. USA has given a series order of ten episodes.

Foreign Bodies
Network: E4 (UK)
Production Company(s): Entertainment One, Eleven Film
Executive Producer(s): Tom Basden, Jamie Campbell, Joel Wilson
Writer(s): James Wood, Tony Roche, Rob Delaney, Charlie Covell, Tim Key
Logline: Five young travelers go on a three month quest around Asia to find paradise, while also trying to find themselves.
SSN Insight: E4 gave a series order. This is the second E4 order for Eleven, who previously produced Glue, which aired on E4 in 2014 and The Enfield Haunting for Sky in 2015.

Hairspray Live!
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Logline: Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion–dancing. Her dream is to appear on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s hippest dance party on TV. But when her dream comes true, Tracy’s eyes are opened to a bigger issue than the latest dance craze or the coolest hairdo–racial inequality.
Details: Based on the musical “Hairspray,” starring Harvey Fierstein and Marisa Jaret Winokur, which premiered on Broadway in 2002. The musical was based on the feature film “Hairspray” (1988), written and directed by John Waters and starring Ricki Lake and Divine.
SSN Insight: This will be NBC’s fourth produced live musical, following the success of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz. Hairspray will include a Tony-winning score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

Haters Back Off
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): The Firm, Brightlight Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Colleen Ballinger, Chris Ballinger, Perry Rein, Gigi McCreery, Jeff Kwatinetz
Logline: Based on the YouTube popular character, Miranda Sings, Haters Back Off delves into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.
Details: Based on YouTube character “Miranda Sings,” which aired on YouTube from 2008 – present.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of eight episodes. The “Miranda Sings” YouTube channel currently has over 5.8 million subscribers and has produced 502 videos.

I’m Dying Up Here
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: Endemol Shine Studios
Production Company(s): Some Kind of Garden, Assembly Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey, Michael Aguilar, Christina Wayne
Writer(s): David Flebotte, Jim Carrey
Logline: The story takes place at the famous Hollywood comedy clubs of the 1970s and delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the complex business of making an audience laugh. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy’s Golden Era,” written by William Knoedelseder and published by Public Affairs in 2009.
SSN Insight: Showtime ordered the pilot back in August and picked up the series on January 12.

Kiss Me First
Network: E4 (UK), Netflix
Production Company(s): Kindle Entertainment, Balloon Entertainment, Ltd.
Executive Producer(s): Bryan Elsley, Melanie Stokes
Logline: Leila is a lonely 17 year old girl addicted to a fictional online gaming site called Agora. While playing on the platform, Leila meets Tess, a cool and confident party girl who harbors a dark secret. In the real world, the two girls become friends, but after Tess disappears Leila decides to assume her friend’s identity and in doing so is quickly drawn into unraveling the mystery behind her disappearance.
Details: Based on the novel, “Kiss Me First,” written by Lottie Moggach and published by Doubleday on July 9, 2013.
SSN Insight: E4 gave a series order of six episodes. The series is a collaboration between E4 and Netflix and will air on E4 in the UK and Netflix globally.

Loaded
Network: Channel 4 (UK)
Production Company(s): Keshet Media Group, Hillbilly Films
Executive Producer(s): Jon Brown, Muli Segev, Assaf Harel, Sara Johnson, Avi Nir
Writer(s): Jon Brown
Logline: Four life-long friends become multi-millionaires overnight after selling their start-up videogame company.
Details: Based on the Israeli series, “Mesudarim,” which premiered on Keshet in 2007.
SSN Insight: Channel 4 has given a series order of eight episodes.

Pitch
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Barnstorm Films, Rhode Island Ave. Productions
Executive Producer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer, Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett, Jess Rosenthal
Writer(s): Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer
Logline: A young female pitcher defies the odds to become the first woman to compete in professional baseball.
Details: Based on an idea by Rick Singer
SSN Insight: Fox initially gave a put pilot commitment back in September and has since officially ordered the pilot. The pilot received tax credit approval by the California Film Commission.

Untitled Chuck Lorre Marijuana Comedy Project
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Life’s Too Short
Writer(s): Chuck Lorre, David Javerbaum
Logline: Set at a legal marijuana dispensary in Colorado, the story revolves around an ensemble of potheads.
SSN Insight: The project is being shopped to networks. Chuck Lorre is currently an overall deal at WBTV. Javerbaum has produced The Late Late Show With James Corden and runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which was adapted for a book and a play starring Big Bang‘s Jim Parsons.

Untitled Mark Burnett Reality Dating Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): MGM Television Entertainment, Grandma’s House Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Mark Burnett, Ben Newmark, Dan Newmark, Larry Barron
Logline: Set in the Caribbean Islands, the series features single men and women. After face-to-face meetings, a participant picks a mate based on instant chemistry. Then these budding couples discover whether or not they have the compatibility to make their relationships last.
Details: Ordered to series. Network has ordered 10 episodes. (1/14/2016)
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of ten episodes. This marks the first dating series for Burnett, the creator behind such hits as The Voice, Survivor, Shark Tank and Celebrity Apprentice.

Untitled Matt Groening Project (Animated)
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Matt Groening
Writer(s): Matt Groening
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Details are being kept under wraps. Netflix’s animated series include BoJack Horseman, F Is for Family and the upcoming Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. Groening will continue as EP on The Simpsons, now in its 27th season.

Untitled Prison Break Limited Series
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Paul T. Scheuring, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse Olmstead, Neal H. Moritz
Writer(s): Paul T. Scheuring
Logline: Storyline under wraps.
Details: Based on the TV series, “Prison Break,” starring Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, which aired on Fox from 2005-2009.
SSN Insight: Fox has given the formal straight-to-series order for the limited series, expected to be in the eight to ten episode range. Original Prison Break stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell will reprise their roles.

Untitled Tracy Morgan/Jordan Peele Ex-Con Project
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Executive Producer(s): Tracy Morgan, Jordan Peele, John Carcieri, Eric Tannenbaum, Joel Zadak
Writer(s): Jordan Peele, John Carcieri
Logline: A career criminal is released from prison after 15 long years, hoping to reintegrate into a society that long ago left him behind. Now a man whose only expertise is making grilled cheese with an iron must navigate a modern world of political correctness, the Internet, and self-driving cars.
Details: Ordered to pilot.
SSN Insight: FX ordered the pilot which is tentatively slated to begin production this summer. Morgan is currently headlining a nationwide stand-up tour titled Picking Up the Pieces. He can next be seen in the Weinstein Co.’s Richard Pryor biopic Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? and Fist Fight alongside Ice Cube and Charlie Day.

A.P.B.
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Sketch Films, Storied Media Group
Executive Producer(s): David Slack, Len Wiseman, David Bernardi, Dennis Kim, Todd Hoffman
Writer(s): David Slack
Logline: Explores what happens when an enigmatic tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder. Can this eccentric and enigmatic figure’s cutting-edge approach fix the broken ways of these blue-blooded veterans?
Details: Inspired by the article, “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans,” written by David Amsden and published in the New York Times Magazine on July 30, 2015.
SSN Insight: Fox gave an initial script commitment in October and ordered the pilot on January 25.

Altered Carbon
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Skydance Productions
Executive Producer(s): Laeta Kalogridis, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross
Writer(s): Laeta Kalogridis
Logline: Set in the 25th century, the human mind has been digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he’ll get a chance at a new life on Earth.
Details: Based on the novel “Altered Carbon” written by Richard Morgan; published by Gollancz February 28, 2002.
SSN Insight: Netflix has picked up the series. Previously in development with Warner Bros. who paid mid-six against seven figures for feature film rights. Previous writers hired to adapt were John Pogue, Albert Torres, and Joshua Marston. Previously in development with Silver Pictures.

Bunker Hill
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): True Jack Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jason Katims, Michelle Lee
Writer(s): Jason Katims
Logline: Follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, “new school” approach to medicine.
SSN Insight: CBS initially gave a commitment of a put pilot on August 21, 2014. Rolled from 2015-2016. CBS has now given a pilot order. Sarah Watson was previously attached to write and Executive Produce.

Chunk & Bean
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Ed Herro, Brian Donovan, David Hemingson
Writer(s): Ed Herro, Brian Donovan
Logline: Centers on the unlikely friendship of two misfits, Chunk and Bean, who benefit from having two very different sets of parents living next door to each other.
Details: Inspired by the childhoods of Ed Herro and Brian Donovan.
SSN Insight: ABC ordered the pilot on January 25.

Citizen
Network: Hulu
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Josh Pate, Nick Schutt, David Kanter, Matt DeRossand
Writer(s): Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Josh Pate, Nick Schutt
Logline: A fresh take on the hero origin story blending elements of magical realism and gritty vigilantism set against the backdrop of a vibrant, “supernaturalized” Los Angeles.
SSN Insight: Hulu is finalizing the deal for a pilot order. Anonymous Content has a first look deal with Paramount TV.

Crashing
Network: HBO
Executive Producer(s): Pete Holmes, Judd Apatow, Dave Rath
Writer(s): Pete Holmes
Logline: After his wife leaves him, a sweet, wholesome comedian has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics.
Details: Based loosely on the real life experiences of Pete Holmes.
SSN Insight: HBO ordered the pilot on September and gave a series order on January 21.

Drew
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Joan Rater, Tony Phelan, Dan Jinks
Writer(s): Joan Rater, Tony Phelan
Logline: Nancy Drew is now a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.
Details: Based on the character, Nancy Drew, originally created in 1930 and on the mystery book series.
SSN Insight: Planned as a contemporary update on the Nancy Drew character. CBS ordered the pilot on January 19.

Good Fortune
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Le Train Train Productions
Executive Producer(s): Matthew Zinman, Craig Gerard, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
Writer(s): Matthew Zinman, Craig Gerard
Logline: Follows a hyper-structured young woman whose life is upended when she starts taking advice from a mysterious fortune teller.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.

I Am Frankie
Network: Nickelodeon
Writer(s): Catharina Ledeboer
Logline: An experimental android navigates the perils and wonders of being a teenager. Frankie looks like any other girl, but functions like the newest computer: complete with Internet access, extensive memory and a hard disk. Frankie goes to school and no one but the members of her family know her secret. She adapts to the real world quite well, despite having no feelings or emotions, but all that changes when she begins to experience family life, make friends and have a boyfriend. Her biggest challenge will be to fall in-love without her operating system malfunctioning.
Details: Based on the Colombian series, “Yo Soy Franky,” which premiered on Nickelodeon Latin America in 2015.
SSN Insight: Nickelodeon gave a series order of 20 episodes on January 20. The series will be the first global series to be produced at the new Viacom International Studios in Miami, which has two 15,000 square foot stages and will be a multiplatform production hub for all of Viacom’s brands.

I Do Crew
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Little Engine
Executive Producer(s): Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith, Gina Matthews, Grant Scharbo
Writer(s): Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith
Logline: The series focuses on the events leading up to a destination wedding from the point of view of the friends of the bride and groom.
SSN Insight: The series is in development at the CW, but no pilot order has been given.

Imaginary Gary
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Happy Madison Productions
Executive Producer(s): Patrick Osborne, Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio, Doug Robinson
Writer(s): Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio
Logline: A thirtysomething bachelor’s life is turned upside-down when he finally meets the love of his life — a divorced working mom with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend he created as an only child suddenly reappears in his life to help him navigate the transition from single guy to family man.
SSN Insight: ABC secured the project back in October after a bidding war by giving it a pilot production order with a series penalty attached. ABC gave a formal pilot order on January 21.

Kicking & Screaming
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Pulse Creative
Executive Producer(s): Matt Kunitz, Anthony Dominici
Logline: Ten expert survivalists are teamed with pampered partners. The 10 teams are dropped in a forbidding wilderness where they must overcome dangerous animals, raging rivers, hunger and extreme weather. To win the competition, the survivalist experts will have to drag their privileged partners — who think roughing it is going a week without a massage — kicking and screaming, to the finish line.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of eight episodes as of January 19.

Midnight, Texas
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): David Janollari Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David Janollari, Monica Breen
Writer(s): David Janollari, Monica Breen
Logline: The story focuses on a fictitious and very creepy town in Texas filled with secrets and romantic entanglements
Details: Based on the Midnight, Texas novel series, which includes the novels, “Midnight Crossroad,” “Day Shift,” “Night Shift.” The novels are written by Charlaine Harris and published by Ace.
SSN Insight: NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.

Miranda’s Rights
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producer(s): Katie Lovejoy, John Glenn
Writer(s): Katie Lovejoy
Logline: Six years after a sex scandal upended her life, 28-year-old Miranda Coale gets a shot at redemption when she’s hired by a group of millennials living and lawyering together in a start-up law firm.
SSN Insight: NBC gave an initial script commitment back in August and ordered the pilot on January 22.

Monger
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Groundswell Productions
Executive Producer(s): Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie, Michael London
Writer(s): Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie
Logline: Centers on two adult brothers and their relationship with their father who is a New York City fishmonger.
Details: Loosely based on the Safdie brothers’ relationship with their father.
SSN Insight: This is the first sale under the multi-year first-look non-exclusive deal with CBS TV and Oscar-nominated producer Michael London and his production company, Groundswell Productions.

Mortal Kombat X: Machinima’s Chasing The Cup Finale
Network: CW Television Network
Production Company(s): Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Logline: The final episode of the e-sports docu-series that streams on CW Seed, that follows five of the world’s top-ranked players of the acclaimed fighting game Mortal Kombat X, vying to achieve their dream of being crowned the best in the world at the ESL Mortal Kombat X Pro League Finals.
SSN Insight: The full five episode series streams on CW Seed. The finale will be broadcast on the CW.

My Time/Your Time
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Bays Thomas , Gifted and Talented Camp
Executive Producer(s): Hilary Winston, Carter L. Bays, Craig Thomas
Writer(s): Hilary Winston
Logline: The series chronicles the relationship of a young couple as they begin dating long distance. Based on the web series.
Details: Based on the 5-part web series “7P/10E,” which was released in 2014.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 19.

Recon
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Caroline Dries, Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
Writer(s): Caroline Dries
Logline: A rookie FBI agent embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on January 25. Julie Plec executive produces The Originals and The Vampire Diaries.

Square Roots
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Vijal Patel
Writer(s): Vijal Patel
Logline: A man from a family of logic-driven engineers is determined to use his “gift” to help the people he loves with their everyday issues. . .whether they like it or not.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial script commitment. Previously in development for the 2013-2014 season at ABC. ABC gave a pilot order on January 25.

Still Star-Crossed
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Shondaland, The MrG Production Company
Executive Producer(s): Heather Mitchell, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Michael R. Goldstein
Writer(s): Heather Mitchell
Logline: Set in 16th century Verona after the events in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, the story follows the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues in the wake of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.
Details: Inspired by the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” written by William Shakespeare and believed to be published sometime in the 1590s.
SSN Insight: ABC ordered the pilot on January 21. Still Star-Crossed joins ABC drama pilots The Jury, Marvel’s Most Wanted, John Ridley’s Presence, and Kiefer Sutherland series Designated Survivor.

Storyville
Production Company(s): Mission Control
Executive Producer(s): William J MacDonald, Walt Becker
Writer(s): William J MacDonald, Walt Becker
Logline: Set against the backdrop of the birth of jazz music, which originated in New Orleans as a way to lure clients into high-end bordellos, the story delves into the turbulent, colorful world of the city’s notorious red-light district at the turn of the century. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans,” written by Gary Krist and published by Crown on October 28, 2014.
SSN Insight: Mission Control is in discussions with a network but this might go the indie route as it has received private-equity financing. A pilot will be shot and scouting has started in Louisiana for a mid-2016 start date.

Superior Donuts
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Bob Daily, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Mark Teitelbaum, John R. Montgomery
Writer(s): Bob Daily, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan
Logline: The story follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, his new young employee and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago.
Details: Based on the play by Tracy Letts, which was first staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2008 and premiered on Broadway in 2009.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 22.

The Deuce
Network: HBO
Executive Producer(s): David Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina Kostroff Noble, Michelle MacLaren, Richard Price
Writer(s): David Simon, George Pelecanos
Logline: The story chronicles the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Also explored: the rough-and-tumble world that existed in midtown Manhattan until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and a rejuvenated real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence.
SSN Insight: HBO gave a series order on January 19. The series will star James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

The Exorcist
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Morgan Creek Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jeremy Slater, Barbara Wall, James G. Robinson, David C. Robinson
Writer(s): Jeremy Slater
Logline: A propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession, and confronting the face of true evil.
Details: Based on the novel “The Exorcist,” written by William Peter Blatty and published by Harper in 1971.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on January 22. Morgan Creek originally began pitching the series in summer of 2013.

The Trail
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Barge Productions, Good Session Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Writer(s): Jeffrey Astrof, Matthew Miller
Logline: Follows a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high profile murder trial in a small southern town.
SSN Insight: NBC initially gave a put pilot commitment back in August. NBC ordered the pilot on January 22.

Time
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Davis Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan, John Davis, John Fox, Marney Hochman Nash
Writer(s): Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
Logline: An unlikely trio travel through time to battle unknown criminals in order to protect history as we know it.
SSN Insight: The series landed at NBC in August after a bidding war, with a pilot production commitment. NBC gave a formal order for a pilot on January 21.

Untitled Butler/Hope/O’Shannon Comedy Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Dark Toy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan O’Shannon, Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope, Todd Holland
Writer(s): Dan O’Shannon, Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope
Logline: A wife and mother learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers.
Details: Based on the Australian series, “Upper Middle Bogan,” which premiered on ABC 1 in 2013.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 19.

Watergate
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Storyscape Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bob Cooper, Dan Halsted, Eric Hamburg, Jeff Floyd, Jon Maas
Writer(s): Jon Maas
Logline: A Faustian, cautionary thriller about a man who thinks he’s getting the job of a lifetime as he walks into the Oval Office of the White House, only to discover that it’s a snake pit and he’s being set up to be the fall guy for the most powerful man in the country, if not the world.
Details: Based on the book “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew And When He Knew It,” written by John Dean and published by Viking in 2014. Based on the book “The Women of Watergate,” written by Alden Duer Cohen and published by Stein and Day in 1975. Based on a treatment “The System,” written by Jason Grote.
SSN Insight: ABC is in early stages of developing the series. eOne will distribute the series internationally.

When the Street Lights Go On
Network: Hulu
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous
Executive Producer(s): Brett Morgen, Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton, Chad Hamilton, Tariq Merhab
Writer(s): Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton
Logline: A coming-of-age thriller about a sleepy, suburban town that is rocked by the brutal murder of a high school girl and her teacher in the summer of 1983.
SSN Insight: Project was included on the 2011 Black List. Previously in development at Imagine Entertainment. Hulu gave a pilot order on January 25. Anonymous Content has a first look deal with Paramount TV.

Catching Kelce
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Current Entertainment, Grandma’s House Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Scott Langerman, Lauren Stevens, Ben Newmark, Dan Newmark
Logline: Fifty eligible women, one from each state in the U.S. will be invited to Los Angeles as Travis Kelce searches for that special someone to become his lifelong “teammate.” Kelce will be joined by famous friends and family to help him along his journey, but in the series finale, only he can decide who is the right woman for him.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of eight episodes as of January 28.

Gilmore Girls
Network: Netflix
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer(s): Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
Writer(s): Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino
Logline: The continuing story of the relationship between Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory.
Details: Based on the series “Gilmore Girls,” which aired on The WB from 2000-2005 and The CW from 2006-2007.
SSN Insight: Ordered as four 90-minute episodes in October, but given the official greenlight with the sign-on of stars Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn (Kirk) and Keiko Agena (Lane).

Horace and Pete
Network: Louisck.net
Production Company(s): Pig Newton, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Louis C.K., Blair Breard, Dave Becky, Vernon Chatman
Writer(s): Louis C.K.
Logline: A digital series that follows the patrons and employees of an Irish bar in Brooklyn.
SSN Insight: The show features Edie Falco, Rebecca Hall, Jessica Lange, Kurt Metzger, Steven Wright among others. Episodes are available for $5 through C.K.’s website.

Justice League Action (Animated)
Network: Cartoon Network
Production Company(s): Warner Bros. Animation
Executive Producer(s): Sam Register
Logline: DC Comics heroes will battle everything from threats in space to the bizarre forces of magic.
SSN Insight: Cartoon Network has officially greenlighted the series which will air 11-minute episodes. A premiere date has not yet been set.

MECH-X4
Network: Disney XD
Production Company(s): Omnifilm Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steve Marmel, Anupam Nigam
Logline: Ryan Walker, a freshman at Bay City High who has technopathy – the extraordinary ability to control technology with his mind. His talent mysteriously awakens MECH-X4, a giant 120-foot robot built by an elusive genius-in-hiding to defend their town against impending doom.
SSN Insight: Disney XD gave a series order on January 29.

Start Up
Network: Crackle
Production Company(s): Hollywood Gang Productions, Critical Content
Executive Producer(s): Tom Forman, Shannon Gaulding, Andrew Marcus, Gianni Nunnari, Raymond Ricord
Writer(s): Ben Ketai, Ben Dubash
Logline: A Cuban-American hacker, a Haitian-American gangster, and the son of a corrupt banker, come together in modern day Miami to launch a revolutionary new cryptocurrency; however, when their unorthodox methods garner the attention of a nefarious FBI Agent, as well as various other criminals in South Florida, the group’s subversive new startup unexpectedly becomes a new criminal enterprise for the 21st Century.
SSN Insight: Crackle has given a series order of ten episodes.

Stretch Armstrong (Animated)
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Hasbro, Inc.
Logline: An over scheduled teenager named Jake Armstrong and his two best friends, are accidentally exposed to an experimental chemical, they become Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, a team of unlikely stretchable superheroes who expand beyond the confines of their lives and embark on a series of adventures.
Details: Based on the Stretch Armstrong line of toys and merchandise sold by Hasbro.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of 26 episodes as of January 28. Netflix is partnering with Hasbro Studios on the series for premiere in 2017.

The Arrangement
Network: E! Networks
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Objective Productions, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Jonathan Abrahams, Jimmy Fox, Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman
Writer(s): Jonathan Abrahams
Logline: Megan Morrison is a beautiful young actress who auditions for the female lead in a summer blockbuster playing opposite Kyle West, the hottest actor of the moment. After an amazing audition segues into a dream-like first date, Megan’s Cinderella story takes a turn to the bizarre when she is presented with a contract that details an entire relationship with Kyle. Megan must weigh her options and the benefits and consequences to her career and her life overall and decide whether or not she will accept “the arrangement.”
SSN Insight: E! ordered the pilot back in April. E! gave a series order of ten episodes on January 29.

The Baxter Family
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Production Company(s): LightWorkers Media
Executive Producer(s): Roma Downey
Logline: The story of how John and Elizabeth Baxter and their six adult children come together over love, loss, laughter, and life in an epic drama that proves the strength of faith and family.
Details: Based on the Baxter Family novel series, also known as the Redemption series, which began with the novel, “Redemption, “written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Thorndike Press in 2005.
SSN Insight: The 22 book series has sold upwards of 20 million copies worldwide. No network has been set.

The Characters
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Andrew Gaynord, Tony Hernandez
Logline: Features eight up-and-coming comedians who get the opportunity to create their own 30-minute episodes and do whatever they want. No rules. No limits. Each comedian writes and appears in his/her episode.
SSN Insight: The series will feature Lauren Lapkus, Kate Berlant, Dr. Brown, Paul W. Downs, John Early, Tim Robinson, Natasha Rothwell and Henry Zebrowski. It will premiere March 11.

The Mick
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin, Oly Obst, Nicholas Frenkel, Randall Einhorn
Writer(s): John Chernin, Dave Chernin
Logline: A coarse, blue-collar woman moves to affluent Greenwich, Connecticut raise the outrageously spoiled kids of her wealthy sister and brother-in-law, who have fled the country to avoid prosecution for illegal activities.
SSN Insight: Fox initially gave a commitment of a script plus penalty back in August and ordered the pilot on February 2.

Untitled American Girls Series
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Logline: Storyline under wraps.
Details: Based on the American Girl line of dolls created in 1986 by Pleasant Company and purchased by Mattel in 1998.
SSN Insight: Amazon has signed a multi-year, multimillion dollar production deal with Mattel subsidiary American Girl to produce four live-action specials, with the option to produce multiple seasons worth of episodic content.

Untitled La La Anthony Timbaland Hip-Hop Docuseries Project
Production Company(s): Leftfield Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Alani “La La” Anthony, David George, Will Nothacker, Derek Gordon
Logline: Jeff Janvier and Session Cruz run Face Time Agency, the industry’s premiere casting agency for booking music video and hip-hop fashion models. Set inside the New York City nightlife scene – the series exposes the cutthroat entrepreneurial side of hip-hop, with models, DJs and social media stars hustling to break through as fashion, music and media moguls.
SSN Insight: No network has been set as project is in the early stages. La La has also joined the producing team of Eclipsed, which will mark the Broadway debut of Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o.

Zoobiquity
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier, Spencer Medof
Writer(s): Stephen Nathan, Jonathan Collier
Logline: Follows the unlikely pairing of a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with a socially-challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. They try to put aside their competitive natures to cure the incurable using a unique blend of cross-species medicine that’s never been tried before.
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.
SSN Insight: Rolled from the 2015-2016 season. Fox gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty back in October. Fox gave the official pilot order on January 26.

ABC

Conviction
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company
Executive Producer(s): Liz Friedman, Liz Friedlander, Mark R. Gordon, Nicholas Pepper
Writer(s): Liz Friedman
Logline: Carter Morrison, the brilliant but rebellious daughter of a Clinton-like political family, is forced into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, has two weeks to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October. ABC gave a pilot order on January 27.

Dream Team
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Kari’s Logo Here, Here Comes Scrappy
Executive Producer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Writer(s): Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel
Logline: Coach Marty Schumacher knows how to win in the world of girls’ club soccer. His last team went to the national championship, and those women are off playing in college, semipro, even the Olympic team. Now Coach Schumacher, who is known as “the star maker” (mostly by himself), has a documentary crew following him around as he assembles his next dynasty from a diverse group of little girls that bring along their diverse families.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty back in August. They ordered the pilot on January 26.

Hail Mary
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Intrigue
Executive Producer(s): Brian Gallivan, Seth Gordon, Tariq Jalil
Writer(s): Brian Gallivan
Logline: A young small-town mayor named Mary Wolf has dysfunctional siblings, a dying father, disgruntled citizens, a nearly bankrupt town and the mafia breathing down her neck. Only a miracle can help her. So … she fakes one.
Details: Based on the Austrian series “Braunschlag” which aired eight-episodes on the ORF Network in 2012.
SSN Insight: Previously in development with Fox and 20th Century Fox TV in 2015 with Rob Riggle set as the lead and written by Steve Hely. ABC gave an initial commitment of a script plus penalty and ordered the pilot on January 28. The Austrian series had a male lead. Another adaptation was set up at Fox last year with Rob Riggle attached to star.

Model Woman
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: TriStar Television, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Rosalie Swedlin, Helen Childress, Scarlett Lacey
Writer(s): Helen Childress
Logline: Set in the late 1970’s during the notorious Model Wars, Bertie Geiss is a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency.
Details: Based on the book, “Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty,” written by Robert Lacey and published by Harper on June 16, 2015.
SSN Insight: Rolled from the 2015-2016 season. ABC ordered the pilot on January 27.

Notorious
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): The Firm
Executive Producer(s): Josh Berman, Jeff Kwatinetz, Josh Barry, Mark Geragos, Wendy Walker Whitworth
Writer(s): Josh Berman, Allie Hagan
Logline: The story follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately – each other.
Details: Inspired by the relationship between criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and long-time “Larry King Live” executive producer Wendy Walker.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October and ordered the pilot on January 28. Josh Berman previously created Drop Dead Diva and Allie Hagan is known for her blog Suri’s Burn Book.

Spark
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Sander/Moses Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Michael G. Cooney
Writer(s): Michael G. Cooney
Logline: The story is set in the alternate reality of Steampunk – circa 2016 – where gas and coal fuel the world. Two rival families battle for power as a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention could level both their empires.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Cooney and Sander/Moses previously collaborated on Runner which went to pilot at ABC last year, to star Paula Patton.

The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fazekas & Butters
Executive Producer(s): Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, Charise Castro Smith
Writer(s): Charise Castro Smith
Logline: Eva Sofia Valdez is an immigrant who rose from rags to riches and is a celebrated Miami entrepreneur and a champion for immigrant rights. But her success is fueled by an insatiable ambition that could destroy her family, a vendetta against the lover who betrayed her, and ghosts from the past who threaten to reveal the dark sacrifices Eva Sofia made to attain the American Dream.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters are also executive producers/showrunners on Marvel’s Agent Carter.

The Fluffy Shop
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Tomorrow Studios
Executive Producer(s): Tim Doyle, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Joe Meloche
Writer(s): Gabriel Iglesias, Jay Lavender, Tim Doyle
Logline: A comedian deal with the challenges of managing a home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.
Details: Inspired by the life experience of comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a put pilot back in October and gave a pilot order on January 28. Iglesias previously had a recurring role on ABC’s Cristela.

The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Sarah Dunn, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Sarah Dunn
Logline: Katie, our narrator, is a (slightly) larger wife and mother raising her flawed family of three in a wealthy town filled with “perfect” wives and their “perfect” offspring.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28.

Time After Time
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Williamson
Writer(s): Kevin Williamson
Logline: When young H.G. Wells shows his time machine to his friends, he is oblivious to the fact that one of them, surgeon Leslie John Stephenson, is in fact the infamous Jack the Ripper. When Scotland Yard detectives get on Stevenson’s trail, the murderer uses the time machine to flee to the future, getting transported to 1979 San Francisco. He is quickly followed by Wells who is trying to bring him to justice.
Details: Based on the novel “Time After Time,” written by Karl Alexander and published by The Delacorte Press on March 28, 1979.
SSN Insight: ABC gave an initial commitment of a script and ordered the pilot on January 28.

Toast
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Shondaland
Executive Producer(s): Scott Foley, Greg Grunberg, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Logline: Engaged couple Max and Paige, over their wedding rehearsal dinner, have their eclectic family and friends give toasts recalling anecdotes about the couple — but flashbacks reveal that the toasts don’t always get it right.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2015-2016. ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Toast marks the first half-hour pilot order for Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ Shondaland.

Untitled Ed Weeks Hannah Mackay Comedy Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Kindle Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Anne Brogan, Melanie Stokes, Siobhan Bachman, Valerie Ames, Andrew Reich
Writer(s): Ed Weeks, Hannah Mackay
Logline: An unapologetic lesbian and her best friend, a neurotic straight male, navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. This marks Reich’s second pilot order, his first of the season was for Pearl, also at ABC.

Untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer Drama Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Pacific Standard
Executive Producer(s): Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Meaghan Oppenheimer
Writer(s): Meaghan Oppenheimer
Logline: The story follows the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas. Raised in the trailer parks of Texas, she has left behind a life of struggle amid squalor, working her way into a corner office and mansion in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhood. But beneath her facade of togetherness, she’s plagued by self-destructive tendencies and long hidden family secrets that begin to unravel her life.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a pilot order on January 28. Oppenheimer previously wrote the screenplay for the film We Are Your Friends.

CBS

The Great Indoors
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Mike Gibbons
Writer(s): Mike Gibbons
Logline: An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 29. This is the second consecutive CBS pilot order for Gibbons who wrote and executive produced The Half Of It for CBS last year.

The Kicker
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Little Stranger, Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Jack Burditt, David Miner
Writer(s): Jack Burditt
Logline: Centers on an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers insane after he unexpectedly finds himself cut from his professional football team.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on January 28. This marks the second sale for Fey’s Little Stranger, with the first order given by NBC to a pilot written by another 30 Rock alum, Tracey Wigfield.

Training Day
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Fuqua Films, Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Executive Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, Will Beall, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman
Writer(s): Will Beall
Logline: Set in present day, the story focuses on the relationship between two LAPD officers, one a rookie and the other a corrupt, older cop. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Training Day,” (2001), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot production commitment back in August. The network officially ordered the pilot on February 1.

What Goes Around Comes Around
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan Kopelman, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): Dan Kopelman
Logline: Two forty-something parents who were wild and reckless teenagers now face their worst nightmare—raising three teenagers of their own.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 1. Kopelman’s previous credits include Rules Of Engagement and Malcolm In The Middle.

The CW

Frequency
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Outerbanks Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Rickard Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Jeremy Carver, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz, Toby Emmerich, John Rickard
Writer(s): Jeremy Carver
Logline: A female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day.
Details: A re-imagining of the film, “Frequency” (2000) directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Dennis Quaid.
SSN Insight: CW gave a pilot order. Project was previously in development at at NBC for the 2015-2016 season with a script + penalty commitment.

No Tomorrow
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Electus
Executive Producer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ben Silverman, Sean Canino
Writer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Scott McCabe, Tory Stanton
Logline: Sarah is a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier, only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.
Details: Based on the Brazilian format, “How To Enjoy The End Of the World.”
SSN Insight: The CW gave a pilot order on January 29.

Riverdale
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Berlanti Productions, Archie Comics Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater
Writer(s): Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Logline: Set in the present, the series offers a subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.
Details: Based on the characters from the Archie comics.
SSN Insight: The CW ordered the pilot. The CW initially gave a commitment of a script plus penalty back in October. Project was previously in development at Fox.

Transylvania
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Midnight Radio
Executive Producer(s): Hugh Sterbakov, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Scott Rosenberg
Writer(s): Hugh Sterbakov
Logline: Set in 1880, a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father ventures from New York City to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard detective. Together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.
SSN Insight: The CW gave a pilot order on January 29.

Untitled Mars Project (Previously Titled Colony)
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Kennedy/Marshall Company
Executive Producer(s): Robert D. Zotnowski, Frank Marshall
Writer(s): Doris Egan
Logline: About a group of explorers sent to colonize Mars, willing to leave their lives behind to brave the dangers of another planet, and the terrifying reality they discover.
Details: Inspired by the story of The Lost Colony, the 16th century British settlement on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, whose inhabitants vanished without a trace, sparking a slew of theories about their fate.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2013-2014. The CW has ordered the pilot. Ian Goldberg was previously attached as an Executive Producer and writer.

A Darker Shade Of Magic
Production Company(s): G-BASE productions
Executive Producer(s): Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Danielle Robinson
Writer(s): V.E. Schwab’s
Logline: The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. Grey London, where the people have been told that magic is a myth; Red London, where magic is embraced and thrives; White London, where magic is used by the rulers against it’s people; and Black London, where magic has overpowered the people and corrupted the world beyond repair.
Details: Based on the novel of the same name by V.E. Schwab.
SSN Insight: The project is being developed as a limited series. Schwab also wrote Vicious, which is set up at Story Mining with Scott Free producing.

A Discovery of Witches
Production Company(s): Bad Wolf
Executive Producer(s): Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner
Writer(s): Deborah Harkness, Ashley Pharoah
Logline: Diana Bishop is a young scholar at Oxford who is a descendant of the Salem witches. When she accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript, she is compelled to embrace the magic in her blood and enters a forbidden romance with charming 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont.
Details: Based on the novel, “A Discovery of Witches,” which is the first installment of the All Souls Trilogy. It was written by Deborah Harkness and published by Viking on February 8, 2011.
SSN Insight: Series in development. A network has not been signed on. The project is also in development as a feature at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Battle Ready
Executive Producer(s): Joe Carnahan, Tracy Falco, Greg Harris, Chris George
Writer(s): Joe Carnahan
Logline: Battle Ready tells the story of retired Navy SEAL Mark L. Donald, former Marine, combat medic, and physician’s assistant who served his country for nearly 25 years and survived a number of harrowing and dangerous combat missions. The series will focus on Donald’s time in both Iraq and Afghanistan and the extensive, often clandestine combat missions he was engaged in.
Details: Based on Mark Donald’s memoir Battle Ready: Memoir Of A Seal Warrior Medic.
SSN Insight: Joe Carnahan will also direct the pilot. His credits include The Blacklist and State of Affairs.

Big Fan
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): Banijay Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jimmy Kimmel, David Goldberg, Caroline Baumgard
Logline: Each episode of the game show will feature one celebrity and three of his or her biggest super fans. The super fans will go head-to-head to see who knows more about the episode’s featured celebrity. The succeeding super fan will move on to the final round in an ultimate showdown, celebrity vs. super fan, to see who knows most about the celebrity. If the super fan wins, their prize is a priceless experience with the celebrity they admire most.
Details: Based on the “Who Knows…?” celebrity vs. super-fan game segment that originally aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
SSN Insight: ABC gave a series order on February 8.

Bull
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amblin Television, Stage 29 Productions
Executive Producer(s): Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Writer(s): Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phil McGraw
Logline: Based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s early days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time.
Details: Based on Dr. Phil McGraw’s early days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 2.

Cruel Intentions
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Original Film, AMBI
Executive Producer(s): Roger Kumble, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty
Writer(s): Roger Kumble, Lindsey Rosin, Jordan Ross
Logline: The story follows the rags-to-riches story of 16-year-old Bash Casey, the son of the late Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove. Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed. In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power, and corruption he never could have imagined.
Details: Based on the film, “Cruel Intentions,” (1999), written and directed by Roger Kumble and starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. The original source material for the 1999 film was the novel, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and published in 1782.
SSN Insight: NBC initially committed to a script plus penalty in October. A pilot order has been given and Sarah Michelle Geller has been approached to reprise her role.

Four Stars
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Timberman/Beverly Productions
Executive Producer(s): Becky Mode, R.J. Cutler, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman
Writer(s): Becky Mode
Logline: Centers on two powerful rival families in the military community of Tampa, Florida who make decisions at the highest levels in the interest of national security.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 pilot season. CBS gave a pilot order on February 4.

I’m Not Your Friend
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo, Michael Rotenberg, Matt LeBlanc, Troy Zien
Writer(s): Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo
Logline: A contractor learns that raising his kids is more challenging than expected when his wife goes back to work.
SSN Insight: The series has a commitment penalty attached. A pilot order was given on February 8.

Incorporated
Network: Syfy
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Pearl Street Films
Executive Producer(s): Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jennifer Todd, Ted Humphrey, Alex Pastor
Writer(s): David Pastor, Alex Pastor
Logline: The futuristic espionage thriller is set in a future where companies have unlimited power and tells the story of executive Ben Larson, who is forced to change his identity in order to infiltrate a cut-throat corporate world to save the woman he loves. In the process, he’ll take on the entire system — with deadly consequences.
SSN Insight: Pilot order given back in April. Georgina Haig was previously attached as Laura. Syfy has given a series order of 13 episodes.

MacGyver
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Atomic Monster
Executive Producer(s): James Wan, Michael Clear, Henry Winkler, Paul Downs Colaizzo
Writer(s): Paul Downs Colaizzo
Logline: Twenty-something Angus MacGyver gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Details: Based on the television series, “MacGyver,” starring Richard Dean Anderson, which aired on ABC from 1985-1992.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 2. R. Scott Gemmill was previously attached to write and executive produce, but was replaced by Paul Downs Colaizzo whose script got the pilot picked up.

Me & Mean Margaret
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Chernin Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Adam Barr, Peter Chernin
Writer(s): Adam Barr
Logline: The series follows a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress and the ambitious 27-year-old lawyer forced to babysit her.
SSN Insight: NBC gave a pilot order on February 2.

Million Dollar Quartet
Network: CMT
Production Company(s): Thinkfactory Media
Executive Producer(s): Leslie Greif, Gil Grant, Jayson Dinsmore, Julia Silverton
Logline: The story of nothing less than the creation of rock ‘n’ roll. Set in Memphis, Tennessee, it’s the story of Sam Phillips, a struggling audio engineer who has a dream of starting his own record label. His first goal was to record blues singers, and he discovered B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and others. Seeing that white kids secretly enjoyed this music on the radio but wouldn’t buy it, he began to think that a white teen who had a feel for blues could change everything. Enter Elvis Presley. Ultimately, on On December 4, 1956, Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins joined at the Sun Record Studios for an impromptu recording session. Based on the stage musical.
Details: Based on the stage musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2010.
SSN Insight: CMT has given a series order of 8 one-hour episodes for the drama miniseries.

Party Over Here
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Party Over Here, Kablamo!
Executive Producer(s): Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Billy Rosenberg, Paul Scheer
Writer(s):
Logline: Skewering everything from pop culture to politics, the show will feature sketch comedy shorts, along with in-studio segments filmed in front of a live audience at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order.

Penn Vet
Network: Animal Planet
Production Company(s): High Noon Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Jim Berger, Scott Feeley, Sarah Presta, Michael Call, Dawn Sinsel
Writer(s):
Logline: The series will document select fourth-year students at the University of Pennsylvania’s highly competitive veterinary school as they complete the program, handing a wide range of cases.
SSN Insight: Animal Planet gave a series order on February 3.

Rillington Place
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): BBC In House Productions, Bandit Television
Executive Producer(s): Phillippa Giles, Hilary Salmon
Writer(s): Ed Whitmore, Tracey Whitmore
Logline: The true story of murderer John Christie, his wife Ethel, and their neighbor Timothy Evans, who all lived in the same London apartment complex. Christie murdered at least eight women, including Ethel, strangling them in his apartment. He was eventually arrested and convicted of his wife’s murder, and hanged. But not before Evans was charged with the murders of his own wife, Beryl, and daughter Geraldine, who were also tenants of the house. Evans was hanged in 1950. Christie later admitted killing Beryl Evans, but not Geraldine.
Details: Based on a series of murders that took place in the 1940s and 1950s in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood.
SSN Insight: BBC has given a series order for 3 episodes for the drama miniseries.

Sebastian
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions
Executive Producer(s): Austen Earl, Sebastian Maniscalco, Greg Garcia, Alix Jaffe, Judi Brown-Marmel
Writer(s): Austen Earl
Logline: Newly married Sebastian tries to stay true to his blue collar roots while adjusting to life with his wealthy bride.
SSN Insight: Rolled from 2015-2016. NBC gave a pilot order on February 2.

Sensory
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Ridley Scott Films
Executive Producer(s): David Zabel, Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Roger Freet
Writer(s): David Zabel
Logline: A medical student is diagnosed with mirror-touch synesthesia, a condition whereby he is able to vividly feel—or “mirror”—the physical and emotional sensations of other people. He has to navigate through the ways in which his condition could be both an asset and a liability.
Details: Based on the true story of Dr. Joel Salinas.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 5.

The Enforcers
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Gavin&Roxie&Hap Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sherry Bilsing, Ellen Plummer, Gail Mancuso
Writer(s): Sherry Bilsing, Ellen Plummer
Logline: Two wildly different single mothers with dreams of being police officers find themselves partnered as inspectors in the Code Enforcement Department. Instead of fighting crime, they have been relegated to handling petty code breaking, like noise complaints, tree trimming and water misuse.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on February 5.

The Rook
Network: Hulu
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Character Seven, Fickle Fish
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Garrett
Logline: Storyline under wraps, but it will be a London-set supernatural series.
SSN Insight: One of the UK’s most-respected TV execs and former Kudos founder and exec chairman Stephen Garrett has just launched Character Seven and this is the first project out of the gate.

Untitled Laura Steinel Workplace Comedy Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producer(s): Sue Naegle, Jeff Schaffer
Writer(s): Laura Steinel
Logline: Jane is caught between trying to manage her charmingly incompetent human resources department and a new eccentric CEO who dreams of bringing the New Jersey plastics plant into the future.
SSN Insight: Fox gave a pilot order on February 4.

Untitled Stephnie Weir Greg Garcia Family Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Amigos de Garcia Productions
Executive Producer(s): Stephnie Weir, Greg Garcia
Writer(s): Stephnie Weir
Logline: Set in Texas, the story centers on a conservative, small town family who is forced to reconcile their family values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
SSN Insight: CBS gave a pilot order on February 8.

Vlad
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Doozer Productions
Executive Producer(s): Adam Sztykiel, Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold
Writer(s): Adam Sztykiel, Vladimir Caamaño
Logline: A family comedy inspired by Caamaño’s real-life family dynamic living with his Dominican father and older brother in the Bronx.
Details: Inspired by the life of Vladimir Caamano.
SSN Insight: NBC initially committed to a put pilot in November and ordered the pilot on February 2.

60 Days In
Network: A+E Networks
Production Company(s): Lucky 8 TV
Executive Producer(s): Gregory Henry, Kimberly Woodard, Jeff Grogan, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Shelly Tatro, Drew Tappon, Brad Holcman
Logline: In an effort to expose internal issues and what really happens behind bars at a corruption-plagued facility, Sheriff Jamey Noel devised a program where seven participants would live among the general population for 60 days without officers, fellow inmates or staff knowing their secret agenda, while around-the-clock cameras captured the “prisoners” as they adapted to unfamiliar and terrifying surroundings.
SSN Insight: A+E Networks has given a series order of 12 episodes. Starting March 17th, episodes will air weekly at 10 PM. produced by for A&E Network.

99 Days
Network: MTV Networks
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Alloy Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo
Writer(s): Lila Feinberg
Logline: Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer – 99 days — with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for- his brother.
Details: Based on the novel, “99 Days,” written by Katie Cotugno and published by Balzer + Bray on April 21, 2015.
SSN Insight: Feinberg is also writing the semi-autobiographical drama Pulse for Legendary TV and adapting her play Blood Moon with novelist Jonathan Tropper for a TV series. She also has Songbird in development as a film with Anthony Bregman and Robert D. Siegel.

Beat Bugs
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Thunderbird, Atomic Cartoons, Grace: A Storytelling Company, Beyond Screen Production
Executive Producer(s): Josh Wakely, Trevor Roy
Writer(s): Josh Wakely
Logline: An animated kids series inspired by the songs of the Beatles. The Beat Bugs are charming, funny, adventurous, and have a knack for getting themselves into mischief and mayhem. Each of the five friends (Jay, Kumi, Crick, Buzz, and Walter) has a distinctive personality, and they display the charm and energy of five knockabout, lovable kids. They are best friends who band together to explore and learn in an overgrown suburban backyard, which to them is their entire universe.
SSN Insight: Netflix has ordered 2 seasons. In Australia, Netflix will obtain streaming rights to the series after its premiere on Seven Network.

Betty Boop
Production Company(s): Normaal Animation, Fleischer Studios, King Features
Logline: The series recounts the daily struggles, joys and victories of young Betty Boop, who has every intention of being on stage and becoming a superstar.
Details: Based on Max Fleischer’s iconic cartoon character Betty Boop.
SSN Insight: No network has been set. France-based Normaal International will handle worldwide financing and all future global distribution.

Chad: An American Boy
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Nasim Pedrad, Jason Winer, Rob Rosell, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky
Writer(s): Nasim Pedrad, Rob Rosell
Logline: Centers on a 14-year-old boy in the throes of adolescence who is tasked with being the man of the house, which leaves him with all the responsibilities of being an adult without any of the perks.
SSN Insight: Fox ordered a pilot. SNL alumna Pedrad signed a deal with Fox and 20th TV last year with the goal to create and topline her own comedy series.

Charity Case
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: ABC Studios, 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Fee-Fi-Fo Films, Coquette Productions
Executive Producer(s): Courteney Cox, Thea Mann, Robert Padnick, James Griffiths
Writer(s): Robert Padnick
Logline: Hailey inherits her late billionaire husband’s charity and quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.
SSN Insight: Fox ordered the pilot.

Dimension 404
Network: Hulu
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): RocketJump Studios
Executive Producer(s): Freddie Wong, Matthew Arnold, Dez Dolly
Writer(s):
Logline: This series explores the wonders and horrors of our digital age.
Details: Ordered to Series. Hulu has ordered 6 episodes. (2/10/2016)
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a series order of six episodes.

Geeking Out
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): The Weinstein Company , Matador Content, Bandwagon Media
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Smith, Greg Grunberg, Jay Peterson, Patrick Reardon
Logline: The series takes a timely look at pop culture through a fanboy lens and features talk, clips, celebrity interviews and out-of-the-studio segments.
SSN Insight: AMC gave a series order of nine episodes.

Lawrence In Arabia
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): The Linson Company
Executive Producer(s): Art Linson, John Linson, Anthony McCarten
Writer(s): Anthony McCarten
Logline: The story chronicles the adventure of T.E. Lawrence, David Hogarth, William Yale, and Rudolph McGovern as they dangerously navigate the burgeoning Arab Revolt in the Middle East in the years leading up to World War One.
Details: Based on the book, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East,” written by Scott Anderson and published by Doubleday in 2013.
SSN Insight: The Linsons have a first-look deal with HBO. They have also developed Yellowstone, a drama about a ranching family and Vietnam War drama The Long Gray Line.

LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (Animated)
Network: Disney XD
Production Company(s): Lucasfilm, Ltd., LEGO Group
Executive Producer(s): Bill Motz, Bob Roth, Torsten Jacobsen, Jill Wilfert
Logline: The Freemakers are a family of scavengers who build and sell starships from the scoured debris of space battles strewn throughout the galaxy. When their youngest discovers a natural connection with the Force through an ancient artifact – the Kyber Saber – his world is turned upside down, and he and his family are thrown into an epic struggle against the Empire to restore peace and freedom to the galaxy. Throughout their adventures, the Freemakers explore new worlds, meet new and familiar characters, and learn the true value of what it means to be a family.
Details: The project is based on the Star Wars franchise, which began with “Star Wars: A New Hope” (1977), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
SSN Insight: Disney XD has given a series order.

Lethal Weapon
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Lin Pictures, Good Session Productions
Executive Producer(s): Matthew Miller, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz, McG
Writer(s): Matthew Miller
Logline: When Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh, who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid any stress in his life.
Details: Based on the “Lethal Weapon” film series, directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The film and its three sequels were released, respectively, in 1987, 1989, 1992 and 1998.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a pilot order. Damon Wayans Sr. is set as Murtaugh with McG set to direct the pilot. The Riggs role has not been cast.

Likely Stories
Network: Sky Arts
Production Company(s): Sid Gentle Films
Executive Producer(s): Neil Gaiman, Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris
Writer(s): Kevin Lehane, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Logline: Set in London, the dark and strange stories center on the act of storytelling in a world that shifts between reality and fantasy with common themes of human consumption, destructive obsession and psychological cannibalism. Based on short stories by Neil Gaiman.
Details: Based on short stories by Neil Gaiman.
SSN Insight: Art-oriented TV channel Sky Arts has given a series order of four episodes. Sky Vision will handle international distribution.

Maya and Marty in Manhattan
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Lorne Michaels
Logline: A weekly variety show starring Maya Rudolph and Martin Short.
Details: Inspired in part by Maya Rudolph and Martin Short‘s comedic duet during Saturday Night Live‘s 40th anniversary special, which aired on NBC on February 15, 2015.
SSN Insight: NBC has ordered the series. Idea for the show stemmed from the primetime special The Maya Rudolph Show that was aired back in May 2014.

Prototype
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Escape Artists
Executive Producer(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Anthony Basgallop
Writer(s): Anthony Basgallop
Logline: Three people, from different backgrounds, each brilliant and driven, form a partnership in their development of a machine that will have the potential to reshape the future.
SSN Insight: SyFy has ordered the pilot. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, nominated for an Oscar for his short Esposados, will direct the pilot.

Purity
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Scott Rudin
Writer(s): Jonathan Franzen, Todd Field
Logline: Pip is a young American woman who does not know who she is. Andreas is a charismatic German provocateur who heads a South America-based organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world. Pip gets an internship there in search of her identity.
Details: Based on the novel, “Purity,” written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 1, 2015.
SSN Insight: Daniel Craig is attached to star. No network set, but planned as a 20 episode limited series with Todd Fields onboard to direct all 20 episodes.

Shooter
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions, Paramount Television
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, John Hlavin
Writer(s): John Hlavin
Logline: Based on the film about a marksman and former U.S. Marine scout sniper who is coaxed back into action, only to be framed for murder and have to go on the run.
Details: Based on the film, “Shooter,” (2007) directed by Antoine Fuqua, which was based on the novel “Point of Impact,” written by Stephen Hunter and published by Bantam on November 1, 1993.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development at TNT. USA has given a series order.

Talking Saul
Network: AMC
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Embassy Row, LLC
Executive Producer(s): Michael Davies, Jen Patton, Brandon Monk, Chris Hardwick
Writer(s):
Logline: The show features series cast, producers, celebrity fans and more reacting to and discussing the twists and turns of Better Call Saul and taking questions and comments from viewers.
Details: The series is a talk show spinoff of the TV series, “Better Call Saul,” starring Bob Odenkirk, which premiered on AMC in 2015
SSN Insight: AMC will air the aftershow, to be hosted by Talking Dead‘s Chris Hardwick, following Better Call Saul‘s Season 2 premiere on February 15 and season finale on April 18.

The Breaks
Network: VH1 Network
Executive Producer(s): DJ Premier, Susan Levinson Bixby, Darren Goldberg, Bill Flanagan, Maggie Malina
Logline: Centers around Nikki Jones, a brilliant recent grad who abandoned a scholarship to law school to pursue her dream of becoming a record exec. Nikki fast talks her way into an internship at the premier hip-hop company, Fouray Entertainment, and catches the eye of the label’s infamous founder.
Details: Based on the book, “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop,” written by Dan Charnas and published by New American Library (NAL) on December 7, 2010. The book was adapted for a TV movie for VH1.
SSN Insight: The TV Movie was planned as a backdoor pilot. According to VH1 and Nielsen, The Breaks TV movie ranked as the #2 cable original movie of 2016 among adults 18-49, adults 18-34, women 18-49 and women 18-34.

The White Princess
Network: Starz
Production Company(s): Company Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Emma Frost, Philippa Gregory, Colin Callender, Michele Buck
Logline: Concludes the story of England’s War of the Roses and charts the rise of the House of Tudor through the tortuous marriage between Princess Elizabeth of York and King Henry Tudor
Details: A sequel to the series “The White Queen,” which aired on Starz in 2013.
SSN Insight: Starz has given a series order of eight episodes.

Thunderbirds Are Go (Animated)
Network: ITV
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Pukeko Pictures, Weta Workshop, ITV Studios
Executive Producer(s): Estelle Hughes, Giles Ridge, Richard Taylor, Andrew Smith
Writer(s): Rob Hoegee
Logline: The five Tracy brothers of the International Rescue squad go on missions spanning the globe and into outer space.
Details: Based on series “Thunderbirds,” which ran for 2 seasons on ITV Network from 1965-1966.
SSN Insight: Amazon has ordered four 13-episode seasons. A 26-episode first season of “Thunderbirds Are Go” aired on ITV and CITV in Britain and Australia. Rosamund Pike stars as the voice of Lady Penelope.

Untitled Alex Gibney/Laura Dern Drama
Network: HBO Network
Executive Producer(s): Alex Gibney, Laura Dern
Writer(s): Alex Gibney
Logline: Centers on a court-appointed psychiatrist who must determine from her twisted yet humanizing diagnostic exchanges with death row inmates if they are sane enough to be killed by the state.
SSN Insight: Emmy winner Gibney is most known as a documentary filmmaker. His credits include Death Row Stories, Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Sinatra: All or Nothing at All.

Untitled Rolling Stone Docuseries
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Left/Right Films
Executive Producer(s): Gus Wenner, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman
Logline: A pop culture-focused docuseries in the vein of Rolling Stone, based on articles from the music and pop culture magazine.
Details: Based on articles from Rolling Stone Magazine.
SSN Insight: Showtime has given a pilot order. The magazine markd its 50th anniversary next year. Left/Right also produced Starz’s political docuseries The Circus: Inside The Greatest Political Show On Earth.

America’s Next Top Model (Reboot)
Network: VH1
Production Company(s): Bankable Productions, Tyra Banks Company
Executive Producer(s): Tyra Banks, Ken Mok
Logline: Reality series in which selected modeling contestants will live together and compete in weekly tasks for the grand prize of a modeling contract with a modeling agency.
Details: A reboot of the series Top Model that premiered May 20, 2003 on UPN, and was the first series to debut on The CW on Sept 20, 2006.
SSN Insight: The original series ended a 22-cycle run on CW in 2015. CBS Television Distribution then shopped the “reinvented” series to cable and SVOD outlets last fall after receiving incoming interest. Banks will not host, rather there will be a new host and judges. The show’s format has been produced in over 30 countries.

Brockmire
Network: IFC
Executive Producer(s): Azaria, Church-Cooper, Tim Kirkby, Joe Farrell.
Writer(s): Joel Church-Cooper
Logline: Centers on a famed Major League Baseball announcer (Azaria) who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity. A decade later, Jim Brockmire decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town, calling minor league ball for the Morristown Frackers.
Details: Based on a Funny or Die short.
SSN Insight: Set to premiere early next year, to be directed by Tim Kirkby. Series will star Hank Azaria.

Crossroads of History
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Mark Koops, Eric Day, Anthony Samandani, Bonnie Pan
Writer(s): Elizabeth Wright Shapiro
Logline: Created and written by Elizabeth Shapiro, the scripted short form series examines the fascinating and largely unknown moments in history that have shaped the world. “Crossroads of History” will lift the veil on famous events and expose little known but historically accurate facts of the story, such as: how President Lincoln’s alcoholic bodyguard, John Parker, chose the wrong night to leave his post at the Ford Theatre and how rejection from art school set a young artist, Adolf Hitler, on a very different career path.
SSN Insight: 8 short form episodes will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting on February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations beginning February 27.

Great Minds with Dan Harmon
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan Harmon, Richard Korson, Jay Peterson, Tim Healy, Paul Cabana
Logline: The series follows Dan Harmon who invests in a time machine and is subsequently visited by history’s greatest minds. Harmon discusses his visitors’ lives and brings them out into the modern world, embarking on an adventure that drops these famous historical figures right into today’s advanced society.
SSN Insight: Will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations.

How to Lose the Presidency
Network: History
Production Company(s): Maker Studios, Trium Entertainment
Logline: This series showcases real clips of embarrassing moments and mistakes from Howard Dean’s scream heard round the world and Rick Perry’s time of forgetfulness to outrageous moments in the current presidential campaign.
SSN Insight: Will air on History channel for an exclusive 48 hours starting February 25, at which point episodes will be syndicated to Maker Studios-branded channels as well as History’s own digital destinations on February 27.

I Love Dick
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Topple Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jill Soloway, Andrea Sperling
Writer(s): Sarah Gubbins
Logline: Chris and Sylvere are about a struggling married couple who have a mutual obsession with an off-putting — but charismatic — professor named Dick. The story is set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas and told in a Rashomon-style shifting points of view.
Details: Based on the novel, “I Love Dick,” written by Chris Kraus and published by Semiotext(e) in 1997.
SSN Insight: Amazon ordered the pilot on February 18. Soloway is the creator behind the award-winning series, Transparent.

Lip Sync Battle Jr.
Network: Spike TV, Nickelodeon
Production Company(s): Matador Content, Casey Patterson Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Casey Patterson, Jay Peterson
Logline: Celebrate kids’ love of music and comedy featuring the battles viewers have come to know and love with new variety elements designed to let the little ones shine.
Details: Spin-off of “Lip Sync Battle” (Spike/2015)
SSN Insight: Lip Sync Battle is the most-watched original series in Spike’s history with an average of four million viewers and more than 500 million views online. This special will air later this year on both Spike and Nickelodeon. Various Viacom brands are also developing special editions of Lip Sync Battle events.

Satan’s Sisters
Network: VH1 Network
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): De Passe Jones Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Josh Berman, Amy Engelberg, Wendy Engelberg, Star Jones, Susan Levison
Writer(s): Amy Engelberg, Wendy Engelberg
Logline: The series goes behind the scenes of the daytime talk show, “The Lunch Club,” detailing all the sisterhood, sex, betrayal and drama. It delves into the underworld of each of the five co-hosts, exposing hidden addictions, forbidden lovers, shocking family secrets and false accusations.
SSN Insight: VH1 gave a series order. Star Jones was a co-host of the morning talk show The View.

Sharp Objects
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions, Entertainment One (eOne)
Executive Producer(s): Gillian Flynn, Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Charles Layton
Writer(s): Marti Noxon
Logline: Centers on reporter Camille Preaker, who after a short stay at a psych hospital must return to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls — and deal with her neurotic, hypochondriac mother and the half-sister she barely knows. She must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story and survive the homecoming. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
Details: Based on the novel, “Sharp Objects,” written by Gillian Flynn and published by Shaye Areheart Books on September 26, 2006.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development as a feature film. Series will star Amy Adams. eOne is shopping the project to cable and streaming networks currently.

Stan Against Evil
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): @radical.media
Executive Producer(s): Dana Gould, Tom Lassally, Frank Scherma, Justin Wilkes
Writer(s): Dana Gould, Susan Burke, Jessica Conrad
Logline: Stan has trouble relinquishing his authority to Evie, the tough and beautiful new sheriff in town, but they form an unlikely alliance when both begin to realize things are not quite right. Together, they valiantly fight a plague of unleashed demons that have been haunting the town, which just happens to be built on the site of a massive 17th century witch burning.
SSN Insight: IFC has given a straight to series order of eight episodes as of February 22.

Untitled Kelly Oxford/Molly McNearney Comedy
Network: TV Land
Writer(s): Kelly Oxford, Molly McNearney
Logline: The story revolves around female best friends and their families.
Details: Based on the real-life friendship of Kelly Oxford and Molly McNearney.
SSN Insight: Oxford wrote the best-selling author of Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar and is underway on a second book with HarperCollins. She is also writing the feature All the Way for Point Grey and Sony.

Dark
Network: Netflix
Writer(s): Jantje Friese
Logline: A mysterious saga following four families living in a small German town. Their idyllic life is torn apart when two children mysteriously disappear and the families’ dark secrets begin to come to the surface.
SSN Insight: Project is the first German production for Netflix. Netflix has given a series order of ten episodes as of February 24. Production is set to start this year with a worldwide series debut in 2017. Dark will be directed by Baran bo Odar, who directed the German box office hit Who Am I – No System Is Safe.

Five Year
Network: Viki (online)
Production Company(s): Skybound Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Robert Kirkman
Logline: A pre-apocalyptic series, about a family living under the threat of a deadly meteor headed toward Earth.
SSN Insight: The series will debut its first 16-episode season on Korean broadcast TV and worldwide on Viki. Producers plan to shoot five seasons over five years. Filming will begin later this year. Viki is a global TV site to discover, watch and subtitle global primetime shows and movies in more than 200 languages. Viki is a unit of Japanese Internet services company Rakuten.

Godless
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Scott Frank, Steven Soderbergh, Casey Silver
Writer(s): Scott Frank.
Logline: Storyline under wraps. A Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town.
SSN Insight: The series will be written, directed and executive produced by Frank. Frank earned an Oscar nomination for his feature adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel into the 1998 movie Out of Sight, which was directed by Soderbergh. The project is currently casting and will shoot in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hey Arnold! (Animated TV Movie)
Network: Nickelodeon
Logline: Centers on Arnold, an 8-year-old city kid and his friends who endure the usual trials of childhood — playground bullies, secret crushes, snow days, school plays — while learning to cope with the obstacles that come with growing up in a tough urban environment.
Details: Based on the animated TV series that ran from 1996 to 2000 on Nickelodeon. Hey Arnold! The Movie, a feature length animated film, was released theatrically in 2002.
SSN Insight: Nickelodeon credits the recent emphasis on reviving past shows from their interns who thought the programs would work online. Executives instead aired a block of the shows on Teen Nick at night. In an interview with Variety, Cyma Zarghami, President of Viacom’s Kids and Family Group said social media played a part in the resurgence, “Interest in the Nick library was becoming louder and louder and louder.”

Legends of the Hidden Temple (TV Movie)
Network: Nickelodeon
Logline: Three siblings must conquer a series of obstacles to remain alive.
Details: Based on the game show that ran from 1993-1996 on Nickelodeon.
SSN Insight: Slated to premiere in late 2016. Isabela Moner will star. She previously appeared on Nick’s 100 Things to Do Before High School. The movie will feature callbacks to the game show including Olmec, a talking head who knows the secrets behind the temple; the Steps of Knowledge, the entrance to the temple and launching pad for the mission; and cameos from a green monkey, red jaguar and silver snakes, among others.

Mating
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): True Jack Productions
Executive Producer(s): Stu Zicherman, Jason Katims, Michelle Lee
Writer(s): Stu Zicherman
Logline: Explores modern dating and relationships, with each season chronicling a different protagonist’s journey. The first season-long arc will center on a recently divorced guy who tries to evolve and connect one date at a time.
SSN Insight: Showtime has ordered the pilot. The project was originally set up at Showtime in the summer of 2014. The show is a co-production between Universal TV and Showtime.

Minors
Production Company(s): MACRO
Executive Producer(s): Ryan Coogler, Destin Daniel Cretton, Chinaka Hodge, Charles D. King, Kim Roth
Writer(s): Chinaka Hodge
Logline: The series explores juvenile facilities, the kids that grow up in the system and how the facilities shape the kids over a one year time period.
Details: Based on Destin Daniel Cretton’s experience working in residential foster care, Ryan Coogler’s East Bay area upbringing and time working in a juvenile detention facility, and Chinaka Hodge’s experience teaching underserved youth in Bay Area continuation schools and her 15 years of working with local youth.
SSN Insight: The new drama will be shopped to networks and other TV vehicles. King’s MACRO production company was launched to produce film, TV and digital projects for African-American, Latino and multicultural audiences.

Ozark
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Media Rights Capital, Aggregate Films
Executive Producer(s): Jason Bateman, Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Chris Mundy
Writer(s): Bill Dubuque
Logline: Set at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, the story takes place in the dark and dangerous world of drug money laundering.
Details: Planned as a straight-to-series project. (9/25/2015)
SSN Insight: Netflix has greenlit the series. Bateman will star and direct the series along with his role as executive producer. Dubuque previously sold his pitch The Real McCoy to Universal with Chris Prat to star and also penned the upcoming The Accountant starring Ben Affleck for Warner Bros.

The Black 22s
Network: National Geographic Channel
Executive Producer(s): Paul Guyot, David Oyelowo, John Rogers, Jennifer Court, Bharat Nalluri
Writer(s): Paul Guyot
Logline: Based the true story of the brilliant African-American detective and one of the first all-black police squad in America in St. Louis, Missouri. Battling the gangland killers of Prohibition and set up to fail by their own bosses, they fought for justice during one of the most racially charged times in history, in a city that to this day is a flashpoint for racism and police brutality.
SSN Insight: Paul Guyot (TNT’s The Librarians) will also serve as showrunner. Bharat Nalluri (Life on Mars) is also attached to direct. NatGeo bought the script with a significant penalty attached and it marks one of the first major moves in the scripted space by the channel.

The Mist
Network: Spike TV
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): Christian Torpe
Writer(s): Christian Torpe
Logline: A seemingly innocuous mist seeps into a small town but contains limitless havoc. From psychological terrors to otherworldly creatures, the mist causes the town residents’ darkest demons to appear forcing them to battle the supernatural event and, more importantly, each other.
Details: Based on the novella, “The Mist,” written by Stephen King and first published as part of the horror anthology, “Dark Forces” by Viking Press in 1980. The novella was also adapted into the film, “The Mist,” (2007), directed by Frank Darabont and starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden.
SSN Insight: Spike gave a pilot order on February 25. Christian Torpe created the hit Danish drama Rita, now completing its fourth season.

The Von Bulow Affair
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Writer(s): Ilene Rosenzweig
Logline: Follows the greatest society trial of the 20th century when Claus Von Bulow is arrested for the murder of his wife, millionaire socialite Sunny Von Bulow. After she was found unconscious on her bathroom floor on Dec. 21, 1980, Sunny remained in a coma for 27 years. Claus went on trial for attempted murder in 1982, initiating a legal circus that would last for years.
Details: Based on the true-crime book The Von Bulow Affair by author-playwright William Wright published in 1983.
SSN Insight: Ilene Rosenzweig previously wrote Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. UCP will shop the project to broadcast and cable networks.

Untitled Rasputin Drama Project
Production Company(s): Media Rights Capital, Parts and Labor
Executive Producer(s): Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen
Writer(s): Robert Eggers
Logline: The story follows Russian mystic Rasputin’s origins in Siberia, his rise to power as an adviser to the Imperial family, and his eventual bloody death, after multiple unsuccessful attempts on his life, in St. Petersburg.
Details: Based on the true story of Rasputin, an adviser to the Russian royal family in the early 20th century.
SSN Insight: A network has not been set. Writer-director Robert Eggers will write and direct six to eight episodes. Eggers previously helmed The Witch. Eggers, Van Hoy and Knudsen take this on as they separately work on a remake of Nosferatu at Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8.

A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits
Network: Freeform
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Writer(s): Elena Song
Logline: Tessa agrees to accompany her evil stepmother and step-sisters to a Cinderella audition/competition and work as their assistant. In exchange, her stepmother, will pay the mortgage on her grandfather’s house. While at the competition, Georgie discovers that Tessa has what it takes to be the next Cinderella – and encourages her to audition for the role. Though hesitant at first, Tessa decides that it’s time to follow her heart and make her dreams become reality.
Details: An installment based on Warner Bros’ Cinderella Story series from WB’s home entertainment division.
SSN Insight: Freeform has acquired the TV movie for premiere later this year. Michelle Johnston will direct the TV movie.

Aftermath
Network: Syfy, Bell Media
Production Company(s): Halfire Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): William Laurin, Glenn Davis, Julie Hope
Logline: Karen and Joshua Copeland and their children Dana, Brianna and Matt, must battle for survival after civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes and plague – and the rise of supernatural creatures.
SSN Insight: Syfy has given a series order of 13 episodes and the series will also air on Bell Media’s Space in Canada later this summer. Casting is underway, with production slated for May 2 in Vancouver.

Artificial Intelligence
Network: TNT
Production Company(s): Cipango
Executive Producer(s): Luc Besson, Bill Wheeler, Matthew Gross, Edouard de Vesinne, Thomas Anargyros
Writer(s): Luc Besson, Bill Wheeler
Logline: An artificial intelligence escapes from a laboratory and begins carrying out its own mysterious agenda, prompting the AI’s creator to assemble a team of specialists to deal with the situation.
SSN Insight: TNT has given an initial commitment of a put pilot as of March 1.

Big Hero 6 (Animated)
Network: Disney XD
Production Company(s): Walt Disney Animation Studios
Executive Producer(s): Mark McCorkle, Robert Schooley, Nick Filippi
Logline: The series picks up immediately following the events in the movie, and continues the adventures of 14-year-old tech genius Hiro and his robot Baymax. Joining the pair on their journey is control freak Wasabi, scientist Honey Lemon, fanboy Fred and no-nonsense Go Go, who together form the Big Hero 6 superhero team. As the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, Hiro faces daunting academic challenges, not to mention the social trials of being the little man on campus. The stakes are also raised for the high-tech heroes when they must protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.
Details: Based on the comic book characters “Big Hero 6″ who first appeared in “Sunfire and Big Hero 6 #1″ created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau and published by Marvel Comics September 1998. The project is also a sequel to the film , “Big Hero 6,” (2014), featuring the voices of Ryan Potter, TJ MIller and Maya Rudolph, which was released on November 7, 2014.
SSN Insight: Disney XD has given a series order. Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley created the Disney hit series Kim Possible.

Crashletes
Network: Nickelodeon
Production Company(s): Superjacket Productions
Executive Producer(s): Rob Dyrdek, Shane Nickerson
Logline: Hosted by the New England Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski, the show features guest personalities from the worlds of sports and entertainment, along with funny viral sports clips and user-generated content from around the world. As host, Gronkowski will offer funny commentary on the clips, alongside his co-hosts and guest stars.
SSN Insight: Nickelodeon has given a series order of 20 episodes.

Endorsed
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): Good Clean Fun
Logline: This show is a behind-the-scenes look at celebrity endorsements, and stars supermodel Cindy Crawford. Each episode will focus on pairing a celebrity looking for a brand attachment with a budding business. Crawford will meet with a team of leading business and branding moguls to evaluate each celebrity’s needs. They’ll narrow the field of options down to two businesses. Then begins the process of coming up with an ideal match. After the celebrity hears the team’s expert advice, he or she will visit each business on site and meet with the business’ leaders to discuss how an endorsement partnership could be realized. Each business will pitch the celeb not only their product and business model, but also how the company would use the celebrity’s image in an endorsement.
SSN Insight: Good Clean Fun is also behind VH1’s Barely Famous and Cooking Channel’s Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers.

High School Musical 4
Network: Disney Channel
Executive Producer(s): Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush
Writer(s): Dan Berendsen, Peter Barsocchini
Logline: The story introduce a new group of East High Wildcats and their cross-town school rivals, the West High Knights.
Details: The film is the fourth in the series of films that originated with “High School Musical,” which premiered on Disney Channel on January 20, 2006.
SSN Insight: A nationwide casting search is currently underway. Jeffrey Hornaday, who directed Disney Channel’s Teen Beach Movie, will direct and choreograph this movie.

Jagger Eaton’s Mega Life
Network: Nickelodeon
Production Company(s): Superjacket Productions
Executive Producer(s): Rob Dyrdek, Shane Nickerson
Logline: The series follows the adventures of teen skateboarder Jagger Eaton as he shows viewers what it’s like to spend a day in the shoes of people who are pushing boundaries, living their lives without limits and inspiring others to do the same.
SSN Insight: Nickelodeon has given a series order of 20 episodes.

Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace
Network: Cartoon Network
Production Company(s): Million Dollar Extreme
Logline: A sketch show in an almost­ present­ day post­-apocalyptic nightmare world.
Details: Based on the 15-minute live-action Adult Swim series from the anti-comedy sketch troupe.
SSN Insight: Cartoon Network gave a series order. The show will star Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort and Charles Carroll, and is directed by Andy Ruse. The series goes into production later this month.

Pete the Cat (Animated)
Production Company(s): Alcon Entertainment, Appian Way
Executive Producer(s): Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster
Logline: The series follows the adventures of Pete the Cat. Based on the book series.
Details: Based on the “Pete the Cat,” picture book series, created by James Dean. The first book in the series, “Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes,” with text and music by Eric Litwin, was self published in 2008 and published by Harper Collins in 2010.
SSN Insight: Marsh was also the co-creator and executive producer of the hit Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. Along with an EP role he will also be the showrunner.

Puppy Dog Tails (Animated)
Network: Disney Junior
Production Company(s): Wild Canary
Executive Producer(s): Sean Coyle
Logline: Focuses on two fun-loving pug puppies, Bingo and Rolly, whose thrill-seeking appetites take them on daily adventures around their neighborhood and beyond.
SSN Insight: created by comedian Harland Williams who will serve as a consulting producer. Dean Batali (That 70s Show) will serve as a story editor.

Roadside Picnic
Network: WGN America
Studio: Tribune Studios, Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Neal H. Moritz, Vivian Cannon, Jack Paglen, Alan Taylor
Writer(s): Jack Paglen
Logline: Centers on an alien visit to planet Earth, whose aftermath has led to the creation of “Zones” in the areas where the aliens had possibly landed. Such zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artifacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties.
Details: Based on the novel “Пикник на обочине (Roadside Picnic),” written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and published in Russia in 1972. Novel was also adapted for the 1979 film “Stalker,” directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
SSN Insight: WGN has given a pilot order. Alan Taylor will direct the pilot. His credits include Terminator Genisys and Game of Thrones.

Scalped
Network: WGN America
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): DC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Doug Jung, Geoff Johns
Writer(s): Doug Jung
Logline: The Oglala Lakota inhabitants in the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in South Dakota grapple with organized crime, poverty, drug and alcohol addiction and local politics while trying to preserve their cultural identity.
Details: Based on the comic book, “Scalped,” written by Jason Aaron and published by DC Comics/Vertigo from 2007-2012. Partially inspired by Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was arrested for gunning down two FBI agents on a reservation in 1975.
SSN Insight: WGN gave a pilot order. Geoff Johns is also the co-creator of The Flash and DC Comics’ Chief Creative Officer.

Soldier Girls
Network: HBO Network
Executive Producer(s): Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall
Writer(s): Nicole Riegel
Logline: Three women enlist in the National Guard and serve their country during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, which leads them to form life-long friendships.
Details: Based on the book, “Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War,” written by Helen Thorpe and published by Scribner on August 5, 2014.
SSN Insight: Nicole Riegel is a former soldier and her feature script, Dogfight, was on the Black List. This adaptation will mark her TV debut.

Superhuman
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Executive Producer(s): Rob Smith, Georgie Hurford-Jones, David Friedman
Logline: The series will test the abilities of ordinary people who possess nearly superhuman skills in areas such as memory, hearing, taste, touch, smell and sight.
Details: The project is based on the special, “Superhuman,” which aired on Fox on January 4, 2016.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of eight episodes. Kal Penn will return as host.

The Fifth Beatle
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment, Tiwary Entertainment Group
Executive Producer(s): Vivek J. Tiwary
Writer(s): Vivek J. Tiwary
Logline: The story of the legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein and his effort to drive the unknown band from playing in a Liverpool cellar to international superstardom.
Details: Based on the graphic novel “The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story,” written by Vivek J. Tiwary and published by M Press Books in 2013.
SSN Insight: The project was previously in development as a feature from Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment. Planned as an event series.

The First Wives Club
Network: TV Land
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s):
Executive Producer(s): Jenny Bicks
Writer(s): Rebecca Addelman
Logline: Three San Francisco women – friends and classmates in the 90s – reconnect after their close friend from college dies in a freak accident. When they discover that they are all at a romantic crossroads, they band together to tackle divorce, relationships and life’s other annoying challenges.
Details: Based on the film, “The First Wives Club,” (1996), directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton.
SSN Insight: TV Land has ordered the pilot.

The Mike Stud Project (Docuseries)
Network: Esquire Network
Production Company(s): Den of Thieves
Executive Producer(s): Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager, Alexandra Lipsitz, Jordan Barrow, Jared Morell, Austin Rosen
Logline: Stud is a Duke Mike Studeducated, former All-American baseball player who turned to music after an injury robbed him of his lifelong dream to play pro ball. Now, Stud is at the top of the Billboard and iTunes charts. The series follows Stud’s 40-city “Back2You Tour” across North America and his entourage of friends turned collaborators following Stud’s latest album release.
SSN Insight: Esquire ordered eight episodes and will premiere the show this summer. Stud has earned over 60 million views on YouTube, released three #1 Hip-Hop Albums on iTunes, and headlined three national tours.

The New Odyssey
Production Company(s): Playground Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Colin Callender
Logline: An account of the migrant crisis based in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the story followers voyagers along the migrant trail, as refugees make their epic odyssey across deserts, seas, and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The New Odyssey- The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis,” written by Patrick Kingsley and to be published by Guardian Faber Publishing on May 3, 2016.
SSN Insight: Playground, credited with the multi-award winning Wolf Hall and The Missing, will develop the project from its UK office.

The Terror
Network: AMC
Studio: AMC Studios
Production Company(s): Ridley Scott Films , Management 360, Emjag Productions
Executive Producer(s): Ridley Scott, Scott Lambert, Meghan Lyvers, Alexandra Milchan, Dan Simmons
Writer(s): Dave Kajganich
Logline: Set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival.
Details: Based on the novel “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, published by Little, Brown and Company on January 1, 2009.
SSN Insight: AMC has given a series order of 10 episodes.

The Von Bülow Affair
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Writer(s): Ilene Rosenzweig
Logline: Set in early 1980s Newport and New York, the story follows the greatest society trial of the 20th century when Claus von Bülow is arrested for the attempted murder of his wife, millionaire socialite Sunny Von Bülow. After she was found unconscious on her bathroom floor on December 21, 1980, Sunny remained in a coma for 27 years. Claus went on trial for attempted murder in 1982, initiating a legal circus that would last for years. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The Von Bülow Affair,” written by William Wright and published by Delacorte in 1983.
SSN Insight: Ilene Rosenzweig previously scripted the Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce.

Untitled Daniel Mackey/Seth Fisher Anastasia Project
Network: Freeform
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Wonderland Sound and Vision
Executive Producer(s): Daniel Mackey, Seth Fisher, McG, Mary Viola
Writer(s): Daniel Mackey, Seth Fisher
Logline: Set in vibrant Paris during the roaring 1920’s, this reimagining follows Anastasia after her escape from Communist Russia. While her sights are set on avenging the death of her family, she joins forces with an elite espionage agency that’s working to prevent another world war. By day, Anastasia is a former princess trying to blend into a normal life, but by night, she’s acting as the world’s first female spy, influencing some of the biggest events in the first part of the 20th century.
Details: Based on the mystery of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia in the early 20th century.
SSN Insight: Fisher and Mackey previously developed a half-hour comedy with John Krasinski at TBS. Fisher’s past credits include the award-winning NatGeo’s miniseries Saints & Strangers. Mackey is adapting the YA book franchise Blackbird for Lionsgate.

Untitled Kyle Richards Comedy Project
Network: TV Land
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): John Wells Productions
Executive Producer(s): John Riggi, John Wells, Andrew Stearn
Writer(s): John Riggi
Logline: Set in the 1970s, where Bonnie Nolan is 40 years old with a beautiful home and three beautiful daughters to go with it. However, she also has a cheating husband. Finding herself alone after her marriage fails, Bonnie is an enigma of the times: a single woman with no means to support herself or her children.
Details: Inspired by the childhood life of actress/reality star Kyle Richards.
SSN Insight: TV Land has given a pilot order.

Vampirina (Animated)
Network: Disney Junior
Production Company(s): Brown Bag Films
Executive Producer(s): Chris Nee, Norton Virgien
Logline: Follows a young vampire girl whose family moves from Transylvania to Pennsylvania, where she must deal with being the new kid in town.
Details: Based on Disney Publishing’s children’s book series Vampirina Ballerina.
SSN Insight: Nicky Phelan is set to direct.

After
Network: Freeform
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Tom Lynch Company
Executive Producer(s): Tom Lynch, Robin Schwartz
Writer(s): Tom Lynch, Adam Lash, Cori Uchida
Logline: Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince one hundred years after falling asleep to find her family long dead and her kingdom taken from her. She must transform into a warrior to regain it.
Details: Based on the novel “A Wicked Thing,” written by Rhiannon Thomas and published by HarperTeen in 2015.
SSN Insight: Lynch was previously behind such shows as Nick’s The Secret World of Alex Mack, Caitlin’s Way, and South of Nowhere. He recently wrapped production on Nickelodeon’s musical comedy series Make It Pop.

Beerfest
Network: CW Seed (digital)
Production Company(s): Blue Ribbon Content
Executive Producer(s): Bill Gerber
Logline: Centered on two brothers who travel to Germany for Oktoberfest, only to stumble upon a secret, centuries-old competition described as a “Fight Club” with beer games.
Details: Based on the film “Beerfest” (2006), directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.
SSN Insight: Billy Gerber produced the original movie Beerfest, along with The Dukes Of Hazzard movies. It will be directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.

Carpool Karaoke
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Fulwell 73 Productions
Executive Producer(s): James Corden, Ben Winston
Logline: A host drives around with celebrities, singing and chatting.
Details: The project is based on the segment that aired on “The Late Late Show With James Corden,” which airs on CBS.
SSN Insight: CBS has set The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special to air on March 29. This series is currently being shopped to networks. Corden would not host but would make appearances throughout the series.

Easy
Network: Netflix
Executive Producer(s): Joe Swanberg
Writer(s): Joe Swanberg
Logline: An anthology series that explores diverse Chicago characters as they fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture.
Details: Ordered straight to series. Netflix has ordered 8 episodes. (3/14/2016)
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a straight to series order of eight episodes. Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Michael Chernus, Marc Maron, Elizabeth Reaser, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jake Johnson, Aya Cash, Dave Franco, Jane Adams and Hannibal Buress will make appearances on the show.

Gomorrah
Production Company(s): The Weinstein Company, Cattleya SPA, Beta Film, Fandango, LA 7
Logline: A streetwise foot soldier wages war to take over the criminal organization which rules over his world.
Details: Based on the book “Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System” by Roberto Saviano; published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux October 30, 2007. Based on the 12-episode series on Sky Italia that aired in 2014.
SSN Insight: TWC sold the first two completed seasons to SundanceTV that originally aired on Sky Italia. SundanceTV will premiere those two seasons in the U.S. starting this summer. TWC, which holds the North American rights to the series and is currently shopping a new English language version.

Hate in America with Jorge Ramos
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): Fusion
Logline: The special examines the state of hate groups in the United States with a focus on why intolerance seems to be spreading.
SSN Insight: HBO has licensed this series from Fusion, the Disney and Univision-owned English-language digital news service and cable channel aimed at millennial audiences. The project was developed by Univision Story House, Univision’s just launched original content development and production team designed to create stories and formats for Univision’s internal platforms including Fusion, as well as third party general market networks.

Outpost
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): Fusion
Logline: An immersive exploration of Latin America looking at various aspects of the culture of in Latin American countries.
SSN Insight: The series began as a production for Fusion’s Snapchat Discover channel. HBO has since licensed the 10 episode series. The project was developed by Univision Story House, Univision’s just launched original content development and production team designed to create stories and formats for Univision’s internal platforms including Fusion, as well as third party general market networks.

The Tick
Network: Amazon
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios
Executive Producer(s): Barry Josephson, Ben Edlund
Writer(s): Ben Edlund
Logline: At a young age, Arthur Everest witnessed The Terror, a powerful super villain, kill his father and five of the city’s heroes. Ever since, he’s been labeled as crazy for his odd behavior and crackpot conspiracies about The Terror being alive after all these years. When the big blue bug of justice arrives – a powerful but blabbering hero who refers to himself as The Tick – Arthurs’s suspicions are confirmed. But now that they are, he’s not sure if he’s got the guts to pursue the Terror.
Details: Based on “The Tick” comic book series by Ben Enlund that was adapted for a 1994-1996 Fox animated series and a 2001 live-action Fox comedy series.
SSN Insight: Amazon has given a pilot order. Barry Josephson also executive produced the live action series. Griffin Newman will play Arthur Everest and Valorie Curry will play his sister Dot Everest. Wally Pfister is in negotiations to direct. Patrick Warburton, who played the title character in the Fox live action series, will not reprise his role but is expected to serve as an executive producer.

Tracks
Network: Spike TV
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Mission Control, MX Productions
Executive Producer(s): Christina Aguilera, Matthew Rutler, Michael Agbabian, Dwight D Smith
Logline: A team of two attempts to name a song title just by listening to its individual tracks (e.g. guitar, bass, vocal, etc.). The series will also feature surprise celebrity musical guests performing tracks – which could be their own – or others.
SSN Insight: Spike TV gave a series order on March 15. The show will premiere later this year as a half-hour special on the network.

Trust
Network: FX Network
Studio: FX Productions
Production Company(s): Cloud Eight Films, Decibel, Snicket Films Limited
Executive Producer(s): Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson
Writer(s): Simon Beaufoy
Logline: The series begins in 1973, when the mafia kidnaps young John Paul Getty III in Rome, thinking that his family will pay handsomely for his return. But as the criminals soon learn, the Getty clan is rather messed up: heroin addiction, multiple mistresses, bankruptcy and a pet lion all figure into the family’s chaos.
Details: Based on a true story.
SSN Insight: FX has given a 10 episode limited series order. Developed through the first look deal between FX Productions and Danny Boyle, the director and writer of the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire.

Untitled Civil War Drama Series
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Executive Producer(s): Charles Randolph
Writer(s): Charles Randolph
Logline: A multifaceted, realistic look at what it would take to create a present-day civil war in the U.S.
Details:
SSN Insight: Charles Randolph won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The Big Short. Randolph’s credits include Love & Other Drugs and The Life Of David Gale. On the TV side he has landed two pilot orders at HBO and two at ABC.

Whitney (Documentary)
Network: Showtime
Production Company(s): Lafayette Films, Showtime Networks
Logline: Four years after her death, filmmaker Nick Broomfield goes in search of the forces that made and then destroyed the singer who has been described as having one of the greatest voices of the last 50 years.
SSN Insight: Nick Broomfield, who also directed the documentary Kurt & Courtney is helming this documentary. BBC has pre-bought UK rights to the film. Production is underway.

Calendar Girl
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Fake Empire
Executive Producer(s): Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Logline: Mia Saunders becomes a high-priced adult escort in order to pay off the gambling debts of her father. Based on the novel series.
Details: Based on the 12-book “Calendar Girl” novel series, written by Audrey Carlan and first published by Waterhouse Press in 2015.
SSN Insight: The project is currently out to writers, no network has been set. Savage previously developed Gossip Girl with Schwartz, and also adapted the Astronaut Wives Club as an event series for ABC.

Curious George
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): Universal 1440 Entertainment, WGBH Boston, Imagine Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Joe Fallon
Writer(s): Joe Fallon
Logline: Based on the adventures of Curious George the monkey and his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Each episode has two short cartoons per half-hour episode and a live-action segment after each story.
Details: Based on the children’s book series of the same name, written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey.
SSN Insight: Hulu has acquired exclusive subscription streaming rights in a multi-year deal to Curious George, forged by the NBCU Television & New Media Distribution group. The past nine seasons that aired on PBS Kids along with TV specials will be stream on Hulu along with future seasons.

Heathers
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): Lakeshore Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Writer(s): Jason Micallef
Logline: Set in the present day, the series follows the trials and tribulations of dealing with the social order in high school. A new set of popular-yet-evil Heathers emerges- only this time the outcasts have become high school royalty. Heather McNamara is a black lesbian; Heather Duke is a male who identifies as gender-queer whose real name is Heath; and Heather Chandler has a body like Martha Dumptruck. Based on the film.
Details: Based on the film, “Heathers” (1989), directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
SSN Insight: TV Land has ordered a pilot script for Heathers by Jason Micallef who wrote the feature film, Butter.

High Rise
Network: HBO
Production Company(s): The Firm, The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Kwatinetz, Josh Barry
Writer(s): Cami Delavigne
Logline: Set in the world of high end New York architecture, a brilliant, but struggling architect gets seduced by a billionaire’s daughter as she takes him under her wing and launches his career into the world of celebrity architecture.
SSN Insight: DeLavigne has previously developed projects for SundanceTV and worked on AMC’s upcoming drama series The Son.

Hollywood Darlings
Network: POP
Production Company(s): Objective Productions, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Jimmy Fox, Layla Smith, Greg Lipstone
Logline: Three lifelong friends, who grew up together in the entertainment business and became household names – now take on even bigger roles as moms, wives and businesswomen.
SSN Insight: POP has given a series order of eight episodes. The unscripted docu-comedy series will star Full House star Jodie Sweetin, Step By Step‘s Christine Lakin and 7th Heaven‘s Beverley Mitchell

Mariah’s World
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions
Executive Producer(s): Mariah Carey, Stella Bulochnikov Stolper, Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Farnaz Farjam
Logline: The series follows Mariah Carey as she begins her “Sweet Sweet Fantasy” tour of the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa, all while planning her upcoming wedding to Australian business mogul, James Packer.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of eight hourlong episodes. Mariah’s World will air globally over E!’s 17 international channels going out to 153 countries in 24 languages.

My Life is a Telenovela
Network: WE tv
Production Company(s): Matador Content
Logline: Set in Miami, the show is focused on the real characters who bring life to this enormously popular television genre. The series will follow a group of beautiful and fierce Latina actresses and actors working in this hyper-competitive world. As the series begins, several of our characters are vying for the same role in a real life telenovela being produced by Telemundo, resulting in drama and fireworks on both sides of the camera.
SSN Insight: WE tv has given a series order of eight episodes. The series will feature telenovela stars Raquenel, Sissi Fleitas, Gustavo Pedraza, Enrique Sapene and Liliana Gonzalez.

New People
Network: Freeform
Studio: Lionsgate
Production Company(s): Silver Pictures Television
Executive Producer(s): Donald Roos, Joel Silver, Rodney Ferrell
Logline: The story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother and their family’s journey. Based on the book, “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.”
Details: Inspired by a true story. Based on the book, “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family,” written by Amy Ellis Nutt and published by Random House on October 20, 2015.
SSN Insight: The project under Silver Pictures’ first-look deal with Lionsgate TV. The ABC Family (now Freeform) docuseries, Becoming Us previously had a transgender member in the show.

Quacks
Network: BBC 2
Production Company(s): Lucky Giant Productions
Executive Producer(s): James Wood, Justin Davies
Writer(s): James Wood
Logline: Set in the 1840s Victorian era, the series follow the adventures of three medical pioneers- a psychiatrist, an arrogant surgeon and a hapless anesthetist. It will explore the perils and pitfalls facing these young men at the cutting edge of medicine when it was just going places.
SSN Insight: BBC 2 has given a series order of six half-hour episodes. The series is being made in association with the independent global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health through science, research and engagement with society, The Wellcome Trust.

The Increment
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Hypnotic
Executive Producer(s): Dawn Parouse Olmstead, David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein
Writer(s): Gideon Raff
Logline: The series explores today’s post-treaty Iran, a place where nothing is what it seems. The story is told through the points of view of Harry Pappas, a CIA officer who sets out to identify the sender of an encrypted message coming from inside one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Karim Molavi, an Iranian scientist driven to betray his country in order to protect it from itself. Instrumental to the story is the UK black ops unit known as “the Increment,” a new world collection of agents – Arab, Pakistani and Iranian operatives- who can penetrate terror organizations and enemy states. A dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds between the Revolutionary Guard and the Western agencies.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Increment,” written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company on May 18, 2009.
SSN Insight: A network has not been set. Raff co-created and executive produced Showtime’s Homeland and FX’s Tyrant.

The Runner
Network: Verizon go90 (digital)
Production Company(s): Pilgrim Studios, Adaptive Studios Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Marc Joubert, Perrin Chiles, Craig Piligian
Logline: A cross between The Amazing Race and the classic playground game cops and robbers. One contestant will be selected as the titular runner, and it will be his or her job to cross the United States in 30 days without getting caught by the other participants. The runner will follow clues that will lead him or her to a series of checkpoints; those checkpoints will provide temporary safety, though between them, it will be open season for the hunters.
SSN Insight: Affleck and Damon first sold The Runner to ABC in 2000. The Runner was revived by Yahoo in 2006. Go90 is Verizon’s recently launched free, ad-supported video platform.

The Santa Clarita Diet
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Flower Films, Kapital Entertainment, KatCo
Executive Producer(s): Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Fresco, Aaron Kaplan, Tracy Katsky
Logline: Husband and wife realtors who lead vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita, until one goes through a dramatic change sending both their lives down a road of death and destruction, in a good way.
SSN Insight: KatCo’s first series order under the company’s deal with Kapital Entertainment. Netflix has ordered 13 episodes.

Untitled New York Cosmos Project
Production Company(s): Rohan Media, Primary Wave
Executive Producer(s): Werner Roth, Roy Houlette, Ben Press
Logline: Set in the 1970’s, the series will follow the brief existence of the North American Soccer League, which spanned 1968-1984, through the story of its most famous club, the New York Cosmos.
SSN Insight: The drama project is done with the cooperation of the New York Cosmos, with former captain Werner Roth serving as an executive producer. The project is currently out to writers, and the show has not been picked up by a network.

After the Black
Network: BBC America
Logline: The show will feature discussions with “Orphan Black” cast, crew and special guests, with topics ranging from plot hints, twists and theories. Special segments will include behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive first looks at the following week’s “Orphan Black” episode.
SSN Insight: BBC has given a series order and it will debut Thursday April 14 immediately following the Orphan Black Season 4 premiere. The 30-minute series will be moderated by Ajay Fry, Morgan Hoffman and Teddy Wilson, hosts of the InnerSpace show on Canada’s Space channel.

Claws
Network: TNT
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Le Train Train Productions
Executive Producer(s): Rashida Jones, Will McCormack
Writer(s): Eliot Laurence
Logline: A dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness which follows the rise of five diverse and treacherous Florida manicurists in the traditionally male world of organized crime. We will soon find out there is a lot more going on at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon than silk wraps and pedicures.
SSN Insight: TNT has given a pilot order. Previously in development as a half hour project with HBO during the 2015-2016 season.

Conviction
Network: TNT
Production Company(s): Martin Chase Productions, JuVee
Executive Producer(s): Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Debra Martin Chase, Ayanna Floyd-Ohl, Kim Swann
Writer(s): Ayanna Floyd-Ohl
Logline: Inspired by the life of Kym Worthy, the chief prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan, known as the toughest woman in Detroit.
Details: Inspired by the life of Kym Worthy, the chief prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan.
SSN Insight: The project was previously developed at ABC for the 2015-2016 season with a different writer. ABC also has a legal drama pilot Conviction this year, which is unrelated.

I Am Homicide
Network: Investigation Discovery
Production Company(s): Blackfin
Executive Producer(s): Geno McDermott, Alexa Conway, Patrick Conway, Diana Sperrazza
Logline: The docuseries will follow a Charlotte, NC, detective, Detective Garry McFadden, “with more than a 90% success rate” as he works cases. Fully immersing himself in every corner of Charlotte to protect and serve the community, McFadden uses his street smarts to work the neighborhoods and gather critical information for leads, no matter how dangerous.
SSN Insight: The hour long program has been given a series order and is set for a June premiere.

Maniac
Network: Netflix
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, Cary Fukunaga, Michael Sugar, Doug Wald
Logline: A guy lives a fantasy life in his dreams but in reality is locked up at an institution.
Details: Based on the Norwegian series, “Maniac,” which premiered on Norway’s TV 2 in 2015.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of ten episodes. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill are in the midst of closing deals to star and Cary Fukunaga to direct the half-hour series package.

My So Called Wife
Network: Bravo Media
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Executive Producer(s): Paul Adelstein, Adam Brooks
Writer(s): Paul Adelstein, Adam Brooks
Logline: A female con artist gets men to fall in love with her, marries them and then disappears with their money and just enough dirty inside information to guarantee they will never go to the police. But things get complicated when she falls in love with her latest mark, and three of her last victims join together to track her down.
SSN Insight: Bravo has given a series order of ten episodes. Will star Inbar Lavi, Rob Heaps, Parker Young and Stephen Bishop.

The Notebook
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company(s): Nicholas Sparks Productions
Executive Producer(s): Nicholas Sparks, Theresa Park
Logline: This series will follow the romantic journey of Noah and Allie, at the outset of their blossoming relationship as they build their lives and their future together against the backdrop of the racial politics, economic inequities, and social mores of post-World War II of the late 1940s in North Carolina.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Notebook,” written by Nicholas Sparks and published by Warner Books on October 16, 1996. The book was also made into the film, “The Notebook,” (2004), directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
SSN Insight: Project is being rolled to the 2017-2018 season with a new writer.

Untitled Jenna Dewan-Tatum Dance Competition Reality Series
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Endemol Shine North America
Production Company(s): Free Association, Purple Cup Productions
Executive Producer(s): Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Meegan Kiernan, Channing Tatum, Peter Kiernan, Reid Carolin
Logline: Jenna Dewan-Tatum serves as a judge and mentor in this dance competition series.
SSN Insight: NBC has given a series order of six episodes. This order marks the first series for Dewan-Tatum’s production company Purple Cup Productions.

Untitled Apple Reality Series
Production Company(s): Apple, Propagate
Executive Producer(s): Howard T. Owens, Will.i.am, Ben Silverman
Logline: Details are under wraps, but it will chronicle the development of apps.
SSN Insight: Ben Silverman previously founded Electus. This is his first sale post Electus. Apple is also producing Vital Signs, a scripted drama starring Dr. Dre and distributing a music docuseries from Vice titled The Score via Apple Music.

Untitled Sarah Palin Daytime Court Series
Production Company(s): Warm Springs Prods
Executive Producer(s): Larry Lyttle, Barry Wallach, Sarah Palin
Logline: Sarah Palin will be the judge on this series that follows the format of a traditional syndicated court show.
SSN Insight: Warm Springs Prods. is based in Montana and produces unscripted shows, including History’s Mountain Men. Lyttle, who will serve as showrunner. No network set. Palin previously starred in TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

Untitled Tom Ripley Series
Studio: Endemol Shine Studios
Production Company(s): Management 360
Executive Producer(s): Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Philipp Keel
Writer(s): Neil Cross
Logline: The series follows the adventures of charming, murderous sociopath Tom Ripley. Based on the novel series.
Details: Based on the novel series, unofficially knows as the “Ripliad,” which includes “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1955), “Ripley Underground” (1970), “Ripley’s Game” (1974), “The Boy Who Followed Ripley” (1980) and “Ripley Under Water” (1991). The novels were written by Patricia Highsmith through various publishers.
SSN Insight: Endemol Shine Studios has been developing the project for the past year, no network has been set. Neil Cross previously created the acclaimed series Luther.

Weaveworld
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer(s): Clive Barker, Angela Mancuso
Logline: An app designer teams up with a young pastry chef who has just discovered that destined to be guardian of a mythological realm that can be accessed through a portal in an old Savannah mansion. Together, they fight an epic battle with evil forces who are vying for control of the magical world.
Details: Based on the novel, “Weaveworld,” written by Clive Barker and published by Poseidon Press in 1987.
SSN Insight: Project is being rolled to the 2017-2018 season with a new writer. Jack Kenny was previously attached to write. Showtime has previously attempted to adapt the novels for a miniseries.

After the Thrones
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): Bill Simmons Media Group
Executive Producer(s): Bill Simmons, Eric Weinberger
Logline: Each week, the show recaps the latest episode of “Game of Thrones,” explaining the who, what, when and where, exploring the complicated politics and history of the series, and offering absurd and not-so-absurd theories about future episodes.
Details: The show discusses the events on the series, “Game of Thrones,” which premiered on HBO in 2011.
SSN Insight: The series will premiere April 24 and continue throughout the upcoming sixth season. It’s the first TV project in HBO’s partnership with the former Grantland chief and ESPN personality. To be hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan from The Ringer.

Capital
Network: Pivot
Production Company(s): Kudos Film & Television
Executive Producer(s): Peter Bowker, Derek Wax, Lucy Richer
Writer(s): Peter Bowker
Logline: A London street is transformed by soaring property prices, inhabited by characters diverse in nationality, race, wealth and experience. There are stories of love, loss, wealth and envy, in a city where appearances can be deceptive and money can’t buy you happiness.
Details: Based on the novel, “Capital,” written by John Lanchester and published by W. W. Norton & Company on June 11, 2012.
SSN Insight: Out of MIPTV news, Pivot has acquired rights in the U.S., Shaw has taken Canada, and BBC Worldwide took Australia and New Zealand.

Cooper’s Treasure
Network: Discovery Channel
Production Company(s): AMPLE
Executive Producer(s): Ari Mark, Phil Lott, Joseph Boyle
Logline: Treasure hunter Darrell Miklos attempts to decode a treasure map of his boyhood idol and longtime friend, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper. Along with a group of experienced explorers and researchers, Miklos is now setting out to uncover this treasure and fulfill his friend’s dream.
SSN Insight: Discovery gave a series order on March 30.

Dean Strang: Road To Justice
Production Company(s): Covert Media
Executive Producer(s): Dean Strang, Saul Goldberg
Logline: Series will investigate big legal cases that demonstrate major flaws in the criminal justice system. It will be shot in vérité style similar to Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Strang, who examined a possible corruption of the legal system in his book on the 1917 Milwaukee bombing and the trial that followed.
SSN Insight: Former Steven Avery co-counsel Dean Strang starred in Netflix’s popular docuseries Making A Murderer. The eight-episode series, now in development, is the first TV project for Covert Media. Series is in development.

Elsewhere
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Executive Producer(s): Robin Schwartz
Writer(s): Noelle Valdivia, Corinne Kingsbury
Logline: A successful but shallow woman, after dying in a car accident, realizes she prioritized all the wrong things in her life. Now, she has a second chance to achieve enlightenment against all odds — in purgatory.
SSN Insight: Valdivia’s credits include Ash vs. Evil Dead, Manhattan and Masters of Sex.

Famous
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): Ralph R Farquhar
Writer(s): Ralph R Farquhar, Ty Hodges
Logline: Dating high school teachers Fred and Geneva both secretly aspire to work in Hollywood. He wants to be a screenwriter and she envisions stardom as a pop diva. One of those dreams miraculously comes true when Geneva lands a record deal after her first music video goes viral and logs millions of views. As she rises to stardom, he feels pushed to the sidelines. Can this couple survive or will they discover that being famous and in love makes for a complicated threesome?
SSN Insight: Fox has given a series order of ten episodes.

Hard Evidence: OJ Is Innocent
Network: Investigation Discovery
Production Company(s): Objective Media Group America/All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Martin Sheen, Jimmy Fox, Greg Lipstone, Layla Smith, William C. Dear
Logline: Series will focus on Dallas-based private investigator William C. Dear, who has gathered undisputed facts and critical new evidence to build a new theory that Simpson is innocent. He teams with former LAPD forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie and Rhode Island police Sgt. Derrick Levasseur to re-examine the case from beginning to end, revealing compelling new information that points the finger directly at a new suspect.
SSN Insight: The ordered six-episode series will also be narrated by Sheen. The series is from Objective Media Group America/All3Media America, with Jimmy Fox, Greg Lipstone, Layla Smith, Sheen and Dear serving as executive producers.

His Dark Materials
Network: BBC 1
Studio: New Line Cinema
Production Company(s): Scholastic Media, Bad Wolf
Executive Producer(s): Philip Pullman, Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner, Toby Emmerich, Carolyn Blackwood
Writer(s): Jack Thorne
Logline: Orphan Lyra lives in a parallel universe, in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Based on the novel series.
Details: Based on the novel series, “His Dark Materials,” written by Philip Pullman and published by Alfred A. Knopf.
SSN Insight: BBC has given a series order.

Manifesto
Network: Discovery Channel
Production Company(s): Trigger Street Productions, Giant Pirates Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Troy Searer, John Goldwyn
Writer(s): Andrew Sodroski
Logline: The show explores how the FBI caught infamous criminal masterminds, with each closed-ended season following a different case. The first season will focus on the FBI agent, a highly specialized linguist, who used unconventional means bring Ted Kaczynski, aka the “Unabomber,” to justice after nearly a 20-year manhunt.
Details: Based on real FBI cases.
SSN Insight: Discovery gave a series order on March 31.

Marcella
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Buccaneer Media
Executive Producer(s): Hans Rosenfeldt, Nicola Larder, Tony Wood
Writer(s): Hans Rosenfeldt
Logline: Set in contemporary London, a detective in her late 30s returns to the Metropolitan Police’s Murder Squad after a 12-year career break to start a family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her daughter at boarding school, Marcella returns to work while attempting to make sense of what’s happened in her life. She is immediately assigned to investigate a spate of recent killings which bear the hallmarks of unsolved murders committed over a decade prior, a case on which she first worked in 2003. Has the killer reappeared or is a copycat murderer responsible for these recent deaths?
SSN Insight: Netflix has acquired exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the eight-part drama, sold by Cineflix Rights, premiering on ITV in the UK. Netflix will premiere it July 1.

Sacred Steel
Network: Discovery Channel
Production Company(s): Half Yard Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sean Gallagher, Abby Greensfelder, John Jones, Craig Coffman, Christo Doyle
Logline: A look inside one of the world’s most exclusive and unusual bike clubs, which also produces custom-made high-end motorcycles and restores vintage classics.
SSN Insight: Discovery has given a series order.

Sharp Objects
Network: HBO Network
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions, Entertainment One
Executive Producer(s): Gillian Flynn, Jason Blum, Charles Layton, Jessica Horowitz Rhoades, Marti Noxon
Writer(s): Marti Noxon
Logline: Centers on reporter Camille Preaker, who after a short stay at a psych hospital must return to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls — and deal with her neurotic, hypochondriac mother and the half-sister she barely knows. She must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story and survive the homecoming. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
Details: Based on the novel, “Sharp Objects,” written by Gillian Flynn and published by Shaye Areheart Books on September 26, 2006.
SSN Insight: HBO has given a series order of eight episodes. Project was previously in development as a feature film.

The Secret Agent
Network: Acorn
Production Company(s): World Productions
Executive Producer(s): Polly Hill, Simon Heath
Writer(s): Tony Marchant
Logline: Verloc’s seedy Soho shop hides his role as an agent of the Russian Embassy, spying on a group of London anarchists. Furious that Britain tolerates violent extremists, the Russians want Verloc to provoke a bomb outrage that will trigger a government crackdown. Caught between the Russians and the British police, Verloc drags his unsuspecting family into a tragic terror plot.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Secret Agent,” written by Joseph Conrad and published in 1907.
SSN Insight: Content Television sold the show to RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn in the U.S. The four-parter will air BBC One later this year and will stream in the U.S via Acorn TV.

The Wheel
Network: Discovery Channel
Production Company(s): Pilgrim Studios
Executive Producer(s): Craig Piligian, Samuel Korkis, Joseph Boyle, Kyle Wheeler
Logline: Competitors attempt to survive inhospitable landscapes around the world. With little preparation time, participants switch from freezing tundra to parched deserts, rugged mountains, steamy jungles and other challenging environments, each of which requires a very different skills set.
SSN Insight: Discovery gave a series order on March 30.

Untitled Selena Gomez Aaron Kaplan Drama Series
Network: Freeform
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): July Moon Productions, Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Aaron Kaplan, Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey
Logline: The story is set in a low income Latino neighborhood and told through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl destined for greatness.
Details: Based on an idea by Aaron Kaplan, who was inspired by a speech given by Los Angeles high school student Ana Cobarrubias
SSN Insight: Kaplan also executive produced the Freeform series Chasing Life and Kevin From Work.

Untitled Steve Harvey Mark Burnett Reality Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steve Harvey, Mark Burnett
Logline: The show brings together sets of rival entrepreneurs who competitively pitch their ideas head to head in front of a live studio audience. The audience will then vote on which entrepreneur will receive funding for their idea. Steve Harvey will become the “funder of dreams,” as he brings his personal business experience and encouraging comedy as the host.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a series order of 13 episodes.

Comedy Central

Awkwafina
Network: Comedy Central
Logline: The series focuses on a heightened version of Nora Lum, better known as rapper Awkwafina, as she navigates the underground hip hop community in Queens.
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Nora will next be seen in Neighbors 2 coming out this summer.

Best Seller
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Gloria Sanchez Productions
Executive Producer(s): Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Jessica Elbaum, Olivia Wilde
Writer(s): Nora Kirkpatrick, Dennis McNicholas
Logline: Set in the world of a third rate home shopping network. After the reigning queen of the channel is electrocuted on-air during a hair drying demonstration gone wrong, her three venomous power hungry disciples enter into a cutthroat competition for her coveted time slot.
SSN Insight: Nora Kirkpatrick’s past series include Chasing Life and Jennifer Falls. CC has given a script commitment.

Casey Vs.
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Casey Jost, Krister Johnson, Marla Ratner, Jim Biederman
Writer(s): Krister Johnson
Logline: The most extreme survival guide ever made teaches viewers how to handle everything from the zombie apocalypse to an alien invasion.
Details: Initial Commitment: Script
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Johnson is a writer on Wet Hot American Summer: First Day At Camp and Children’s Hospital.

Delco Proper
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Tommy Pope, John McKeever
Writer(s): Tommy Pope, John McKeever
Logline: The series centers around a family owned lumber yard and its blue collar crew made up of hardworking locals who never left their hometown in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Details: Based on the Comedy Central digital series, “Delco Proper.”
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. John McKeever was a consulting producer on Almost Genius for truTV.

Do You Want To See A Dead Body?
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): FunnyOrDie, Abominable Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Rob Huebel, Jonathan Stern, Owen Burke, Nicholas Jasenovec
Writer(s): Rob Huebel
Logline: Rob takes a celebrity guest on a “Stand by Me” like quest to see a dead body, but along the way they get into all sorts of crazy adventures.
Details: Ordered to pilot.
SSN Insight: CC has given a pilot order. Rob Huebel will be seen in The House film for New Line.

Drunk Girl/High Guy
Network: Comedy Central
Writer(s): Sarah Walker
Logline: The series follows the adventures of two best friends and work wife/work husband in New York City – a girl who is almost always drunk, and a guy who is almost always high.
Details: Initial Commitment: Script
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Walker was a story editor and writer on MTV’s Awkward.

East 89th
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Sean Donnelly, Danny Solomon
Writer(s): Sean Donnelly, Danny Solomon
Logline: The show centers around the dysfunctional doormen of a luxury high-rise building on East 89th Street in New York City.
Details: Based on Sean Donnelly’s real life experiences.

Initial Commitment: Script
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Sean Donnelly is also behind the CC series Jeff and Some Aliens, ordered to series and The Amazing Danny in development.

Germany
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Free Association
Executive Producer(s): Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Peter Kiernan
Logline: A community of germs live in a Petri dish at the University of Berlin. The series explores the trials and tribulations of diverse microorganisms living in a microcosm of our world – complete with political scandals, climate change and vaccination deniers.
Details: Initial Commitment: Pilot presentation
SSN Insight: Channing Tatum will star and produce the animated series that was given a pilot presentation order.

GERP
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Electric Dynamite
Executive Producer(s): Jack Black
Writer(s): Dick Blasucci, Janine DiTullio
Logline: This show within a show follows a federal worker who hosts a government produced variety TV show from inside his cubicle during the work day. It’s all part of the Government Entertainment Recovery Program created in response to a decline in the American spirit and laughter over the past 10 years. Their mission statement is simple, give every American citizen a reason to feel good about themselves again through ‘high energy’ bipartisan entertainment.
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Black’s also an EP on the Comedy Central Untitled Female Basketball Team Comedy Project in the pilot stage.

Hood Adjacent
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Executive Producer(s): James Davis, Doug Karo, Alex Murray, Shawna Kornberg
Writer(s): James Davis, Doug Karo
Logline: James Davis, who was born and raised in South Central, one block away from where the sh** goes down, uses his multifaceted hybrid brand of comedy to share his unique take on the world.
Details: Based on the Comedy Central original series, “Swag-A-Sauraus with James Davis” on Snapchat Discover.
SSN Insight: CC gave a pilot order.

Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Ross, Joel Gallen, Amy Zvi, Willie Mercer, Brian Moses
Logline: The special is a no-holds-barred verbal boxing match where comedians go head-to-head in a battle of wit and insults. Led by the Roastmaster General, Jeff Ross, and the referee/comedian, Brian Moses, this Fight Club of comedy is presented in a bracket style competition where two comics in each round face off, roast each other and a winner is declared by a celebrity panel of judges.
SSN Insight: CC has given a series order.

Jeff Ross Roasts the Police
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Jeff Ross, Nick McKinney, Meghan O’Hara, Stu Miller, Amy Zvi
Logline: Jeff looks at the complicated national issues surrounding policing; from race, profiling and excessive force to the risks officers take every day and the effect that police work has on their lives, families and health. To understand what it means to be a cop in America today, Ross steps behind the thin blue line for a ride-along/Roast-along with a cross section of officers from a major, metropolitan police force. Along the way, Jeff meets with perps, anti-police activists, newly-minted cadets and seasoned top brass.
SSN Insight: CC has given a series order. Ross is currently seen on the series Dr. Ken in the role of Doug.

Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Hartbeat Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Hart, Dave Becky, Leland Wiggington, Michele Armour
Logline: Kevin Hart travels to different cities to explore the local comedy scenes in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Birmingham, Miami and Sacramento. He introduces some of the newest voices in comedy today.
SSN Insight: CC gave a series order of eight episodes.

Legal-ish
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): On the Day Productions
Executive Producer(s): Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone
Writer(s): David Storrs, Steve Mallory
Logline: A well-meaning slacker finds himself on the jury bench of the longest-running case at his local courthouse.
SSN Insight: CC gave an initial script commitment.

Live From Everywhere
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Sharp Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Matt Sharp, Dan Adler
Logline: The series uses live streams to orchestrate unpredictable hangouts with celebrities and comedians.
SSN Insight: CC ordered the pilot. Dan Adler also has EP credits on Deadliest Job Interview, Hack My Life, Tethered, Call of the Wildman and others.

New Timers
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Matt Porter, Charlie Hankin
Logline: After an apocalyptic event, two guys now live their day-to-day in what’s left of Brooklyn, looking for adventures, new friends and ways to pass the time.
Details: Based on the Comedy Central digital series, “New Timers,” which premiered in 2014.
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment.

Problematic with Moshe Kasher
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Serious Business
Executive Producer(s): Moshe Kasher, Alex Blagg, Jason U. Nadler, Jonathan Zimelis, Dave Becky
Writer(s): Alex Blagg
Logline: Moshe Kasher uses his own brand of “comedy journalism” to crawl into the social media muck of our most polarizing issues, provocative questions and heated arguments and dissect them in front of a studio audience. The show seeks to understand the current culture of online outrage and discuss previously unexamined viewpoints on a number of topics in a stimulating and comedic debate.
SSN Insight: CC has ordered the pilot. Moshe Kasher can be seen in the latest Zoolander film.

Rudy
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Pacific Electric Picture Co.
Executive Producer(s): Ed Helms, Michael Falbo
Writer(s): Robert Padnick
Logline: Childish “cholo” Rudy Cisneros, after serving a 15-year prison sentence, wants to dissociate from gang life and start being there for his wife, kids and abuelita.
Details: Based on Mike Catherwood’s childhood and his “Rudy” character on “Loveline.”
SSN Insight: CC has given an initial commitment of a pilot presentation.

Storytime
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Above Average Production Company
Executive Producer(s): Chioke Nassor
Logline: Three comedians recreate personal stories by playing every character in their story in dreamlike reenactments. In between segments, the performers and a host sit at a roundtable dissecting and reacting to one another’s stories in front of a live audience.
Details: Based on the web series created by Chioke Nassor.
SSN Insight: CC gave a pilot order. Nassor was a director and staff writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Tijuana Beach
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): UnbeliEVAble Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Tommy Dewey, Greg Bratman, Al Madrigal, Eva Longoria
Writer(s): Tommy Dewey, Greg Bratman, Al Madrigal
Logline: A Mexican American father inherits a rundown resort from his uncle and relocates his family to Mexico.
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment.

Typical Rick
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): CC Studios
Logline: Nick Swardson and Simon Rex are best friends from the Midwest who move to Hollywood in an attempt to chase their dreams. Unfortunately for this odd couple, Rick turns out to be the worst “plus one” in history, constantly imploding any chance of success with the same inappropriate party-guy antics he’s displayed their whole lives.
SSN Insight: Ordered to series, but will be a digital series composed of five episodes.

Untitled Jessica Williams Comedy Project
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Jessica Williams
Writer(s): Jessica Williams, Naomi Ekperigin
Logline: Storyline under wraps.
SSN Insight: CC gave a pilot order. CC has signed a talent development deal with The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams.

Untitled Jordan Klepper Project
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Jordan Klepper, Kirsten Ames
Logline: Jordan Klepper hosts a late-night talk show.
SSN Insight: CC has given an initial commitment of a pilot presentation. CC has signed a talent development deal with Jordan Klepper.

Untitled Justin Willman Project
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Executive Producer(s): Justin Willman, Chris Hardwick, Stuart Miller, Alex Murray, Tim Sarkes
Logline: Comedian Justin Willman aims to fix the world’s greatest problems and social injustices using the only logical method we have left: Magic.
SSN Insight: CC gave a pilot order.

Untitled Kevin Hart Stand-Up Series
Network: Comedy Central
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment, Hartbeat Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Hart, Dave Becky, Leland Wiggington
Logline: Kevin Hart will spotlight one up-and-coming comedian each episode.
SSN Insight: CC gave a series order of six episodes.

Untitled Kyle Dunnigan Project
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Kyle Dunnigan, Kim Caramele, Amy Schumer
Writer(s): Kyle Dunnigan, Kim Caramele
Logline: Set at a superhero academy where a professor has unimpressive powers.
SSN Insight: CC gave an initial script commitment. Kyle Dunnigan was recently seen in the film Trainwreck.

Untitled Rachel Feinstein Comedy Project
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Rachel Feinstein, Amy Schumer, Kim Caramele, Brennan Shroff, Steve Ast
Logline: Featuring hidden camera segments, Feinstein goes undercover to perform social experiments that tackle a different issue or theme each week. The series includes stand-up, sketch and conversations with comedians where Feinstein riffs on the week’s theme.
SSN Insight: CC has given a pilot order.

Used People
Network: Comedy Central
Executive Producer(s): Michelle Wolf, Dan Soder, Brian Stern, Daniel Bodansky
Writer(s): Michelle Wolf, Dan Soder
Logline: Uptight Michelle and stoner Dan spend their days arguing, obsessing over their messy personal lives and – theoretically – selling used cars.
Details: Based on the Comedy Central digital series, “Used People,” which premiered in 2016.
SSN Insight: CC has given a script commitment. Wolf also provided voice talent on The Awesomes.