Adam Carolla And Friends Build Stuff
Network: Spike TV
Production Company(s): Embassy Row, LLC
Executive Producer(s): Adam Carolla, Michael Davies
Logline: Adam Carolla takes on building projects with celebrity friends in need of his master carpentry expertise. Each week, Carolla will work side-by-side with a different celebrity on their project, infusing comedic commentary and engaging with fans on social media who have their own carpentry questions. The series will include taped segments illustrating the prep-work that went into that week’s building project.
SSN Insight: Spike has given a series order of ten episodes. Episodes will be live and the series is slated to premiere in 2017.

Backup Plan
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Triage Entertainment Productions, LEG
Executive Producer(s): Stu Schreiberg, Judi Brown-Marmel, Reg Tigerman
Logline: Leonard Ouzts has seen what happens when people hit their 15th minute of fame and realize he should be thinking about a more realistic career. Each episode will follow Leonard’s search for a backup job, just in case the one he has doesn’t work out.
SSN Insight: Leonard Ouzts was named a New Face at the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival in 2015. MTV has given a pilot order.

Famous in Love
Network: Freeform
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Farah Films & Management, Long Lake Productions
Executive Producer(s): Marlene King, Dan Farah, Miguel Arteta
Writer(s): Rebecca Serle, Marlene King
Logline: A college student plucked from obscurity to star in a major Hollywood movie franchise struggles with her new-found fame. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Famous in Love,” written by Rebecca Serle and published by Poppy on October 21, 2014.
SSN Insight: Freeform has given a series order. Thorne previously starred in the Disney Channel series Shake It Up.

Faster Than Light
Production Company(s): Skydance Productions, Anomaly Productions
Logline: Set in the very near future, this is the story of humanity’s first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “Faster Than Light,” created by Brian Haberlin and first published by Shadowline (Image) Comics in September, 2015.
SSN Insight: The comic book is accompanied by an augmented reality app developed by Haberlin’s Anomaly Productions, which allows readers to turn comic book pages into 3D animations. A network has not been set.

Flint (TV Movie)
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Storyline Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Logline: The film examines the events that led to the drinking water contamination in Flint, Michigan. It focuses not only on the politics and poor management that led to the poisoning of the water, but also the human element of the residents who not only suffered, but whose voices were ignored. Based on the magazine article.
Details: Based on the Time Magazine article, “The Toxic Tap,” written by Josh Sanburn and published on February 1, 2016. The article is based on real events.
SSN Insight: Three-time Oscar producers Zadan & Meron previously teamed up on the Steel Magnolias remake for Lifetime and on Hairspray and The Wiz Live! for NBC. They are also set to produce a live A Few Good Men.

Greek: The Reunion (TV Movie)
Network: Freeform
Production Company(s): Piller/Segan
Executive Producer(s): Shawn Piller, Lloyd Segan, Patrick Sean Smith
Logline: The characters from “Greek” return to Cypress Rhodes University for their five-year reunion.
Details: Based on the series “Greek,” which aired on Freeform from 2006-2011.
SSN Insight: The returning cast has not been set. It’s predicted to air during the holidays.

Issues
Network: Freeform
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): The District
Executive Producer(s): Joanna Coles, Sarah Watson, Ruben Fleischer, David Bernad
Writer(s): Sarah Watson
Logline: The show offers a glimpse into the lives — and love lives — of the staff responsible for the number one women’s magazine in the world. Just like the readers they cater to, the staff’s struggles are about balancing career, sex lives and family and finding your identity, while getting your heart broken and managing friendships — all while wearing the perfect pair of jeans to flatter any body type.
Details: Inspired by the life of Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles.
SSN Insight: A previous untitled take on the life of Cosmo editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, written by Leslye Headland, was in development at NBC as comedy for the 2015-2016, but was not ordered to pilot. A pilot at Freeform has been ordered.

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories
Production Company(s): Playground Entertainment
Logline: Based on the life and work of the celebrated British attorney Jeremy Hutchinson. His controversial cases include sex and spying scandals and to the fight against literary censorship.
Details: Based on the non-fiction book, ‘Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories’ written by Thomas Grant and published by John Murray.
SSN Insight: Playground Entertainment has secured the right to adapt the book into a TV series. One case contributed to the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. Hutchinson also defended Howard Marks who was acquitted of charges relating to the biggest importation of cannabis in British history.

Law & Order: True Crime
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Wolf Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dick Wolf
Logline: The series chronicles famous real-life criminal cases . The first season will center on Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 1996.
SSN Insight: Planned as an anthology series with an 8-episode first season and in development at the network. Law & Order: You the Jury, a one-hour live courtroom docu-drama series was picked up by NBC.

MadTV
Network: CW Television Network
Production Company(s): Telepictures Productions
Executive Producer(s): David Salzman, Mark Teitelbaum, John R. Montgomery
Logline: This primetime revival features the original shows signature pop-culture parodies and politically incorrect humor. It also will acknowledge its past, featuring special appearances from returning cast members of the original series as hosts of each episode.
Details: The project is a revival of the late-night sketch comedy, “Mad TV,” which aired on Fox from 1995-2009.
SSN Insight: CW has given a series order of eight episodes. No word yet on if former cast members might return. The returning series alumni for the 20th anniversary special on the CW included Keegan-Michael Key, Michael McDonald, Nicole Parker, Will Sasso and Debra Wilson.

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger
Network: Freeform
Studio: Marvel Entertainment, ABC Entertainment Group
Logline: The live-action interracial romance follows the duo, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers while falling in love — Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart, but their feelings for each other make their already complicated world even more challenging.
Details: Based on the titular comic book duo, also known as Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, who have appeared in Marvel Comics, including “Spiderman” and “X-Men.”
SSN Insight: Ordered straight to series. The series was previously in development for five years while the network was under the name ABC Family.

The Armageddon Letters
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Phoenix Pictures, Albert Ruddy Productions
Executive Producer(s): Albert S Ruddy, Alexandra Ruddy, Mike Medavoy, Benjamin Anderson, Todd Martens
Logline: The series chronicle the buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world teetered on the edge of nuclear destruction. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis,” written by James blight and Janet M. Lang and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers on September 14, 2012.
SSN Insight: Planned as a 4-hour limited series. Albert S. Ruddy won two Oscars for his work on The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby. Mike Medavoy was nominated for Oscars on Black Swan and Shutter Island.

The Black Calhouns
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Martin Chase Productions
Executive Producer(s): Zvi Howard Rosenman, Debra Martin Chase
Writer(s):
Logline: The experiences of an extraordinary African American clan from the beginning of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement.
Details: Based on the book, “The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family,” written Gail Lumet Buckley and published by Atlantic Monthly Press on February 2, 2016.
SSN Insight: The miniseries is in development at Buckley will serve as a consultant.

The Boys
Network: Cinemax
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Original Film, Kickstart Productions, Point Grey Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty
Writer(s): Eric Kripke
Logline: The story is set in a time where most of the superheroes are corrupted by their celebrity status and often engage in reckless behavior, compromising the safety of the world. It centers on a CIA squad, known informally as “the boys,” whose job is to keep watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, eliminate some of them.
Details: Based on the comic book series, “The Boys,” written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson and first published by Wildstorm and later by Dynamite Entertainment from 2006-2012.
SSN Insight: The project has also been in development as a feature at both Paramount Pictures and before that, Columbia Pictures.

The Widow
Production Company(s): Playground Entertainment
Logline: About Jean, the wife of a man who is accused (and eventually cleared) of kidnapping and murdering a child. Throughout the ordeal, she stands by her man, seemingly refusing to believe anything the police or press accused him of. But when he suddenly dies, both the law and the media want answers.
Details: Based on ‘The Widow’ novel by Fiona Barton and published by Penguin Random House Books.
SSN Insight: Playground Entertainment has secured the right to adapt the book into a TV series. The novel is currently in the Top 20 on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over 35,000 copies in the UK. It is the debut novel of former journalist Barton.

Untitled Unscripted Anthology Project
Network: CBS Entertainment
Production Company(s): Critical Content
Executive Producer(s): Tom Forman
Logline: The series chronicles famous real-life criminal cases. The first season will center on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. The season will re-unite the original investigators in the Ramsey case as well as new experts who all re-examine the unsolved case from 20 years ago.
SSN Insight: Planned as an anthology series. Each season the subject will change. CBS is in final negotiations with Tom Forman and Critical Content to produce the limited-run series.

Untitled Young & Hungry Spinoff
Network: Freeform
Executive Producer(s): Ashley Tisdale
Logline: A spinoff of the Freeform comedy series “Young & Hungry” that will follow they character of Logan Rawlings.
Details: Spinoff of the Freeform series “Young & Hungry.”
SSN Insight: Young & Hungry‘s Aimee Carrero and Ashley Tisdale will star in the series currently in development.

Why Would You Do That? (Special)
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): LEG
Executive Producer(s): Judi Brown-Marmel, Stu Schreiberg
Logline: Sebastian Maniscalco delivers his brand of physical and quick-witted observational comedy.
SSN Insight: The comedy special will film in front of a live audience on May 7 at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre and will air on Showtime this summer, as well as online and on demand.

Captive
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Lightbox, Hypnotic
Executive Producer(s): Doug Liman, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Dave Bartis, Gene Klein, Lisa Nishimura, Adam Del Deo, Jason Spingam-Koff
Logline: Series will explore hostage situations and negotiations around the world. The episodes look at a wide range of situations from the viewpoint of everyone involved: the victims and their families back home, the experienced negotiators, business leaders, government officials and the kidnappers themselves.
SSN Insight: The series has been given an order of eight episodes. Alex Marengo who produced The Bible series will be the showrunner alongside America: The Story of Us producer, Kathryn Taylor.

Freakish
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): AwesomenessTV
Executive Producer(s): Beth Szymkowski, Shelley Zimmerman, Matt Lewis, Brian Robbins, Chris Grismer
Writer(s): Matt Lewis, Beth Szymkowski
Logline: Centers on a group of students at a small-town high school, who must fight for survival when predatory mutant freaks take over after a meltdown at the local chemical plant.
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a series order of ten episodes. The series is currently in production for premiere slated for later this year.

Happy City
Network: FX Network
Production Company(s): Starburns Industries
Executive Producer(s): Jon Eidson, Nick P. Smith, Dan Harmon, Sean Elliott
Writer(s): Jon Eidson, Nick P. Smith
Logline: A young taxi named Tyler and his millennial friends (a firetruck and a helicopter) navigate their way through life in the big city and face broken relationships, workplace struggles, and existential crises.
SSN Insight: The world of the series will be reminiscent of the model-based visual style of children’s shows such as Thomas the Tank Engine.

The Barbary Coast
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company
Executive Producer(s): Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, Wyatt Russell, Mel Gibson
Writer(s): Mel Gibson
Logline: The story begins with the Gold Rush of 1849, which saw the biggest influx of gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians and other felonious parasites to the infant city of San Francisco. A unique criminal district subsequently arose that, for almost 70 years, was the scene of more viciousness and depravity — yet at the same time possessed more glamor and intrigue — than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. Based on the book.
Details: Inspired by the book, “The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld,” written by Herbert Asbury and published by Knopf in 1933.
SSN Insight: Still in development, but planned as a series for a premium cable network or a streaming service.

The Level
Network: ITV 1
Production Company(s): RLJ Entertainment, Inc., Hillbilly Films
Writer(s): Gaby Chiappe, Alexander Perrin
Logline: Nancy Devlin is a detective sergeant with a secret double life. Her exemplary police career masks a covert attachment to Frank Le Saux, a shady businessman and drug trafficker who is the father of her best friend. When she finds herself at the center of an investigation that puts her at risk of exposure and stalked by a killer intent on destroying her, Nancy’s complicated love life and relationships with colleagues create further tension as she doesn’t know who she can trust.
SSN Insight: ITV has given a series order of six episodes. In addition to co-producing the series, Acorn Media Enterprises, the development division for the Acorn brand of RLJ Entertainment, has acquired the UK DVD and secondary rights.

The Mist
Network: Spike TV
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Production Company(s):
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: Ordered straight to series after originally only ordering a pilot. Spike has ordered 10 episodes.

The Swans Of Fifth Avenue
Production Company(s): RatPac Entertainment, Nine Muses Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bryce Dallas Howard, Brett Ratner, John Cheng
Logline: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author Truman Capote and socialite and style icon Babe Paley— who was married to CBS founder William Paley — had a star-crossed friendship in the mid 1950s. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan’s elite, leading to the ultimate betrayal of Babe and the other Swans in her circle. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Swans Of Fifth Avenue,” written by Melanie Benjamin and published by Delacorte Press on January 26, 2016.
SSN Insight: Planned as a premium cable limited series, a network has not been set.

Throwing Shade
Network: TV Land
Production Company(s): FunnyOrDie
Executive Producer(s): Erin Gibson, Bryan Safi, Andrew Steele, Anna Wenger, Joe Farrell
Logline: The show takes all the issues important to ladies and gays and treats them with much less respect than they deserve.
Details: Based on “Throwing Shade,” the podcast and Funny or Die web series.
SSN Insight: TV Land ordered the pilot in December and as of April 15, has given a series order of ten episodes.

Total Bellas
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions, World Wrestling Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Russell Jay, Kevin Dunn
Logline: The show looks into the lives of The Bella Twins and their significant others, John Cena and Daniel Bryan, as the WWE Superstars move in together and enter a new chapter of their lives, both professionally and personally. After Nikki goes through delicate surgery on her neck and spine, her sister and brother-in-law move into the house she shares with John Cena in order to care for her and keep her company during her long and protracted recovery.
Details: The project is a spinoff of the series, “Total Divas,” which premiered on E! in 2013.
SSN Insight: E! has given a series order of six episodes. The Bella Twins will continue to appear on Total Divas.

Untitled José Padilha Project
Network: Netflix
Writer(s): Elena Soares
Logline: Operation Car Wash is an ongoing probe involving allegations of corruption at state-owned oil giant Petrobras which has impacted and fascinated the country. This project will follow the judicial investigators in their journey to unveil this scheme which has become the largest corruption that Brazil has ever witnessed.
SSN Insight: Project marks the second Netflix original produced in Brazil. The series will be directed by Padilha.

F To 7th
Network: Showtime Networks
Executive Producer(s): Ingrid Jungermann, Michael Showalter, Jamie Babbit, Karey Dornetto, Peter Principato
Writer(s): Ingrid Jungermann
Logline: Chronicles the female descent into pre-middle age in a world where sexuality and gender have left old-fashioned lesbianism behind.
Details: Based on the web series “F To 7th,” created by and starring Ingrid Jungermann.
SSN Insight: Jungermann was nominated for a WGA award for F To 7th, which featured Amy Sedaris, Showalter, Gaby Hoffmann, Olympia Dukakis and Janeane Garofalo.

Guerrilla
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company(s): Tiger Aspect Productions
Executive Producer(s): John Ridley, Idris Elba, Patrick Spence, Katie Swinden, Tracy Underwood
Writer(s): John Ridley
Logline: A politically active couple’s relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London. Their ultimate target becomes the Black Power Desk, a true-life, secretive counter-intelligence unit within Special Branch dedicated to crushing all forms of black activism.
SSN Insight: Showtime has ordered six episodes for this limited series.

Krypton
Network: Syfy
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Phantom Four, DC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David S. Goyer, Ian Goldberg, Damian Kindler
Writer(s): Damian Kindler, David S. Goyer
Logline: Superman’s grandfather works to bring hope and equality to Krypton, transforming a planet in chaos into one worthy of his grandson’s future glory as the greatest superhero ever known.
Details: Based on “Superman” characters and the universe created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and first featured in a comic book published by DC Comics in 1938.
SSN Insight: SyFy has given a pilot order.

Lore
Production Company(s): Valhalla Entertainment, Propagate Content
Executive Producer(s): Aaron Mahnke, Gale Anne Hurd, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens III, Brett Jenkins
Logline: Each episode will feature a new lore and explore the true origins of pop culture’s most legendary horror characters and myths.
Details: Based on the podcast, “Lore,” which was created by Aaron Mahnke and debuted in March, 2015.
SSN Insight: Series in development and will use a blend of narration, historical mixed media and scripted scenes.

Manhunt
Network: Showtime Networks
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Kapital Entertainment, Shark vs. Bear
Executive Producer(s): David Caspe, Jordan Cahan, Seth Gordon, Aaron Kaplan
Writer(s): David Caspe, Jordan Cahan
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Details: Based on an idea by Aaron Kaplan.
SSN Insight: Caspe and Gordon are under overall deals at Sony TV.

Rob Riggle’s Sportsbook
Network: TBS
Production Company(s): Principato-Young Entertainment, IMG Media
Executive Producer(s): Rob Riggle, Chris Pizzi
Logline: A weekly late-night program showing the humor in the 24-hour digital cycle of sports, talk, news and entertainment, anchored from Las Vegas.
SSN Insight: TBS gave a pilot order on April 26.

The Swap
Network: Disney Channel
Production Company(s): MarVista Entertainment, Original Pictures, Inc (Canada)
Executive Producer(s): Fernando Szew, Robyn Snyder, Gaylyn Fraiche, Kim Todd, Nicholas Hirst
Writer(s): Charlie Shahnaian, Shari Simpson
Logline: A rhythmic gymnast has a pending make-it-or-break-it competition and the youngest son in a hockey family is vying for a varsity spot on his school team. Their paths unexpectedly cross, and a simple text results in them actually swapping bodies.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Swap,” written by Megan Shull and published by Katherine Tegen Books on August 26, 2014.
SSN Insight: Disney Channel also unveiled plans a summer programming marathon centered on the airing of the network’s 100th original move since 1997.

Whatever, Linda
Production Company(s): Mark Gordon Company, Secret Location, Aberrant Pictures, Touchpoint Films
Executive Producer(s): Graeme Manson, Hannah Cheesman, Julian Dezotti, Mark R. Gordon, Nicholas Pepper
Writer(s): Hannah Cheesman, Julian Dezotti
Logline: In 1978, four disenfranchised secretaries on Wall Street become the engineers behind the world’s most notorious Ponzi scheme.
Details: Based on the Canadian web series “Whatever, Linda.”
SSN Insight: Cheesman and Donaldson previously worked with Manson on the acclaimed TV series Orphan Black.

BET

Benched
Network: BET Networks
Executive Producer(s): Scott Brown
Logline: A reluctant, recently appointed judge is not quite ready to give up his life as bachelor to begin a new life as a public servant. Each week, he confronts the underbelly of the criminal justice system that has derailed a generation of African Americans, including those close to him – as he upholds the tenets of the same system.
SSN Insight: Series order announced at their Upfront presentation in New York.

Comedy Getdown
Network: BET Networks
Production Company(s): Bird and a Bear Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, Free 90 Media
Executive Producer(s): Tom Brunelle, Brad Wollack, Michael Rotenberg, Greg Walter, Kimberly Carver
Writer(s):
Logline: A look at what really happens behind the scenes of a massive stand-up comedy tour featuring five famous comics – George Lopez, DL Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy. The series explores the personal and professional relationships of these five comedians as they navigate the challenges of life on the road: seedy venues, racist road managers, pushy wives, angry baby mamas, obsessive fans, demanding celebrities, shady politicians and more.
Details: Based on actual events.
SSN Insight: BET ordered the series. In addition BET will relaunch its digital ecosystem that will give advertisers expanded reach with added premium integrations and inventory.

Gary Owen Family
Network: BET Networks
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions
Executive Producer(s): Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Gary Owen, Stella Bulochnikov Stolper, Brian Sher
Logline: Gary Owen loves his wife so much, he wants to marry her again. He balances planning a wedding with raising his three rambunctious children and growing his career.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: BET ordered the series. Owens’ past roles include Meet the Blacks, Ride Along and Think Like a Man Too.

Joyful Noise
Network: BET Networks
Logline: This gospel music hour delivers a blend of performances from today’s gospel superstars, rising new artists, personal testimonies and man-on-the-street interviews.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: Series has been ordered. Will feature Tye Tribbett as host and Willie Moore as a correspondent.

Music Moguls
Network: BET Networks
Production Company(s): L. Plummer Media
Executive Producer(s): Bryan “Birdman” Williams, Snoop Dogg, Lemuel Plummer, Chad Jason Greulach
Logline: Music mogul entrepreneurs navigate both familiar and new territory – from grooming new talent and building new empires to raising their college-bound children.
SSN Insight: BET has given a series order of eight episodes.

One Shot
Network: BET Networks
Production Company(s): Jarrett Creative
Executive Producer(s): Sway, Dominick Wickliffe, Michael Smith, King Tech, Nancy Nayor
Logline: Sway Calloway leads a panel of hip hop legends in a nationwide quest for the next explosive hip hop star with mass appeal, on-the-fly musicianship and command of the stage.
SSN Insight: BET gave a series order. Jarrett Creative’s other series include Boss Nails and My Crazy Love.

Tales
Network: BET Networks
Production Company(s): Visionary Ideas
Executive Producer(s): Irv Gotti
Logline: Song stories weave classic hip-hop songs into visually three-act narratives. In each episode, a song’s lyrics are imagined as cinematic adventures.
Details: The project will be based on the lyrics to classic hip-hop songs.
SSN Insight: Given a series order. Gotti is also an EP on Follow the Rules on MTV.

IFC

Canterbury Tales
Network: IFC
Executive Producer(s): Allison Anders,Terry Graham
Logline: The 1970s punk scene comes to rough and fumbling life when Terry, a young music aficionado, flees Texas and moves into the run-down, cockroach-infested Canterbury Apartments in the heart of Hollywood. Terry and his rowdy female musician roommates sleep all day and make music and mayhem all night at Hollywood’s first punk rock club, as they try to break into the music industry.
Details:
SSN Insight: Allison Anders’s credits include Mi Vida Loca and Grace Of My Heart.

Detective Lady
Network: IFC
Executive Producer(s): Kelly Galuska
Logline: Female detective Annie solves crimes in the hamlet of Sicily, USA. She is a rebel crime solver with a bit of a drinking problem, a new partner to contend with and some family history to unravel before it tears her apart.
SSN Insight: Kelly Galuska’s credits include Bojack Horseman and Mom. Kelly was recently nominated for a WGA Award for her individual episode of Bojack Horseman.

Grand Lake
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): A24
Executive Producer(s): Gretchen Enders
Logline: Two female best friends wish nothing but the worst for each other. They share a murderous secret that most days takes a back seat to the everyday drama of their disappointing adult children, small-town politics and an annoying, yet charming, ex-husband.
SSN Insight: WGA award-winner Gretchen Enders was a story editor on Amazon’s Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street.

How to Rig an Election
Network: IFC
Executive Producer(s): Tom Ruprecht
Writer(s): Tom Ruprecht
Logline: The series explores the astonishingly dark underbelly of political campaigning.
Details: Based on the book “How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative,” written by Allen Raymond and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008.
SSN Insight: Tom Ruprecht’s credits include Late Night with David Letterman and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Laughs in Translation
Network: IFC
Logline: The series explores what different people around the world find funny and why. With local comedians as guides, the host will travel the world to find out if anything is universally funny or if some humor is just lost in translation.
Details: Based on the Above Average web series, “Laughs in Translation,” which premiered in January, 2016.
SSN Insight: SNL alum Brooks Wheelan starred in the web series.

Living With Yourself
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): Likely Story
Executive Producer(s): Anthony Bregman, Jeffrey Stern, Jeff Blitz
Logline: A burned-out copywriter undergoes a novel treatment to become a better person, only to find his worst enemy is himself.
SSN Insight: Anthony Bregman’s credits include Foxcatcher and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

This Land Is Ours
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): Merman Films, George and George Co
Executive Producer(s): Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan, Sharon Horgan, Clelia Mountford
Writer(s): Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan
Logline: In present-day New York, a group of anarchist squatters take over an unoccupied Harlem Row House with every intention to keep it for themselves. They are forced to defend themselves against the fat cat developers who they discover have sold the property for near billions. The bizarre collective of activists, artists and hippies form a strong bond while waging war to bring back the gritty city they love.
SSN Insight: Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan also created the series Getting On and Puppy Love.

Todd Barth Can Help You
Network: IFC
Production Company(s): Moonshot Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steven Weber, Bryan Cranston, James Degus, Clay Graham
Writer(s): Clay Graham
Logline: A conservative insurance adjuster completely changes his path in life when he starts to believe he has what it takes to become a New Age self-help guru.
SSN Insight: Steven Weber (Wings) is attached to star.

Lifetime

Deadline
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Studio: A+E Studios
Production Company(s): Imperative Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Justin Levy, Tim Kring
Writer(s): Sam Forman
Logline: Aspiring journalist Emily Twist is frustrated by how hard it is to get noticed as a reporter in a world that values gossip over hard-hitting investigative news. To rise to the top, Emily must leave her integrity at the door and make increasingly deadly moves to keep her story alive.
SSN Insight: Sam Forman (House Of Cards) is set to write the pilot.

Fashion Inc.
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Production Company(s): The Weinstein Company , Matador Content
Executive Producer(s): Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Patrick Reardon, Barbara Schneeweiss, Jay Peterson
Logline: Set in New York City’s fashion district, aspiring fashion and beauty entrepreneurs compete for the chance to secure funds from a panel of expert investors to help grow their budding ventures.
SSN Insight: Lifetime has given a series order of eight episodes.

Gold Medal Families
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Production Company(s): The Company
Executive Producer(s): Charles Ebersol, Mike Lanigan, Bryn Freedman, Eli Lehrer, Mary Donahue
Logline: The series showcases six Olympic hopefuls and their families, revealing the extraordinary lengths, economic hardships and personal sacrifices they all go through to get their elite athlete to the podium of the world games.
SSN Insight: Lifetime has given a series order of eight episodes.

None of the Above
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Studio: A+E Studios
Production Company(s): Davis Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): John Davis
Writer(s): Liz Maccie
Logline: A girl’s previously idyllic life as the homecoming queen is called into question when she discovers she is intersex. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “None of the Above,” written by I.W. Gregorio and published by Balzer + Bray on April 7, 2015.
SSN Insight: Liz Maccie was previously a writer on the series Make it or Break it.

Sea Change
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Production Company(s): Piller/Segan, MarVista Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Fernando Szew, Sharon Bordas, Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, David MacLeod
Writer(s): Liz Sczudlo
Logline: A strong 17-year-old girl, after the death of her father, moves to a small Nantucket-like island to live with her estranged mother. There she is pulled into classic small town rivalries and clashes with her mother, but quickly learns the depth of those conflicts when the island legend about dangerous Sea Walkers appears to be true, presenting a mystery for her and her family. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Sea Change,” written by Aimee Friedman and published by Point in 2009.
SSN Insight: Ordered a two hour pilot to be penned by Liz Sczudlo (The Following, Awkward).

Untitled Selena Gomez Drama Project
Network: Lifetime Entertainment Television
Studio: A+E Networks
Production Company(s): Trigger Street Productions, July Moon Productions
Executive Producer(s): Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Samantha Droke
Logline: A young actress’ experience navigating a career in Hollywood is seen through the eyes of her friends, who quickly become her most trusted inner circle.
Details: Inspired by the real-life experiences of actress/singer Selena Gomez.
SSN Insight: Producers are currently looking for a writer to pen the scripted drama.

MTV

Acting Out
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): A. Smith & Co. Productions
Logline: The most irreverent established and up-and-coming comedians of today have their best stand-up routines acted out.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: Given a series order. A Smith & Co. Productions also produces Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior.

Blooms
Network: MTV Networks
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Flower Films
Executive Producer(s): Walter Mosley, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen, Ember Truesdell, Chris Miller
Writer(s): Walter Mosley
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Drew Barrymore will also star and EP The Santa Clarita Diet for Netflix.

Going Off
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): @radical.media
Executive Producer(s): Dave Sirulnick
Logline: In dance capital North Hollywood, choreographer Tricia Miranda holds a master class where the best young dancers in the world come to see how they stack up against the rest. In every episode, one winner will be crowned and win a high stakes opportunity to book a professional job and take the next step on their path to greatness.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: MTV gave a series order. Tricia Miranda has worked with Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani, Demi Lovato and Iggy Azalea.

Greatest Movie Show of All Time, This Week
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Serious Business, 7 Bucks Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz, Jason U. Nadler
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming TV specials include Rock And A Hard Place and Rock The Troops.

It’s The Real
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Legendary Entertainment, Get Lifted Film Co.
Executive Producer(s): Eric Rosenthal, Jeff Rosenthal, Jeremy Miller, Daniel Cohn, John Legend
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: John Legend is also the EP on Ordinary People in development at ABC.

Loosely Exactly Nicole
Network: MTV Networks
Executive Producer(s): Christine Zander, Avi Gilbert, Christian Lander
Writer(s): Christian Lander
Logline: Nicole Byer is living the Hollywood dream. Well, Hollywood adjacent – the deep valley to be precise and it’s not so much a dream but a struggle. In this hilarious half-hour comedy, we’ll watch as Nicole, exuding her special brand of confidence and irreverence, demonstrates the hilarious missteps of what it means to be out on your own for the first time. She’ll deal with humiliating auditions, unpaid electric bills, friendship ups and downs, and the battlefield that is Tinder as she slowly but surely finds her voice as a comedian.
SSN Insight: MTV gave a series order. Christian Lander was also the co-producer on Fox’s Bordertown.

Mary + Jane
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Management 360
Executive Producer(s): Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Marcus Blakely, Guymon Casady, Jill McElroy
Writer(s): Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Maggie Bandur, Danielle Uhlarik
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. Deborah Kaplan is also developing the series Tuned for NBC.

MTV Unplugged
Network: MTV Networks
Logline: The revitalized “MTV Unplugged” will restore key elements that made the franchise so groundbreaking in the first place, while resetting the show in the multi-platform video world of today.
Details: The project is a reboot of the series, “MTV Unplugged,” which premiered on MTV in 1989.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order.

MTV’s The Investigation
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Embassy Row, LLC
Executive Producer(s): Michael Davies, Debbie DeMontreux, Stacey Altman, Andrew Jenks
Logline: This serialized documentary series follows the journey of alleged wrongfully convicted prisoners fighting for their freedom. It navigates these cases in an effort to uncover the truth with the highest possible stakes – the lives and freedom of innocent people locked up for life, and the duty to honor the lives of those lost. It takes an in-depth look into three criminal cases through the unique point of view of Ryan Ferguson, who at 19-years-old was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Embassy Row is also behind the series Adam Carolla And Friends Build Stuff for Spike.

Pick Me Up
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Jon Gabrus, Betsy Sodaro, Dave Becky
Writer(s): Dan Gregor, Doug Mand
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
SSN Insight: Dave Becky’s credits include Broad City and Louie.

Shinesty
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Critical Content
Logline: The series follows the young entrepreneurs behind Shinesty, an apparel company in Boulder, Colorado, that did $5 million in sales last year. Shinesty makes “outrageous clothing for life and general ridiculousness” The Shinesty team lives a wild, zero-f*$ks-given lifestyle that is every bit as over-the-top as the apparel they create, and this show will take us inside the world of a millennial business doing things 100% their own way.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Critical Content’s other series include First Seal, Haywire, Start Up and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

Stranded with a Million Bucks
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Tollbooth Television
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Lee
Logline: Ten cast members are stranded on an island with nothing but the clothes on their back and a million dollars in cash! Those who survive for 40 days will split that money as their prize. The catch? They can buy any supplies they want, but everything is crazy expensive – and comes out of their prize money.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Tollbooth Television is also behind the series Coach Charming.

Studio 24
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): SB Projects, Pandemo Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Jonathan Slow, Scooter Braun, Scott Mason
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Details: Based on a format by FTV Rights B.V.
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Sweet/Vicious
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 has given a series order of ten episodes.

The Almost Impossible Game Show
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Endemol Shine North America, Left Hook Media
Executive Producer(s): Georgie Hurford-Jones, Rob Smith, Matt Odgers, Scott Teti
Logline: Contestants complete physical challenges ranging from the absurd to the outlandish to beat the game and win cash prizes. Riding tiny bikes over a mud pit, putting on oversized pants while running full-speed on a giant treadmill and grating a heaping block of cheese onto a plate of nachos by using a grater attached to their derrières are just a few of the outrageous challenges the contestants will face.
Details: Based on a popular UK format, “The Almost Impossible Game Show,” which premiered on ITV 2 in 2015.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Georgie Hurford-Jones is also an EP on Sing Your Face Off on ABC.

The Outsiders
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Barcroft Productions
Logline: The series follows eight different families who have very polarizing beliefs, from white supremacists to devil worshipers.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Barcroft also produces the series Chaos Caught on Camera for Discovery.

Untitled Mark Burnett Music Competition Reality Series Project
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Mark Burnett
Logline: At the intersection of music and business, this show gives hip hop’s freshest talent a chance at every musician’s dream: getting signed. Undiscovered artists perform in front of music’s biggest moguls, each eager to sign the next breakout star. But forget the shiny floor stage — it’s all happening in the recording studio
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Mark Burnett’s other upcoming series include Coupled for Fox and an Untitled Steve Harvey Reality Project at ABC.

Untitled Zac Efron Documentary Series Project
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Ninjas Runnin’ Wild Productions, Comedy Dynamics
Executive Producer(s): Zac Efron, Michael Simkin, Jason Barrett, Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson
Logline: Zac Efron explores how food has moved to the center of Millennial culture through his own unique lens as an actor, traveller, and food-lover. The project will look beyond the extravagant and obscure in food to explore the artistry, storytelling and journeys in what we eat, and the issues and experiences surrounding what we find on our plates.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Zac Efron’s upcoming films include Neighbors 2, Baywatch and The Disaster Artist.

Wonderland
Network: MTV Networks
Production Company(s): Done and Dusted
Logline: The series brings together the best new music, ground-breaking live performances and young comedic talent under one roof in a highly curated and truly innovative multi-streamed viewing experience.
SSN Insight: MTV has given a series order. Done and Dusted have produced past specials for Victoria’s Secret.

All the Single Ladies
Studio: Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content
Executive Producer(s): Rebecca Traister
Logline: Based on the book, which investigates the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in 21st-century America.
Details: Based on the book, “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” written by Rebecca Traister and published by Simon & Schuster on March 1, 2016.
SSN Insight: Paramount TV has optioned the rights to the book. Anonymous Content is under a first-look production deal with Paramount TV.

Brooklyn Animal Control
Network: USA Network
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Circle of Confusion, IDW Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): J.T. Petty, David S. Goyer, Rick Jacobs, David Alpert, David Ozer
Writer(s): J.T. Petty
Logline: The series follows the inner workings of a secret subdivision of the NYPD that functions as social services for some of the city’s most unique citizens — werewolves. Delving into the lives of both the Case Officers, and the secretive, highly insular Kveld-Ulf, a community of werewolves living deep in the borough, the show will examine city politics, immigrant communities, and families divided by ambition, secrecy, and tradition.
Details: Based on the comic book, “Brooklyn Animal Control,” written by J.T. Petty and published by IDW Publishing in 2013.
SSN Insight: USA decided not order the series, but it will be redeveloped.

Genius
Network: National Geographic Channel
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): Imagine Television, OddLot Entertainment, EUE/Sokolow
Executive Producer(s): Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane
Writer(s): Noah Pink
Logline: The series tells the stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators. The first season will focus on famous physicist Albert Einstein and explore how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk — a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job with a doctorate — unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe through his theory of relativity.
Details: Season 1 is based on the book, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon & Schuster on April 10, 2007.
SSN Insight: NatGeo gave a straight to series order on April 28.

I, Rebel
Production Company(s): IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky
Writer(s): Dana Farahani, Siavash Farahani
Logline: An astronaut — lost in space for eight years — crash lands on Earth to find the world colonized and enslaved by a humanoid alien race. His rise from slave to rebel leader will spark a revolution.
SSN Insight: Mark Ordesky was an executive produce on The Lord of the Rings franchise.

Jack Ryan
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios, Paramount Television
Production Company(s): Platinum Dunes, Carlton Cuse Productions, Skydance Productions
Executive Producer(s): Graham Roland, Carlton Cuse, Lindsey Springer, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller
Writer(s):
Logline: A new contemporary take on Jack Ryan in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative.
Details: Based on the Jack Ryan novel series, written by Tom Clancy and first published (“The Hunt For Red October”) by US Naval Institute Press on September 1, 1984.
SSN Insight: John Krasinski, best known for his role on The Office, will star as Jack Ryan.

LD50
Production Company(s): IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Scott Dacko
Writer(s): Scott Dacko
Logline: A virus has decimated the male population and created a tenuous balance between a small pocket of healthy men and women and the infected women who surround them.
SSN Insight: Dacko wrote and directed the 2007 film, The Insurgents.

Match Game
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Production Company(s): FremantleMedia North America
Executive Producer(s): Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Mullin
Logline: Civilian contestants try to guess how a panel of six celebrities will answer comedically tinged fill-in-the-blank questions.
Details: The project is a remake of the game show, “Match Game, ” which premiered on NBC in 1962.
SSN Insight: ABC has given a series order of ten episodes.

Muscle Shoals
Production Company(s): City Entertainment, infinitum nihil, IM Global, Virgin Produced
Executive Producer(s): Johnny Depp, Richard Branson, Christi Dembrowski, Jason Felts, Justin Berfield
Logline: The series will explore the rich and vast milieu of the tumultuous and often poetically tragic segregated South through its colorful characters, rich cultural and political history and southern gothic settings, which became a unique melting pot of diverse musical and cultural traditions.
Details: Inspired by the documentary, “Muscle Shoals,” (2013), directed by Greg Camalier.
SSN Insight: IM Global Television will partner with sister company IM Global Music to make the songs a focal point of the series.

Oklahoma City
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): Evolution Media
Executive Producer(s): Douglas Ross, Alex Baskin
Logline: Oklahoma City is known for its oil rigs, tornadoes and multitude of churches, but this group of hilarious friends is changing the way the winds come sweeping down the plains. These women are proudly challenging the conventions of conservative society and showing an alternative, outrageous side of the never-before-seen tony enclave of Oklahoma City.
SSN Insight: Bravo has given a series order.

Omerta
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Executive Producer(s): Antoine Fuqua, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, David Glasser
Writer(s): Justin Herber, Adam Hoff
Logline: To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel “Omerta,” written by Mario Puzo and published by Random House in 2000. This is the third novel in Mario Puzo’s Mafia trilogy, which includes “The Godfather” and “The Last Don.”
SSN Insight: Project stems from the multiple-year, first-look television deal with The Weinstein Company and Antoine Fuqua. Sylvester Stallone will play the lead role of mob boss Raymonde Aprile.

Planetoid
Production Company(s): IM Global
Logline: An ex-soldier-turned-space-mercenary finds himself stranded on a mysterious planet in alien territory. As he explores the long-abandoned industrial ruins of the planet’s surface, he fends off roving cyborg militias and a hostile alien military with a bounty on his head. Ultimately, he will build a coalition amongst the planetoid’s nomadic tribes and make a final stand against the larger tyrannical forces that rule over them.
Details: Based on the graphic novel, “Planetoid,” written by Ken Garing and published by Image Comics in 2013.
SSN Insight: IM Global Television is out to writers now for the series.

Relative Success with Tabatha Coffey
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): Lime Pictures, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Greg Lipstone, Kate Little, Derek McLean, Phil Harris, Paul Osborne
Logline: There are nearly 6 million family businesses in America, and for every one of them all business is personal. No one knows this better than Tabatha Coffey, with her years of experience helping businesses succeed through critical transitions. In each self-contained episode, a family will call upon Tabatha to help them sort out a dramatic, high stakes moment when their fortune and relationships are on the line. Tabatha will use her unique brand of no-nonsense tough love to help these families at a major crossroads and inspire, coax and sometimes shock them with her unapologetic nature into seeing their situation from a completely new perspective.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order.

Summer House
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): True Entertainment, Left Hook Media
Executive Producer(s): Matt Odgers, Scott Teti, Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin
Logline: For years this group of friends has spent their weekends from Memorial Day through Labor Day in one of the most exclusive beach areas on the East Coast. These professionals may keep it together during the week, but as soon as they hit the beach on the weekend, they let loose in a big, aspirational way that is exclusive to this high-end lifestyle.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. In September 2003, Endemol acquired a 51% stake in True Entertainment.

The Handmaid’s Tale
Network: Hulu
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bruce Miller, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Warren Littlefield
Writer(s): Bruce Miller
Logline: The drama tells the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the U.S. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted religious fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a handmaid in the commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. She is forced to navigate between commanders, their cruel wives, domestic marthas and her fellow handmaids where anyone could be a spy for Gilead all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
Details: Based on the 1990 movie, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was based on the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” written by Margaret Atwood and published in the United States by 1st Anchor Books.
SSN Insight: Hulu has given a series order of ten episodes.

The Lesser Dead
Production Company(s): City Entertainment, IM Global
Executive Producer(s): Joshua Maurer, Alixandre Witlin
Logline: Set among a colony of vampires in 1978 Manhattan when the City that Never Sleeps was still a gritty, dangerous place above ground, and much, much worse below.
Details: Based on the novel, “The Lesser Dead,” written by Christopher Buehlman and published by Berkley on October 7, 2014.
SSN Insight: Alixandre Witlin also executive produced the Rosemary Baby’s miniseries on NBC.

The Lodge
Network: Bravo Media
Executive Producer(s): Andrea Gorfolova, Jameel Bharmal, Jeffrey Hevert, Bruce Toms
Logline: Viewers will go for a wild downhill ride inside an ultra luxurious Whistler ski lodge. This new series follows the hard working lodge staff, whose demanding jobs require catering to the every whim of their vacationing rich clientele. From creating high octane heli-ski adventures or white water rafting to dining at the most exclusive restaurants and being whisked away to remote glacial hot springs, this seasoned staff knows how to make their clients’ dream vacations a reality. However, while living, working, and partying together in close quarters on the lodge property, these sexy staffers are sure to bump heads and break hearts as they navigate the resort hierarchy as well as their outrageous clients.
Details: Ordered to series.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. Andrea Gorfolova is also an EP on Apres Ski for Bravo, Hollywood Cycle for E!, Human Resources for Pivot, Mission: 4Count for TeenNick and Power & Ice for History.

The Punisher
Network: Netflix
Studio: ABC Studios, Marvel Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Steve Lightfoot
Writer(s): Steve Lightfoot
Logline: The alter ego of military veteran Frank Castle, who wages a one-man war against crime after his wife and children are killed during a shootout by rival mob outfits.
Details: Conceived as a spinoff of the Netflix series, “Daredevil .”
SSN Insight: Marvel’s “The Punisher” marks the sixth series ordered as part of the collaboration between Netflix and Marvel Television. Jon Bernthal will reprise his role.

Then and Now
Network: Bravo Media
Executive Producer(s): Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Andy Cohen
Logline: Andy Cohen turns back the pop-culture clock to 1989, 1994 and 2000 by reviewing nostalgic moments and exploring the legacy of events and developments from those three years.
SSN Insight: Bravo gave a series order. Andy Cohen is also an EP on the Real Housewives series and spin-offs as well as an EP on Top Chef.

These Broken Stars
Studio: MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Eric Balfour, Stephanie Varella, Warren Littlefield, Martin Berneman
Writer(s): Simon Davis Barry
Logline: A massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux — the daughter of the richest man in the universe — and Tarver Merendsen — a young war hero who comes from nothing — are the only survivors and must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.
Details: Based on the novel, “These Broken Stars,” written by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner and published by Disney- Hyperion in 2013.
SSN Insight: The project is reportedly being considered for development by Freeform in the U.S. and Sky in the U.K.
Truthing
Network: ITV 1
Production Company(s): Big Talk Productions
Executive Producer(s): Courteney Cox
Writer(s): Mark Chappell
Logline: The series is set in the Clear-Path Institute, a six-day healing retreat that promotes personal growth, transformational experience and inner well-being. It follows the valiant efforts of its charismatic American founder and leader as she struggles to enlighten a fresh intake of truth-seekers.
SSN Insight: ITV ordered the pilot on April 27.

Untitled Amber Rose Talk Show Project
Network: VH1 Network
Production Company(s): Stage 29 Productions, Behind Her Shades Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Amber Rose, Walter Mosley, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Carla Pennington
Logline: Amber Rose conducts interviews with celebrity friends about pop culture, motherhood, relationships, friendships, race and entrepreneurship.
SSN Insight: VH1 gave a series order on May 3. Amber Rose has been seen on Inside Amy Schumer, Selfie and Fashion Police.

Watership Down
Network: BBC 1
Production Company(s): Biscuit Filmworks, 42, Brown Bag Films
Executive Producer(s): Benjamin Pugh, Rory Aitken, Noam Murro, Josh Varney, Eleanor Moran
Writer(s): Tom Bidwell
Logline: The story follows a group of rabbits who are forced to leave their warren and find new dwellings. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Watership Down,” written by Richard Adams and published by Macmillan in 1972.
SSN Insight: The project will air as a 4-part miniseries. John Boyega, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton have all been cast in the series.

Yours, Mine or Ours
Network: Bravo Media
Production Company(s): JV Productions Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Courtney Campbell, Kirk Hipkiss, Ryan Seacrest
Logline: Committed couples looking to cohabitate enlist the help of boisterous real estate agent Reza Farahan and interior designer and decorator Taylor Spellman to figure out which residence they should call home. Taylor will present stunning design renderings showcasing how to transform their existing spaces while Reza tempts them with brilliant new properties they can make all their own. The couples will have to weigh their options before making the ultimate decision of yours, mine or ours.
Details: Ordered to series. (4/27/2016)
SSN Insight: Bravo has given a series order. Seacrest is also an EP on the CBS pilots Squad Goals, The Doctor’s Brother and The Down Beat.

Zero K
Network: FX Network
Production Company(s): Scott Rudin Productions
Executive Producer(s): Scott Rudin
Logline: Billionaire Ross Lockhart’s younger wife, Artis Martineau, has a terminal illness. Lockhart is a significant investor in a secretive, remote compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until medical advances can restore individuals to improved lives. He hopes Artis can benefit from this pioneering science. Based on the novel.
Details: Based on the novel, “Zero K,” written by Don DeLillo and published by Scribner on May 3, 2016.
SSN Insight: FX has optioned the novel. DeLillo has written 15 novels including Cosmopolis which was adapted as a film starring Robert Pattinson and premiered at Cannes in 2012.

#Cartel
Network: History
Studio: A+E Networks, ABC Studios
Executive Producer(s): Chris Brancato
Writer(s): Chris Brancato
Logline: The series chronicles the rise of kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to power, taking a look inside the stranger-than-fiction world of drug cartels who use social media to maintain their image, recruit new members and threaten rivals. Unlike drug lords of decades past, El Chapo, who reigned over the Mexican drug trafficking cartel for 25 years, has fan followings, with relationships in the entertainment and music industry that stretch past the Mexican border and into the United States.
Details: Based on the true story of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
SSN Insight: History gave an initial script commitment on May 3.

Con Man
Network: Comic-Con HQ (online)
Executive Producer(s): Nathan Fillion, PJ Haarsma, Alan Tudyk, Adam Gentile, Jay Hamilton
Writer(s): Alan Tudyk
Logline: The show revolves around a science fiction show called “Spectrum” that was canceled in 2004 after airing only a handful of episodes. The web series follows the lives of Spectrum cast members after the show’s cancellation. One, Captain Jack Moore, went on to bigger and brighter things. Wray Nerely, not so much.
Details: Planned as a 12-episode series. (3/10/2015)
SSN Insight: Planned as a 12-episode series. The series will stream exclusively this summer on the soon-to-launch Comic-Con HQ, the ad-free subscription streaming VOD platform from Lionsgate and Comic-Con International.

Cosmo Life
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Bunim/Murray Productions
Executive Producer(s): Gil Goldschein, Jeff Jenkins, Rob Bagshaw, Joanna Coles, Holly Whidden
Logline: Set in one of the most glamorous epicenters of pop culture, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the series follows the work-hard, play-hard lifestyles of a group of young tastemakers at the cutting edge of what’s hot in music, fashion, style, beauty, sex and celebrities, often opening up their own lives to millions of readers around the globe. These up-and-comers at the world’s best-selling women’s magazine juggle the temptations of New York’s hottest celebrity parties and VIP nightlife with the demands of their passionate and formidable Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles.
SSN Insight: E! ordered the series during their Upfront presentation. Gil Goldschein is also the EP on Total Bellas and Mariah’s World, both given series orders by E!

Dawn
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): MGM Television Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Hank Steinberg, Ken Nolan
Logline: Follows a tribe of Neanderthals as they struggle to survive and hold on to their way of life after coming into contact with a family of Homo Sapiens. At the intersection of evolution and genocide, Dawn asks the fundamental question, what does it mean to be human?
SSN Insight: Hulu ordered the pilot. Robert Stromberg (Maleficent) will direct the pilot with a cast that includes Fola Evans-Akingbola, Temuera Morrison, Carl Shaaban, and Matthew Hopkinson in final negotiations to star.

Dear White People
Network: Netflix
Production Company(s): Lionsgate
Executive Producer(s): Justin Simien, Devon Shepard, Stephanie Allain, Julia Lebedev
Writer(s): Justin Simien
Logline: Set among a diverse group of students of color as they navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college where racial tensions are often swept under the rug, this series is a send up of “post-racial” America that also weaves a universal story about forging one’s own unique path.
Details: Based on the film “Dear White People” (2014), directed by Justin Simien.
SSN Insight: Netflix gave a series order of ten episodes. This is Lionsgate’s second original series for Netflix.

Designated Survivor
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios, Mark Gordon Company
Production Company(s): Management 360, Genre Films
Executive Producer(s): David Guggenheim, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark R. Gordon, Simon Kinberg, Suzan Bymel
Writer(s): David Guggenheim
Logline: A lower level United States Cabinet member is suddenly appointed President after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
SSN Insight: ABC gave a straight to series order in December and ordered 13 episodes on May 6.

Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick
Network: Channel 4
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company(s): Anonymous Content, Electric Shepherd Productions, LLC, Moonshot Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Bryan Cranston, James Degus, Ron Moore, Michael Dinner, Isa Dick Hackett
Writer(s): Ron Moore, Michael Dinner
Logline: The series will illustrate Dick’s prophetic vision and celebrate the prized sci-fi novelist’s work. Each episode will be a standalone drama.
Details: Based on the works of Philip K. Dick.
SSN Insight: Channel 4 has ordered 10 episodes of the anthology series with Bryan Cranston set to star in one of the episodes.

Famously Married
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Studio Lambert, All3Media America
Executive Producer(s): Stephen Lambert, Greg Lipstone, Greg Goldman, Sara Quick
Logline: The series explores the women and relationships behind the “Hollywood trophy wife” label, following a group of young women who recently married or are currently planning to marry wealthy and successful older men. These women navigate the complications that come with being a second wife, including their husbands’ exes and children, as well as their entrance into elite Los Angeles society.
Details: Ordered to series. (5/4/2016)
SSN Insight: E! ordered the series and announced it during their Upfront presentation. Stephen Lambert is also the EP on The Arrangement, given a series order by E!

Feud
Network: FX Network
Studio: Fox 21 Television Studios
Production Company(s): Ryan Murphy Productions, Plan B Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Ryan Murphy, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner
Logline: The series will explore famous feuds. The first installment tells the story of the legendary rivalry between two of the greatest movie stars of all time—Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, and how they came together in 1962 to collaborate on a picture each hoped would revive their careers. The result, the critically acclaimed and box office smash “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” ultimately received five Academy Awards nominations and became a cult classic. But for its leads, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, the real horror was working together.
Details: Based in part on the script, “Best Actress,” by Jaffe Cohen and Michael Zam, which was included on the 2009 Black List.
SSN Insight: Project was previously in development as a feature film. FX has ordered eight episodes.

Foreign Bodies
Network: TNT
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: The story of a motley gang of travellers embarking on a three-month trip around Asia. British lads Sean and Dylan meet American girls May and Ashley in Beijing and opt to undergo the first leg of their travels together. But they soon find that their journey takes them much further than any of them expected.
SSN Insight: TNT has given a series order of eight episodes. The series was originally commissioned by Channel 4 in January for a run on E4. Cast includes Anders Hayward, Ade Oyefeso, Brittney Wilson, Alice Lee and Tim Key.

Greatest Ever
Network: truTV
Production Company(s): Meetinghouse Productions
Logline: A countdown show that takes viewers through the “do’s” and “don’ts” of topics like weddings, animal videos, sports, politicians and unintentionally funny inventions, infomercials and products.
SSN Insight: truTV has given an order of six episodes, announced during their Upfront presentation.

Jon Glaser Loves Gear
Network: truTV
Production Company(s): PFFR
Executive Producer(s): Jon Glaser, Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy, Richard Korson
Logline: Jon Glaser explores his love of looking at gear, shopping for gear, wearing gear, and talking about gear.
SSN Insight: truTV has given an order of ten episodes, announced during their Upfront presentation.

Krypton
Network: Syfy
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Company(s): Phantom Four, DC Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): David S. Goyer, Ian Goldberg, Damian Kindler
Writer(s): Damian Kindler, David S. Goyer
Logline: Superman’s grandfather works to bring hope and equality to Krypton, transforming a planet in chaos into one worthy of his grandson’s future glory as the greatest superhero ever known.
Details: Based on “Superman” characters and the universe created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and first featured in a comic book published by DC Comics in 1938.
SSN Insight: SyFy, which has been developing the project for over a year and a half has ordered a pilot.

Lifescaping
Network: truTV
Production Company(s): Redtail Media
Logline: A guide to all those real-life skills you’re expected to know but no one ever taught you – things like how to get a bartender’s attention, the best ways to go on a road trip and determining when lying is the right thing to do. Hosts Matthew Latkiewicz and Abbi Crutchfield mix sketches, expert advice and on-the-street interviews to help viewers get their life game on point.
SSN Insight: truTV has given an order of 13 episodes, announced during their Upfront presentation.

Locke & Key
Production Company(s): IDW Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Joe Hill, Ted Adams, David Ozer, David Alpert, Rick Jacobs
Writer(s): Joe Hill
Logline: The three Locke children are still reeling from the brutal murder of their guidance counselor father by a deranged student when their mom, Nina Locke, moves the family to a small island off the coast of Maine and they discover a mystical doorway in their new home.
Details: Project is based on the graphic novel series beginning with “Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft,” written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW Publishing September 24, 2008.
SSN Insight: The series was originally developed at Fox during the 2010-11 season by DreamWorks TV, Alex Kurtzman & Bob Orci’s company. Fox ordered the pilot but it did not make it to series. IDW Entertainment will maintain worldwide rights for the new version. The project is being developed internally with Circle of Confusion.

The Abbey Diaries
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Banijay Group
Executive Producer(s): David Goldberg, Caroline Baumgard, Ray Giuliani, David Cooley
Logline: The series goes inside the lives of the employees at the world-famous gay hot spot, The Abbey Food & Bar, in the heart of West Hollywood. The staffers wrangle VIP guests and celebrities while dealing with relationship drama, diverse sexuality and the pursuit of their individual Hollywood dreams, all set in an exciting backdrop that is quintessentially Los Angeles.
SSN Insight: E! gave a series order on May 4, and announced it during their Upfront presentation.

The Birth Of The Pill
Production Company(s): Sonar Entertainment
Executive Producer(s): Denise DiNovi, R.J. Cutler, Audrey Wells, Alison Greenspan
Writer(s): Audrey Wells
Logline: Revolves around four flawed, rebellious, larger than life characters racing against time, politics and ethics. They include feminist and social reformer Margaret Sanger, who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States; philanthropist and suffragist Katharine McCormick, who used her family fortune to fund the research that led to the development of the pill; visionary biologist and researcher Gregory Goodwin Pincus, co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive; and John Rock, the Catholic obstetrician and gynecologist who fought to win public approval for the new drug.
Details: Based on the book “The Birth Of The Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution,” written by Jonathan Eig and published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2014.
SSN Insight: R.J. Cutler is set to direct. The project is planned as an event series.

Ultimate Beastmaster
Network: Hulu
Production Company(s): 25/7 Productions
Executive Producer(s): Sylvester Stallone, David Broome
Logline: Top tier competitors and athletes from several countries around the world will compete in a new action-packed global competition series. The first international competition series of its kind with six customized local versions featuring local languages, competitors and hosts from each competing country. Contestants and hosts From U.S., Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Germany and Japan will come together in a thrilling faceoff.
SSN Insight: Netflix has given a series order of ten episodes. Ultimate Beastmaster is the first international competition series of its kind with six customized local versions featuring local languages, competitors and hosts from each competing country. The series will also feature Sylvester Stallone, in addition to his producing role.

Untitled Joe and Anthony Russo Pot Comedy
Network: Showtime Networks
Production Company(s): Getaway Productions
Executive Producer(s): Moshe Kasher, Zach Cregger, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Writer(s): Moshe Kasher, Zach Cregger
Logline: The world of a larcenous family of pot dealers is turned upside down when their illegal enterprise suddenly becomes legal in their home state. As the family struggles to adapt to the strange new world of legitimate business, they are forced to depend upon the business acumen of their son, whose straight and narrow leanings have always made him a black sheep in this clan of reprobates.
Details:
SSN Insight: The Russo brother’s past TV producing-directing credits include Happy Endings and Community. The brothers are also directing Avengers: Infinity War – Part I and II.

Untitled Seth MacFarlane Sci-Fi Comedic Drama
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company(s): Fuzzy Door Productions
Executive Producer(s): Seth MacFarlane
Writer(s): Seth MacFarlane
Logline: Set 300 years in the future, the series follows the adventures of a motley crew of space explorers facing cosmic challenges from without and within. Their ship, the Orville, is a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet.
SSN Insight: Fox has given a straight to series order of 13 episodes.

WAGS: Miami
Network: E! Networks
Production Company(s): Machete Productions
Executive Producer(s): Amber Mazzola, Lori Gordon
Logline: The series documents the lavish lifestyles and real-life drama of eight Miami WAGS, giving viewers a voyeuristic peek inside the exclusive world of superstar athletes through the perspective of the women who stand by their side. The WAGS of Miami live life unapologetically, and are bound together by a strict hierarchy of unspoken rules with no boundaries, no filters and the veritable candy shop of Miami as their playground. These ambitious, strong women are spicing things up and bringing the heat as they work to make their own dreams a reality, while playing the most competitive game of all: getting and keeping that pro-athlete man.
Details: Project is a spin-off of E!’s “WAGS.”
SSN Insight: E! gave a series order on May 4, and announced it during their Upfront presentation.