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The Crown
Digital Platform: Netflix
Production Company: Left Bank Pictures
Executive Producers: Andy Harries, Robert Fox, Matthew Byam-Shaw, Peter Morgan, Stephen Daldry
Writers: Peter Morgan, Stephen Daldry
Logline: A scripted series centered on the weekly audiences given by Queen Elizabeth II to prime ministers that date back from her accession in 1952 to the present day.
Details: Inspired by the play
The Audience written by Peter Morgan in 2013.
SSN Insight: Morgan previously adapted
Frost/Nixon, and is currently writing the screenplay for
The Queen, while Daldry has three Oscar nominations for directing
Billy Elliot,
The Reader and
The Hours.
This Is Me
Network: Fox
Studio: CBS Studios
Executive Producer: Eric Christian Olsen, Matthew Cole Weiss
Logline: Centers on a twenty-something who gets custody of his 11-year-old brother and decides to raise him with the help of his motley crew of roommates.
Details: Acquired from spec.
SSN Insight: Olsen is currently staring on CBS’
NCIS: LA.
God Save Texas
Network: HBO
Production Company: Donner’s Company
Executive Producers: Lawrence Wright, Margo Lion, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jack Leslie
Writer: Lawrence Wright
Logline: An idealistic cowboy, looking to save his ranch and his marriage, tries to get elected to the Texas Legislature, where he becomes the target of the powerful energy lobby and learns how to survive in the crazy, brutal world of Texas politics.
Details: Based on the play
Sonny's Last Chance (2005) written by Lawrence Wright.
MaddAddam
Network: HBO
Production Company: Protozoa Pictures
Executive Producers: Darren Aronofsky, Brandi-Ann Milbradt, Ari Handel
Consulting Producer: Margaret Atwood
Logline: Set in the mid-21st century in a world where corporations have taken over for governments and the genetic modification of organisms is perversely ubiquitous. It centers on the events before and after a Waterless Flood that wipes out almost all of the world’s population and follows an extensive cast of characters, including those responsible for the apocalypse and those struggling to survive it.
Details: Based on the book trilogy "Oryx and Crake" (2003), "Year of the Flood" (2009), and "MaddAddam" (2013), written by Margaret Atwood.
SSN Insight: There is no writer attached at this time.
Untitled Gary Lennon/Robert Downey Jr. Project
Network: Showtime
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Team Downey
Executive Producers: Gary Lennon, Robert Downey, Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Essick Burrell
Co-Producer: Christine Mammolito
Writer: Gary Lennon
Logline: In 1983, a rehabilitation center in Venice Beach, California thrives in an environment where drugs and alcohol are an everyday part of the scene.
Rated P For Parenthood
Network: ABC Family
Studio: ABC Signature
Production Company: Milojo Productions
Executive Producers: Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Jamie Denbo
Producers: Sandy Rustin, Dan Lipton, David Rossmer
Writer: Jamie Denbo
Logline: Mothers and fathers struggle to raise children in an age when parents feel much like kids themselves.
Details: Based on the musical, of the same name, created by Sandy Rustin, with music and lyrics by Dan Lipton & David Rossmer.
SSN Insight: Rated P For Parenthood had an off-Broadway run in 2012.
The Chairman
Network: Spike TV
Production Companies: Electus, ROAR
Executive Producer: Julian McMahon, Jeremy Elice, Dana Vachon, Greg Suess, Ben Silverman
Co-Executive Producer: Sean Canino
Writer: Dana Vachon
Logline: Christian Gillette, a charismatic Gulf War veteran, takes over a billion-dollar private equity fund after its founder’s mysterious death. As his new powers open secret doors, he realizes that the world of apparently gentrified Manhattan finance is closely tied to the brutal realm of war that still haunts him — and that some of its most dangerous players are now his inherited enemies.
Details: Based on the novel,
The Chairman, written by Stephen Frey.
SSN Insight: Spike TV is premiering their first scripted project,
Tut, next year.
