TV Sales & Pick-Ups

A place to find all articles pertaining to TV sales, pick-ups, and pilot orders.

SHOWTIME has picked up Tom Perrotta’s adaptation of his own bestselling novel THE WISHBONES.  Story, which centers on a group of guys who form a wedding band in their small town but aspire to rock ‘n’ roll greatness, will be produced by John Wells.

FOX has bought YOU CAN’T LOVE ONE OF THEM from writer/actor Diane Farr. Farr’s project, based on her upcoming semi-autobiographical book of the same name, will center on several interracial couples living in the South in a post-Obama world. Series will be exec produced by Pete Aronson and Jordan Levin, and will star Farr.

TNT has ordered 3 new projects to pilot, including the reboot of DALLAS, the drama procedural PERCEPTION (aka: Proof), and the UNTITLED ALLAN LOEB PROJECT (aka: Rabbit Factory).

HBO has snatched up the UNTITLED LENA DUNHAM PROJECT which will be produced by Judd Apatow, and Lena Dunham, who will also star, as well as writer and direct, along the way. Series will center on “the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early twenties.â€

Take a look at the trailer for Lena Dunham’s previous work in her award-winning film “Tiny Furniture.”

CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has set up TREADSTONE, a spin-off of Robert Ludlum’s JASON BOURNE series, at CBS. John Glenn will write the script, which will focus on the working of Treadstone 71, the black-ops division of the CIA. Zuiker and Glenn will both exec produce.

ABC has committed to McG and Paul Scheuring’s new private-eye series I PI with a heavy penalty against it should it not go to pilot. McG is even rearranging his schedule with an eye towards directing it. The series, which McG and Scheuring will exec produce alongside Peter Johnson, will be about a private investigator who learned everything he ever needed to know about being a P.I. from watching shows like MAGNUM, P.I. and SIMON AND SIMON while growing up.