This is a list of 2024 TV mandates for streamers & networks.
YOUNG ADULT
Logical Talent Management is out with THE CURSEBOUND THIEF by Megan O’Russell. A sorcerer, a hacker, a vampire, a werewolf, and a knight dare to pull off the heist of the century to save….
APA is out with LITTLE BITCHES by Theresa Bennett. A bitter dance teacher must coach a group of underdog preteen girls.
Logline: Two immortal beings living as teenagers fight to find each other as they struggle against the systematic persecution of humans with magical powers across America.
Logline: An impoverished young woman is accepted into the prestigious academy deep in space where Earth trains its warriors to fight off alien invasions.
Alice doesn’t believe in luck, but when she buys her crush, Teddy, a lottery ticket on a lark and he wins $140 million everything starts to change.
Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she can’t step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He’s sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can’t leave the house, but can she let someone in?
Logline: A group of teenagers with historically important ancestors are kidnapped by a criminal mastermind and forced to take a drug that allows them to enter their ancestral memories and change the past.
Logline: After moving to Singapore following her father’s death, a teenage girl gets kidnapped by aliens and brought to an elite military academy in space. Upon discovering that her father founded the school years earlier, she unravels a web of secrets and gets dragged into an intergalactic conflict.
Logline: In a world where a winged race has enslaved humans for centuries, a human resistance arises, led by a young princess.
Logline: When a teenager discovers his baby sister has super powers, he and his best friend become her babysitters and sidekicks. They soon learn that saving people is not as easy as it seems, and that their whole world has been turned upside down.
Logline: In a world where everyone works for one of three major corporations who control their employees’ lives with virtual reality eyewear, a teenage girl joins a rebellion after she is caught up in a terrorist attack against her corporation.
Logline: While coping with the tragic death of a friend, a teenager tries to piece together her fractured memories of that fateful night, and soon discovers that she’s actually a witch and that her friend was killed in an act of dangerous black magic. Now it is up to her and her newfound coven to stop the vengeful spirit they mistakenly released.
Logline: After an invasion by violent insect-like creatures that carry a dangerous disease, a teenage fisherman from North Carolina faces the challenge of her life when she is hired by one of the infected to escort him along the Atlantic coast to Baltimore.
Logline: After the untimely death of the most popular girl in her class, a teenage nobody takes her shot and gets the lead in the school’s production of The Crucible, only to find that the subject matter brings forward her own latent magical abilities.
Logline: A young girl is accidentally transported alive to the underworld during her village’s human sacrifice ritual, and ends up teaming up with a demon to return to her world and save her little brother.
Logline: Three young women – a contrarian, a goth, and a hacker – would rather be teenagers than superheroes.
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic future, a disease has swept the world, killing much of the population and leaving some of the survivors unnaturally ruthless and bloodthirsty. A teen born into slavery to these evil masters meets a mysterious girl whose biology might hold the key to curing the disease, and they set out to save humanity, both from the plague and from its own darkest impulses.
Logline: A 15-year-old Caucasian in foster care is adopted by a single Chinese-American father and has to adjust to the cultural shift, unwittingly becoming involved with a sexually sadistic neighborhood couple in the process.
Logline: A group of wealthy high school students volunteer with the Bay Area Search & Rescue Unit, risking their own lives to save people lost in the wilderness, all the while navigating the no-less-difficult pressures of high school.
Logline: Just before their high school graduation, six friends are caught in a devastating fire that leaves one of them in a coma and the rest struggling to understand what happened, and where to go from there.
Logline: A young woman and her best friend, both of whom possess magical abilities, struggle to make ends meet while on the run from an assassin who targets those with powers, including her family.
Logline: Three friends from a poor London estate have their lives overturned when they witness a gang hit outside their apartment building.
Logline: A young boy reeling from the death of his parents, for which he feels guilty despite having no memory of the accident, is sent to a fantastical, futuristic rehabilitation center, but he soon suspects there’s something more sinister at play.
Logline: When her best friend dies in a tragic accident, and immediately comes back, a teenage girl is just happy to have her BFF returned. Until boys start turning up dead, ravaged by a creature both terrifying and familiar, and now it’s up to her to save herself and her best friend from an ancient evil that threatens them all.
Logline: When a teen learns she has the power to control fire on her 16th birthday, she must move to a special Academy that will teach her control over her new gift. While there, she discovers that there’s more too the Academy’s altruism than meets the eye, and her and her new friends need a way out.
In early December, we’re releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2010 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are now.
Logline: The disappearance of a young girl’s parents causes her to attend a boarding school, where she meets two mysterious Alchemists and discovers she has powers of her own.
A young girl dies for 13 minutes under suspicious circumstances before being revived. Her best friend investigates what happened.
The story is set in 2049 when climate change has taken the best of Earth with coastal flooding and overpopulation. A group of radicals known as the Wolfpack make a mission to overthrow the government to to take control and it is up to a young woman named Eden to bring them down.
