Andy Harries

CBS gets into the JJ Abrams/Jonah Nolan show, Cinemax picks up “24 meets Call of Duty”, and Fox snags a medical drama from NBC. Meanwhile, ABC adds a couple directors, Cinemax adds 3 directors for previously mentioned, CW adds 1 for OC reunion project (of sorts), Fox adds a pair of brothers for Council of Dads, and NBC adds David Slade for Inception-like pilot, and Jeffrey Reiner to bring a certain princess superhero to life!

Logline: Story centers on an old man, living on a remote island who is visited by an old lover, who is dying of cancer, and asked to fulfill a promise he once made.

Logline: True story will center on music teacher Alan Renshaw, who brought a struggling public school choir in the 1970’s out of obscurity when they recorded the now famous chorus for Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall”, an act that saw to his immediate removal by the school board of the time.

Logline: The daughter of a martyr for Burmese independence, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma from England in 1988 to see her ailing mother but ended up serving as General Secretary of the newly formed National League for Democracy. Although the NLD won in the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi was held under house arrest for the following fifteen years by a military junta.

Logline: A doctor investigates the sudden death of her daughter, only to find that she was leading a secret life.

Logline: Story follows a behind the scenes look into the Royal family dealing with the aftermath of the sudden death of Princess Diana.