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Cary Brokaw
A recap of the week’s TV news!
Logline: Drama about two adult brothers who track their abusive stepfather to retrieve a set of coins.
Logline: Three teenagers chosen for the first Moon mission in decades arrive to find a deadly phenomenon.
Logline: Follows the true story of Specialist Sean O’Shea and four others who were assigned to guard Saddam Hussein for his first 300 days of captivity.
FOX picks up a father/son dating comedy, HBO gets documental with the Tropic Thunder gang, NBC gets into drug trouble, girl trouble and aging trouble, while USA hands out pilot commitments to a trio of new shows, and Community gets a few more episodes thanks to that spectacular Halloween episode!
Logline: Based on the true story of Ruth Reichl, a columnist who has to don disguises to hide her identity and is in one of her disguises when she meets and falls in love with a man.
Logline: After his execution for double crossing a drug cartel, Rudy Chance–a brutal, corrupt cop and womanizer–expects he’ll wind up in Hell. Instead, he finds himself in the Gray Area, where he is forced to combat evil for an afterlife police force in order to gain a shot at redemption. Given extraordinary powers, Chance hunts down the wicked to condemn and the worthy to heal. But can he control his own dark side, or will it lead him to eternal damnation?
Logline: Montana Moore, a 35-year-old flight attendant, determined not to show up to her baby sister’s engagement party without a fiance of her own, concocts her most romantically ridiculous plan yet: a 30-day, 30,000 mile trek in search of a husband.
Logline: A young man awakens from a car accident to discover he is one of few survivors in the aftermath of a mysterious outbreak. Somehow immune, he tries to save the remaining survivors from themselves, as he desperately struggles to prevent the deadly wave from spreading across the entire planet.
Logline: Chronicles the life of the great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.
Logline: A broken family is reunited for a final farewell to their dying father, husband and mentor.
Logline: Story follows a courier who is the best at what he does, and is well known for never missing a drop — something that just may change when he is hired to deliver a briefcase to a notorious underworld figure that can’t be found, and hot on his tail are ruthless crime lords, corrupt cops, and double-crossing friends.