This is a list of various TV mandates for 2023 for streamers and networks.
Political
Gersh is out with CHERRY PIE by Daniel Taplitz. Described as a twisty Thriller with Political undertones.
Sam Okun Productions is looking for a writer to develop ADVISE & CONSENT.
Art/Work Entertainment is out with DEAD CITY by Sean Platt & Bonnie Johnston. Three women team up to unearth the truth behind the biggest coverup in history.
A deep-cover KGB agent sent to the US just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and left stranded for decades is reactivated and ordered to carry out a high-profile assassination that will destroy his American family.
Lochery’s book tells the story of Lisbon’s role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe’s exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies from every nation fighting in the war, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944 described the daily scene at Lisbon’s airport as being like the movie “Casablanca,” times twenty.
Story chronicles the biggest political crime story of this century: How the fired FBI director, James Comey, releases his personal memos to instigate the investigation of the president of the United States.
When a high profile news host is kidnapped by a deranged fan with ties to an extremist group, a young reporter finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy that has it sights set on assassinating the party-unifying candidate in line to become the next President of the United States. A fast-paced political thriller in the vein of Michael Clayton and Gone Girl.
Contained political thriller about Bush’s surveillance program post-9/11 and James Comey who took on the administration in an attempt to put an end to illegal data mining and wiretapping.
Before The Huffington Post and Breitbart News, there was The Drudge Report. This is the story of how oddball internet reporter Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky Scandal, and nearly took down a presidency, all from a desktop computer in his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
Story is based on the true story of Greville Wynne, a British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold War. Wynne and his Russian source, Oleg Penkovsky, provided the crucial intelligence that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Tells the formative story that led to the current controversy about Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
After agreeing to help her father, a journalist finds herself engulfed in the arms dealing world.
Logline: The true story of Victoria Woodhull, who goes from sham psychic to prominent political activist, leads the suffragette movement, and becomes the first woman to ever run for President of the United States.
Follows a magistrate of the border outpost as the reckless behavior of the Empire he serves threatens to trigger a Barbarian invasion. He begins to question imperialism when he saves a young ‘barbarian’ and realizes that all is not what it appears to be.
Follows a magistrate of the border outpost as the reckless behavior of the Empire he serves threatens to trigger a Barbarian invasion. He begins to question imperialism when he saves a young ‘barbarian’ and realizes that all is not what it appears to be.
Logline: A conservative pundit has to remain a staunch voice representing her party as she struggles with her mother’s Presidential campaign, an affair with a liberal Senator, and an unexpected pregnancy. All of which test her political, moral, and ethical ideals in an ever- changing world.
Logline: A revisionist history that sees a post Civil War Confederacy on the brink of dissolving and forced to elect a female president, who not only sets out to broaden their horizons, but to lead a coalition of women and former slaves to rebuild the nation.
Logline: A New York neighborhood attempts to fight gentrification by invoking centuries-old maps that suggest they may never have been incorporated into the United States at all.
Logline: When the corrupt Lieutenant Governor and inept Governor of South Carolina get into a heated political race, the woman who manages the Governor’s mansion decides she’s going to run against both of them.
Logline: The true story of soccer star and humanitarian George Weah who ran for president of Liberia in 2005.
An idealistic UN program coordinator becomes involved in the fight for oil in post-war Iraq. When he seeks advice from his mentor, he begins to uncover a conspiracy at the highest levels of power.
Logline: Pitched as “The Ides of March” meets “All The President’s Men.” With America’s first viable Independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: When American agent and recent Harvard graduate Michael Teak takes an assignment to deliver money to a band of east African freedom fighters he is caught in a global conspiracy after the village he’s meeting them in is decimated by a missile strike.
Logline: After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there’s much more to the story than that.
Logline: Story follows a woman as she faces sexism and discrimination working within the French border police (PAF) at Orly airport.
Logline: Follows the true story of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate best known for his rivalry with Robert Kennedy and for marrying the widow of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
Logline: Story follows the mysterious events behind the death of Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, a Guatemalan attorney who, before his murder, recorded a video message saying if he were assassinated, President Alvaro Colom Caballeros of Guatemala would have been directly responsible.
Logline: Set in the early 20th century, story follows a group of militant British women who fought for the right to vote.
