Logline: A cowardly aristocrat hires a criminal to fight in his place in a duel, and his legend grows through duel after duel.
Ravi Nandan
NBC orders a pilot presentation, Lifetime orders 2 coppers, and FX renews the funny!
Fox taps some magical law with Verbinski & Rossio, FX follows some Ambulance Chasers, Pierce Brosnan sets up a badass new action/drama and Eisendrath inks a nice 2/7 deal.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but will be a comedic spin of “Taken” with Bourne-style action.
CBS eyes an America/Canadian border cop series, Disney XD orders 3 news shows (Tron included), FX stirs a little controversy with an illegal immigrant PI, NBC wants us to laugh at Russell Peters’ life, HBO adds some behind the scenes creatives on that Nikki Finke project, WB locks Kevin Williamson in for a long-term stay, and NBC terminates JJ’s new spy series before mid-season.
ABC buys 2, orders more of 4, and kills 1, CBS does 1 and 1, ABC Family greenlights 1, Comedy Central, FX and Starz each order something new, while NBC takes on 2 new series, FOX greenlights 1 and orders more of another, and hands out a deal for 2 more. (aka: a LOT OF TV NEWS TODAY!)
Logline: Two guys head to Mexico to rescue their friend and reunite him with his girlfriend.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Harold & Kumar.” Two buddies journey on a spontaneous, and poorly planned road trip to Mexico to rescue their best friend.
Logline: Story is set in a world where heavenly scribes write everyone’s destinies, but one man’s writer quits, forcing him to follow his own path without guidance from above.
Logline: The loneliest man in America devises a plan to persuade an amnesia patient that they’ve always been best friends.
