TV SALES
CBS has contionued to build on what it knows, adding the buddy PI drama HAIL MARY from writer/exec producer Jeff Wadlow. Series, which is also exec produced by Joel Silver and Beau Bauman, centers on a suburban single mom who teams up with a street-wise hustler to solve crimes.
CBS has also added a new medical drama to the slate, with the pick up of THE DOCTOR from writer/exec producer Rina Mimoun. Series centers on a mother who reconnects with her adult children when she joins the family medical practice.
FOX has handed out a greenlight to the now UNTITLED LIZ MERIWETHER COMEDY (previously known as CHICKS AND DICKS) from writer/exec producer Liz Meriwether. The project, which was previously picked up in October, 2010, centers on an optimistic Midwestern woman who moves into a New York City apartment with three rather juvenile guys. Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope also exec produce.
NBC has made a late addition, buying up the spec pilot BLACK & RIGHT from writer/exec producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk. Series, which is also exec produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Michael Pelmont, centers on a young, hip liberal African-American couple who lose everything and are forced to move in with their die-hard Republican pundit mother and her white conservative husband.
TV ATTACHMENTS
Michael Rymer is set to direct the Ron Moore project 17TH PRECINCT for NBC.
Michael Dinner is circling newly greenlit pilot THE DOCTOR as his next pilot-directing gig.
