PICK-UPS & SALES
ABC has picked up 3 more hourlong pilot orders to projects from Michael Green, Paul Scheuring and Melissa Rosenberg.
- Green’s GOTHAM, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers on a female cop who, after pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, discovers a magical world that exists within New York City. Green will executive produce alongside Erwin Stoff.
- Scheuring’s ZERO HOUR, through ABC Studios, centers on a man who, in a bizarre twist of fate, is pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott are executive producing with Scheuring.
- Rosenberg’s PENOZA, also from ABC Studios, is based on the Dutch format. It centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family. Endemol Studios, Alon Aranya and Howard Klein are attached to executive produce.
ABC has also given the green light to the single-camera comedy AMERICAN JUDY, starring Judy Greer and written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It centers on a cosmopolitan woman (Greer) who gets married and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs having to juggle step-kids, her mother-in-law, and the ex-wife of her husband who also happens to be the town sheriff.
John Wells is back at NBC with a new drama. The network has handed out a pilot pickup to BAD GIRLS, written by Nancy Pimental and executive produced by Wells. The project, based on the long-running UK hit series of the same name, which follows the ins-and-outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates, some mothers, some friends who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and the outside.
CW has picked up two more dramas from Mark Harmon and Elizabeth Craft.
- THE SELECTION: is based on the forthcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, The story is an epic romance set 300 years in the future which centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads. Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain wrote the script and will executive produce.
- JOEY DAKOTA: In this romantic-time-travel-musical, a documentary filmmaker travels back in time to the 1990’s where she meets and falls in love with the rock star subject of her film. When she unexpectedly returns to present day, she must find her way back to the past to reunite with her love and prevent his untimely death. The series is written by Bret Royale and executive produced by Harmon, Kim Tannenbaum, Eric Tannenbaum and Martha Haight.
RENEWALS
On the heals of its premiere last Sunday, HBO has renewed the horse racing drama LUCK from Michael Mann and David Milch for a 10-episode second season. The series stars Dustin Hoffman.
