Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 7

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/robert-michelle-king-horror-show-cbs-overall-deal-828469/

Robert & Michelle King Ink New Overall Deal With CBS Studios, Sell D.C. Horror Show To CBS As Put Pilot
by Nellie Andreeva

On the heels of a very well received fifth season of The Good Wife and a second Emmy win for star Julianna Margulies, the CBS series’ co-creators Robert King and Michelle King have signed a new three-year deal with CBS TV Studios to continue as executive producers and showrunners and develop new projects through their King Size Prods. They have already sold one, Brain Dead, with a put pilot commitment. Written by the Kings, it re-teams the auspices of The Good Wife: creators, the Kings; producers, CBS TV Studios and Scott Free; and network, CBS. Described as The West Wing meets The Strain, Brain Dead represents a major creative swing. It is a comedic horror hourlong show set in the world of D.C. politics. The Kings, repped by Paradigm and Jon Moonves, are executive producing with Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and David Zucker.

Political... Horror-comedy... from the creators of The Good Wife?

I just... what?

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/angela-kinsey-abc-buddy-comedy-darlene-hunt-will-gluck-833921/

Angela Kinsey To Topline & Co-Create ABC Buddy Comedy Produced By Darlene Hunt & Will Gluck
by Nellie Andreeva

Female buddy comedies have been hot on the big screen with such recent hits as The Heat and The Other Woman. ABC and Sony Pictures TV are looking to extend the streak to television with a single-camera comedy starring The Office alumna Angela Kinsey and executive produced by Will Gluck.

Co-created by Kinsey, who will co-write the story, and Rachel Specter & Audrey Wauchope (Cougar Town), the untitled comedy (aka I Love Your Ex) centers on a woman and her ex-husband’s new girlfriend who end up becoming BFFs — much to the annoyance of the guy stuck in the middle. The Big C creator/exec proucer Darlene Hunt will serve as showrunner and executive produce with Gluck, Kinsey, Specter and Wauchope. Sony TV, where Hunt and Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment are based, is producing the comedy, which has script commitment plus penalty.

Gluck is repped by UTA and Robert Offer; Hunt by UTA and Joel McKuin; Kinsey by UTA, LINK Entertainment and Fred Toczek; Specter and Wauchope by UTA and Luber/Roklin.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/the-thi...ries-greg-berlanti-seth-grahame-smith-831937/

CBS Nabs Drama From Greg Berlanti & Seth Grahame-Smith Based On Stephen King Story As Put Pilot
by Nellie Andreeva

In a competitive situation, CBS has landed The Things They Left Behind, a supernatural procedural drama based on Stephen King’s short story, from Seth Grahame-Smith, and Greg Berlanti. The project, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Prods., has received a put pilot from the network, which has had success with another drama adaptation of a work by King, summer series Under The Dome. Written by Grahame-Smith, The Things They Left Behind centers on an unlikely pair of investigators carrying out the unfinished business of the dead. Grahame-Smith and his producing partner David Katzenberg will executive produce through their KatzSmith banner, along with Berlanti Prods.’ Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.

The Things They Left Behind, set in the aftermath of 9/11, was originally published in 2003 as part of the compilation Transgressions: Volume Two. It was adapted into an extended short film by filmmaker Pablo Macho Maysonet IV.

This marks the second sale so far this season for Berlanti Prods. The company has conspiracy drama Blindspot at NBC with writer Martin Gero. Additionally, Berlanti, who is behind the CW’s Arrow and The Flash, is prepping the high-profile Supergirl series with writer Ali Adler. Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are adapting another King book to the screen, IT, which they are producing as a feature at Warner Bros. with Dan Lin and True Detective director Cary Fukunaga. KatzSmith’s film projects also include Beetlejuice, for director Tim Burton at WB, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, with Seth directing at Disney. Berlanti, Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are repped by WME. King is with Paradigm.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/ghost-hunting-drama-evan-katz-manny-coto-michael-cuesta-fox-832880/

Fox Buys Ghost Hunting Drama From ’24’ Producers With Penalty
by Nellie Andreeva

Fox is looking to return to its X Files roots with a supernatural drama from 24 executive producers Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who recently served as executive producers and showrunner on the 24: Live Another Day event series for the network. Set to direct the 20th Century Fox TV-produced project, which has a penalty attached to it, is Michael Cuesta (Homeland).

Written by Katz and Coto, the untitled project centers on an Iraq war vet who experiences a supernatural attack that leaves his wife in an unexplained coma. He embarks on a desperate quest to unravel the truth behind hauntings. Though a determined and acerbic loner, circumstances force him to work with a media-hungry, but not very successful team of ghost hunters. The team is led by a former university professor fired because of her research into mysterious phenomena, who is now determined to restore her reputation and academic career. Together, they chronicle dangerous, violent and truly terrifying occurrences. Katz, Coto and Cuesta executive produce for 20th TV where all are based.

Cuesta has genre experience as the co-creator and director of zombie drama Babylon Fields, which was piloted twice — once by CBS and once by NBC. He also directed the supernatural Fox pilot The Oaks. Katz, Coto and Cuesta are with WME. Katz is managed by 3 Arts.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

I'm intrigued by that last one... sounds like it might be promising...

 

[Hunter Rider]

The ghosthunter one does sound potentially good.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/jerry-b...ne-cowboys-pilot-tnt-michelle-ashford-836197/

TNT Orders Cocaine Trade Drama Pilot From Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay & Michelle Ashford
by Nellie Andreeva

TNT has officially given a pilot order to Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay‘s long-gestating cocaine drama project. It was one of three drama pilots with blinking green light at the network, whose official pickup had been delayed by the regime change at Turner. The other two are Titans and Lumen.

Written by Masters Of Sex creator/executive producer Michelle Ashford, the untitled serialized character drama is set in the wild and unpredictable world of the Florida drug trade in the 1970s. Bruckheimer and Bay, who have worked together on such feature blockbusters as Bad Boys, Armageddon and The Rock, first teamed to develop a drama series inspired by Billy Corben’s 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys, about the rise of the cocaine trade and the resulting crime epidemic that swept Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, back in 2008 when the project was set at HBO with Meredith Stiehm as a writer. Three years later, the drama went through another incarnation at HBO with a new script by Ashford. She got the assignment five months before Showtime picked up her Masters of Sex, also a long-gestating project, to pilot. Given how busy Ashford is with Masters of Sex, which was just renewed for a third season, it is likely that the Cocaine project would bring in a day-to-day showrunner at the pilot or series stage.

TNT’s Cocaine project is not expected to feature characters from the documentary but would borrow from its portrayal of the events of the illegal drug trade in Miami during that time frame. There is a feature adaptation of Cocaine Cowboys in the works at Paramount with Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg. Here is trailer for the docu:

The Cocaine project falls into TNT’s strategy to move towards edgier, premium drama fare. The pilot hails from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Bay Films and Warner Horizon Television. Bruckheimer and Bay executive produce with Jonathan Littman, as well as Corben and Alfred Spellman, partners in rakontur, which produced the documentary. KristieAnne Reed serves as co-executive producer.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I saw Red Band Society and Mysteries of Laura.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Mysteries of Laura was enjoyable, I think ill stick around.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Saw five minutes of Utopia....it was awful.

 

[DrDoom]

Utopia feels so incredibly scripted.

 

[X-Ray]

SyFy renews Dominion & Defiance.

 

[wiegeabo]

 

[Sithborg]

Good to know. I was really curious about Dominion.

 

[Sawyer]

Utopia feels so incredibly scripted.

If you go into a reality show in this day and age not expecting a certain amount of fakeness, I feel like you are just fooling yourself.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I'm out on Red Band Society after a week.

 

[Teelie]

I was just going to post about Defiance being renewed. They left it in such a way it could have worked as a series finale too.

 

[Marvolo]

SyFy renews Dominion & Defiance.

Good to hear.

 

[Dr. Evil]

How to Get Away with Murder has that Shonda Rhimes influence to it. That is obvious. I have not been able to stick on to her other shows either. I left Grey's Anatomy after season 5 and Scandal when the focus shifted to Olivia Pope's affair with the President. I left Private Practice when Audra McDonald left the show.

 

[Marvolo]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/jerry-b...ne-cowboys-pilot-tnt-michelle-ashford-836197/

They could just save some money and make it a reality show based on the current drug situation in Florida. "Tune in next week and see a normal teen turn into an ax wielding face eating goblin. Florida Vice airs on Thursdays at 9 PM EST/8 PM CT."

 

[DrDoom]

SyFy renews Dominion & Defiance.

Awesome, now they can add even MORE random concepts to each show

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2014/09/usa-col...loway-lost-pilot-juan-jose-campanella-841801/

Josh Holloway To Topline Carlton Cuse’s USA Pilot ‘Colony’, Juan José Campanella To Direct
by Nellie Andreeva

It’s a big Lost reunion. Former Lost co-star Josh Holloway has signed on as the lead in Colony, the USA Network drama pilot from Lost executive producer/showrunner Carlton Cuse. Additionally, Argentinian director Juan José Campanella, foreign language Oscar winner for The Secret In Their Eyes, is set to helm the pilot.

A co-production between Legendary Television and Universal Cable Prods., Colony is written and executive produced by Cuse and Ryan Condal (Hercules). It is a family drama/thriller about life in Los Angeles after a mysterious “foreign” occupation. Holloway will play the main character, Will Bowman, a former FBI agent who — to protect his family — is forced to collaborate with the occupational government to bring down the growing resistance movement inside the Los Angeles colony.

This marks a coup for Colony as Holloway had been offered a couple of a dozen pilots since the end of Lost in 2010, and this is only the second that he has agreed to do. The first, CBS’ Intelligence, went to series, in part based on his appeal as a leading man. Probably helping Colony’s case was the fact that Cuse and WME-repped Holloway worked great together on Lost, becoming good friends during the filming of the hit ABC drama.

http://deadline.com/2014/09/hunter-series-gale-anne-hurd-syfy-alien-hunter-839766/

Syfy Orders ‘Hunters’ Series From Gale Anne Hurd Based On ‘Alien Hunter’ Book
by Nellie Andreeva

Syfy continues the rapid expansion of its original slate with a 13-episode, straight-to-series order to Hunters (working title), an alien drama from The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd that is slated to premiere in 2016. Written by Natalie Chaidez (Heroes), the series is based on Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel Alien Hunter. It chronicles the disappearance of a decorated Philadelphia cop’s wife, which leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a group of ruthless terrorists — shadowy figures that may or may not be from this world. Hurd and Chaidez executive produce for Universal Cable Prods and Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment, which is based at UCP.

“We were so impressed by the pilot script from this outstanding and accomplished creative team led by Gale Anne Hurd and Natalie Chaidez,” said Syfy President Dave Howe. “This fast-paced and innovative program takes viewers inside a chilling yet all-too-familiar world.”

Since the end of last year, when Howe brought in Bill McGoldrick as new head of programming, Syfy has been actively greenlighting drama series and miniseries, often bypassing the pilot stage. The list includes drama Dominion, which already premiered, and the upcoming Ascension, The Expanse, 12 Monkeys, Killjoys, and Childhood’s End; Howe called it “a formidable lineup of diverse, high-end science fiction.”

http://deadline.com/2014/09/lumen-pilot-tnt-joe-johnston-841166/

It’s Official: TNT Orders ‘Lumen’ Pilot From Amblin TV; Joe Johnston To Direct
by Nellie Andreeva

The last of the three TNT drama pilots with a blinking green light have been cleared for takeoff as the network has confirmed a pilot order for Lumen. The fantasy drama, about a family locked in an alternate world, will be produced by TNT Original Prods. in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, Full Fathom Five and ABC Signature Studios. Feature director Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger) will helm the pilot from a script by Chris Black (Mad Men).

Lumen centers on the famous author of a best-selling series of fantasy books who suddenly disappears, and a family of four finds themselves transported to the mystical alternate world that inspired her work. Once there, they are plunged into the middle of a war raging between rival magical forces, of light and darkness. Facing peril at every turn, the family must unravel a complicated mystery and uncover some astonishing secrets as they struggle to find their way home.

Executive producing the pilot are Amblin Television co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Full Fathom Five’s James Frey and Todd Cohen, as well as Johnston and Black.

Lumen is eyed for TNT’s adventure-themed Sunday night, which was launched with Amblin TV’s Falling Skies, joined this past summer by breakout The Last Ship. Lumen joins TNT’s other two recently greenlighted drama pilots, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay’s cocaine project and the DC-themed Titans.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Lumen sounds vaguely reminiscent of two old series from back in the 70's called Fantastic Journey and Otherworld...

 

[Donut]

Is Mr. We Have 2 Go Back Jack an a hole in real life or something ? Just about all of the main Lost guys have work. Besides him

 

[Specter313]

Is Mr. We Have 2 Go Back Jack an a hole in real life or something ? Just about all of the main Lost guys have work. Besides him

Well, Matthew Fox specifically said after the show ended, he'd not be doing television anymore and focus on films due to the amount of time it will allow him to spend with his family. So he's probably even just taking time off to spend with them more than anything.