Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/fox...on-jim-rash-with-pilot-production-commitment/

Fox Nabs Comedy From Nahnatchka Khan, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash With Pilot Production Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: In a hot comedy pairing, Don’t Trust The B—- At Apt. 23 creator/executive producer Nahnatchka Khan has teamed with Oscar-winning writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) for a half-hour comedy aimed at the 2014-15 season. The project, Fatrick, was taken out today and, not surprisingly, sold at the first place it was pitched to, Fox, which gave it a pilot production commitment. 20th Century Fox TV, where Khan is under an overall deal, produces Fatrick, which centers on Patrick, a handsome, fit, 30-something Formerly Fat Kid forced to face the damage caused by years of being Fatrick: a chubby little kid just trying to survive. Khan co-created and will write the pilot with Don’t Trust The B—- co-executive producer Corey Nickerson, with Faxon and Rash set to direct. The four will executive produce.

20th TV is off to a fast start this pitch season with two pilot production commitments, for Fatrick and Cindy Chupack/Jake Kasdan’s The Longest Date, and a put pilot for Michael Green’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, all at Fox, and sizable penalties for drama Travelers and comedy Cristela at ABC.

This would be the TV directing debut for CAA-repped Faxon and Rash who made their first foray into directing with the indie The Way, Way Back, which triggered a bidding frenzy at Sundance. This marks Faxon’s return to Fox and 20th TV after toplining freshman comedy Ben & Kate last season. Fatrick also marks Khan’s return to Fox where she worked on American Dad! for seven years. Her first series as a creator, the underrated Don’t Trust The B—-, also was originally set up at Fox before moving to ABC where it just wrapped a two-second run. She is with WME. Nickerson, whose credits also include Scrubs and My Boys, is with CAA.

Loved Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23. AND with some Jim Rash thrown in? I could be into this...

 

[DrDoom]

2 things: Hope it doesnt get cancelled like the GREAT Apt. 23 and does this mean Rash will have an even smaller role in Community?

 

[Sawyer]

Pilots usually get into production about February/March. They might have alot of the filming for season 5 out of the way by then.

 

[DrDoom]

 

[Shifty]

2 things: Hope it doesnt get cancelled like the GREAT Apt. 23 and does this mean Rash will have an even smaller role in Community?

He's only co-directing the pilot and the 13 episode order of Community should be done filming by then. Still there is no guarantee it will ever to make it to air. Fox already has another comedy pilot ordered, lots can happen between now and April/May.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/las...shawn-ryan-re-team-for-new-abc-drama-project/

‘Last Resort’s Karl Gajdusek & Shawn Ryan Re-Team For New ABC Drama Project
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Last Resort creator/ executive producer Karl Gajdusek and executive producer Shawn Ryan are teaming up for another drama series project. In a competitive situation, the project, titled Freedom, has landed at ABC, the network behind Last Resort, with a sizable penalty. Sony Pictures TV, where Ryan’s MiddKidd Prods. is based, produces. Based on an original idea by Gajdusek who will write the script, Freedom is the story of a group of brilliant, eclectic, freethinking Ivy League students who help create “Freedom,” the next resistance movement to government and corporate powers modeled after hacker collectives like Anonymous or Wikileaks that are now dominating the public’s attention. Gajdusek and Ryan executive produce with MiddKidd’s Marney Hochman. Kajdusek, repped by Verve and Management 360, recently sold sci-fi drama project The Spark to HBO. On the feature side, he co-wrote Oblivion, has the upcoming Pierce Brosnan thriller November Man and is writing Last Witness at Fox for Denzel Washington to star. Ryan, repped by WME and the Shuman Co., recently wrote and executive produced the Beverly Hills Cop pilot for CBS and has several projects in the works, including limited series Mad Dogs, based on the British black comedy/psychological thriller miniseries, at FX and a mining town drama at HBO.

Because their last project at ABC worked out so well...

 

[rashad]

Starz 'Magic City' - Cancelled

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Heh, it was that bad a show?

 

[Sawyer]

I don't know about that, since I don't watch, but it was on Starz. Unless you're Spartacus, you aren't getting past a second season on Starz. That's just the way it is.

 

[Jordacar]

Starz 'Magic City' - Cancelled

Well poo, I heard it was getting good.

 

[kane9321]

Starz 'Magic City' - Cancelled

Son of a &%&%...i enjoyed this

 

[FCEEVIPER]

Son of a &%&%...i enjoyed this

Same here, right when it was getting good.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

If it takes nearly 3 seasons to get good, you're doing something wrong.

 

[wiegeabo]

Says the 25 seasons of Star Trek spinoffs.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/fox...on-jim-rash-with-pilot-production-commitment/

Loved Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23. AND with some Jim Rash thrown in? I could be into this...

Yeah, it sucks that Don't Trust The B***h got cancelled. James Van Der Biek was great in it.

 

[Sawyer]

Oh, Amber Tamblyn...

Dat $$$$, huh?

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/cbs...z-themed-medical-drama-from-timbermanbeverly/

CBS Developing ‘Wizard Of Oz’-Themed Medical Drama From Timberman/Beverly
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

The producers who brought Sherlock Holmes to New York for CBS, are doing the same with some other classic literary characters. CBS has put in development Dorothy, a drama project from Elementary executive producers Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman. The project, from CBS TV Studios where Timberman/Beverly Prods. is based, is described as a medical soap based in New York City inspired by the characters and themes from The Wizard of Oz. Emily Fox (Ghost Whisperer) will write the script and executive produce with Beverly and Timberman. For decades now, L. Frank Baum 1900 novel has been pursued for screen adaptations and interpretations. In addition to Dorothy, Syfy is currently developing Warriors Of Oz, a mini-series project from Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov that is described as a fantasy-action reimagining of the classic story. Beverly and Timberman’s series credits also include Unforgettable, Justified and Masters Of Sex.

Wizard of Oz x medical drama + CBS?

I'd be shocked if this makes it to pilot, much less series.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Didn't Scrubs already do a Medical Wizard of Oz episode?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

So...what, are the patients going to reflect the characters from oz? Like a big blond guy with anxiety issues, someone with brain damage, a mechanic with heart problems ect? This is a really weak concept that I don't see making it.

 

[Sawyer]

Why do Oz unless you're going to be playing with the mythology? What's the point?

 

[DyeLorean]

It should be called ER OZ NY

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/networks-eying-cia-drama-starring-kathrine-heigl/

Networks Eyeing CIA Drama Starring Katherine Heigl
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Three and a half years after her exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Katherine Heigl is looking to return to primetime as the lead of a new drama project, which has been shopped to broadcast and cable networks. NBC appears a strong contender, though I hear that there is interest/offers from multiple networks, so a decision likely won’t be made until next week. It’s written by Alexi Hawley, supervising producer on Fox’s gritty new drama The Following, and I hear the procedural focuses on how the CIA handles hotspots around the globe, with Heigl playing an adviser/communications liaison for the U.S. president. I’ve learned that feature producer Robert Simonds (The Pink Panther) had been developing the project with Hawley, Heigl and a team of senior CIA officials. Heigl, who I hear responded to the strong female character at the center of the show, is executive producing with her mother/manager Nancy Heigl, Hawley, Simonds and Julia Franz. There is no studio attached to the drama, which is expected to be laid off after it lands at a network.I hear both broadcast and cable networks are in the running for the project, though Heigl is not expected to return to ABC as I hear the network is not in the mix, likely because of similarity in the setting to ABC’s DC drama Scandal, from Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. Hawley, identical twin brother to writer-producer Noah Hawley, has worked in TV for the past seven years, including stints on his brother’s ABC series The Unusuals and Castle. His teaming with Heigl was first reported by USA Today.

She thought she was a George Clooney. Turns out she's a Mischa Barton.

 

[Marvolo]

I don't know about that, since I don't watch, but it was on Starz. Unless you're Spartacus, you aren't getting past a second season on Starz. That's just the way it is.

Or produced by Michael Bay. Black Sails has a good chance of making it past season 2.

 

[Sawyer]

Or produced by Michael Bay. Black Sails has a good chance of making it past season 2.

Lets withhold those judgements until we even see what the ratings actually are, since they got ahead of themselves in such typical Starz fashion.