Magic Malabi Express
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company: 21 Laps/Adelstein
Executive Producers: Jeremy Garelick, Shawn Levy, Marty Adelstein
Writer: Jeremy Garelick
Logline: Takes place in Brazil and tells the story of three Israeli friends who, in order to make a living, open a stall and sell Malabi (an Israeli dessert). When preparing it, they accidentally use an ingredient that gets all the locals high and brings customers from many countries.
Details: Based on the novel, מלבי אקספרס (Magic Malabi Express), written by Miki Geva. The novel was also made into an Israeli series of the same name, produced by Udi Segal and Sumayoko.
Cuckoo
Network: NBC
Studio: Lionsgate Television
Production Company: Roughcut Television
Executive Producers: Robin French, Kieron Quirke, Tim Long, Ash Atalla, Dane Hine
Writers: Robin French, Kieron Quirke
Logline: The story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating hippie moron — a guy called Cuckoo.
Details: Based on the BBC Three comedy, Cuckoo.
SSN Insight: Andy Samberg starred in the original BBC series.
Strange Fiction
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Companies: Anonymous Content, Little Engine
Executive Producers: Andrew Cosby, Jeff Okin, Gina Matthews, Grant Scharbo
Writer: Andrew Cosby
Logline: Centers on a young book editor drawn into the world of the supernatural by a reclusive- and quite possibly insane -paranormal investigator.
SSN Insight: Project was created on spec and comes a year after Cosby wrapped the Syfy project Eureka.
School Of Fish
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Chernin Entertainment
Executive Producers: Kevin Biggins, Travis Bowe, Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope
Writers: Kevin Biggins, Travis Bowe
Logline: Explores the life and times of crazy fishmongers who are the rock stars of the Pike Place Market in Seattle.
SSN Insight: Fox and Chernin are also developing an untitled comedy project from writers Andy Mogel and Jarrad Paul.
Allegiance
Network: ABC
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Companies: Chris Morgan Productions, Sketch Films
Executive Producers: Chris Morgan, Len Wiseman, Jennifer Johnson, Emile Gladstone
Co-Executive Producer: Sue Chung
Writer: Sue Chung
Director: Len Wiseman
Logline: Centers on a young female FBI agent who, after a series of devastating, high-tech attacks on the government, pursues the smartest and deadliest domestic terrorist in American history: her own mother.
SSN Insight: Project was written on spec and sparked a huge bidding war landing a put pilot commitment.
Black-ish
Network: ABC
Production Companies: ABC Family Channel, Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc., Principato-Young Entertainment
Executive Producers: Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Principato, Paul Young, E. Brian Dobbins
Writer: Kenya Barris
Cast: Anthony Anderson
Logline: Centers on an upper-middle-class black man who struggles to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old-school father, and his own assimilated, color-blind kids.
Details: Loosely based on the personal experiences of Kenya Barris.
Jigsaw
Network: CBS
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Fake Empire
Executive Producers: Janine Sherman-Barrois, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Leonard Goldstein
Writer: Janine Sherman-Barrois
Logline: Follows the intersecting lives of homicide detectives, prosecutors, defense attorneys, the Media, and the Mayor’s office as they work to solve the most scandalous crimes San Francisco has seen in decades.
SSN Insight: Fake Empire has now sold six projects this development season, which include two comedies and two dramas at ABC and Prodigy with writer Diablo Cody at Fox.
Trial of the Century
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Companies: Teakwood Lane Productions, Ole
Executive Producers: Howard Gordon, Evan Katz, Richard Shepard, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst
Writer: Evan Katz
Director: Richard Shepard
Logline: Told from the point- of- view of a young Latina attorney working on a unique high-profile case.
SSN Insight: Gordon and Katz both worked on Fox’s 24 and are developing the Fox event series 24: Live Another Day.
Untitled Larry Dorf / Melissa McCarthy / Ben Falcone Project
Network: Fox
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Executive Producers: Larry Dorf, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone
Writer: Larry Dorf
Logline: Centers on two mismatched guys who become stepbrothers after their parents get married.
SSN Insight: Dorf, McCarthy and Falcone shot a pilot together for CBS last season, but the project didn’t go past the pilot stage.
President X
Network: TNT
Production Companies: Scripted World, Berlanti Productions, Warner Horizon Television
Executive Producers: Nicholas Wootton, Greg Berlanti, Melissa Kellner Berman, Robert Golenberg
Consulting Producers: Alon Nattiv, Erez Tadmor
Writer: Nicholas Wootton
Logline: About a former U.S. President who wakes up from a year-long coma and, now out of power, must hunt down the individual who tried to assassinate him.
Remington Steele
Network: NBC
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Executive Producers: Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Ruben Fleischer
Producer: Heather Hawley Petrigala
Writer: Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Logline: Follows Olivia Holt, the daughter of Remington Steele and Laura Holt, as she reopens the once-world-famous Remington Steele Detective Agency — only to fall into the same hilarious, action-packed, romantic entanglements of her parents.
Details: Project is a sequel and reboot to the original NBC series, which aired between 1982 and 1987.
SSN Insight: Fleischer also has a cast contingent pilot order for Strange Calls at ABC.
Untitled Ed Helms / Aisha Muharrar Project
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Pacific Electric Picture Co.
Executive Producers: Ed Helms, Michael Falbo
Writer: Aisha Muharrar
Logline: A gifted teen aspires to be the next Oprah, but lacks the social skills and life experience, so she uses her family and friends as the reluctant case studies in her mission to solve everyone’s problems, including her own.
SSN Insight: Helms is also developing an untitled Mike Arnold Project for ABC.
Untitled Jake Johnson / Matt Spicer Project
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company: The Walcott Company
Executive Producers: Matthew Spicer, Jake M. Johnson, Max Winkler
Co-Executive Producer: Josh Greenbaum
Writer: Matthew Spicer
Logline: A dysfunctional family, a 9-year-old golf prodigy, and the below-average father who’s determined to make them all winners.
SSN Insight: This is the first sale for the Walcott Company, which just recently launched.
Main Street
Network: ABC
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Company: Bad Robot
Executive Producers: Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burke
Co-Executive Producer: Kathy Lingg
Producer: Athena Wickham
Writers: Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein
Logline: Centers on a group of friends who, facing the reality that making it in a big city is a dead-end proposition, move to the Mississippi Delta to try to make their dreams come true there.
SSN Insight: Abrams’ Bad Robot is also developing Westworld at HBO, which has a pilot production commitment.
Generation Next
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Tannenbaum Company
Executive Producers: Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Haswell-Tannenbaum
Writer: Mark Steven Johnson
Logline: Set a year after a deadly outbreak caused ordinary citizens to fly into a mindless rage. After a cure is discovered, these "Carriers" are finally allowed to return to society and solve crimes committed by or against the infected, as the newly formed Infectious Crimes Department.
SSN Insight: The Tannenbaum Company has also recently sold an untitled Bert Kreischner project to NBC, from CBS Television Studios, where they have an overall deal.
More Time With Family
Network: CBS
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Companies: Pearl Street Films, 3 Arts Entertainment
Executive Producers: Tom Papa, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Cathy Yuspa, Josh Goldsmith, Dave Becky, Josh Lieberman
Writers: Cathy Yuspa, Josh Goldsmith
Cast: Tom Papa
Logline: A guy changes his career and gives up a life on the road to spend more time at home with his family — but when he gets there, he realizes no one asked him to do that.
Details: Based on the stand-up of Tom Papa and the experiences of Matt Damon. Project has received a put pilot commitment.
SSN Insight: This marks the second commitment for Pearl Street. They recently sold The Middle Man to Fox, which Affleck is directing.
Hunters
Network: Syfy
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company: Valhalla Entertainment
Executive Producers: Gale Anne Hurd, Natalie Chaidez
Writer: Natalie Chaidez
Logline: Follows a Pennsylvania detective-turned-suspect who, after his wife mysteriously goes missing, is determined to prove his innocence and find her. His search leads to evidence that dangerous alien cells are living among us and the U.S. government has a secret organization in place to thwart their terrorist efforts.
Details: Based on the novel Alien Hunter, written by Whitley Strieber.
Excalibur
Network: ABC
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Company: Berlanti Productions
Executive Producers: Jason Fuchs, Greg Berlanti, Melissa Berman
Writer: Jason Fuchs
Logline: A young Brooklyn man is forever changed when his life is saved by a beautiful stranger who reveals that he is the last living descendant of the very real King Arthur and is now at the center of an eons-old shadow war between the descendants of the Knights of the Roundtable and the forces of dark magic.
SSN Insight: Berlanti is also developing Flash for the CW, The Mysteries Of Laura at NBC and President X at TNT.
Untitled Meg Ryan / Marc Lawrence Project
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Executive Producers: Meg Ryan, Marc Lawrence, Jane Berliner
Writer: Marc Lawrence, Meg Ryan
Logline: About a pleasant , cheerful and desperately non-confrontational single mom who returns to her New York publishing house where she was once a powerhouse editor -except she now works for a neurotic millenial boss who used to be her intern. Now she must find a way to keep her boss, her own teen children, her soon-to-be ex-husband and nosy mother-in-law satisfied, with overreaching and comedic results.
Bright Young Things
Network: ABC
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Companies: John Wells Productions, Alloy Entertainment
Executive Producers: John Wells, Andrew Stearn, Leslie Morganstein, Cheryl Dolins
Co-Executive Producer: Sheila Callaghan
Writer: Sheila Callaghan
Logline: Centers on two women who escape their small Midwestern town and end up in Manhattan. One discovers that the father she’s never known is the head of a crime ring, while the other struggles to become a singer.
Details: Based on the novel Bright Young Things, written by Anna Godbersen.
The Younger Man
Network: NBC
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Small Dog Picture Company
Executive Producers: Jason Winer, Renate Radford
Co-Executive Producers: Justin Long, Christian Long, Graham Wagner
Writers: Justin Long, Christian Long, Graham Wagner
Logline: Centers on a relentlessly optimistic guy in his early 30′s, who is happily married to the love of his life, a sophisticated woman more than ten years his senior. While raising their teenage son, the two must endure his mother’s scorn and sideways glances from their community as they are driven forward by his unspoken mantra "I’m gonna make you love me."
SSN Insight: This marks the fourth sale for Small Dog Picture Company, which is also developing Man/Child at Fox, Beverly Kills at ABC and The Runt for CBS.
Fifth Wheel
Network: NBC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Mark Gordon Company
Executive Producers: Mark Gordon, Andrea Shay
Writers: Heidi Neidermeyer, Elena Crevello
Logline: A girl learns to deal with being the only single person in her group of friends.
SSN Insight: Neidermeyer and Crevello are best known for their video that went viral called S**t People In L.A. Say.
Real Deal
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Companies: UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, Conde Nast Entertianment Group
Executive Producers: Craig O’Neill, Eva Longoria, Ben Spector, Dawn Tarnofsky Ostroff
Writer: Craig O’Neill
Logline: Two polar opposite women — an ambitious FBI agent and an uncontrollable criminal Confidential Informant —must find common ground if they’re going to survive both the streets of Los Angeles and each other.
SSN Insight: This marks the fifth sale for UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, which is also developing Love 101 for NBC, Trust for ABC, Vega v. Vega for NBC and an untitled Albert Kim project for the CW.
Terrible People
Network: ABC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Dark Toy Entertainment
Executive Producers: Todd Holland, Karey Burke, Betsy Thomas
Writers: Betsy Thomas, Humphrey Ker
Logline: Centers on Charlie Stevenson, who dutifully goes to see his narcissistic, manipulative father and stepmother for a short visit. He finds himself drawn in for a permanent stay when he sees what awful children his half-brother and sister are becoming, believing that he must intervene and help raise these children to stop the cycle of rapacious awfulness.
Details: Loosely based on the life of writer Humphrey Ker.
SSN Insight: This is the second project being developed by Thomas and Dark Toy Entertainment this season. They are also developing a project with Brendan Smith.
The Man’s Guide To Love
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producers: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Laurence Mark
Writers: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg
Logline: Inspired by Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett’s website themansguidetolove.com which offers man-to-man advice about love and relationships, born from interviews with over 3,000 men around the world.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Companies: Temple Hill Entertainment, Gotham Group
Executive Producers: Christine Pietrosh, Jessica Goldstein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Michael Prevett
Writer: Christine Pietrosh, Jessica Goldstein
Logline: When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in- a dream cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today.
Details: Based on the book Let's Pretend This Never Happened, written by Jenny Lawson.
SSN Insight: Pietrosh and Goldstein are also developing an untitled project with Shonda Rhimes for ABC.
Untitled Alex Kurtzman / Roberto Orci / Nick Santora / Justin Lin Project
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Companies: K/O Paper Products, SB Projects, Perfect Storm Entertainment
Executive Producers: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Nick Santora, Justin Lin, Walter O’Brien, Heather Kadin, Scooter Braun
Co-Executive Producer: Danielle Woodrow
Writer: Nick Santora
Director: Justin Lin
Logline: A genius recruits the world’s greatest intellects to his company where they not only solve the world’s most pressing and significant problems, but also help each other learn to fit-in and live in a world where literally being "one in a billion" can be as lonely as it sounds.
Details: Inspired by the true story of Walter O’Brien’s life and how he, a man with the fourth highest documented IQ, became a real-life professor X.
SSN Insight: K/O Paper Products has also just sold an untitled sibling terrorist drama by Corinne Brinkerhoff to the CW.
Untitled Kessler / Zelman Project
Internet Distributor: Netflix
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producers: Todd Kessler, Glen Kessler, Daniel Zelman
Writers: Todd Kessler, Glen Kessler, Daniel Zelman
Logline: Centers on a family of adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home.
Details: Netflix has ordered thirteen episodes.
Growing Ivy
Network: NBC
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Company: Le Train Train Productions
Executive Producers: Eva Amurri Martino, Will McCormack, Rashida Jones
Co-Executive Producer: Susan Sarandon
Writer: Eva Amurri Martino, Will McCormack
Logline: Type A+ Ivy Davis craves the stability she lacked in her childhood and, as a result, has thrown herself into her career at the expense of her personal life. In an attempt to restore balance and potentially find love, she invites her freewheeling, eccentric mom, Franckie, to move in with her and work on their relationship.
Details: Based on an original idea by Eva Amurri Martino. Ordered straight to pilot.
SSN Insight: This is the fifth project sold this development season from Jones and McCormack.