The Astronaut Wives Club
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Companies: Fake Empire, Groundswell Productions
Executive Producers: Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz, Leonard Goldstein, Michael London
Producer: Janice Williams
Writer: Stephanie Savage
Logline: The true story of the women behind NASA’s early astronauts and the struggles they face when their lives and families are catapulted into the spotlight overnight.
Details: Based on the novel The Astronaut Wives Club, written by Lily Koppel. Project is planned as a limited series.
SSN Insight: Fake Empire has now sold seven projects this development season, which include two comedies and two dramas at ABC, Prodigy with writer Diablo Cody at Fox and Jigsaw at CBS.
Freelancers
Network: Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company: Miss Hawkins
Executive Producers: Zooey Deschanel, Sophie Rossi
Writer: Mickey Rapkin
Logline: Centers a on a disgraced and newly-single lawyer who, after getting fired from his corporate job, has to start over at age 30. He sets up shop at one of those modern, shared office spaces that are suddenly everywhere, where he’s forced to interact with a diverse group of oddball freelancers.
SSN Insight: This is the third sale from Deschanel and Rossi. They are also developing Lies I Tell My Daughter for NBC and Must Be Nice for Fox.
Atlantis
Network: Fox
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Vendetta Productions
Executive Producers: Sheldon Turner, Ken Nolan, Jennifer Klein
Writers: Sheldon Turner, Ken Nolan
Logline: Follows two estranged brothers who, along with a ragtag crew and a billion dollar state-of-the-art vessel, begin a search for the lost city of Atlantis, discovering mysteries of the deep sea along the way.
SSN Insight: Project reunites Turner, Nolan and Klein, who developed Black Friday at ABC last season, which didn't go.
Spring Hill
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: David Janollari Entertainment
Executive Producers: Liz Heldens, David Janollari
Writer: Liz Heldens
Logline: A big family saga set against the backdrop of a Texas mega church. When the leader of the Spring Hill Congregation dies, the matriarch of the Strickland family rallies to keep the family together in a show about faith and family and all the complications that come with both.
SSN Insight: This is the eighth sale for Janollari Entertainment this season, which fully launched this year.
The Three Behrs
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Baer Bones, Inc.
Executive Producers: Neal Baer, Daniel Truly
Writers: Neal Baer, Daniel Truly
Logline: Centers on three doctors, all strangers to each other, who are brought together at a prominent NYC hospital and learn that they’re brothers. Their recently deceased father was the legendary Chief of the hospital and posthumously wants his children to take it over and continue his legacy.
SSN Insight: Baer has just extended his overall deal with CBS Television Studios through 2016.
Blackwood
Network: CBS
Studio: ABC Television Studios, CBS Television Studios
Production Company: JuneBug Entertainment
Executive Producers: Barry Schindel, Barry Jossen
Writer: Barry Schindel
Logline: About a ruthlessly successful lawyer who, after he is critically wounded in a shooting that kills his wife, returns to his job to find redemption in a humbling rehabilitation and relentless search for their assailant.
SSN Insight: Schindel is also a producer and showrunner on CBS’ Intelligence.
Damascus
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producers: America Ferrera, Teri Weinberg
Writer: Nick Osborne
Cast: America Ferrera
Logline: The story of a crusading nun who practices law on behalf of the least fortunate and has her beliefs tested when her life collides with an elitist corporate lawyer. As the two set out to help those in need of justice, they come up against a secretive and powerful organization that is determined to destroy them.
Details: Ordered straight to pilot.
SSN Insight: This would be the first series regular role for Ferrara since ABC’s Ugly Betty.
Babylon Fields
Network: NBC
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producers: Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta, Michael Atkinson
Writers: Gerald Cuesta, Michael Atkinson
Director: Michael Cuesta
Logline: The dead are rising in Babylon, NY, and as a result, lives are regained, old wounds are reopened and families are restored — for better or worse. The newly regenerated bodies are healing faster and growing stronger than anyone else - leading to the suspicion that they might be the next step in human evolution.
Details: Project was originally in development for the 2005-2006 season at HBO, but was rolled over to 2007-2008 with CBS and 20th Century Fox TV. The pilot was not ordered for the fall, but was under consideration for midseason, until it was ultimately not picked up.
Untitled Shawn Ryan / Justin Lin Project
Network: Fox
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Companies: Midd Kidd Productions, Perfect Storm Entertianment
Executive Producers: Shawn Ryan, Justin Lin, Davie Holmes, Marney Hochman, Danielle Woodrow
Writers: Shawn Ryan, Davey Holmes
Director: Justin Lin
Logline: Set in 1957 in the Territory of Hawaii, which is on a path to become the 50th state in the Union two years later. Statehood and tourism are about to make a few men very rich, and when the brother of a small-time Hawaiian hustler is murdered, he resolves to wage war on the most powerful man on the island.
Details: Ordered straight to pilot.
SSN Insight: Project reunites Ryan and Holmes, who both worked on the Fox series The Chicago Code in 2010.
The Shrine
Network: CBS
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Company: Berlanti Productions
Executive Producers: Greg Berlanti, Nicholas Wootton, Melissa Kellner Berman
Writer: Nicholas Wootton
Logline: About a struggling Catholic hospital in Los Angeles that becomes a sensation when patient after patient is miraculously cured of cancer. Could it truly be divine intervention? A young female doctor investigates these "miracles," only to discover that there may be a murderous impostor in the hospital.
Details: Based on the upcoming novel The Shrine, written by Gareth Wootton.
SSN Insight: Berlanti has also just sold the project Black Oak, written and produced by Julia Hart, to CBS. This brings the count to seven projects that Berlanti has sold this season.
Untitled Lauren Blum/ Rebecca Dana Project
Network: Fox
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: FanFare Productions
Executive Producer: Jamie Tarses
Writer: Rebecca Dana, Lauren Blum
Logline: While Cosmo, disenchanted with Orthodoxy, flirts with leaving the community, Rebecca faces the fact that her religion—the books, magazines, TV shows, and movies that made New York seem like salvation—has also failed her. As she shuttles between the world of religious extremism and the world of secular excess, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning.
Details: Based on the memoir Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story, written by Rebecca Dana
The Never List
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Timberman/Beverly Productions
Executive Producer: A.M. Homes, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly
Supervising Producer: Koethi Zan
Writer: A.M. Homes
Logline: Centers on a woman who, 10 years after being kidnapped and rescued, is now a top trauma doctor at a prestigious New York City hospital, living life on her own while continuing to unravel the mystery of the girl who was taken with her but is still missing.
Details: Based on the novel The Never List, written by Koethi Zan.
SSN Insight: Timberman and Beverly are also developing On The Mend, Dorothy and Angel Time, for CBS, as well as Hindsight for VH1.
Empowered
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Shaun Cassidy Productions
Executive Producesr: Lawrence Trilling, Shaun Cassidy
Writer: Lawrence Trilling
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Logline: Revolves around Charlotte Davis, the public face of Omni Health, a massive pharmaceutical company with its tentacles in everything from bioengineering and nanotechnology to the U.S. military. When Charlotte's father is tragically killed and a mysterious stranger shows up on her doorstep claiming that Omni -- and Charlotte's husband -- are responsible, she finds herself torn between her search for the truth and the company that's always been her family. Against the backdrop of dangerous pharmaceutical experiments with far-reaching implications for everyone involved, Charlotte must risk everything she has left to uncover the truth.
Trilling and Cassidy previously worked together on the ABC drama Invasion.
Boots
Network: CW
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer: Nick Santora, Gary Fleder
Writer: Nick Santora
Director: Gary Fleder
Logline: Follows young men and women from all over the country as they are thrown into the gauntlet that is the U.S. Marine Corps Boot Camp on Parris Island, SC. As they inevitably collide with each other, their instructors, and local townies, these recruits must overcome their pasts and, in doing so, build their futures.
SSN Insight: Santora is also developing an untitled project at CBS with Kurtzman/Orci and Justin Lin.
Hieroglyph
Network: FOX
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Chernin Entertainment
Executive Producers: Travis Beacham, Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope, Miguel Sapochnik
Writer: Travis Beachman
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Logline: Centers on a notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers.
Details: Project was originally being developed for the 2011-2012 season. Network has ordered the project straight to series with a 13-episode order.
Permanent Vacation
Network: ABC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Olive Bridge Entertainment
Executive Producers: Andy Bobrow, Will Gluck, Richard Schwartz
Co-Executive Producer: Kristin Holloway
Writers: Andy Bobrow, Kristin Holloway
Logline: About a group of middle-of-the-road misfits in a mediocre bar on an average resort in the middle of a lake in the middle of America.
SSN Insight: Olive Bridge has also just sold an untitled project with Erik Sommers, for ABC, about a young doctor who works at an inner-city ER. This marks the seventh project sold by Olive Bridge this development season.
Beta
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Companies: Temple Hill Entertainment, Depth of Field
Executive Producers: Chris Weitz, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Larry Gilbert, Andrwe Miano, Paul Weitz
Writer: Lindsay Devlin
Logline: Set in the near future when clones have become the enslaved work force for the wealthy. But when a new Beta model is introduced and discovers the dark truth about her own origins, she also begins to uncover secrets and lies within the utopian island community she’s serving.
Details: Based on the novel Beta, written by Rachel Cohn.
SSN Insight: Temple Hill is also developing Let’s Pretend This Never Happened at ABC.
Untitled Philip Marlowe Project
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Companies: Michael De Luca Productions, MilMar Pictures
Executive Producers: Andrew Marlow, Terri Edda Miller, Michael De Luca
Writers: Andrew Marlowe, Terri Edda Miller
Logline: Follows the investigations of wisecracking, edgy and rugged private detective Philip Marlowe as he navigates the morally complicated world of today’s Los Angeles — where the bright California sun casts long and dangerous shadows…and where true love can be more difficult to find than justice.
Details: Inspired by Raymond Chandler’s character "Philip Marlowe."
SSN Insight: ABC shot a pilot in 2007 based on the character of Philip Marlowe, starring Jason O’Mara, but was never ordered to series.
Roommates
Network: CBS
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: FanFare Productions
Executive Producers: Erik Sommers, David Caspe, Jamie Tarses
Writers: Erik Sommers, David Caspe
Logline: Centers on a successful, suave ladies’ man whose perfect life gets turned upside down when a mess of a guy saves his life and then immediately cashes in on his IOU by asking for a place to stay.
SSN Insight: Caspe and Sommers reunite after working together on ABC’s Happy Endings.
Untitled Henry Winkler/ Phil Rosenthal Comedy Project
Network: ABC
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: The Walcott Company
Executive Producers: Phil Rosenthal, Max Winkler, Robert Reinis
Writers: Phil Rosenthal, Max Winkler, Robert Reinis
Director: Phil Rosenthal
Actor: Henry Winkler
Logline: Centers on an emotionally reserved construction worker who learns about love, life and hugs while unexpectedly living with his in-laws.
Details: Ordered straight to pilot.
SSN Insight: The Walcott Company has also just sold a comedy to Fox with Dan St. Germain and Jake Johnson.
Untitled Martin Campbell / Chris Downey / Apollo Robbins Las Vegas Project
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Executive Producers: Martin Campbell, Chris Downey, Apollo Robbins
Writers: Chris Downey, Apollo Robbins
Director: Martin Campbell
Logline: Centers on an FBI forensic psychiatrist who teams up with a brilliant pickpocket turned Las Vegas magician to catch bad guys living it up in Vegas via elaborate stings. They are ably assisted, Ocean’s Eleven-style, by a rogue’s gallery of Sin City hustlers, card cheats and showgirls.
The Law Of Attraction
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Gross Entertainment
Executive Producers: Jonathan Shapiro, Betsy Borns, Matt Gross
Writers: Jonathan Shapiro, Betsy Borns
Logline: Follows a beautiful, upper class, brilliant woman who is forced to practice law with a charismatic, lower class tough guy in a reluctant partnership to save her father’s powerful Boston law firm.