On The Fence
Network: CBS
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Happy Madison Productions
Executive Producer: Doug Robinson
Supervising Producers: Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
Writers: Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
Logline: Explores the shifting dynamic in a group of friends as they navigate their late twenties from different ends of the relationship spectrum.
SSN Insight: Happy Madison has also sold That Family to Fox, written and produced by Ryan Shiraki.
Odd Couple Families
Network: Fox
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Executive Producers: Gregory Malins, Marcus Wiley
Writer: Gregory Malins
Logline: Revolves around two couples and two divorced parents who are forced together, inextricably linked by the connection created by their kids.
SSN Insight: This marks Malins’ third sale this development season, which includes The Worst Best Thing at Fox and Half at NBC.
Untitled Chris Fedak Project
Network: NBC
Production Company: Legendary TV
Executive Producers: Chris Fedak, Bruce Rosenblum, Peter Johnson
Writer: Chris Fedak
Logline: Revolves around four "broken" people from different walks of life who all have one thing in common — a new chance at a normal life thanks to an anonymous organ donor whose body is used to cure them of their ills. But the ordinary becomes extraordinary when they learn that the mysterious donor was Earth’s mightiest hero, and now each literally carries part of him inside themselves.
SSN Insight: Legendary TV makes this its first sale, after recently launching its separate TV department.
The Point
Network: ABC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Left Coast Productions
Executive Producers: Kevin Falls, Rob Lowe
Writer: Kevin Falls, Rob Lowe
Logline: Centers on a single mother and her two teenagers who move from Indiana to Malibu in the summer of 1976. The family must navigate the cross currents of colorful personalities, power, land grabs, dead friends and lovers, cheating hearts, and seismic cultural changes that will transform Malibu from a quirky middle-class beach town to the iconic coastal destination of today’s rich and famous.
Details: Idea is based on Lowe’s experiences growing up in Malibu.
SSN Insight: Lowe is also set to star and produce The Pro for NBC.
Untitled Damon Wayans Project
Network: ABC
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company: Chernin Entertainment
Executive Producer: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope
Writer: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Logline: A look at what happens when the whitest guy in America marries into a sprawling, close knit African-American family.
Details: Script + Penalty
SSN Insight: This marks the seventh sale for Chernin Entertainment this development season.
Players
Network: CW
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Production Company: A Very Good Production
Executive Producers: Ellen DeGeneres, Danny Cannon, Jeff Kleeman
Supervising Producers: John Herrera, Nina Fiore
Writers: Nina Fiore, John Herrera
Director: Danny Cannon
Logline: A young Midwestern woman who moves to Los Angeles to avenge her sister’s death at the hands of a predatory studio head finds herself swept up in the Hollywood star-making machine, unwittingly becoming the ingénue in a closeted movie star’s "lavender marriage" and a pawn in a studio fixer’s scheme against the mob.
SSN Insight: Ellen DeGeneres’ company is also developing a Greg Mathis project at FOX, Someday, Someday, Maybe from Lauren Graham at the CW, an untitled project starring internet sensations Sophia Grace and Rosie, and an untitled Liz Feldman project about a lesbian and her straight male best friend for NBC.
Most Wanted
Network: Starz
Executive Producers: Kenneth Fink, Chris Collins
Co-Executive Producer: Dan Chaon
Logline: Set in the Great Plains during the 1970s, the show traces the rise and demise of Nate Daniels, a talented and prolific bank robber who finds himself on a collision course with his family and crew as he becomes one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted.
SSN Insight: Collins is currently developing Hit Men at Spike TV and Anonymous at TNT.
Vice
Network: CBS
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Fake Empire
Executive Producers: Michael Diliberti, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Leonard Goldstein
Writer: Michael Diliberti
Logline: Revolves around a pair of inexperienced young cops who must confront their own vices when they stumble into high-profile undercover work in the City of Angels.
SSN Insight: Diliberti has also just sold a comedy, Skin Deep, to ABC with Shine America and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite.
Untitled Kelly Oxford Project
Network: Fox
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Co-Executive Producer: Kelly Oxford
Writer: Kelly Oxford
Logline: Centers on a 30-year old single mom who runs the recreation department of a senior center.
Details: Based on Oxford's real-life work in a retirement home.
SSN Insight: Oxford is known for her Twitter feed that mostly consists of snarky observations.
Murder, She Wrote
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: David Janollari Entertianment
Executive Producers: Alexandra Cunningham, David Janollari
Writer: Alexandra Cunningham
Actor: Octavia Spencer
Logline: Follows a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel. Set in a day where sensational headlines inundate the news, this woman’s avid fascination with true crime leads her to become an active participant in the investigations.
Details: Ordered straight to pilot. Based on the series, Murder, She Wrote, which aired on CBS from 1984-1996.
SSN Insight: This would be the first series regular role for Spencer and the ninth project sold by Janollari Entertainment.
Law Man
Network: NBC
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Carol Mendelsohn Productions
Executive Producers: Mark Gibson, Phil Halprin, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz
Writers: Mark Gibson, Phil Halprin
Consulting Producer: Shon Hopwood
Logline: Chronicles the journey of a small town basketball star from young bank robber to federal prison inmate where he became the greatest jailhouse lawyer in American history. He joins the D.C. District Attorneys Investigative Unit where his life experience gives him insight into identifying the guilty from the innocent, as he struggles to fit back into the world that left him behind.
Details: Inspired by the memoir Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption, written by Shon Hopwood and Dennis Burke.
SSN Insight: Mendelsohn is also developing an untitled Rebecca Sinclair project for the CW.
Untitled Gabe Miller/ Jonathan Green Project
Network: CBS
Studio: Warner Brothers Television
Executive Producers: Gabe Miller, Jonathan Green
Logline: Centers on an intense "lifestyle design expert" who’s figured out the perfect way to do everything except connect with people - and the free-spirited woman who falls for him.
SSN Insight: Miller and Green are also developing an untitled project with Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan for NBC, about two friends who reunite when they are both hired at the same company and their childhood rivalry returns.
Untitled Steve McQueen Project
Network: HBO
Production Company: RSTV
Executive Producer: Steve McQueen, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Russell Simmons, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman
Writer: Steve McQueen, Matthew Michael Carnahan
Director: Steve McQueen
Logline: An exploration of a young African American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems.
SSN Insight: This is McQueen's first venture into television. His feature 12 Years A Slave, which is in theaters now, is getting Oscar buzz.
Alleged
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Junction Entertainment
Executive Producers: Jon Turteltaub, Karim Zreik
Writers: David Rambo, Patrick Gilfillan
Logline: Centers on a defense attorney who takes on the most important case of his life: defending his own brother – a successful surgeon, husband and father of two – who is accused of murdering his wife.
SSN Insight: This marks the first project for Turteltaub's Junction Entertainment this development season.
Gone For Good
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Film 44
Executive Producers: Alexandra Cunningham, Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey
Writer: Alexandra Cunningham
Logline: A younger brother searches for his missing and allegedly murderous older brother.
Details: Based on the novel Gone For Good, written by Harlan Coben.