Fresh Off The Boat
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Executive Producers: Nahnatchka Khan, Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar
Producer: Eddie Huang
Writer: Nahnatchka Khan
Logline: Set in the ’90s, the story revolves around a Chinese family that moves to Orlando.
Details: Based on the memoir Fresh Off The Boat, by Eddie Huang.
SSN Insight: This is Khan’s second project bought this development season after selling Fatrick to Fox, with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash attached as executive producers. Kasden is also developing The Longest Date for Fox.
Untitled Colleen McGuinness, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Little Stranger, Inc.
Executive Producers: Colleen McGuinness, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock
Writer: Colleen McGuinness
Logline: A young woman in search of reconnecting with her father finds a new home and family on Fire Island.
SSN Insight: Project reunites McGuinness and Fey who worked together on NBC’s 30 Rock and is the first from Little Stranger, Fey’s production company, currently under a four-year deal with Universal Television as of last fall.
Limelight
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Studios
Production Company: Prospect Park
Executive Producers: Kelly Masterson, Josh Barry, Jeff Kwatinetz
Writer: Kelly Masterson
Logline: Chronicles a murder trial that becomes a national media obsession, thrusting the lives of the accused, the prosecution, the defense, and everyone in between into the public spotlight.
SSN Insight: Limelight marks a reunion for Josh Barry with ABC, where he was a drama development executive for ten years before joining Prospect Park. Masterson wrote National Geographic’s upcoming Killing Kennedy, starring Rob Lowe.
Sparks
Network: NBC Entertainment
Executive Producers: Gary Marks, Gwyn Lurie, Glenn Gordon Caron, Michael London, Kate Edgar, Oliver Sacks
Writers: Gwyn Lurie, Gary Marks
Logline: Based on the case files and life of renowned neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks.
SSN Insight: Sparks brings Caron back to NBC where Medium aired for five seasons before its move to CBS.
Untitled Ed Helms Project
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Pacific Electric Picture Co.
Executive Producers: Ed Helms, Michael Falbo, Mike Arnold
Writer: Mike Arnold
Logline: Centers on a gifted but dysfunctional big-city female attorney who moves to a small town and is faced with the difficult task of adjusting.
SSN Insight: Helms recently wrapped The Office on NBC after seven years and appears in the feature We’re The Millers.
Untitled Tina Fey Matt Hubbard Project
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Companies: 3 Arts Entertainment, Little Stranger, Inc.
Executive Producers: Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, David Miner
Writer: Matt Hubbard
Logline: Takes place at a former all-girls college that has just opened its doors to men for the first time.
Details: Project was picked up straight to series by Fox.
SSN Insight: This is the second series sold by Fey’s new production company Little Stranger; the first series (see above) was sold to NBC.
Younger
Network: TV Land
Executive Producer: Darren Starr
Writer: Darren Starr
Logline: Centers on a suddenly-single New Jersey housewife and mother in her early 40s who, unable to restart her career, decides to lie about her age and successfully passes herself off as a twenty-something. Armed with a makeover and new resume, she wins a coveted position at the city’s hottest publishing company. Pretending to be "younger" doesn’t hurt in the bar scene, either, as guys line up like never before.
Details: Based on the novel Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran.
SSN Insight: Younger is TV Land’s second attempt at creating a single-camera series. Last year, their single camera pilot, I’m Not Dead Yet, was not picked up to series. TV Land is also developing Jennifer Falls, starring Jaime Pressly.
Forever
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Company: Lin Pictures
Executive Producers: Matthew Miller, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz
Writer: Matthew Miller
Logline: Centers on Dr. Henry Morgan, the most over-qualified pathology associate in the world who has experienced it all — wars, love, even smallpox and malaria — but there is one feat that he can’t seem to accomplish: dying. Morgan is a 200-year-old man who spends his days working in the New York City Morgue trying to find a key to unlock the curse of his immortality. His investigative work with hard-nosed NYPD detective Jo Martinez will reveal elements of Morgan’s colorful life.
SSN Insight: Miller has just come off of the recently cancelled ABC drama 666 Park Ave and served as EP on NBC’s Chuck.
Cross
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer: Jennie Snyder Urman
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
Logline: A drama set in the 19th century that follows 22-year-old Eliza, who secretly assumes her recently deceased twin brother Thomas' identity and takes his job working in a Boston hospital as a doctor's apprentice.
SSN Insight: This is the second project sold to the CW this development season by Snyder Urman. Jane The Virgin was one of the first buys this cycle.
The Mysteries Of Laura
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Production Companies: Berlanti Productions, Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producers: Aaron Kaplan, Greg Berlanti, Jeff Rake
Co-Executive Producer: Melissa Kellner Berman
Writer: Jeff Rake
Logline: Follows the life and relationships of a female homicide detective who can handle murderous criminals — but not her evil twins.
Details: Based on the Spanish series Los Misterios De Laura, created by Carlos Vila and Javier Holgado for TVE1 Spain.
SSN Insight: Project marks the second Spanish-language format that Kaplan has adapted, after Terminales was recently picked up to series by ABC Family. Kaplan is also developing The Henchman, which has a put pilot commitment at Fox. Berlanti is developing a spin-off for CW’s Arrow entitled The Flash and also has a put pilot commitment at NBC for an untitled futuristic drama.
Domain
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Production Company: 21 Laps/Adelstein
Executive Producers: Paul Lovett, David Elliot, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Shawn Levy
Writers: Paul Lovett, David Elliot
Logline: Follows a brilliant, young political "hactivist" who is coerced into working for the government following his arrest.
SSN Insight: Elliott and Lovett were screenwriters on the feature G.I. Joe: The rise of the Cobra; this marks their first attempt at a project in television.
How To Get Away With Murder
Network: ABC Entertainment Group
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Shondaland
Executive Producer: Pete Nowalk, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
Writer: Pete Nowalk
Logline: About a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives.
SSN Insight: This is the fourth project for Shondaland bought by ABC and the second time Shondaland has tried to develop a project with Nowalk, who has been on Grey’s Anatomy since 2008. The first, Under The Gun, was sold to NBC last year, but wasn’t picked up.
Untitled Jenny Bicks Mermaid Project
Network: NBC Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Producer: Jenny Bicks
Writer: Jenny Bicks
Logline: About a beached mermaid in search of adventure who winds up working in a bar/attraction in Miami with an eclectic group of people as lost as she is.
SSN Insight: Bicks was the showrunner and executive producer on the recently cancelled HBO series The Big C.
Seven Deadlies
Network: MTV Networks
Writers: Gigi Levangie, Stacy Title, Jonathan Penner
Logline: Centers on a Latina scholarship student who discovers that her classmates carry the bloodlines of the seven deadly sins, and that she must defeat them in order to save the world, all while maintaining her GPA.
Details: Based on the novel Seven Deadlies by Gigi Levangie.
SSN Insight: Levangie had two other novels that she adapted, The Starter Wife for USA and Maneater for Lifetime.
Untitled DL Hughley Project
Network: FX
Studio: FX Productions
Executive Producers: D.L. Hughley, Sivert Glarum, Michael Jamin, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky
Cast: D.L. Hughley
Writer: D.L. Hughley, Sivert Glarum, Michael Jamin
Logline: Based on Hughley’s life experiences and revolves around him as an unapologetically honest family man and radio host.
SSN Insight: Hughley previously co-created and starred in the sitcom The Hughleys, which ran for four seasons on ABC and UPN.
Sober Companion
Network: Fox
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producers/Writers: Jennie Snyder Urman, David S Rosenthal
Logline: An out-of-control lawyer is forced to enlist a sober companion in order to get his life back on track.
SSN Insight: Snyder Urman, who has an overall deal with CBS studios, has a total of three projects in development for the 2014-2015 season. She is also a consulting producer on the new series Reign, premiering this fall on CW.
Madame Secretary
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company: Revelations Entertainment
Executive Producers: Barbara Hall, Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary, Tracy Mercer
Writer: Barbara Hall
Logline: Explores the personal and professional life of a maverick female Secretary of State as she drives international diplomacy, wrangles office politics and balances a complex family life.
Untitled Danielle Sanchez-Witzel Project
Network: ABC
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Executive Producer/Writer: Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
Logline: When her perfect older sister's life unravels, she takes her in, hoping to have a front-row seat to her downfall.
The Great Zucchini
Network: FX
Studio: Fox 21
Production Company: Anonymous Content, DarkFire Television
Executive Producers: Ryan Reynolds, Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl, Rob Lieber, Alex Goldstone, Jonathon Komack-Martin
Writer: Rob Lieber
Logline: Follows a popular, charming and self-destructive kids performer as he attempts to grow up personally and professionally despite the fact he seems completely incapable of living like a responsible adult.