[07/16/07 - 11:34 AM] NBC Announces Updates on New Scripted Series Projects and Universal Media Studios Creative Deals for 2007-08 The pacts include an exclusive, first-look deal with independent film producer Charles Corwin ("Half Nelson," "The Squid and the Whale") with Universal Media Studios and NBC, and the drama pilot "Backyards and Bullets," with Emmy winner Charles McDougall ("The Tudors") as director and executive producer.
STATUS: previously in development (2007-2008 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE: script
DESCRIPTION: (from NBC's press release) The provocatively-titled telenovela is based on a best-selling, true-to-life novel by the same name that tells the story of Catalina, a young woman seduced by a world of easy-money, who agonizes that her figure is a barrier to deliverance from poverty and a pampered life as a drug-trafficker's lover.