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[12/08/15 - 11:39 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, December 8
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
DIRTY DANCING (ABC, New!) - Abigail Breslin is attached to star in a three-hour event movie for the Alphabet and Lionsgate Television where she'll take on Jennifer Grey's iconic role as Baby, "an innocent young woman in the early 1960's who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort's working-class dance instructor." Jessica Sharzer is penning the script while Wayne Blair will direct. Other auspices include Adam Anders and Peer Astrom on music and producing; Andy Blankenbuehler on choreography; and Stephen Altman on producing design. Allison Shearmur Productions' Allison Shearmur and original screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein will also executive produce. Production is contingent on additional casting. (Deadline.com)
LA82 (Amazon, New!) - Jeffery Blitz and Mac Carter have sold a potential comedy to the streaming service about "a misfit gang of schlock filmmakers who storm the gates of Hollywood in the early '80s." RatPac Entertainment's Brett Ratner and John Cheng will also will executive produce the project for Amazon Studios. (THR.com)
MIRACLE MAN (NBC, New!) - "The Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" alums Sam Raimi and Kevin Sorbo are set to re-team for a new drama at the network about Jason Greene (Sorbo), "a decorated Army Ranger who is nearly killed in Afghanistan. Haunted by the experience, he's discharged and returns home to a wife who's left him and an adult son he barely knows. As Jason struggles to piece his life together, he discovers a power - the ability to make miracles happen, marvels often small but real that can change people's lives. Jason, tough and skeptical, is on a quest to discover why." Robert Eisele (The Great Debaters) is penning the script while Raimi; Sorbo; his wife, Sam Sorbo; and his manager Sherry Marsh will also executive produce for Sony Pictures Television. (Deadline.com)
NOS4A2 (AMC, New!) - Joe Hill's supernatural novel - about Victoria "Vic" McQueen, "a young woman with an uncanny talent for finding lost things... a gift that is gradually destroying her mind, whose search for help leads her to someone with powers not unlike her own: the psychopath Charlie Manx" - is being developed for television at the cable channel. AMC Studios and Tornante Television are co-producing the potential hour, with the latter's Michael Eisner presumably executive producing. (Deadline.com)
NOW YOU SEE HER (CBS, New!) - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge's book - about "a successful attorney at a boutique New York City law firm who is hiding her true identity and past as a murderer when one case threatens to expose her and upend her new life and career" - is being developed as a drama at the Eye. Siobhan Byrne O'Connor will pen the project for CBS Television Studios and James Patterson Entertainment with Patterson, Bill Haber, Bill Robinson and Leopoldo Gout executive producing. (Deadline.com)
UNTITLED DAN FOGELMAN PROJECT (NBC/20th; W: Dan Fogelman; D: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa) - Susan Kelechi Watson is the latest to be cast in the pilot, a dramedy featuring a unique ensemble of characters all born on the same day. She'll play Beth in the project, which also features Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Justin Hartley, Sterling Brown, and Ron Chephas Jones. (Deadline.com)
WHITE SHEEP (ABC, New!) - Jordan Young and Elijah Aron ("BoJack Horseman") has set up a potential comedy at the Alphabet about "unapologetic, anti-helicopter parents Gail and Bruce, their daughter Sarah who remarkably finds ways to take advantage of her parents tough love philosophy and their optimistic, nice guy son who begins to realize that his parents are very far from perfect." Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan will also executive produce the project, which is based on Young's life, for Universal Television. (THR.com)
AND IN OTHER NEWS... - Eve Plumb has been cast as Mrs. Murdock on FOX's upcoming "Grease: Live" (Deadline.com); "How to Get Away with Murder" creator Peter Nowalk has inked a new three-year overall deal with producer ABC Studios, retroactive to the beginning of the season (Deadline.com); Tony Shalhoub will drop by "The Blacklist" as "a master negotiator for the criminal underworld" (EW.com); Joely Richardson has signed onto NBC's "Emerald City" as Glinda the Good Witch (TVInsider.com); and Vince Gerardis is shepherding "The 4th Kingdom," "a $40 million high-octane drama series which he describes as 'Mad Max' meets 'Waterworld'" (Variety.com).
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[10/18/18 - 12:03 PM]
"We Are Not Done Yet," Following U.S. Veterans Striving to Combat Military Trauma, Debuts Nov. 8 in Conjunction with Veterans Day, Exclusively on HBO
The film profiles a group of veterans and active-duty service members as they come together to combat past and current traumas through the written word, sharing their experiences in a USO writing workshop at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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[10/18/18 - 11:40 AM]
Bravo's "Top Chef" Races to Kentucky for Season 16 Beginning Thursday, December 6 at 9PM ET/PT
This season, 15 new talented chefs from cities big and small across the U.S. will compete for the sought-after title amid the unique culinary scenes in Louisville, Lexington and Lake Cumberland, before heading abroad for an epic finale showdown in Macau, China.
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[10/18/18 - 11:00 AM]
Bette Midler Joins Freeform's "Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash"
The two-hour special, filmed at the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery to celebrate the movie's status as a Halloween staple, will premiere on Saturday, October 20.
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[10/18/18 - 10:31 AM]
NBC Orders Three Additional Episodes of Its Monday Night Hit "Manifest," TV's #1 New Series
"Manifest" will now have a full-season order of 16 episodes.
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[10/18/18 - 10:30 AM]
IFC's "Brockmire" Steps Up to Bat with Fresh Roster of Season 3 Guest Stars
J.K. Simmons, Bob Costas, Martha Plimpton and Richard Kind are among those on tap.
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[10/18/18 - 10:24 AM]
Smithsonian Channel(TM) Expands One of the Most Ambitious Colorization Projects in Television History with Hit Series "America in Color"
The series returns for its second season on Sunday, November 18 at 8:00/7:00c.
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[10/18/18 - 09:32 AM]
Video: Trailer Debut - Netflix's "The Degenerates" Original Comedy Special Series
The series consists of six 30-minute episodes full of no-holds-barred comedy for mature audiences from the likes of rising comics Big Jay Oakerson, Joey Diaz, Liza Treyger, Yamaneika Saunders, Christina P., and Brad Williams.
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[10/18/18 - 09:01 AM]
It's a Double Dose of Spice When "The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition" Premieres on ABC, Thursday, Dec. 6
Joining as host this season, Spice Girl and television personality Emma Bunton, alongside returning host Anthony "Spice" Adams, will present bakers with weekly challenges as they turn up the heat in the kitchen creating sweet and savory holiday fare.
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[10/18/18 - 09:00 AM]
"The Great Christmas Light Fight" Is Back for Its Sixth Season, Celebrating the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Starting Monday, Nov. 26, on ABC
ABC also announced the pickup of Season 7 to air in 2019.
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[10/18/18 - 08:13 AM]
Wednesday's Broadcast Ratings: "Empire" Rises as FOX Tops Demos
The network's flagship drama is the only series up week-to-week among adults 18-49.
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[10/18/18 - 08:00 AM]
"The 73rd Annual Tony Awards(R)" to Be Broadcast Live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Sunday, June 9, 2019 on CBS
The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.
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[10/18/18 - 08:00 AM]
Season Three of "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath" Premieres Tuesday, November 27 at 9PM ET/PT
In addition, A&E will premiere the new two-hour special, "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: The Jehovah's Witnesses," on Tuesday, November 13.
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[10/18/18 - 07:04 AM]
Video: We'll Start You Off with a Sample - "Narcos: Mexico" Trailer Debut
"Narcos: Mexico" will explore the origins of the modern drug war by going back to its roots, beginning at a time when the Mexican trafficking world was a loose and disorganized confederation of independent growers and dealers.
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[10/18/18 - 07:01 AM]
Emmy Award-Winning Actress Rachel Brosnahan Will Narrate Bloomberg Philanthropies' New Climate Change Documentary "Paris to Pittsburgh"
The film will premiere on National Geographic, Wednesday, December 12 at 9:00/8:00c.
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[10/17/18 - 11:42 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, October 17
Updates include: ABC locks in "NYPD Blue" sequel series; HBO pulls the plug on "Animals."; and Toby Haynes to helm Amazon's "Utopia."
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