[Reality-TV-Fanatics] ABC Pilots

 

Courtesy of my friend Ryan Witalison:

Not too much of note among ABC's pilot orders, the biggest buzz so far is for it's NYPD Blue Sequel pilot, we also have a couple shows inspired by Israeli shows, a hit song, and a couple of shows based on books.

Drama

The Baker and the Beauty

Logline: Based on the Israeli series created by Assi Azar, the drama tells the story of the unlikely romance between a blue-collar baker and an international superstar. Theirs is a relationship that not only upends their own lives, but the lives of their two very different families.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Dean Georgaris; EP/D David Frankel; EP Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott

Studio: ABC Studios, Universal Television, Keshet Studios

Heart of Life

Logline: Inspired by John Mayer's hit song, the drama follows two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they're related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. As they explore the mystery of their separate childhoods, they'll experience the difficulty in overcoming the sins of the past, and learn the joys of reuniting with long-lost family.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Ben Queen (Powerless); EP John Mayer, Melvin Mar, Jake Kasdan, Paul Weitz; D Anne Fletcher

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios

The Hypnotist's Love Story

Logline: After a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend. But then he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued — and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they've already met. Based on the book of the same name by Liana Moriarty (Big Little Lies).

Cast: Heather Graham, Liza Lapira

Team: W/EP Katie Wech;  EP Heather Graham, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks

Studio: ABC Studios, Mandeville Television

New York Undercover

Logline: A reboot of the 1990s Fox procedural about detectives in New York's Fourth Precinct.

Cast: Malik Yoba, Luna Lauren

Team: W/EP Ben Watkins; EP Dick Wolf, Arthur Forney, Peter Jankowski; EP/D Anthony Hemingway

Studio: Universal TV, ABC Studios

NYPD Blue

Logline: follows Andy Sipowicz's (original star Dennis Franz) son, Theo, as he tries to earn his detective shield and work in the 15th squad while investigating his father's murder.

Cast: Fabien Frankel, Alona Tal, Kim Delaney, Bill Brochtrup, Rick Gomez, Ashley Thomas, Sofia Barclay 

Team: W/EP Matt Olmstead, Nick Wootton; EP Dayna Bochco; EP/D Jesse Bochco

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios

Stumptown

Logline: Inspired by the Oni Press graphic novels, the drama follows Dex Parios, a strong, assertive and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I.. in Portland. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.

Cast: Cobie Smulders

Team: W/EP Jason Richman (Detroit 187); EP Ruben Fleischer, Dave Bernad, Greg Rucka, Matthew Southworth, Justin Greenwood

Studio: ABC Studios, The District

Triangle

Logline: What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Jon Feldman, Sonny Postiglione; Jen Gwartz

Studio: ABC Studios, Random Hill

Until the Wedding

Logline: Based on an Israeli format, the series tells the story of how one couple's decision to get married can affect everyone in their lives. The show will explore the intimate relationships in a group of friends and family as they are forced to reckon with their own romantic lives and come to terms with the realities of love and marriage.

Cast: Olivia Thirlby

Team: W/EP Becky Mode; EP Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Alon Aranya, Nelly Feld, Avi Zvi, Ami Amir

Studilo: ABC Studios, Timberman-Beverly, Reshet Media

Untitled Hank Steinberg/Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson drama

Logline: A serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in the penal and legal systems.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Hank Steinberg (The Last Ship), EP/D George Tillman Jr. (The Hate U Give), EP Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Power), Isaac Wright Jr., Doug Robinson, Alison Greenspan

Studio: Sony Pictures TV, ABC Studios, G-Unit Film & Television, Doug Robinson Productions

Comedy

Bless This Mess

Picked up to series; six episodes

Logline: A newlywed couple gives up their drab and unfulfilling lives in NYC and moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn’t work out like they planned.

Cast: Lake Bell, Dax Shepard, Ed Begley Jr., Pam Grier, JT Neal, Christina Offley

Team: Lake Bell (w, d, ep), Liz Meriwether (w, ep), Katherine Pope (ep)

Studio: Universal Television

Happy Accident

Logline: Revolves around two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — who are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed.

Cast: Vanessa Williams, Matt Walsh, Joanna Garcia Swisher, Kether Donohue, Elliot Knight

Team: W/EP Jon Pollack, Abraham Higginbotham, D Kat Coiro

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios

Format: Single-camera

Nana

Logline: After the death of his wife, an obsessive, overprotective dad is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law (Katey Sagal) into his home to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows.

Cast: Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy, Superior Donuts)

Team: W/EP Lon Zimmet (L.A. to Vegas), EP Ted Melfi, Kimberly Quinn, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Co-EP Katey Sagal; D Andy Ackerman

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios, Goldenlight Films, Alcon Entertainment 

Format: Hybrid

United We Fall

Logline: A profoundly realistic, multi-cultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Julius "Goldy" Sharpe, EP Julia Gunn, Seth Gordon

Studio: Sony Pictures TV, ABC Studios

Format: Multi-camera

Untitled Hannah Simone comedy

Logline: Hannah (New Girl grad Hannah Simone) and her Indian-American immigrant father have always been close, but after she admits to herself that she’s in a dead-end job and he reveals his marriage is over, they’re starting over together and each finding a new path. This new chapter will either make them crazy close ... or just crazy.

Cast: Hannah Simone, Jane Leeves

Team: W/EP Hannah Simone, Matt Fusfeld, Alex Cuthbertson

Studio: ABC Studios

Format: Single-camera

Untitled Jessica Gao Project

Logline: Janet Zhao is a first-generation Chinese-American who struggles to set healthy boundaries with her crazy, exhausting family. When her wealthy grandmother dies and names Janet the sole inheritor, she suddenly finds herself the unwilling new matriarch of the family she’s spent her life trying to keep at arm’s length.

Cast:

Team: W/EP Jessica Gao, EP Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, Samie Kim Falvey

Studio:

Format: Single-camera

Untitled Leslie Odom Jr. comedy

Logline: Inspired by real-life progressive pastors Toure Roberts and Sarah Jakes-Roberts, the show revolves around Omari (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Hope, who together run a modern ministry and share an eclectic, chaotic home life with their combined four children.

Team: W/EP Saladin Patterson, EP Kerry Washington, Pilar Savone, Leslie Odom Jr., Co-EP Toure Roberts, Sarah Jakes-Roberts

Studio: ABC Studios, Simpson Street

Format: Multi-camera

Woman Up

Logline: Two former teen moms have worked their asses off to see their daughters all the way through high school graduation. And now, at 35, they're ready to make up for the youth they never had.

Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Tawny Newsome, Kym Whitley, Gabrielle Elyse

Team: W/EP Zoe Lister-Jones; EP Liz Meriwether; Jason Winer, Jon Radler, D Kat Coiro

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios, Small Dog Picture Co., Ms. Lister Films

Format: Single-camera

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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