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
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