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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 1/14/14

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& (HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER) is also developing a comedy for ABC Family. This one’s called KEVIN FROM WORK and is about “a young man…who professes his love to a co-worker, thinking he’ll never see her again [after taking another job, only to discover that] the duo must continue to work together.” (WTF? That’s my munching life story!? Gotta get a gig on that series – so I can claim that my situation was just research. Everybody’ll buy that, right? Right? Uh-oh….) Peter Tolan (RESCUE ME) is writing the pilot for THE STUDIO, a drama about behind the scenes greed and opportunism at a film studio in the early 1990s. (Cuz it’s all cleaned up now? Is that what we’re supposed to believe? How dumb to the development execs think we are? Uh-oh, maybe we’re all better off if we never learn the answer to that one.)

That’s it for now, munchaladas. Don’t forget to write in and tell yers truly what you’ve sold when you sell it. Cuz TVWriter™ can’t wait to brag to all your friends. (And, more importantly, enemies. Hehehe….)

Amazon Studios’ January 2015 Pilots Announced

by Team TVWriter™ New Service

Amazon Studios has announced it will debut its first pilot season of 2015 on Thursday, January 15 on Amazon Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany. It’s an almost entirely pro slate, with just a dash of newbyness to keep the punters (if you watch UK TV you know what that means) interested.

Seven drama and comedy pilots will premiere, including hour-long shows “Cocked” from Samuel Baum (“Lie to Me”) and Sam Shaw (“Manhattan”), “Mad Dogs” from Cris Cole (“The Bill”) and Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”), “Man in the High Castle” from Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files”), and “Point of Honor” from Carlton Cuse (“Lost”) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart).

In addition, pilots for two half hour shows will debut, including “Down Dog” from Robin Schiff (“Are You There, Chelsea?”) and “Salem Rogers” from Will Graham (“Onion News Network”) and newcomer Lindsey Stoddart, along with a documentary series, “The New Yorker Presents,” inspired by non-fiction and fiction material from one of the most acclaimed and longest running publications, The New Yorker. “The New Yorker Presents” is Executive Produced by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie). read article