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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/7/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim (TIM & ERIC AWESOME SHOW) are developing TIM AND ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES, an anthological fantasy series, for Adult Swim. (And any show on Adult Swim is a friend of ours, so, “Yay, Tim and Eric!” See how easy we really are?)
  • Larry Golin (ROCKY MARCIANO? What kind of credit is that?) is adapting Eddie MacKenzie’s memoir, Street Soldier, into a Fox “event series” about the Boston Irish mob. (Brace yourselves for the coming of the Irish Anti-Defamation League. After all, if the mafia Italian-Americans could do it….)
  • Ian Sobel & Matt Morgan (newbies!) have sold their spec pilot, HARVEST, to A&E. It’s about a guy who’s life goes all to hell when his crooked father forces him into the body-trade business. (In other words, somebody sees a chance to give the audience what it clearly desires – a newer, even more disgusting variation of BREAKING BAD. Which could work, wethinks…if it’s as funny as BREAKING BAD.)
  • David Wilcox (666 PARK AVENUE) has parlayed that series remarkable success into an ABC drama pilot called ENTRAPMENT, about a beautiful, young, female prosecutor accused of murder. (Oh wait, 666 PARK AVENUE bombed. Guess nobody told ABC.)
  • Continuing his distinguished career, His Geniusship Mr. Wilcox  is also writing the pilot for BADLANDS, a supernatural Western, for The CW. (Whoa, a shoe with roots on The CW and 666 PARK AVENUE. This is true Do Not Miss TV – especially if you’re driving a very big truck.)
  • Ed Burns (yeppers, that Ed Burns) is writing PUBLIC MORALS, a period cop show for TNT. (He’s also directing the pilot and starring as well cuz…fucking Ed…fucking Burns, bitches!)

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/6/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Drew Chapman is adapting his conspiracy thriller, The Ascendant into a drama series for Fox. (“Conspiracy thriller?” Ooh, conspiracies always give us chills of delight…but we can say no more cuz, you know, it isn’t safe.)
  • Michael Horowitz (BURN NOTICE) is writing the pilot for another Fox drama series, ALLEGED, which we’re told is a drama about “three friends who find their up-and-coming battery start-up threatened by a lack of lithium and…use unconventional techniques to solve the problem….” (What? You don’t get it? Get what? We can’t help because we fell asleep after typing the first 8 words in the description.)
  • Arika Lisanne Mittman (DEXTER) is adapting Sara Shephard’s book series The Perfectionist” into a drama series for The CW. (No, we aren’t telling what it’s about. It’s the CW. So you already know what the series will be.)
  • Bret McKenzie (FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDS) is developing an animated comedy about NASA for Fox. (We always get excited about potential Fox animated comedies. Probably because our mom watched so much of THE SIMPSONS while we were still floating around in her womb. Yep, we come from that kinda family. Thanks, Mom.)
  • Sara Heyward (GIRLS) is writing the pilot for SISTER-IN-LAW, a comedy about a woman who has to find a way to get along with her whacky future sister-in-law. (A family where ignoring each other isn’t an option? What planet do they live on?)
  • Stephen Chin has sold a private eye show about a disabled detective to ABC. (But nobody’s telling us what the disability is…which usually means that by the time the show gets on the air – if it does – the disabled part will be gone, gone, gone cuz that’s how networks roll.)

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/5/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Alexandra Cunningham (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) is adapting Harlan Coben’s thriller, Gone for Good, into a drama series for NBC. (The premise seems to be: “Trust no one.” So we already want to like this project.)
  • David Rambo (REVOLUTION) & Pat Gilfillan (former Nichol Fellowship Winner) are writing the pilot for CBS’s ALLEGED, a drama about a lawyer who is defending his own brother on a murder charge. (Dunno about you, but we’re getting a tad tired of lawyers as heroes. Mostly cuz in our lives so far they’re…not. In fact, every time we see the news another lawyer looks like the enemy!)
  • Matthew Michael Carnahan (WORLD WAR Z) is writing an HBO movie about a guy who breaks into New York high society by being, you know, not what he seems. (He’s also African American cuz, hey, those guys is all shady characters, right? Or to put it another way, “Racism by any other name….”)
  • Maya Van Wagenen (15 year old newb) has sold a book based on her diary to Dreamworks. (We’re so happy for her that we aren’t even feeling bad about Maya being a mere child with a better deal than anything we’ve even come close to. Really. We lurves her. Honest. Congrats, Maya!)
  • Gabe Miller & Jonathan Green (THE OFFICE) are writing the pilot for a CBS comedy about a lifestyle design expert. (Which seems to be untitled cuz…what title could such a premise possibly inspire?)
  • Messers Miller & Green are also writing an untitled comedy for NBC, this one about two overachievers. (Overachievers, huh? As in two more human beings who are doing better than we are? And somebody thinks we’re gonna want to see them? Why? Cuz we like to cry?)

MTV’s Going All Netflix on Our Binge-Viewing Butts!

And we love ’em for it.

MTV Boasts Binge-Viewing App Plans For New ‘Wait Til Next Year’
by The Deadline Team

mtv-logo-tvwriter.comMTV last week announced that it has become the first network to pre-release an entire season of a series exclusively on an app.

Viewers can watch all 12 episodes of the new docu-drama Wait ‘Til Next Year via the MTV app — available on iPhone, iPad and Xbox 360 for Xbox Live Gold members in the U.S. — a week before its TV premiere Friday, November 1 at 8 PM ET/PT.  read article

Hey, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Fans!

Yeah, we mean you. Cuz you’re gonna like this:

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Cast Reuniting for INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO
by Michael O’Connell

James Lipton is assembling his Arrested Development co-stars for a reunion.

The Inside the Actors Studio host, who reprised his guest role as Warden Stefan Gentles in the comedy’s recent Netflix revival, will interview the cast and creator Mitch Hurwitz during an upcoming episode of the Bravo series.

Lipton teased the news on the Bravo Instagram account (below), performing the Bluth family chicken dance — an awkward sight for those unfamiliar with the series. read article