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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/16/12

The Beverly Hills are alive with the sound of, “Cha-ching!”
  •  Jeff Lowell (COMMON LAW, JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE) & Emma Koenig are writing a sitcom pilot for NBC based on Koenig’s blog, “F*ck! I’m in My Twenties” (proving that TV executives love titles they can’t put on TV).
  • Kenya Barris (SOUL FOOD, GIRLFRIENDS, THE GAME) is “co-creating” FIVEHEAD, a sitcom for ABC, with Tyra Banks, on whose life the show is based (the fact that Barris is listed as “co-creator” and not “writer” proving that even though this is supposed to be a “scripted” series, Ms. Banks has no idea whatsoever what that means).
  • Joseph McGinty Nichol & Daniel Cerone (creators of SUPERNATURAL, CHUCK, CHARMED, DEXTER)) have sold #RESISTANCE, a series about a kickass woman cop turned vigilantes to CBS (the hashtag proving CBS is much younger/hipper/nerdier than the world previously believed.)
  • NBC is planning a new series, WUNDERLAND, written by Anthony Zuiker (CSI), about a time in the future when Alice has become an evil queen fighting to stop a young rebel from – you guessed it – the other side of the looking glass – from overthrowing her (proving that nobody at NBC knows what Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was all about. Nor, it would seem, do they care).

The Hudsonian Sees NBC’S GO ON

Go On Will Stay On

by Josh Hudson

The pilot episode of NBC’s “Go On” originally aired on August 8th, 2012 during NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics. It did well in the ratings.

Matthew Perry is back on television! No, this isn’t like when he starred in Studio 60 and the Sunset Strip or Mr. Sunshine. You see, the biggest difference is this show is actually good. read article

What Have We Learned from the 1st Week of the 2012 Season?

Some interesting bits, actually:

After One Week, Which TV Shows Look Good and Which Seem Doomed? – by Josef Adalian read article

Graham Yost is the New King of the World

…Hey, he’s getting close anyway. (Just what we didn’t need. Yet another super successful TV genius writer-producer to hate.)

The Hollywood Reporter reports (What? We’re supposed to come up with a better word? We know it doesn’t sound quite right, but our thesaurus finger’s broken) that NBC is now in business with Graham Yost, showrunner of FX’s JUSTIFIED and creator of FX’s upcoming Keri Russell KGB spy series THE AMERICANS. The series is set in ’70s L.A. and is named L.A. WOMAN because not only do the networks go to the same people for everything, they also welcome the use of dreary old names that they think might be recognized by the audience. And we suppose that if NBC’s audience is geriatric rockers/Doors fans that could occur here.

But we doubt it. read article

Deadline.Com Features New Writing Deals

…Complete with pics of the writers and verbiage that makes them seem, if not exactly stars, definitely important. You don’t see that everyday, and it’s one of the reasons (the biggest one) why we report on Deadline.Com’s reporting as much as we do. (Oh, so that’s what we do. Good to know.) Deadline’s latest announcement:

ABC Buys Extended Family Comedy, NBC Goes For International Crime Drama – by Nellie Andreeva(Deadline.Com)

ABC has handed a script commitment with penalty to Dumb F*ck, a single-camera comedy from FishBowl Worldwide Media. Written by Hank Nelken (Saving Silverman), the project is about an average guy and his brilliant wife who, due to financial hardship, are forced to live with her family of highly intelligent but emotionally stunted geniuses. Vin Di Bona, Bruce Gersh, Susan Levison and Shaleen Desai executive produce. FishBowl is repped by CAA, Nelken by Gersh. read article