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Kyle Killen Gets Another Chance

Well, hey, it’s a track record thing. LONE STAR and AWAKE are the dood’s big credits.  LONE STAR was cancelled after two episodes, and AWAKE bought it after, what, half a season? So of course Kyle gets into the game again. Because intelligence is a much rarer commodity, isn’t it, than your teachers ever led you to believe? Anyway:

Kyle Killen Drama Lands at NBC as Put Pilot – by Nellie Andreeva (Deadline.Com)

EXCLUSIVE: Influence, a drama project from Lone Star and Awakecreator Kyle Killen, has received a put pilot commitment by ABC in a competitive situation involving multiple networks. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV where Killen is under a deal, is described as a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometime turn their powers to pull strings on one another. Killen is the writer/executive producer. Influence marks a departure from Killen’s previous two series projects, Fox’s Lone Star and NBC’s Awake, which both had very complex, non-linear narratives as they centered on protagonists living dual lives. Still, Killen kept a duality element in his new show too, making one of the main characters bipolar. On the feature side, Killen wrote the Black List script The Beaver, which was directed by Jodie Foster. read article

Ever Wonder How People Would React to a Hipster Sitcom?

Vulture.Com has the answer:

Hipster Sitcom Destined for Ridicule – by Margaret Lyons (Vulture.Com)

Hipsters! Aren’t they the silliest/worst? Is there anything more fun than an Internet flame war about what does and does not qualify one to be a “hipster”? Indeed, there is nothing more fun. NBC wants a piece of that endless source of joy, which is why the network has bought the pilot currently going by Untitled Hipster Project. Stick with that name! It’s so unfinished and raw and edgy, which is exactly what hipsters like. According to Deadline, the show, from The Daily Show‘s Josh Lieb and comedian Nick Thune, is about an “un-hip” anthropology student who finds himself living among Brooklynites and studying their ways. “Behold the aspiring children’s librarian in her natural habitat, Instagram-ing her artisanal meals,” etc. 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

More Sitcom Writers Who Are Making New Project Deals

According to The Hollywood Reporter, writers from FRASIER, PARTY DOWN, and UP ALL NIGHT just got pilot script orders from ABC.

Peter Huyk, formerly of FRASIER, got his order for a project about a family that moves from New York City to a small California town looking for a bigger life…only to find out that the new town is even more complex than the big city.

In keeping with the relocation theme, Erica Rivinoja of UP ALL NIGHT got a go on a script about a Mormon family moving to Las Vegas. read article

munchman: Chuck Lorre Wants to Do Drama Series Now

Close your eyes. Concentrate. Can you see it?

  • THE BIG BANG THEORY – Cult police procedural series
  • TWO AND A HALF MEN – Top-rated science fiction buddy show
  • GRACE UNDER FIRE – Under-appreciated tales of our forces in Iraq
  • DHARMA & GREG – Soul Channel fave about one man’s search for his destiny

In other words, the word on campus/around town/in L.A. is that Chuck Lorre, noted sitcom creator-writer-producer, largest money-maker at Warner Brothers TV, and mortal enemy of Charlie Sheen, has extended his Warner’s deal including “a component for feature films Lorre would write, develop and/or direct,” according to Deadline.Com.

As if that isn’t enough, Deadline.Com further adds that “Lorre also plans to expand his turf with forays into drama series and longform projects in addition to developing new comedy shows.” read article