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THE SUPREMES: David S. Ward (The Sting, co-writer of Sleepless in Seattle) joins Jeffrey Fiskin and Emmy winner Lawrence O’Donnell and Marie-Louise White developing this one-hour drama about a Supreme Court clerk and the ripple effect of a single case inside Washington DC’s halls of power. Jim Lampley and Adam Fratto are also attached.
UNTITLED PENTHOUSE PROJECT: Writer/director/producer Todd Field (In The Bedroom, Little Children) collaborates with writer Evan Bleiweiss on the one-hour drama, inspired by the true story of a young guy who goes to work for Penthouse Magazine and Bob Guccione. Also developing are Fox 21 with Executive Producers Marty Adelstein and Michael Thorn. (In the 1980’s, Bleiweiss’ father worked as an art director for Penthouse magazine, under the tutelage of publisher Guccione.)
RANDOM ACTS: Todd Holland (Malcolm in the Middle and The Larry Sanders Show) partners with writer Andrea Abbate and Fox 21 on this half-hour single camera edgy action comedy about two female hit men looking for love in all the wrong places, while working for an eccentric and ruthless crime boss.
HUMAN RESOURCES: Half-hour single camera genre-bending comedy from Imagine, Fox 21 and Emmy-nominated writer Robert Borden (Late Show with David Letterman, George Lopez) that purports to be a blend of thriller, suspense, and humor which centers on a group of new hires at large software company who discover that they may not be management trainees after all.
GONZO: A one-hour drama from writer Michael Oates Palmer and Executive Producer Ann Blanchard about war journalists in the 1980s searching for a missing comrade in a 24/7-on-edge Central American country rattled by corruption, greed, and political intrigue.
MARGIN OF ERROR: A one-hour dramedy from director Amy Rice (By the People: The Election of Barack Obama) and writer D.V. DeVincentis, inspired by Rice’s work on the 2008 campaign trail. The show centers on a workaholic campaign strategist who launches a new political campaign every season.
PULP BROMANCE: A one-hour action/dramedy from Michael Davis (Shoot Em’ Up), Don Murphy, Susan Montford, and Fox Television Studios based on a book series about a buddy relationship between two assassins in the most dangerous city in the world.
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laverne mckinnon is a completely lovely woman with a good heart. that said, all of this development, assuming it was bought after she joined epix, sounds like complete dreckitude to borrow from TOP MODEL. unimaginative, uninspiring. based on the descriptions above, i think i could have watche all this on tv in the 80′s. epix needs to show some major balls and do what the others aren’t and this is not it.
don’t judge a show by its logline. If you read the logline of sopranos, it would sound suspiciously like “analyze this.” If you read the logline of the shield, it would sound like an 80s show. If you read the logline of breaking bad, it would sound even worse. yet all those shows are terrific.
if you want something based on a high concept whiz-bang logline — hey, you at least have flash forward for a few more weeks. enjoy it.
Any word on the EPIX series TOUGH TRADE?
You know I heard the crazy JERICHO fans and the deperate FIREFLY fans think EPIX is going to bring back their shows!
Maybe this will smarten them up!
Who is going to pay for all of this? Can they actually afford to make this stuff and where are earth will we find them if they actually make anything. Can only guess MGM is not going to be writing any big checks for production and development costs? Tough to make tv without eyeballs or subscription fees.
My cable system doesn’t have EPIX yet, but I’ve already heard that they crop/pan-and-scan all 2.35 titles down to 16X9. I was really hoping that a channel RUN BY THE STUDIOS would respect original aspect ratios and present all movies in high def the way they were originally filmed.
I’ve cancelled my HBO & Starz subscriptions because of this practice and I’d never consider EPIX as a result.
Random Acts was originally developed for Showtime and was one of the funniest, best written half hours I’ve read in ages.
Random Acts is not only tight and slick in its structure, it’s unpredicatably humane and compassionate in its creation of a darky comic and violent world. The two female leads are completely original and truthful, which, of course makes them all the funnier.
seems to be an over-saturation of scripted cable programming. if this channel proves to be more of the same what’s the point? i almost feel like with the amount of movie talent flooding to tv it’s replacing all that was independent film for the assumption of a built-in audience and the financial safety of advertisements
These are the worst sounding shows of ALL TIME!
Human Resources is still alive?! Good god, someone kill it.
Crazy idea, how about we all reserve judgment until the shows actually air?
I’ve read the first two episodes of Random Acts and it’s great.
What an odd group. Some high end names, but then you’ve got very limited output people known only for the unwatchable (M. Davis). By the dearth of comments here, though, it’s clear nobody really cares. Not even sure why I’m writing, I guess I’m just bored on a Tuesday.
Anyone know what book series the pulp bromance is based on?