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EXCLUSIVE: Fox has nabbed a drama project from writer Jeffrey Lieber and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. The project, tentatively titled Full Nelson, is set in the music industry in the 1980s and follows a woman as she rises in the business. It is inspired by the experiences of Kathy Nelson, former president of film music for Universal and Disney. She was a music executive at MCA Records in the 1980s and early 1990s, rising through the ranks to SVP and general manager and responsible for building the label’s soundtrack division. At MCA and Disney, Nelson worked on the music for a number of Bruckheimer movies, including Coyote Ugly, Gone in 60 Seconds, Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Con Air, The Rock, Dangerous Minds and Beverly Hills Cop 1&2.
Lieber, repped by CAA and Madhouse, will write Full Nelson, which has received a script commitment plus penalty. He will executive produce with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, with KristieAnne Reed serving as co-executive producer. Nelson is a producer. For Lieber, who gets a co-creator credit on Lost, this marks the third consecutive project with Bruckheimer TV and WBTV. He created the short-lived CBS medical drama series Miami Medical and recently worked on ABC’s The Whole Truth. Full Nelson is the third Bruckheimer TV sale this season and notably, none of the projects is a crime procedural, a genre that made the company a TV powerhouse. At ABC, Bruckheimer landed a put pilot commitment for an untitled hourlong project based on the travel blog and book The Lost Girls. And at CBS, it is behind a half-hour adaptation of popular comic trip Zits.
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LOL…in order to make a series dealing the music industry you’d absolutely have to make it in a pre-Napster time period.
Otherwise people would be like “The Music Industry?’ What’s that?”
Dude. The 80′s *was* pre-Napster and the first half was pre-internet for the general public. As of the early 80′s the music industry was still half-run by mafia and throughout all of the 80s the industry was entirely controlled by Major Labels.
I can’t think of anything that would make a better tv drama than the music industry in the 80s.
Rhonda you’re missing Seth’s point… basically saying the same thing. I have a feeling Seth knows that Napster was post 80s.
Regardless… this show could be interesting.
My bad – completely “heard” the inflection in a different place. Agreed – I’m looking forward to this show, it could be interesting for sure.
As a guitarist,coming up in the 80′s, playing in cover bands, etc., I was all-consumed by the artists of the era and, when MTV first broke out… music videos? NO WAY! Coming to Hollywood from NY, the Hollywood scene was much different then to day. Congratulations and good luck with the show. Casting?
someone has to tell us how Lieber was hosed the other higher up on Lost. Yes he was one of the creators but the real story is much more devious than that. The other creators and exec producers on the show pushed him aside. Jeffrey is a super talented guy and to top it off he is so freakin nice.
Nice one. Or if they did try to make it in the late 1990s-2000s, it would just be a bunch of people saying “oh sh-t, oh sh-t, oh sh-t…..”
So they’re going to team this with Glee? Didn’t they learn from Lone Star that “cable shows” won’t work on the networks.
The only thing we learned from Lone Star is that it sucked, as does your comparison.
I’m sure Fox’s target audience will love a show about the early 1980s music industry…. They won’t give a shit about this but it could do okay on cable.
She’s a cold, calculated, controlling ice-queen so i hope they portray that and cast the role accordingly. Shannen Doherty call your agent.
That’s the understatement of the century. She surpasses the B word by miles and doesn’t do the C word justice. She’s a rude, mean, miserable person who makes people like Joel Silver and Scott Rudin look nice by comparison. Her rise to success is littered with hundreds of bodies of the people and assistants she’s abused along the way. Money and success mean nothing if you have a hollow soul. I’m curious to see exactly how and if they’ll portray this side of her. I can’t think of a single actress that could play evil that well.
Anonymous you couldn’t be further from the truth. Leiber was not pushed aside on Lost at all. He never had anything to do with the JJ/Lindeloff version. He was hired by lloyd Braun who was running abc at the time to write a survivor-like scripted show. He wrote a draft of lost that had a plane crash on an island. The rest of his script had no supernatural elements. In fact, he didn’t even have the same characters. He was lucky to get a created by credit if you ask me. He didn’t even get written by credit on the pilot because they used nothing from his script. That being said, he is a talented guy. He just Randy screwed on lost.
Too bad they didn’t go with his script, if that description’s accurate. Could have done without the supernatural stuff…they “Lost” me with that.
“He created the short-lived CBS medical drama series Miami Medical and recently worked on ABC’s The Whole Truth.”
Eew.
Great idea, great writer (and a good person to boot) – can’t wait.
I want to know who’s going to play David Geffen, Jerry Moss, Irving Azoff, Doug Morris, et al.
Walter Yetnikoff has got to be portrayed in this as well!
Jeff is a great guy and writer! I have worked for him and have a fabulous relationship with him. As for the “Eew” comment on “Miami Medical” and “The Whole Truth”, two excellent shows that didn’t get a chance in hell because they got lousy time slots!
““Miami Medical” and “The Whole Truth”, two excellent shows …”
Please tell me you were kidding. Please.
No Dave. I wasn’t kidding. As a 30 year veteran in the film and TV business, I know what is good and what is bad. Those two shows were good. The Defenders is bad. Mike and Molly? Please! There isn’t one new show this season that I care to watch.
I guess no one has noticed that Bruckheimer has developed formulaic junk for several years. They’ve ridden their early successes longer than any other producers.
There has never been any show on TV or any film that has portrated the inner workings of the music business during the “glory days.”
Nelson was there through it all…my only hope is that the show shows ALL departments inside the label: A&R, Promotion, Marketing, Sales, Distribution, etc…because each department had a distinct and separate personality heading it. I know because I worked at a label…and if she shows how it really was, then she has to show it all. If it’s focused on her life only…I dunno…sounds like more drama than fun.
Does not remotely sound like a Fox show..belongs on AMC or HBO, or even Showtime…..but Fox? Where does this fit in their programming mix, exactly?..because it has music, maybe they figure it’ll launch well out of A/I (which it would) but then what..also, in order to do it right, doesn’t it need a 10 o’clock slot which Fox doesn’t have? Just weird net pick ..but hey, good for Bruckheimer for stretching beyond procedurals this season.
Jeff is a great writer and one of the nicest guys around. This should be a good one.
Jeff is a great guy except when he is a dick, which is often. I prefer writers who actually have ideas of their own rather then ones who can just be charming in work for hire situations. Anyone got any real ideas out there?