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New NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt is putting his stamp on the network’s development with a pilot order for a project he originally developed while at Showtime. NBC just greenlighted Smash, an ambitious one-hour musical about the mounting of a Broadway musical based on an idea by Steven Spielberg. The pilot, which will be produced by DreamWorks TV and Universal Media Studios, follows a cross section of characters who come together to put on a Broadway musical. TV writer/playwright Theresa Rebeck wrote the script and is executive producing with Spielberg, 
Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of DreamWorks TV, Hairspray producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and Grammy and Tony-winning songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman who will pen original songs for the show. Negotiations are underway for Michael Mayer (American Idiot) to direct. Smash joins an expansive slate at DreamWorks TV, which includes 4 series, including the upcoming The Borgias on Showtime and Terra Nova on Fox. Musicals have been a hot genre on the broadcast networks this development season with in light of the success of Fox’s Glee, but Smash is the first such project to reach a pilot stage.
Also greenlighted to pilot at NBC under Greenblatt is the comedy spec I Hate That I Love You, from Will & Grace alumna Jhoni Marchinko and 20th Century Fox TV. It is described as a twisty single-camera romantic comedy in which a straight couple introduces two of its lesbian friends to one another and what results is both instant attraction and a pregnancy.
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At least they’re not more cop/legal/medical dramas…
Sounds like Bob Greenlatt is off to a terrific start at NBC.
i miss cop rock
Thanks to you, I now know that this show actually existed.
You’re awesome.
I Hate That I Love You…..hmmmm. Think not. It sounds just like NBCs current comedy slate. Too small.
Maybe then we can relive that broadway charm 9-5.
Why would you hire the director of a failed, poorly reviewed musical (“American Idiot”) to do the same thing again, only for TV this time?
Does someone think somehow the results will be better? Or is the director just a personal friend of the producers?
American Idiot is still running, so I don’t know that I would say its a failed musical. And I have seen plenty of good reviews for it as well. Also Michael Mayer has been nominated twice for a Tony Award for best director, and won in 2007 for Spring Awakening. I don’t think he needs to be “friends” with the producer to get a job. I am looking forward to seeing this show.
Not sure what that premise would gain from being single-camera, especially with a writer who knows the other format better. Like “Perfect Couples” it sounds like a multi-cam idea drained of its energy and shoehorned into the single-cam format because NBC execs still aren’t willing to pick up multi-cam shows.
Not that the network should give up on its successful single-cam shows but it was past time years ago to re-embrace the style that worked for its big hits – like Will & Grace, f’rinstance.
It looks like every network will have a musical series next year.
Jhoni is awesome! Driving with Joni is one of the best pilot’s i’v ever read! Smart move on NBC
Nothing like the honeymoon period!
Wouldn’t that make it a showtime property.
Yesterday Clint is in the news for a musical version of A Star is Born with Beyonce as Esther. Now Spielberg gets a greenlight for a musical series. The success of “Glee” is messing with people’s brains! There is nothing in either gifted director’s repertoire to suggest they have the slightest clue about musicals.
A, it probably went into turnaround and NBC then bought out Showtime’s costs.
A “failed musical”? American Idiot not only received nearly universally good reviews it also is close to recouping it’s investment. Curious obviously has no idea what s/he is talking about.
Oh rite; turn around ,costs ;thanks .
Just sayin. Somebody !!!! has ideas.
Huzzah! I’ll support anyone who will wedge reality television shows back to third tier cable where they belong.
Marchinko is hilarious.
Good news day. Great job NBC.
20th TV defecit on cop rock was the largest at that time,
with Bochko and Randy Newman they couldn’t pull it off and that was also when Bochko was at the top of his game
In “I Hate That I Love You” which of the two lesbians is the biological father?