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EXCLUSIVE: After working together last season on the ABC/ABC Studios cop drama Detroit 1-8-7, series creator/executive producer Jason Richman and executive producer/showrunner David Zabel have teamed for a new ABC Studios drama project, which has sold to ABC. Richman and Zabel will co-write the project, titled Two Roads, which is in the vein of Sliding Doors. It centers on a young woman who struggles with doubt on her wedding day whether to go through with it or not. The show asks the question, “What if I had made different choices?” and then answers it by following her down both paths. Zabel joined the Michael Imperioli starrer Detroit 1-8-7 at the pilot stage after he liked Richman’s script. Despite solid reviews, the series didn’t get traction in the ratings and was canceled after its 18-episode freshman season. Both Zabel and Richman have deals at ABC Studios — WME-repped Zabel is under an overall; Richman, repped by WME and the Collective, has a pact for two blind scripts. This is the second sale this season for Zabel, who also has Western Gunslinger set up at ABC.
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This sounds like another gimmicky idea that sells as a pilot but has no legs as a series. Dear TV execs, stop with the Blockbuster mentality and go back to basics: great characters and great story.
I have to agree. I feel like they would try to make the two roads so different that it becomes unbelievable. Sounds like something I wouldn’t watch after the initial reveal, if at all.
The idea doesn’t sound THAT bad! It does give me hope that pilot, which is filled with great characters and a great story, CAN and be greenlit if things like Two Roads can! : ) See, Bitter Johnny, there’s a positive way to look at this.
But apparently not a coherent one.
Obviously this is all wild speculation but shifting from a grounded, charactery cop show that wasn’t exclusively about rich white people and their problems to a hacky (sounding) a la Six Degrees, October Road, Brothers & Sisters etc., etc. soap opera sounds like network execs pouring out another tall glass from the bad concept distillery.
I’m sure if I wrote a good show that got cancelled I wouldn’t say no to the next piece of crap idea the network thinks will have more legs and throws my way.
Anyone out here been through this kind of experience and can provide some insight?
Stupid,flimsey idea…who cares?? Bitter Johnny is right.A gimmick.
Zabel and Richman are talented and will do something original and character-based with this concept.
Show sounds lame – should have stuck with Detroit 1-8-7 which was a nice grounded show that didn’t insult the inteligence of people watching it. Good characters played portrayed with supreme acting. ABC sucks now.